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Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Brian H's Tudor Rose Rarity
Thursday, 27 March 2025
Vintage Otley Outing
With the Missus and a mate, visiting my favourite vintage toy shop round here, in Kirkham Arcade in Otley, I was really pleased to bag a few great collectables for the Moonbase collection.
The haul comprised of a smart loose JR21 FAB1, a neat re-issue Corgi Black Beauty and an Action Man Rifle Rack along with the golden grenade launcher. I had all of these as a kid and it was great to get them back and a snip at £30 the lot.
In the town's charity shops I bagged an old hardback copy of Brave New World, a paperback horror by Shaun Huston and a hardback Adventure Annual with Pyro toy designs on the cover.
My final item was a cool multi-rotational tin globe. It rotates on two axes!
All in all a great day out.
What do you reckon?
More on all of them to follow.
Thursday, 13 March 2025
A Project SWORD Toy Shop Shelf?
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
Rack Toy Recess
With the Missus happy gardening, I've taken a break to bag up my latest mini monster creations for safe-keeping.
Not good enough for the full packaging effort, I've placed the Cronos bug and the Lifeforce ship in simple cellophane bags.
Then I added small 'movie' labels, which we can print at home and a custom Zodiac price tag each courtesy of Bill. The missus's stamp set provided the price!
Complete and punched, here they are hung on my kitchen 'shop' rack!
What do you think readers? Mom and Pop store material?
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
LOST TOY SHOPS
These are in my foto archive. I must have saved them ages ago from somewhere online.
This old toy shop is Jeans in Lowestoft.
Friday, 19 July 2024
MONK BAR MODEL SHOP
A few snaps of York's Monk Bar Model Shop here in the UK.
Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Das Toy Shop
It's always interesting visiting shops abroad, especially the toy aisles!
Here's a few Dinge ( German for things) I've seen among the Spielzeuge ( German for toys)
A gorgeous long plastic oil tanker, about 18 inches, that could easily be a prop in a Thunderbirds episode.
A water and soft dart gun, that totally recalls Hellboy's pistol, the name of which I forget!
Knockoff Bionicles
Saturday, 20 April 2024
Creatures from the Lost Message
I was sent these pics by a reader but alas I've lost the email, so I can't say who from!
Thanks anyway, what a marvellously monstrous store! I wonder if you bought anything?
Is this your kind of shop readers?
Thursday, 6 April 2023
KITS, CARS, TEA AND TOAST
We had some very sad close family news yesterday, a bereavement, but so as not to dwell on it until I can do something practical I need to keep busy, so here's a new post.
As I said, the Missus and me went to Hornsea on the Yorkshire coast. A lovely quaint seaside town full of charm and character. We also visited a very wet Bridlington up the shore too, a much bigger and commercialised seaside town and its sister village of Old Town Bridlington, again a picturesque Yorkshire spot.
Here are a few things we saw in charity shops and antique centres. Taking reader Yorkie's advice we visited Cropper's Model Shop in Bridlington. Talk about timing, its more or less closing for good after this Easter weekend! 50 years of trading done.
This is what was left on Cropper's shelves.
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CHECKLISTS BY BRAND (FOR COUNTRY BY COUNTRY SEE TOP OF BLOG)
PROJECT SWORD SPACEX TIMELINE
- 1968 SPACEX LT10 CONCEPT
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER REAL THING
- 1969 LUNAR CLIMBER & MOONSHIP
- 1968 PROJECT SWORD ANNUAL
- 1968 TV21 #168 PROJECT SWORD PHASE 2
- 1968 PLEASURE CRUISER CONCEPT
- 1968 CENTURY 21 TOY MANUAL
- 1967 SCOUT 1 CONCEPT
- 1967 NUCLEAR FERRY TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER CONCEPT
- 1966 HOVERTANK IN COMIC
- 1966 NUKE PULSE NEEDLEPROBE IN COMIC
- 1966 ZERO X FILM DEBUT
- 1966 MOONBUS IN COMIC
- 1966 SPACE PATROL 1
- 1966 P3 HELICOPTER IN COMIC
- 1966 SAND FLEA AND SNOW TRAIN
- 1966 MOBILE LAUNCH PAD IN COMIC
- 1965 SPACEX MOONBASE CONCEPT
- 1965 APOLLO FIRST UK TOY AD
- 1962 NOVA CONCEPT
- 1962 MOONBUS CONCEPT
- 1961 MOON PROSPECTOR CONCEPT
- 1953 MOLAB CONCEPT