MOONBASE CENTRAL

Friday, 11 July 2025

Stationary Space Station

This Eight in One Pencil box shaped like a Pyroesque rocket is so fab I had to grab the shot from the auction.

It's got everything; compass, calculator, kitchen sink!

From the atomic age of design, Do you like it?

Anyone got any space stationary?

Thursday, 10 July 2025

Wolds Wares

Emporia of Louth proffered interesting fayre:

An old Travel agent set

One cute dumbo

Road crossing jigsaw

Little plastic warrior

Plastic clam scene

Noddy puzzle

Cherilea motorbike

Transformers and Megazords

Snow White and chums

The fab 4

A Fab 1

An early mobile

Pilgrim Fathers memorabilia in Retford

A paper Dutch oven and interior

Any good?

TV ACTION UFO CUT-AWAYS

The two cut-aways that appeared in TV Action . One from the 1972 TV Action Holiday Special showing an imaginative interpretation of Moonbase. Note the tablecloth in the leisure sphere.

The other from the 1973 TV Action Annual shows a Moonbase Interceptor, with pilot in full spacesuit.

Yellow Thingy Mystery

Another Worthpoint image of loose SpaceX and LP tackle, but what's that strange squat yellow bug on the left?

Thunderbird Radio One

A recent sale item, I saved the pics because of its Thunderbird 1 chops.

A radio no less, I guess for listening to Radio Tracy!

Anyone got this or any interesting radios?

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Hovering Around

You don't see these often online but Worthpoint's archive has at least this snap of two Hover Moon Base vehicles., the orange and white space glider and the blue orb-centred space car.

Gorgeous and seldom seen, have you any Hover Moon Base vehicles readers?

A quick shot of the Model Space 1:144 scale Thunderbird 1, with the wheeled landing gear orientation as seen in the early episodes (it's actually a repackaged Aoshima kit). The photo shows Scott Tracy and FAB 1 in the same scale.

Emergency Ward 10 Annual

Today was mentioned the old British TV Series Emergency Ward 10. This is not a show I recall, and I do not know if it ever made it to NZ, but a quick look turned up a little background information.

Emergency Ward 10 ran from 1957 to 1967, twice a week on Tuesday and Friday, on ITV. It was set in Oxbridge General Hospital.

According to BFI Screen On Line, there were 966 half-hour episodes, and 50 weekly hour-long episodes (or was this London only ?).

It was a spin-off from the six-week series Calling Nurse Roberts; and itself produced a spin-off Call Oxbridge 2000 (1961-62). There was also a feature film, Life in Emergency Ward 10 (black and white, released 1959).

Two hard-back Emergency-Ward 10 Girls’ Annuals were published by Purnell to tie-in with the series. Published in 1962 and 1963, they both ran to 128 pages.

I picked up this example of the second volume at a book fair a few years ago. It has the usual mix of picture-strip and text stories, articles on the lead actors and actresses, and articles on the real emergency services.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

M O L A B

Some lovely shots of the gorgeous Triang Golden Astronaut SpaceX MOLAB I saw on Worthpoint.

Alas I don't own one but I know some lucky readers do!

MODEL SPACE THUNDERBIRD 2 : A RETROSPECTIVE

Before I dismantle the diorama I put together for my WASP aircraft photos, I thought I’d sneak a few pics of the Model Space part-works Thunderbird 2 toy and some of its rescue vehicles.

Taking its lead from the old Takara toy, I think it’s fair to say that the Thunderbird 2 was not the success I’d hoped it would be. To begin with at first look the cockpit windows aren’t right, and the nose is too rounded. Its biggest let down, though is the motorised gears that raise and lower the legs which are nylon rather than metal, and one side of the toy at least, is prone to slip on the gear cogs tilting the model to one side.

I did contact their customer services about this problem but it didn’t resolve anything. I’m told that placing a felt washer under one or more of the gear cogs can solve it, but as I’ve never tried that, I don’t know.

The part-works toy followed a short testing -the-waters trial run, with a complete re-release during September, 2017, as subscription only covering around 80 issues at a tenner a piece for each instalment. There was no magazine and the assembly instructions were on-line.

So, what’s this huge 1:144 scale toy good for, and was there any benefits for the eager Thunderbird toy collector.

Well, it’s a fair sized display toy (For those who prefer plastic kits, AIP are bringing out a similar sized model kit, soon), and after completing all the instalments it does have two detailed pods, and a fine set of pre-painted 1: 144 scale Rescue vehicles, which are certainly a plus point. I did go on to dirty down a couple of mine.

The larger ones are best, which include all 4 Elevator Cars, the Mole, the 2 Recovery Vehicles, and the Firefly. There’s even a Thunderbird 4, with its own Pod 4, and a tiny FAB 1.

It’s certainly has plenty of play value, and it’s easy to create all your favourite action scenes, and if I was back to being a kid of seven it would be my best Thunderbird toy, but for the older me, after paying out all that dosh, and finding its major feature just doesn’t even work properly without constantly taking it apart and trying to work out why, it’s almost the ‘the end of the road’, and ‘a day of disaster’ and possibly a candidate for ‘the pit of peril’!

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Emergency Ward 10 Figure Set

I remember watching this as a kid! I guess in black and white too! I'm amazed there's any toys at all never mind this neat box of figures I saw on Vectis!

Do you recall the show?

Have you any medical toys or collectables traders?