THE GERRY ANDERSON SWEET SHOP BY STEVE

Steve of the fab Thunderbirds Vintage Toys Site sent me this in the morning mail:

"Hello Paul.
You told me your readers have an interest in confectionery. Well, I've just taken delivery of a wedge of the stuff. 60s style. I have updated my website with these Thunderbirds Barratts cigarettes and Chocolates.

However I also have non-Thunderbirds related pictured below.

Regards
Steve"

The Fireball XL5 has the original sweets, the Man from Uncle has original sweet plus card and I was unaware that a Stingray 20 size existed.

Excellent Steve! I so remember unwrapping the Scarlet chocolate and gobbling the bar up as fast as possible! Spectrum is creamy! Woodsy. Wonder if there were any Anderson Easter Eggs?

REDBOX PROJECT MARS ROCKET

Pictures courtesy of Ebay.

Another new one on me was this REDBOX PROJECT MARS ROCKET that recently graced Ebay. Made in Hong Kong it's clearly a relative of the T in a Circle Apollo X and the Nomura Apollo X. I particularly love the name Project Mars. In fact the crater-filled landscape on the 2nd picture is very like the moonscapes on SWORD box art. Beautiful.

PROJECT SWORD AT THE CANADIAN AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM BY DARTH

Paul,

Here are two pics of the exhibit at the Canadian Air & Space Museum in Toronto. These were taken before we actually mounted signs and stuff. i.e. a rough layout. There is much more in there now and it is laid out nicer. There is a whole thing about 2001 A Space Odyssey and stuff about Goddard, Oberth and Tsiolkovsky. It still needs final signage adding etc.  The visitors to the museum seem to have really enjoyed it so far. Especially the big kids!

Cheers
Darth

Excellent Darth. It must have been a lot of fun setting this up. SWORD, SPACEX! Great, and that PAYA buggy is HUGE! It's catching too, Arto is involved in an exhibition too in Finland previously posted on the blog!

PIG RIP

It's a sad day today I'm afraid. After a brief illness our little seven year old Pig had to be put to sleep this morning. A lively and well-loved member of the family since 2003 Pig will be sorely missed. I thought after such a long winter she might see one more summer but her sufferings over now. I'll remember how happy she was on the sofa eating cucumber and watching TV with me. we shouldn't really get so attached to pets but I suppose that's what being human is about.

PIG

RIP

2003-2010

OUTPOST LIFEBOAT

A post-script to the Traveller Scout posts earlier this month, here are some further images and insights from reader Nyrath the Nearly Wise.

"apparently that lifeboat was going to be used for other things as well"

"Below are a couple of detail diagrams of the landing boats from the Convair Atlas space station"

New Toys?

Won't it be great to see some new toys for the new movies UFO and Major Matt Mason! That's if they produce any. Anybody know the plan? This year? Then again, with the demise of Woolworths here in the UK, I'm not sure where I'll go to check them out whenever that may be. I suppose it'll mean Toys R Us. Are there still toy shops around in your town?

JUST WHO ARE WES TOYS?

They look like Clifford toys but it seems to say WES. Who are they?

(pictures courtesy of Ebay)

PROJECT MOON GEMINI CAPSULE ANYONE

WOTAN's Gemini rang a bell. Last September readers Jon and Amy posted, amongst others, this great ad for PROJECT MOON toys, a sort of general 'brand' in a mail order line. Besides the wonderful Moonship there's a Gemini capsule! So which make will that be then d'ya reckon folks?