BRING ON ROBOWOTAN

Well, England once again are agonising to watch in a World Cup. It's half-time and I hope Capello is threatening them with a 75% pay cut if they don't pull their socks up and actually start moving! I've seen better passing on a cheese board. They need a new player and there's only one man for the job - ROBOWOTAN, steely, dogged, ferocious and ready to throw a spanner in the works! C'mon England!

Anyone else supportin' their country?

Picture: Ebay

PIMP MY ROCKET - CUSTOM KENNEDY SET T-STYLE

I'm getting carried away now - the Woodsy T Cape Kennedy Set Custom!

OPERATION SWORD FOUND ON TV!

Captain Scarlet # 18 - Shadow of Fear 1/3 by tracking291

 

Will I'm chuffed! Armed with a bottle of Fruhli beer I've had a scout around for the reference to 'Operation Sword' online. And here it is! - in the Captain Scarlet TV episode 'The Shadow of Fear'! It aired in the UK February 2nd 1968 [a good 8 months after Project SWORD first appeared in SOLO comic]. You can here the phrase 'Operation Sword' early on circa 5.40 minutes and then several times in the two further installments of this video on Dailymotion.


Not quite 'Project Sword', its still nifty to hear this spoken on a Gerry Anderson TV programme. The story suggests that it refers to some sort of grand plan involving Mars, which is in itself rather Project Sword-like! But just what is 'Operation SWORD'? Can it be that it is actually connected to our very own 'Project'?

One initial observation is that it's Colonel White, the Spectrum Boss, who first talks about Operation Sword. The top ranked badge in the Project SWORD toys range, Supremo, is also white. Just coincidence?

PS. There's some humorous observations about his episode here. It refers to 'Operation Sword' as mysterious!

PSPS. and folk do get confused about this as seen here in this synopsis of the episode, where it mistakenly says "....Spectrum successfully completing the code-named "Project Sword" operation, but the whole carefully planned arrangement is placed under ..." [Alive Torrents]


PS3. and depending on what you think this means, another mistaken factoid from tv.com "Colonel White mentions an "Operation Sword", but this is never mentioned again." Does this mean in the same episode or the whole series? We know it's mentioned several times at the end of the episode so it's wrong. But is it mentioned ever again in the series? Now that I don't know.  Is Shadow of Fear part of a trilogy? 'Lunarville'?

CUSTOMISATION CENTRAL: SWORD ON VINYL! YOU WISH!

Post-World Cup withdrawal at night leads me to mess with the 'paint' programme. Here's another one off the 'wishlist', SWORD on record! Alas, there are no actual SWORD sounds anywhere [apart from the noises the toys make!]. There is a mention of 'Operation Sword' in a Captain Scarlet episode, SHADOW OF FEAR, but despite a blog reader having a go at finding it it remains stubbornly elusive. Can anyone help?

MATCHBOX MOONBUS FOUND......

....in Woodsy's Custom Moonbase imagination!  Sorry! Wishful thinking!

But one SWORD vehicle was produced as a miniature die-cast. Which one and by whom?

Well done Mike!

Howsabout this then: What is the most recent SWORD toy design that's been made by another company [excluding Saturn V - there's loads of them]?

SWORD 3D PAINTING SET WOODSY CUSTOM BOX

Before,

good

After,

better!

If only!

TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS BY YES 1973

Enjoy. Its Seventies prog heaven!

LIFT OFF WITH AYSHEA

It's like an Autumn day here, cold, wet and grey. So we're doing typical indoor Sunday stuff, Mrs. Moonbase is sewing and I'm listing vinyl records on Amazon - lots of prog rock and new wave and a few gems like 'LIFT OFF WITH AYSHEA'. Now I used to love Ayshea on her TV show back in the 70's - was it a pop show? I remember two little furry glove puppets as well? Ayshea popped up in LOOK IN magazine as well I think. And of course there's UFO. So was Ayshea a singer or an actress?