Shelf Life

On a rare trip into Wakefield, our local town, I stumbled upon three potential collectables in the shops. In WH Smith was this new Thundercats comic No.1, £2.99, with a free Sword of Omens! They're back! If you've got kids this is a must. Don't forget to put one away for posterity!

Also nestling in the shelves of WH Smith is this more expensive magazine [more a softback book really], Spaceships of Science Fiction at £7.99 It covers the likes of Destination Moon, Star Trek, UFO and Battlestar Galactica. Volume 2 must be coming out soon. One for the bookshelf?

And finally, in Poundland or Poundworld [I forget sorry] are these cool TRON LEGACY die-cast vehicles, for, yep, a pound each. They come carded but I found this shot onlibe of them all loose. Maybe a future collectable?

Are there any interesting collectables in your shops?

Sinister Dexterity

I love puzzles, especially dexterity ones that you need to take apart and put back together. Im hopeless at Sudoku etc, but great with stull that needs a little laterality. When I was a kid, my sister had a neat rocket keyring puzzle, in see through plastic, each part in a different shade. She let me look at it now and again, but would never letme disassemble it! Ive got quite a few dexterity puzzles such as the classic Merit Metal Puzzles and the infamous plastic cube that you have to fit back into its box in sections. Just recently, I scored ths lovely rocket puzzle in the states. The vendor kindly taped it all up in transit for me as he didn't recommend taking it apart and trying to fit it together without the instructions! Being the brave soul that I am, as soon as I got the tape off, I took it apart.

The whole thing is about 6 inches high when assembled and to my relief, was only comprised of 12 pieces, so making it up again was easy!

For Sale

Just a reminder that two blog readers have vintage toys for sale which may be of interest to other readers.

• Raed in Jordan has a boxed Space Shuttle by T Toys [T in a Circle/ Tai Hing]. Contact Raed here.

• Luke in Germany has a boxed SpaceX Moon Base HQ by Triang. Contact Luke here.

Thundercandy

These Japanese Thunderbird candy holders look so great. I beleive they are by a company called Cobit. I saw these online. Anyone got these or other Anderson candy containers?

Wonderful Weekends

Like everyone I love the weekend. No work. Just do what you want to do. Well, a few chores as well maybe. When I was a wee anklebiter, Saturdays were always the bees knees. Totally exciting and far better than boring old Sundays. Saturday is when I went out with my young pals down the local park on our bikes or, later on, up town to buy comics and drink vimto and ice cream. Sundays meant Eleven O' Clock Mass, family visits and the inevitable early to bed for the dreaded start of another week at school!

Nowadays, all growed up, I love both days equally. Off work for two whole days and as I'm not a great shopper they both feel like one big relaxing time. Now Spring has sprung, the Moonbasers love just pottering around in the house or garden, with the occassional outburst of energy necessary to sustain life such as get food, cook, check on other family members, write, read, mess with toys and blog.

Oddly enough Friday nights have become more and more exciting over the years [maybe they always were, I forget!]. The combination of finishing work with no work in the morning and the prospect of a lie-in is a heady one and somehow different to the rest of the weekend.

But some folk have a weekend at other times of the week due to work rotas and even have days off when the rest of us are labouring. So what's your favourite day?

APOLLO 13 IN MINIATURE BY ED ICE BERG

Woodsy,

This week was the anniversary of the Apollo 13 mishap and tomorrow's blog (that would the 21 Apr blog - it's already 'tomorrow' by you) :-) is devoted to that. Attached are a few pics of the toy I used. It is SMALL. One of the photos shows a SpaceX spaceman next to the Lunar Module for comparison. I also have a connection to one of the Apollo 13 crew member's - but you'll have to read [my] blog to find out what it is - LOL

Enjoy!

Ed

Toys & Stuff Blog

Dalek I Love You

Daleks need no introduction and are always welcome here. Cs has sent over some shots of his mini dalek collection, comprising Product Enterprise Rolykin repros and CB toys Character Building Lego style figures. The combination of a classic design and super small scale is irresistable!

 And just to add to the Dalek army goodness, here is a pic of one of my even smaller Daleks, a Games Workshop mini-kit, Cyberman and white metal Ice Warrior!

The Micro Bus

Messing about with some tiny plastic caps I looked at a yellow one and thought, Hmmm, Moon Bus! So a few bits of plastic later and voila, the Micro Bus! It's so titchy it's positively quantum! I took a few photies of it bussing around Moon Base.....

.....and having a few tiny coloured caps left I whittled together a Micro Booster. I've got that shrinking feeling, ha ha! It's addictive! More miniaturised creations welcomed!