Orion's Wing Wanted

Hey Woodsy,

Do you know anyone who has the Japanese 2001 Orion toy [bottom of pic]? I have one with a missing left wing and was hoping to find someone who could send me a latex mold that I could cast a piece from and fix it. Just thought I'd ask. It pains me looking at it with one wing!
Thanks
Darth

Canada

Woodsy says: Please let me know if you can help Darth. Leave a comment or email me. Ta!

Robert McCall's Space Water Gun Art

Space art provided rich pickings for toy box and header card illustrations. Some of the best space art was by Robert McCall of the USA. His work found its way onto two large Project SWORD toy boxes, the Cape Kennedy Set and Nuclear Ferry.

But it wasn't just SWORD. McCall's art graced many toys and this week I found another example, the Space Water Gun [above, Mark Bergin Toys]. The somewhat murky picture shows a scene inspired by McCall's astronaut and domes painting as it appeared in LIFE magazine in the Sixties [below]. Has anyone got this space gun or does anyone know of any other McCall - inspired covers for toys, LP's, Jigsaws, paperbacks and so on?

Glico Space Fleet

Saw these miniature Glico spaceships and cars recently on Yahoo Japan and thought they were very very cool and so I'm sharing them with you. What do you think?

PROMETHEUS UNBOUND

Ridley Scott's long-awaited ALIEN prequel PROMETHEUS opens tomorrow here in the UK. It's also the Queen's Jubilee long-weekend so expectations are huge and there will be much xenomorphic dribbling....and that's just in the audience! Will you be saying hi to the space jockey in your local hive?

THROW DOWN YOUR SWORD

I've been messing with Powerpoint of late. Alas my 2007 version does not have the 'remove background' function, which it was I really need but it does have 3D rotation. To test it I imagined the pages of the SWORD toy Manual falling like cards. Can't think of any great need for it though, can you?

Small is All

Ive posted Capsela Spacelink before, most notably with reference to the tiny 'Capsenauts' that came with a lot of the vehicles. The majority of the capsela sets that I have found over time have been loose lots, usually from ebay and invariably missing bits and pieces. I was delighted recently to receive a mint pack of the figures themselves, which I hadn't realised were sold separately. Four of the tiny figures sealed onto a card and on the rear of which is a great illustration of the breadth of the Spacelink model series.

Capsela is one of the most enduring toys and has been produced by many different companies over the years. Spacelink as a theme within the series wasn't so lucky and so far hasn't been reissued in any modern variant of the capsela series. The Capsenauts occaisionally turn up in the odd model, but the main series of space themed parts remains absent. Shame.

MOONBASE CAPTION COMP

Moonbase Model Detail 2009

What do you reckon the two spacemen in the foreground saying to each other?

Rings of Power

The UK is gripped by Olympic fever at the mo as the Torch passes through the Land. Alas my shields are firmly up and I remain immune to the lure of the Olympic Games. It wasn't always so! I was hooked by the Mexico Games back in 1968. I remember how everyone was basked in glorious sunshine. Athletes like Kip Keno, Nelly Kim and another young Soviet Gymnast [oh what was her her name?] have stayed with me ever since. I got totally into collecting stickers for a cool sticker book at the time but that might have been the next Games in Munich 1972. Anyone recall it too?

Were or are you full of the Olympic flame?

PS. That sticker book was the 1972 one pictured below. Published by Esso, my Dad got me the stickers when he filled up the Zephyr or Ford Granada. I was 11 when it came out and it remains my quintessential Olympics possession. Amazingly there are a whole bookcase full for sale on Ebay from an old Esso Petrol station!