We Have The Powder! Celebrity Talc

It's strange where collecting can take you. A single chance find can deflect you from the main path along a murky but intriguing back-alley. This happened to me in the early 1990's when I saw a bottle of Talcum Powder. Not just any old talc. James Bond talc! I was shaken.

 

 

Alas, having bought it, I sold it years later on my toy stall somewhere. But the bottle by Chertsey, shown below, injected a worm in my brain and I have been fascinated by TV-related toiletries ever since! An odd affliction I admit! I suppose being metal the bottles [or are they technically tins?] do last. Whether the talc retains it's krypton-like power to soothe over the years is a mystery.

Probably the most famous TV talc is the Beatles one by Margo of Mayfair. I've never seen it in the flesh but I can imagine it sold like hot cakes back in the Sixties. Like OO7, everyone wanted to be the fifth Beatle [little did they know that WOTAN already had it in the bag - or should that be in the pram! ha ha!]. I can imagine the marketing men went bananas with it: Be As Dry As A Beatle or Wing Chafe? Apply Beatles Talc!

But for me the talc de la talc has to the beautifully tinned Captain Scarlet Asteroid Talc by The House of Romney. Truly a powder vessel worthy of the indestructible one. I've never held it but I have seen one at a toy fair many years ago. The artwork is excellent and very reminiscent of TV21. With a bit of imagination you could even imagine it to be SWORD talc! I suppose, what with all the scrapes budding young Scarlets will have got themselves into emulating the unkillable Captain, a great deal of talc was required!

Picture: SuperM

 

 

Any more talc worth its salt out there? Thunderbirds? Joe 90? Godzilla? Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? Indeed any tales or pics of TV- related toiletries are welcome at the House of Woodsy!

Ferryman's Fantabulous SWORD Fleet: Apollo Saturn

Top: Apollo Saturn, Century 21 Toys

Bottom: Lunar Probe 1, Lucky Toys

 

 

Anyone got any other saturn V's?

RADIO SWORDCAST TONIGHT

SWORDCAST number 3 online tonight at 8pm UK time or 7pm GMT. Bill Everatt of Celtica Radio in conversation with Woodsy and Wotan. We should be on in the first 20 minutes but why not listen to the whole show. For those about to listen we salute you.

http://www.celticaradio.com/ Click the symbol for you beneath LISTEN LIVE.

Dig the New Breed

 

Things have been moving pretty swiftly here at Moonbase Central as we roll into our fifth year, so I felt it was important to update our roll call. Following on from the recent dramatisation of the exploits of Wotan in the Darkside serial, Celtica Radio and the generous Mr Bill Everratt are devoting more air time to interview Woodsy and Wotan in the latest of a regular series of SWORDcasts this evening. We hope you will be able to tune in live or catch the podcast or Listen Again transmission, later in the evening.

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FUTURE LEGEND OF THE DIAMOND DOGS

Listening to Wotan's cool Darkside tale last night, read brilliantly by Dave Carrington on his Squaring The Circle Celtica Radio show, I drifted into a daydream of cosmic alarms, bleeps and boosters. For some reason it called to mind the atmospheric and effects-laden intro to Dave Bowie's Diamond Dogs album, which I listened to ad infinitum when I was a 13. It's called Future Legend and includes the word 'peoploids', which I still love to this day! Listen to it here, followed by the title track Diamond Dogs courtesy of You Tube. Bowie's Major Tom/ Ziggy Stardust starman phase here transformed into a dystopian punk dog nightmare inspired by Orwell. The whole album is brilliantly dark and some tracks were also featured on the seminal David Live album. All are well worth a thorough listening to. Ziggy played guitar.

VULCAN MOVIE TEST

 

 

Taking up the challenge posed by Commander Woodsy I thought I'd have a crack at uploading one of my own videos to Blogger. Never having done this  I naively put a video together using some shots I'd done of the Vulcan and tried to post it. - The computer said no!

Now bear with me - I'm on a learning curve here so any advice is very welcome.
 

Apparently, the video mustn't be over 100MB which is around 2 minutes of reasonable picture quality. Taking a while to upload is another downside.  My video was 4 minutes and around 170MB. Rather than shorten it I converted it to a much smaller file size so the quality is questionable - but hey guys, I'm going where this blogger ain't been before.
 

Anyway hope you enjoy it. 

Ferryman's Phenomenal SWORD Fleet: Probe Force 2

Probe Force 2

with accompanying Probe Force 1 and 3,

Century 21 Toys

UK/ Hong Kong

1967

Desperately Seeking SWORD

Well with Wotan's Darkside radio play last night Mars and Moon Base Central hit a new milestone. We are trying as many new media as we can - blog, models, book, exclusives - to talk about vintage space toys and the sci-fi zeitgeist. One area still missing on Moonbase is video. Can anyone help? Is there some SWORD home video you have or plan to make that could be shared with us?