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Wednesday, 29 January 2014

PUSH-BUTTON CLASSICS

Continuing to clear out the Moonbase loft, I've found a whole bunch of vintage telephones. They include the classic American cream push-button you see in old TV cop shows, together with that icon of Seventies Britain, the Trimphone, totally redolent of Gerry Anderson's UFO. The best of the bunch is the cream Swedish upright Ericsson with its old school red dial hidden underneath. Retro-future or what!

Do you have a vintage phone readers?

Re. Comments:

I am struggling to view Moonbase Central on my old PC. It takes forever to load. Consequently I can't leave comments in the normal way so I'm leaving them in the post, which is much easier for me to do. Your phones sound great guys. The Ericsson is my favourite, brimming with Sixties cool. I wonder what phones appeared in UFO?

Tuesday, 28 January 2014

MORE BIRTHDAY MAIL FOR WOTAN

One Master William Everatt Circa 1967 -

Salutes Commander Wotan from Tracy Island!

SPACE MAIL

Many Happy Returns, Commander Wote

from Glenn Field.

Best wishes mate

WOTAN BIRTHDAY EVENING MEDLEY: ANOTHER FIVE SHOTS FROM COREY LECHAT

Here are five more pictures from super collector Corey LeChat. These are medleys of prints Corey has taken of his toys. I think you'll agree it's a collection all of us would love to have a play with! Corey will be sharing more joy with us soon.

BOARD ROOM

I'm currently sorting through stuff in the Moonbase attic to make some room for a visit by Wotan and Scoop in March. I'd no idea I had so many board games left over from my car booting days. Pictured are just half of them! There's King Kong, Dr. Who, Terminator and the classic Buck-a-Roo amongst many others in the pile. My favourite is the sixties gem Fascination by Parker Bros. With its hand-held ball-bearing mazes and light-up score tower, its as symbolic of that decade as the Chopper Bike and the Beatles!

What was your favourite Board Game readers?

WOTAN'S BIRTHDAY! NEW DISCOVERY: OTAKI PROBE FORCE 3 CAR!

To celebrate Wotan's birthday here's another first for the blog to keep up the excitement. I regularly check Japanese modellers' clips on you tube and I had a double take when I saw this!

Is that what I think it is? said my brain, whereas my mouth simply said Oh Shit! It is quite clearly a racing car with a Probe Force 3 body! I'm still totally gobsmacked so I'll let the pictures and You Tube clip from Akasikogorou tell their own story. I give you the Otaki motorised Probe Force 3 on wheels!

and here's a Japanese Probe Force 3 'Space Bird' for comparison. What do you think readers?

WOTAN WADETH IN:

Possibly based on the Daiya Astro Racer ?

Pic courtesy of Vectis

Theres one on the bay right now

Re. Comments:

Thanks for the translation Yorkie! Excellent

WOTAN'S BIRTHDAY! THE SPACE TOY COLLECTION OF COREY LECHAT

To celebrate Wotan's birthday here's a real treat for Moonbasers. Blog reader and super collector Cory LeChat has kindly sent me pictures from his huge archive of toy images. Corey supplied many carded toy pictures for the book Rack Toys and would like to share his space toy collection with Moonbase Central. Here's the first instalment of five including an amazing carded example of a blog legend, the Blakes 7 Hawk, appearing here for the first time with the maker's and brand names. More to follow and thanks a bunch Corey!