MOONBASE CINEMA: CENTURY 21 ZERO X BOX AND TOY REPAIRS 1

A short video of me making small repairs to my Century 21 Zero X toy. This amazing toy is part of the Project SWORD toy range and starred in the Gerry Anderson film Thunderbirds Are Go. In this first part I repair my torn box. 
More to follow if you can stand to watch!

LEE SULLIVAN ON BOARD FIRESTORM

I was pleased to hear that artist Lee Sullivan has joined the Firestorm design team and is producing a limited edition comic strip edition as part of a backers reward.

Read more about  it here  http://downthetubes.net/?p=17885

This shows  Lee's design work  for 'Ocean Storm' for the Firestorm project.

Lee, as many of you will know did the excellent front cover artwork for the Eaglemoss Gerry Anderson Comic Collection which sadly stalled at volume 5.

I had the pleasure of briefly meeting Lee, along with legendary TV21 artist Mike Noble at Andercon this year. Best of luck with your new project, Lee.

CENTURY 21 TOYS PICTURES ASTON MARTIN DB 5

Here we have the sleek and beautiful plastic Aston Martin DB-5 by Century 21. In immaculate condition it comes with a red racing stripe and friction drive. With its obvious 007 heritage it really is a cool toy. The scalextric-like box shows a red Aston numbered 1. The actual toy is white and numbered 4 so it does beg the question whether there are other colour variations out there?

I wonder if the Scalextricness of this car (compare with a real Scalextric DB5 below - the white DB5 - the real Bond car was silver - was only ever sold as part of the Scalextric 007 set) ran further than its looks and along with the JR21 Typhoon Motorbike posted here were there more formal links between the two companies? What's for sure is that this is just one of a bigger fleet of Century 21 toy cars.

MYSTERY TOY QUIZ

Name this old plastic mystery space toy readers. 

One go per reader please. 

You know you know it!

Joint Rocket Launch

Still another Doncaster toy fair purchase, a Matchbox Rocket Transporter. Or more accurately, the rocket was bought, I pinched the truck from Woodsy's scrap box. The truck is probably the version which comes with a plane load, but its essentially the same model used throughout. I picked up the rocket for 50p, which was good, along with the tug, the Starfighter and a Corgi Rockets Carabo. Always good to find a space related toy at a fair!

ORION BOOSTER

Looking at this reminded me of the rear engines of the SWORD Booster Rocket. What do you think?

Vectis

I Saw Three Ships

So I bought em! Another purchase from Doncaster, a set of small ships, which the seller told me came from the Matchbox Sea Kings Harbour playset. I find this difficult to believe as the average Sea King is about 8 inches long, and the largest boat here is just under 3. The two coloured ships are similar scale, but from Germany and courtesy of the bountifully generous Herr Woods. Finally, a Corgi Juniors diecast Tug Boat.

JR 21 FAB 1 REVISITED

A final  look at some photos I've taken previously of my JR 21  Thunderbird fleet. This time it's the turn of FAB 1 which came out as both a friction drive and a remote control  version.