This is exciting! I recently acquired a BULLYCAN catalogue of their plastic Spanish toys from 1970* and lo and behold, inside were photographs of their COSMICOS AVIONES knockoff SpaceX range. In the top picture you can see three of the range parked outside small card hangars [top picture, bottom left]. We've seen the toys before on the blog but not in a catalogue.
Even more startling is their shot of three of the range sat on the deck of a plastic aircraft carrier [below. top right]. The carrier, PORTAVIONES, we've seen before with just Hawks aboard, but the combination of the three different spaceships and the carrier is completely new to the blog and may represent a hitherto unknown play set available in Spain in 1970. What do you think readers?
* the seller did state that the catalogue was from 1970 although I can't find any reference to that year on it. There are the numbers 1978 but these may be part of a longer Printers postcode on the back cover.
As a kid of the Sixties I regard myself as having a OO licence to collect James Bond stuff. A lot of it is worth a king's ransom and above my pay grade but books can be picked up for a modest sum. Here's a couple from my shelf: a hardback The Spy Who Loved Me and a Great Pan From Russia With Love.
Do any of you collect James Bond readers?
ADDENDUM BONDIUM SCOOPIUM
I can't find a single image of Scoop's Lone Star attache case. Its not even featured on 007 Collectors Lone Star toy section. It must be rare now, probably because the case was made of card.
Here's another Lone Star box set bottom right picture - the set is in the middle [G].
This video and email were received at Moonbase from Corey LeChat in the Summer of 2014. I haven't heard from Cory since so I really do hope he's OK. [words below in italics are mine]. This is for Corey.
Hey Woodsy
Here's something for the blog...I
figured I'd point you in the direction of this music video my creative
partner Dave Kerin and I did for the band zikzak (Todd Stadtman
of diedangerdiediekill.blogspot.com as well as many many other
talented ventures).
Todd, David and myself were (are)
huge Gerry Anderson and all things 60s sci-fi fans and we did this circa
2000/2001. Dave and I shot the video based on my storyboard. He did the
CGI and edited it all together. I built the sets, shot still images,
etc. The ceramic cats used in the video were a pair of banks that
appeared on the cover of the first zikzak release (CD).
It features Anna Li and I'm the giant cat. Todd was based in Los Angeles at the time
and David and I were in Pittsburgh, so Todd was unavailable to film any
new footage, so we used a quick shot of him playing an acoustic gig and
some talking head footage. With this in mind, we created what you see
here. I'm still proud of this thing over a decade later.
Here's a completely ridiculous (and very toy nerdy) video
breakdown:
1) opening zoom based on the Flash Gordon
movie
2) the cat's Tracy Island base of operations is the Lil
Playmates Space Station from 1984
3) plastic panels in secret
cat base are from the 1957 Kenner Girder and Panel Building Set
4) cat ship inspired combo of Space 1999 Hawk and Eagle
5) Anna Li's
moonbase was put together from the Hasbro 1969 Astrolite playset
6) the moonscape was made of composite shots of the lunar
landscape from 2 different 1960s Comansi Thunderbirds playsets
7) Frozen Todd (lead singer of zikzak) in tube was in fact a Fairylite Thunderbirds Brain figure with Todd's head photoshopped on it
8) and of
course - a classic 60s Ultraman-esque battle in front of poster mural of
the lunar surface
At the age of 66, the prolific fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett has died. Yet another brilliant light has gone out of our lives. Rest in peace Terry.
I saw this the other day online in Japan and thought, hmm, maybe these are those cheap looking plastic models in the knockoff Italian Baravelli LP boxes I posted the other day?
Although not easy to see, the Japanese models appear to bagged Ultraman and Thunderbird 2. What do you think readers? What are the Ultraman spaceships called?
