TIME AND SPACE YAWNS,

ITS OPEN MAW BECKONS AS

THE SWORD WARS DRAW TO THEIR BLOODY CLOSE!

SARGE PART 2

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IN 2 DAYS

SUMMER TOY AND FILM QUIZ: JUST 3 QUESTIONS LEFT! GO GO GO!

Summer Quiz time. Get out your shorts, chillax and have a go. You can do it! Questions lined through have been answered. Some questions have been worded better! One each for the final 3. Go man go! 

1. What is the name of Peter Cushing's character in the film Tales from the Crypt who was tormented as an old man and rises from the grave for revenge?

2. In project SWORD the Beetle is the shielded version of which vehicle?

3. Which Spanish company made toy versions of the Thunderbirds vehicles similar to JR21?

4. What was the name of the Showa master box art Thunderbirds illustrator at Imai?

5. What was the toy frisbee originally based on?

6. What did the founders of Hasbro, Lines [Tri-ang] and Bing all have in common?

7. Which miniature space toy line had the headline 'They Really Work" on the backing card?

8. In the film Capricorn One how does each fleeing Astronaut know that the others have been captured in the desert scene?

9. Which toy connects Bild Lilly and Lili Ledy?

10. Which model figure by Revell was described on the box as 'the kookiest of them all'?

11. Which part of the Zero-X is also the name of a SpaceX toy [with a number added for good measure]?

12. In terms of SpaceX and its relatives, which is the odd one out and why? Tri-ang, Multiple Toymakers, Imperial Toy Corp, Sitap, Linda, Hasbro

13. What colour and name is given to the highest ranking badge in Project SWORD?

14. In the film 'Wolfen' what does the reference to 'the steel' mean?

15. Which of the following Project SWORD toys were NOT based on a NASA concept? Dyna Soar, Space Glider, Probe Force Three, Moon Prospector, Scout 1 [needs two answers]

16. How are the alien blue men referred to in Prometheus?

17. What is the connection between the film MOON and the song MOONAGE DAYDREAM?

18. Which do not belong in this list of Colourforms figures? Colossus Rex, Scorpio, Astro Nautilus, Callisto, Orbitron, King Zor.

19. Which famous building does Q the Flying Serpent use as a nest site in the movie of the same name?

20. In the film "The Howling" Patrick McNee runs a remote community of convalescing werewolves. What's it called?

21. This board game had various names: Which Witch, Haunted House and ............?

SPACE 1999 TITLES: A VARIATION ON A THEME

Network DVD have done a remastered copy of the second season Space 1999 episode , 'Seed of Destruction', which will be premièred at Andercon.

The twist is they've decided to replace the original titles with the first season titles, and use Barry Gray's theme rather than Derek Wadsworth's, as well as some of Barry incidental music.

Apart from the novelty value I can't understand why. Personally, I like both versions. Both seasons of Space 1999 are different and have very different tones. The titles and theme reflect this.

Am I in the minority thinking that things should be left as they were originally intended, or is this digital meddling perfectly reasonable?  

I'm sure you'll have your opinions. What do you think?

SCALING THE WALLS: BILL EVERATT'S THUNDERBIRDS MODELS

Hi Woodsy

Here are shots from two of the shelves from my collection, I wanted to put together a rough scale set on each shelf which compared the craft to each other, this is the best I could get.  The scales are only approximate, but all around 1/320th scale, with the larger TB2 around 1/144th.

I put this together some time before I saw Chris Thompsons beautiful chart of comparative  sizes, but curiously enough they seem to roughly match.  That being the case, in would indicate that the Zero X here would be in the region of 700 foot, or twice the size of a Saturn Five.

Of course the difficult thing is, Century 21 made no real effort to build any of the craft to scale with each other!  So the sizes can vary considerably.  

I always likened the TB2 Pod to a magicians hat, as sometimes more stuff would come out than it was possible to carry!  Having said that, in the International Rescue Owners Manual, there is one Pod configuration where the Elevator Cars are stacked on top of each other...

Hope these photos help, as they do stack up in comparison to each other, and Chris' chart too.

Bill

SCRATCHBUILDING THE ZERO-X: KEV'S MEV

My Zero X project continues, I have made a little undercarriage unit to stand the MEV on.

Take care,

Kevin D

SCRATCHBIULDING THE ZERO-X BY KEVIN D

Hi, I'm currently working on a Zero X scratchbuild. Here's the Main Body at a busy Spacex base. Take care,

Kevin

SHADO OPERATIVE AYSHEA GUESTING AT ANDERCON

One of the latest guest announcements for Andercon is actress and singer Ayshea who appeared as one of the control room SHADO operatives in UFO.

In this scene from UFO episode, 'Confetti Check A-O-K ,  Lt  Ayshea Johnson is enjoying a cigar, much to the amusement of Col.Alec Freeman, Lt. Keith Ford and proud new father, Lt. Grey.

As part of the publicity of UFO, Ayshea appeared in a photo shot for the 1970 TV Times special, Christmas with the Stars, with actor Michael Billington, UFO's Col. Foster, featuring the fashions in UFO.

Ayshea, or Ayshea Brough as she is also known, was certainly popular with blokes like me growing up  during the early seventies in the UK. She appeared in Pantomimes and summer shows and was a popular cabaret act. She was a recording artist with several albums and singles to her name. She was briefly engaged to Wizzard's, Roy Wood , who wrote and produced  one of her singles, 'Farewell'.

She  had a regular pop column in the Look - In Magazine, and presented the TV pop show, Lift-Off with Ayshea.

I did do a short post way back in October, 2013 on Ayshea, coincidently, with a mention to Jamie to sign her up for Andercon : 2014
http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/lift-off-with-ayshea.html

Well it looks like for Andercon: 2015 I got my wish.

CBS MOON ROVER 1984: BIG ENOUGH FOR MAJOR MATT MASON?

With Major Matt being so popular I often see custom toys for Mattel's Man in Space online. There's some on Ebay right now. So I had to look twice when I saw this as I thought it too was a Major Matt custom job.

It isn't. Its a Moon Rover by CBS Toys from 1984. This is a toy and a company I don't know. Were there more in the line or was this a one off? Would it even work as a Matt Mason vehicle - is it the right scale?