THE MYSTERY OF THE LADY PENELOPE TOY COSMETI KITS

The other day I posted this 1966 advertisement for a Lady Penelope toys competition.

Two things came to mind.

1. Does anyone have the results? They would be in a Lady Penelope comic after October 8th 1966?

2. It'd be fun to find out more about some of the more unusual toys in this advert -

That's were the fun really started!

Deploying Sacramento reader Jim's suggestion of magnifying the above picture and the description, below, I made a start.

I began with the "Cosmeti-Kit" pictured far right

This is the description

The description described two sets; skin cream and shampoo/bath. They allowed kids to make their own cosmetics. There are two boxes shown in the ad so presumably they're one of each.

So who made them?

Unusually the description doesn't say.

Web power stepped in at this point and I managed to find a reference to Cosmeti Kits.

This toy catalogue cover includes the words Cosmeti kit on it, so it would appear that they were made by Mettoy Playcraft in 1966.

I could find no other online information whatsoever about this toy and the above image was a googlewack, a single google result, a list of one!

This would prove to be a similar story for much of the more unusual stuff pictured in the ad, but more on that later

My conclusion would be that these Cosmeti Kits are seriously rare children's 'toys' nowadays, as hardly any have appeared online.

I know that making cosmetics would have meant that the box and contents probably got thrown away after use but I did expect some ex- shop stock to have survived and have been auctioned off somewhere.

Anyone got anymore info about them?

LOLLIPOP ROCKETS

I love these modern lolly stick spaceships!

Did you make anything out of lollipop sticks readers?

ONLINE BOOK: THE HONG KONG TOY INDUSTRY BY SARAH MONKS

A short extract of a colour 60 page book called TOY TOWN, of interest to Hong Kong toy enthusiasts:

https://www.industryhk.org/upload/media/file/fd8d484681f494e2f58e9e043cf039a9.pdf

THUNDERBIRD 6 REMOTE CONTROL TOY BIPLANE

Caught this Japanese footage on You Tube. You don't often see a plastic remote control Thunderbird 6 toy. It's probably Bandai?

Was it even possible to get a toy Thunderbird 6 outside Japan back in the Sixties?

MOON BUS DOODLE

My latest doodle.

Your art welcomed!

REMEMBERING 'FLIGHT OF FANTASY' GERRY ANDERSON EVENT 2014

Another excellent Gerry Anderson event was the Flight of Fantasy exhibition that took place  at  the RAF Cosford museum in 2014.

Organised by mega fan Chris King this was a little different to the usual Conventions and a chance for ordinary members of the public to check out the huge amount of puppets and models on display, as well as meet a few special guests like Matt Zimmerman and Shane Rimmer.

Here's a special guest that I like to see, the 'real' Steve Zodiac, who has spent his declining years as a bowling trophy. An excellent replica of Troy Tempest in the background.

An original prop of the Spectrum Patrol Car from Captain Scarlet and The Myterons.

Captain Black and Captain Scaret.

Joe McClaine meets Joe 90

Sky 1 original prop.

Jimmy Gibson and friend Zarin, with Mark Knopfler in the background.

The Starcruiser model built by Martin Bower.

Puppets from Terrahawks.

A short video I took at the event showing some of the models and puppets, with a quick run down of some of the guests.

CENTURY 21 LADY PENELOPE TOYS DISPLAY

You just can't beat original pictures of vintage Century 21 toys and their contemporaries. Its like historical evidence, priceless for toy researchers and collectors.

Here's such a picture from Lady Penelope comic. It crammed with multiple examples of Penelope toys such as make-Up sets and Fairylite dolls.

The Cosmeti-Kits are a new one on me with the photo box of a young girl's head. behind them is a cool colour picture of the rare Lady Penelope Tea Set. I just wish I had a bigger version of this image to see all the other goodies hiding in there.

The same goes for the blurb, which is too small for me to read.

Can anyone assist?

MINIATURE ZERO-X TOY FROM 1980: NEW TO THE BLOG

I was leafing through an old Japanese Andersonalia book today. It describes toys which came out there year by year,.

This page concerning new toys during 1980 caught my eye.

There's a wholly new miniature Zero-X toy I've never seen before. I've circled it in red.

I do not know the make but it's surrounded by plastic Thunderbirds toys in similar header carded bags.

This miniature predates the mini model by Morinaga by 12 years.

Does anyone know anymore about this 1980 Zero-X?