aoshima mev escape pod needed!

This is the MEV from the Zero-X die-cast model by Aoshima from 2006 as displayed on Hobby Japan's site.

I have one of these but alas the small round insert is missing.

I think its an escape pod and it fits into the round hole in the white square on top of the MEV. The one pictures is slotted in with just the blue circular top showing. Its spring-loaded.

Does anyone have a spare escape pod or know where I might get one?

Thanks.

More obscure words

Here's another list of strange words that I occasionally hear.

I'm never sure exactly what they mean. Are you?

1. Slowpoke
2. Cinch or sinch
3. Dreadnought
4. Sus as in to sus out
5. Sing Sing - a place?
6. Poop deck
7. Sandlot
8. Slugger 
9. Cowpoke
10. Heck
11. Stoop
12. G-men
13. Bleacher
14. Zoot suit
15. Hash tag

Some of these are likely to be American. Rather than google them, have a go yourselves at the meanings and the origins. You can do it.

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young men make good scouts

I love this old magazine cover I saw online.

It reminds me a bit of Project SWORD's Scout 2. 

japanese captain scarlet water pump

This is an interesting short Japanese video on You Tube of a vintage Japanese toy tin water pump.

It features some beautiful Captain Scarlet graphics.

The video is on its side for some reason.

Anyone got one?

russian moonship?

This caught my eye, a Russian space plane called the LK1 online.

It's looks a lot like this tin Chinese Moonship we have featured many times.

Do you think the Russian and Chinese toys' main bodies are more or less the same?

random toy: romper room ferry set

I've had thousands of old toys in my hands at one time or other, as a kid and an adult.

One I once bought was a huge plastic ferry set for pre-school kids. A sort of an Early Learning Centre style toy involving a large plastic track, plastic cars and a car ferry.

I think it was called the Big Ferry Set by a classicly Seventies and Eighties toy outfit called Romper Room. They had a really cool logo too.

The ferry set was ginormous and the box was like a trunk. I recall buying it at a car boot in the early 1990's and struggling to get it to the car!

Despite still having quite a few of the old toys I bought back then this is one set I don't think I have now. Trouble is my loft is a mess - like the bridge of the Enterprise after a major Klingon blast - and I wouldn't be able to find it if I wanted to.

Yet I just don't recall selling this massive plastic set!

Does anyone remember Romper Room's Big Ferry set? Photo anyone?

amy shira teitel's space toys

Amy Shira Teitel is the pin-up girl of rocketry. 

Prolific in her output, Amy has posted tons of informative videos on You Tube and Popular Science, together with publishing a book

Here's Amy taking us through her own space toys and models.