in a bit of a lather

Did vintage toys fare well in the baths of our youth?

What about Action Man? Did his joints loosen after lengthy dunkings?

What about a toy made for bathtime like the Billy Blastoff frogman? Did Billy stay intact or was it a bad idea by Eldon?

I never had any Sea Devils but they look like they could spear a rubber duck no problem. But were their aquatic credentials all Mattel marketing spin? Did they live for the water?

What's your experience of bath toys readers?

star wars blue milk anyone?

Remember Luke's blue milk in Star Wars?

He drinks some for breakfast down on the moisture farm.

What would be the easiest way of making drinkable blue milk like this?

A L I E N C O V E N A N T T R A I L E R

Moonbase is preparing for more of Ridley's wriggly things and icky critters this month.

Check out the trailer to A L I E N Covenent aka Prometheus 2.

What do you think?

no fivers at moonbase

I've just been alerted by BRASSA the space ATM that old five pound notes will be invalid after midnight tonight here in the UK.

Yep, old fivers will be worthless in the morning.

Having checked the Moonbase coffers I'm pleased to report that we are already fiverless. 

Get spending those old fivers UK readers!

i recognised your foul stench when i was brought on board

I've been trying to sniff out of any connections between toys of the Sixties and Star Wars.

Lacking sufficient Force this time of the morning my Thursday brain is struggling to get past the scum and villainy of my dreams.

Short of tearing this moonbase apart to find the plans, the only thing I can think of is an old link I found in the first months of the blog in 2008 to a website called Secret Fun Spot.

The site had a fun section about Star Wars knockoffs.

Alas the site appears now to be defunct but I did archive a particular image:

Along with obvious C3PO clones made of metal there is a neat set of our friends the Blue Box space vehicles.

Interestingly the Space Car at the bottom of the picture is white. Back in 2008 I'd never seen a white one before and now in 2017 I'm not sure I have yet.

Have you readers?

Why they are Star Wars knockoffs I'm not sure unless the website was only interested in the C3PO bit. Yep, that could be it.

What's your fave Star Wars toy or collectable?

May the fourth be with you!

Happy Star Wars Day readers.

What are you doing today?

fish and chips at moonbase

We've just enjoyed a portion of fish and chips here at Moonbase delivered by Thunderbird 3.

It reminded me of being a kid in the Sixties when we had a chippy tea every week, whilst watching something fab in the telly, which I expect you did too!

With lashings of salt and vineger, fish and chips is often cited as the national dish here in the UK.

There is some competition for the title though, namely the Sunday Roast and Chicken Tikka Masala.

Personally I'm not bothered about national dishes as long as the food's tasty, but it is important to some.

What would you say your national dish is in your neck of the woods?

gmail conversations

My new GMAIL is driving me round the twist.

It calls emails Conversations and bundles them up into, well, conversations!

What happened to straight emails shown individually for God's sake!

Is this the future or am I simply out of the loop yet to be bundled?