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Wednesday, 10 May 2017

smiling kids toy box art of the sixties and seventies

I recently saw this Smarty Car on the Vectis online auction site. Its by TAT.

Besides the obvious plastic charm of the car it was the box art that also caught my eye. It reminded me immediately of Lite Brite. The Smarty Car even lights up!

Here's Hasbro's vintage Lite Brite Box art so you can see for yourself.

Like this Shaker Maker set, there are loads of examples of this kind of box art illustration from the sixties and seventies. For me the smiling kids represent the optimism of the decade and were all part of the appeal of the toys. I certainly like this box art more than the use of pure photography.

Can you think of any more readers and does anyone know if certain illustrators were used?

Tuesday, 9 May 2017

NEW SWORDCAST AIR TIME TO BE ANNOUNCED

Apologies for the delay.

When the new SWORDcast is fully available on Celtica Radio we will let you know as soon as possible.

Keep on SWORDIN'! new radio swordcast tonight!

He's back! The legend in his own lunchtime, the prince of puddings, the veda of video - Woodstock! In fine fettle and full voice, we bring you the latest installment of century 21 entertainment, the Swordcast! Available at 8.15pm' ish UK Time this evening from all your usual outlets!

Click here for Celtica Radio and the SWORDcast. http://www.celticaradio.com/

The Cast will be later than expected tonight. We'll keep you posted as soon as its on!

home movie project sword badges part 3: you wear them on your jumper

More of my SWORD badges and toys. What more could anyone want!

Anything but this! ha ha.

Enjoy!

NB. At the very end I try to say that the metal and enamelled ASTRONAUT badges are available to members of Fanderson, the Gerry Anderson fan club.

The badge they used as a template years ago was actually one of my own!

bill's little lem

Its the lem from yesterday!

Monday, 8 May 2017

when is an urn a vase? when its in A L I E N

Continuing my read of the old Alan Dean Foster novel A L I E N I am pleased to say that I'm enjoying it more and more, especially as there are a few bits of dialogue from the movie itself.

One thing that was a surprise is the the mention of an urn in the derelict. The exploratory crew find it just before Kane descends into the subterranean chamber as follows:

“Dallas’s light fell unexpectedly on a shape that was not part of wall or floor. Moving closer, he used the light to trace its outlines. It appeared to be a smallish urn or vase, tan in color, glossy in aspect. Moving closer, he tilted his head over the jagged, broken top, shone the light inside. Empty.”

I don't recall an urn being found in the film A L I E N do you?

Its an exciting turn up for me as it connected instantly with the 'vases' in Prometheus a couple of years ago.

Is Alan Dean Foster's urn actually a vase?

Postscript

Fellow blogger Adam Frazier/ Geeks of Doom has commented on his blog about this very thing:

In the novel [A L I E N], the eggs are more like small urns or vases – like the ones we see in Prometheus! The eggs do not open or “bloom” neatly like in the film. Instead, the Facehugger explodes violently through the top of the capsule.

Hmmm. Adam's observation suggests that urns are vases are eggs. Really?

Can the vases in Prometheus be viewed as eggs? Are they one in the same?