mark wants those zomlings!

Hi Woodsy

My daughter is mad on these lil' dudes! The vehicles are highly detailed and I can't wait for her to get bored of them so I can paint them!!

Regards 

Mark J

miniature red space glider candy toy and friends

I won this lot last month.

Its a bundle of old small candy toys from Japan which they generally call Showa Omake.

The lot includes more small hard plastic Project SWORD toys.

It adds a wholly new vehicle to my current fleet, the red Space Glider!

The other SWORD vehicles pictured are a grey Scout 3, a red Scout 1 and a yellow Probe Force 2, all in colours new to my collection.

I just wonder what other SWORD vehicles there are left in this line.

kev's K-9

Kev's large Dalek and K-9 models.

white 2001 space glider: new to the blog

I recently saw this on Ebay Italy.

Its a completely white version of the  radio control 2001 Space Glider.

Although we've seen the box before, the vehicle is new to the blog.

These radio controlled Gliders were more commonly red. They came with either a box-like radio unit or an egg shaped one.

They were made in China.

Prior to this we have featured two other white versions on the blog pictured below. I assume all three came in the same box.

Have you got any 2001 toy Space Gliders?

bob's vintage space toys

Hi guys,

Love your blog. Unfortunately, it's got me hooked on a lot of space toys I did not know existed. Been collecting robots and other things over the years until I discovered your blog. 

The L.P. toys, Spacex ,their variations, Giant Plastics spacemen, etc. have become favorites of mine also. 

 I found these "candy store" little spacetank variations on Yahoo Japan of the classic Japanese space tank "Vanguard". The original tank was first released as a model kit by Midori in the 60s. 

 These little toy spacetank versions are in perfect scale with the Spacex and L.P. toys. They feature working spring loaded missiles. I have picked up a few for modification for my dioramas.

Regards,

Bob Aucutt

pierce the plastic sky

If you can't beat 'em join 'em I say!

Here's my meagre contribution to the great launchpad expose.

Its a Tai Hing Space Shuttle borrowing some launch time on the Century 21 Cape Kennedy Set mobile launch pad.

brian berke's helijet launch pad

Hello, 

In reply to todays Space Patrol Launch pad; 

As today is publication date for the second issue of the new Dan Dare comic here is a photo of my Helijet launch pad on my Hornby Dublo layout. 

Regards, 

Brian Berke

is so the new way to start an answer?

What is this current obsession in England to answer a question by starting with 'so'?

For example you might ask one of the Diddymen where they came from. The answer would  be 'So, I come from Knotty Ash'.

What is going on?

Why so?

Why not but, or, now, yes, how, lake, shed, Ocean, platelet or tide-mark. Anything but so!

I first noticed it last year in the world of radio science when boffins were asked to explain their latest research.

For example, Dr. Dolittle might be asked 'Doctor, how do you talk to the animals precisely?'

To which the Doc would reply 'So, its all to do with my mouth'.

I can sort of understand an expert using so. Its an impersonal touch to distance the already bamboozled audience even further in a fog of aloofness.

Now so has jumped into general speech like a bird flu virus.

Is there is no escape from the curse of so!

Have you come across this readers?