scratch built zebedee from the magic roundabout

Hi

It's happened again. For some odd reason, I've built another legend from childhood (how did we ever make it through?). 

Zebedee from The Magic Roundabout!

Time for bed!

Kevin D

archer dan dare figure

Hello Woodsy, 

In the US Archer produced a set of spacemen that were also made in the UK and packaged as Dan Dare. 

Here's a blue one next to Digby being startled by a Sgt. Chimp Brook Bond PG Tips eggcup. 

Terranova47

USA

a deal with the devil: a modern movie trope?

Having watched the flick Drive Angry this week I've realised that forming pacts with the Devil in order to stay out of Hell is a common trope in modern horror and action films these days.

There may be much older examples but here are four I can think of. Nick Cage features twice! Notes taken from Wikipedia.

Can you think of any more examples? What do you think?

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Drive Angry

John Milton (Nicolas Cage) is an undead criminal who has broken out of Hell.

He's stolen Satan's personal gun, labeled The Godkiller to kill Jonah King, a cult leader who tricked Milton's daughter into joining his followers in the wake of Milton's death 10 years prior.

King kills her and her husband and steals their daughter (Milton's granddaughter) to be sacrificed in a Satanist ritual. King believes that if he kills the baby, he will unleash Hell over Earth.

Meanwhile, Satan's bookkeeper, The Accountant, arrives on Earth to bring Milton back to Hell and take the gun back.

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Ghostrider

Over one hundred years ago, the devil Mephistopheles sent his bounty hunter of the damned, the Ghost Rider, to retrieve a document known as the contract of San Venganza, a list of a thousand corrupt souls.

Seeing that the contract would give Mephistopheles the power to unleash hell on Earth, the Rider refuses to give him the contract.

Mephistopheles appears and returns Ghost Rider [Cage] his soul, offering to take back the curse of the Ghost Rider. Determined not to make another deal, the Rider declines, saying that he will use his power against him, and against all harm that comes to the innocent.

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Constantine

God and Lucifer have a standing wager for mankind's souls.

Angels and demons are forbidden to manifest on Earth; instead, their hybrid offspring influence humans.

Constantine tells Lucifer of his son's Mammon's plan to usurp him. Lucifer banishes Mammon back to Hell and grants Constantine any wish.

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Solomon Kane

Solomon Kane is confronted by a demon that tells him his soul is forfeit to Satan.

Solomon rejects his fate and jumps out a window. Following this encounter, Solomon returns on the long journey back to England.

a christmas pud from andy b

Hi Woodsy, hope this "works"!

Season's greetings,

Andy B.

Season's Greetings from Terranova47

Thank you for Moonbase Central. 

I'm pleased to be able to contribute to it. 

Have a Happy, Healthy, Holiday Season.

Terranova47

New York

Young World Goodwin walkie talkies from 1978

The box art of this auctioned Young World walkie talkie set caught my eye.

Its not often you see a Saturn V and its MLP on toy box art.

The walkie talkies look pretty damn cool as well. 'space age styling'! They could have come from the set of UFO!

I remember getting and playing with plastic telephones one Christmas in the Sixties. Don't think I had any walkie talkies.

Have you or did you have walkie talkies, toy or otherwise?

a christmas card from artist paul mccaffrey

Merry Christmas and happy new year, Woodsy!

Moonbase Central continues to be one of my

favourite blogs – I check it every day!

(Thanks for the mentions, by the way.)

I don't know if you've come across it but

I've done a comic series this year:

Anno Dracula 1895: Seven Days In Mayhem.

It's written by Kim Newman.

Cheers

Paul McCaffrey

transogram batmobile christmas

There are hundreds of reels of home movies on You Tube, especially from Christmasses past.

I have searched quite a lot for some Christmas Project SWORD and SpaceX but no luck yet.

In the meantime here's some cool home footage on You Tube from Christmas morning 1966. I assume its American. 

I was blown away with the HUGE Batmobile that appears at the start. Recognising the T logo I can see its Transogram but its a new one on me. I've never seen it before.  

There's also Captain Action and trolls. Beware: the film shows vintage toy boxes being ripped apart!

What do you think readers?

Here's a photo borrowed from Hake's auctions featuring that amazing Batmobile