Mystery Toys from Morecambe

Having returned back to Moon Base with Missus MB from our weekend tour of the Morecambe Bay area of North West England I thought I'd post a piccy of those Magic Roundabout figures I found in a charity shop.

I don't know what they are but one clue might be the word DANNOT which appears on each one. if anyone can help identify them I would be most appreciative.

Similarly this group of small toys are all a mystery. Contained in the same junk box as the Magic Roundabouters I don't know what any of them are. 

The only markings are MADE IN MACAU beneath the strange rubber animal to the right, which also has four small wheels. 

The blue astronaut is very distinctive but has no markings at all.

The odd black block to the left says FORD on it so may not be a toy at all but rather a car thingy. 

As for the cream coloured block my own guess is that its a plastic toy wafer biscuit but who knows!

Do you readers?

MAGIC ROUNDABOUT MINIATURES

I picked up a bundle of small plastic figures from the TV show The Magic Roundabout in a charity shop in Morecambe yesterday.

They could be old but could be modern.

When i get back to Moonbase Ill check them out.

I know Hugh has covered similar figures on his ace Small Scale World site.

Our mission to visit James Bond World

Following local girl Diana Rigg's footsteps [she's from Doncaster down the road!],

a couple of summer's ago we went on a mission to Switzerland.

Not on her Majesty's Secret Service but on British Airways and Swiss Rail.

We bought a licence to thrill and visited Bond World on this beautiful peak known as the Shilthorn [not my picture - too good - its a swiss tourist board snap]

Where a cluster of buildings clasp the summit, the Piz Gloria.

There are murals

shops

and the famous revolving restaurant seen in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

You could get a 007 martini

or eat something

using the cutlery promoting the exhibition hall, Bond World

or you could just chill with a Coupe Diana Rigg ice cream

We had the soup

and entered the spectacular exhibition of Bond World.

before heading home on the multi-staged journey back down and to the first cable car station

and eventually to the distant mountain town of Wengen where we were staying and had set off from that morning.

It had cost an Agent's ransom but we had certainly been thrilled.

006.5 out.

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Have you been to Piz Gloria?

Have you any James Bond toys?

HARD SUN ANYONE?

Thinking of watching a new TV sci fi drama called Hard Sun now.

Its British I think so could go either way.

Anyone else watching?

Colder than Mars!

Im currently off Moonbase and on tour but just wanted to wish our North American readers all the best as the big freeze continues. Dig in and stay warm!

Terranova47's Limited Edition Die-Cast Spacebus

Hello Woodsy

I have had time to look through photo files so here are some that may be of interest. 

Dan Dare with a cool car, more 30's Flash Gordon than S.W.O.R.D. 

Some 54mm plastic spacemen. 

My Sutcliffe clockwork Nautilus too.

I bought this one about 1972 from a toy shop. I had wanted one as a kid when they first came out about 1954 but was told by my parents that I only 'needed' one submarine. 

In 1953 I had been the lucky precipitant of the basic grey version with a Coronation transfer on the upper front deck. Of course when you're seven you 'need' more than one submarine. 

The original filled with bath water so much the clockwork seized up and it was buried in my childhood garden to puzzle future archaeologists. 

Regards, 

Terranova47

NYC

Is the Sears Space Mobile a Mattel Major Mat Mason Cuckoo?

Continuing my occasional theme of toys made by other companies so that well-known toys could be used with them [sort of like cuckoos!], I've probably blogged this before but the Sears Space Mobile seems to be just such a one.

With its antenna like the Firebolt Laser Canon's it seems to have been aimed at fans of Major Matt Mason toys and figures in the Sixties.

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Did a Mattel Major Matt Mason figure actually fit inside the pilot's seat on this toy?

Anyone know?

NB.

Talking to Bill about this I realise that This vehicle came with a plastic astronaut that looked like Matt 

Mason but was only four and a half inches tall.

In US toy catalogues the Sears Spacemobile was advertised alongside Major Matt Mason toys. I'm still uncertain if the Major could sit or stand in the Sears toy. Do you know?

States of Snow

Just a shout out to our American friends being battered by the latest snow storm.

Hunker down and stay warm!

Get those old Toy Shop and Collectable Toys and Values mags out and stay in bed!

Stay safe and let us know how you are.

Woodsy