Following your post about Camberwick Green etc. I do wonder if they were inspired by S.G. Hulme Beaman's Toytown, (Larry the Lamb etc.) which was on the radio from the 1920s, and was later a TV series.
I enclose a picture from an old Toytown book. Hulme Beaman wrote and illustrated the original stories.
Just saw the post on Camberwick Green toy vehicles. I've got the toy vintage car that they used as Doctor Mopp's car. It is the one I had as a child that has somehow survived.
Here it is in the background with my Windy Miller scratchbuild.
I loved Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley when I was knee high. Gordon Murray's fabulous puppet trilogy.
Trouble is I can't remember which is which. Its a bit like Sago, Tapioca and Semolina for me!
As a reminder here's the iconic clown turning end credits of Camberwick Green on You Tube:
I don't think I had any toys. Maybe a Windy Miller soap.
Being a huge fan of plastic TV vehicles as well I was thrilled to see this superb Camberwick Green Farmer bell Tipper truck on Ebay. It was made by Marx. I saved the photos for my archive.
I'm pretty sure I never had a toy like this although I did have a truck full of plastoc milk bottles, which I've yet to visualise properly.
This Marx truck looks great though.
Did you have any toys or merchandising from Camberwick Green, Trumpton or Chigley?
Did you like the shows? I wonder if Gerry Anderson ever met Gordon Murray?
Seeing Andy's Victorian dinosaur reminded me of this cool sail-back monster in the old 50's movie Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
I've read that the actual lizard was a rhinocerus iguana as seen below. It had its sail glued on, poor sod.
There are other dinosaurs in the film, notably this red beast at the film's volcanic finale. I remember it making a startling trumpet like sound. How did they do that? A tuba?
The beast itself was actually a Tegu lizard like this but painted red.
Ultimately the red beast perishes under the lava of the Atlantean eruption at the film's close [I do hope the lizard didn't actually perish].
IMdB informs us that the lava in this scene was most likely oatmeal.
It suggests that it was used in the Time Machine's movie eruption as well.
I've no idea how they turned oatmeal into lava other than perhaps colouring it red. Do you?
For more information about the cinematography and matte effects in both Journey to the Centre of the Earth and The Time Machine then check out the amazingly comprehensive Matte Shot blog. Just click on the films' names above.
I was pleased to see one of my old Pyro prehistoric monster model kits on You Tube, the Triceratops.
I had loads of these kits as a kid - anklyosaurus, dimetrodon, T. Rex et al - in the Sixties and particularly loved the box art when I was a lad. I don't recall actually making the models though! Here's a shot of the series from my old Ebay photo archive. Seeing them conjures up Christmas 1967 all over again!
As for what's inside, here's a film from 3 years ago courtesy of the Ghost of Zeon.
Did you have Pyro dinosaurs like me or maybe Airfix or Revell or perhaps even the great Aurora prehistoric scenes?
I mentioned the Victorian dinosaur models at Crystal Palace - not quite space monsters, but the way they thought they looked in the 19th century, they're pretty close!
