We've probably had this mystery toy on Moonbase before but like the proverbial goldfish I forget. My only excuse is that we are very close to our ten thousandth post on the blog!
This toy space gun set, which often turn up on Ebay, has card art that looks like its from a cartoon. Does anyone know what it is?
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I saw this on Ebay today and its more or less the same toy, just different card art!
Made in Hong Kong, reading the small label at the bottom it looks like this one was a Canadian import.
I heard a schoolkid say the phrase mental brain today. The word mental was being used an adjective.
I had to think about this. Can the brain be described as mental? Is it like saying a thoughtful brain or a mindful brain? Are these rubbish?
I suppose they could be tautologies. Where you say the same thing twice without one of the words being needed. Like hot fire or wet rain or living animate objects or missing one out alternately.
Can you think of better examples? What about the toy shop was full of toys?
About 15 years ago I acquired a whole genuine envelope full of Studio production drawings from the film Akira released in 1988.
I bought them at the NEC memorabilia event for my old toy stall at toy fairs and my Ebay shop at the time.
They were quite beautiful things, each one initialed by the artist or studio and you could see the animation process clearly as each drawing was a tiny movement on from the last.
Over the years I've sold on these drawings to collectors and I have just one left for posterity.
This one.
At first it appears to be basically a green object inside white clouds.
Having had a handful of the other drawings in this sequence its actually a pipe coil emerging from a foaming sea.
Its most likely the scene in Akira where Tetsuo becomes a huge mechanical globe with pipe-like tentacles churning up the waters in Tokyo Bay.
In the scene Tetsuo battles the Espers and my last drawing is probably this particular scene I've taken as a screengrab.
You can see the entire scene in this short clip on You Tube and the above still is around 1 minute 52 seconds in.
Have you any Akira merchandise or collectables?
Have you seen the film? Do you think it was important?
Sometimes it amazes me what I thought to collect and save.
Having used Letraset from it's early days (inspired by William Rushton's Private Eye layouts) I had no interest in using it for play, though I did buy these Soccer sets for kids' gifts.
I'm surprised to find it was saved with the plastic Arsenal badge. I lived pretty much equal distant from both Arsenal and Spurs so couldn't really decide on loyalty to one or the other, so chose neither!
