Captain Future's Toy Cupboard

Brother Midnight's suggestion about mystery header card art lead me to go looking for other possible Captain Future toys.

There are absolutely tons of them online and examples fro allover the world. It must have a been a global  hit when it was on TV in the late 70's!

Here's a Japanese space pistol with brilliant graphics on the back.

Here's Capitan Futuro figure from Mexico maybe?

and here's a French Capitaine Flam figure of Johann.

I'm still not sure it's Captain Future art on the header card I posted yesterday but Captain Future has certainly spawned a whole toy chest of fab stuff over the years.

Have you seen Captain Future or got any collectables?

FLASH HAS A BRAND NEW BAG

Its always a buzz when I see new ways pf packaging LP style astronauts.

This was a new bag I saw this January on Ebay:

Flash Gordon Space Warriors.

These were released by MSS, M. Shimmel and Sons of Brooklyn New York,

Have you got any LP style astronauts?

Mystery Space Robot Target Game

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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Added later

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.

Just noticed the top set above was made in China.

Brain Teaser

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?

Vintage Bandai Thunderbirds Necklaces

This is an unusual shop display card of metal necklaces.

I saved the pictures from Ebay in January.

They're Thunderbirds and the maker's mark on the card is Bandai.

The listing said they were from the 1960's or 70's.

The header card is a real mish mash.  Does anyone know what's going on?

The pendants themselves are pierced metal with enamelled vehicles.

Anyone got anything like this?

A Scratchbuilt Mayor of Trumpton Figure

Hi,

Yep, I've done it again (sorry). This time, a major political icon of our youth!

Sadly, I've more of these in the works!

Take care,

Kevin D

UK

Beautiful Japanese Thunderbirds Model Collection

What do you think?

AKIRA: TETSUO MONSTER PRODUCTION DRAWING

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?