MYSTERY STINGRAY MODEL

I saw this mystery Stingray on You Tube.

Any ideas what it is readers?

Johnny Lemon Martian Eye

With War of the Worlds tripoding through my mind this week I couldn't help but notice that the inside of our BBQ spice looks like ...... 

George Pal's Martian 3-split eye!

All it needs are the three different colours!

to look like this!

Now that's a Johnny Lemon DIY toy part if ever there was one!

Then came our masher

sporting what appears to be a radar or tracker screen at the bottom!

I know I've seen this array on a toy or fantasy gizmo but can't think what. You?

Have you any Johnny Lemon toy parts in the home like these?

Japanese Sweets-Filled SPV

The sheer diversity of |Japanese Andersonalia never ceases to amaze me. They just love Gerry Anderson and always have done.

I saw this sweet thing on Mandarake and kept the pictures.

It appears to be an SPV filled with sweets. I love the rear yellow engine.

 I know nothing about it really.

I will have to dig deeper into this one.

Any help welcomes readers.

It reminds me of a British JR21 Thunderbird 2 filled with sweets we featured 10 years ago.

http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/sweet-filled-jr21-thunderbirds-by-steve.html

FAREWELL TO THE FALLOW

No more the open fallow field. Blue surveys the ploughed slopes where we'd filmed folk horrors this winter and we both realised that its farmed spring mantle prohibits any further entrance.

The clean straight edge of the turned earth draws a sharp line on our wanderings over the bleak season, its sable curd now protected by the hostile cracks of twelve bores.

So we are forced to the margins like halflings, padding through the stream-side scrub,

Where unexpectedly Blue finds an upturned bottle buried deep in the wooded soil like a glass boletus.

As the thought of freeing it flickered through my mind I recalled the ghostly tale by M.R.James, A Warning to the Curious and a frisson of fear charged up my spine.

I left the bottle where it was.

What message may have been inside do you think?

What Do You Think of Repro Toy Boxes?

There's a new wave of repro toy boxes for sale appearing online, which I've noticed of late.

They appear to be professionally made and look very crisp.

There are many Century and JR21 repro boxes in there too.

What do you think of this new availability readers?

Would you buy a repro box for one of your toys?

APOLLO 1 ANYONE?

I keep on seeing this model vehicle on Japanese sites and have realised how much I like its sleek Seventies styling.

It recalls the sharp lines of the Lotus Esprit.

It appears to be called Apollo 1 and often has a trailer.

Above is a shot I saw online of a whole array of Apollo 1's

Doe anyone know the story behind this kit?

Did Century 21 Toys Use a Marx Tank?

I've often wondered if Century 21 Toys used a Marx Cap Firing Tank as the basis for their Mobile and Bridge Carrying Tank.

I haven't got either but I do have the turret of the Century 21 Toys tank kindly donated by Bill B.

Here's a my thinking in pictures.

What do you think?

TWO TOY TITANS MEET: OX AND MECHANOID

Here's an image from last Summer in the garden. I am hankering for sunshine!

On the table are a plastic Mechanoid and snap-together Zero-X.

Vintage plastic icons all.

Have you got different toys you can put together and send me a piccy of?