M O O N A N D F R I E N D

I took these shots on my mobile phone the other night. It was a glowing clear crisp full moon and excitingly there was another smaller but very bright body next to it - Venus?

I wonder if we'll ever go back to the Moon?

I'm no David Hemmings but it was fun to snap at the time.

TRUMPTONSHIRE NEEDS YOU!

Hi,

Yep, another Camberwick Green character. This time, a proper Action Man! 

Don't worry, several SF craft are already under construction!

Take care,

Kevin D

UK

S U R R O G A T E S

Just watching Surrogates on TV. Never seen this flick before. It stars Bruce Willis and is about humans acting out their lives through robots.

Its an interesting premise.

Have you seen it?

KSN MIDORI SCI-FI MODEL KITS 1969

There's a bit of everything here from Midori's catalogue 1969 I saw on the net.

Three pictures of their model LT-10 Lunar Transporter, some vanguards and a Lunar Climber.

Excuse the small size of the image.

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There'll be proper close-ups of fantastic Japanese kits to come soon from Rob C in the USA.

Power Star Fanzine Archive 1994

Interesting digital archive of an old fanzine, which I've personally never heard of.

Old school typing meeting the internet like this fascinates me. Fan clubs and networks must have thought heaven had come down to Earth when they used USENET.

http://www.twinpeaks.org/archives/creative/PowerStar-78.txt

and https://fanlore.org/wiki/Power_Star

Have you heard of Power Star?

Did Gerry Anderson fan clubs and fora do this too?

Scratch Postman from Camberwick Green

Hi,

Nearly finished now! The postman from Camberwick Green (I'd forgotten his name, which was Peter Hazel).

Only 1 mannequin left now thankfully!

Take care,

Kevin D

Plastic Fantastic: Italian Ferry, Spanish Carrier

I recently put these two toys together. 

On the left is a large yellow plastic car ferry from Italy and released by Renam of Naples.

On the right is the older white Aircraft Carrier complete with SpaceX-type spaceships released by Bullycan of Spain.

For completeness here are the two makers' details from the toys themselves.

Renam

Bullycan

and a few shots of them on their own

Have you got a toy ferry or an Aircraft Carrier readers?

MY FIRST T IN A CIRCLE MOON BUS PICTURE

These 2 images have been in my archive ever since I got online in the early to mid 90's.

They were from a huge collectables site called Gasoline Alley and were the first T in a Circle Moon Bus I'd ever seen.

I remember how excited I was at the time, not really knowing anything about it or how it fitted in with the normal SWORD Moon Bus by C21.

Back then and right up to 2008 I thought T in a Circle and Tarheel were the same thing!

As it happens an example of this boxed toy is the one remaining want on my wants list of SWORD toys. One day!

Which old toy images did you first get excited about online?