Richard Dixon's Zero Hour Toys: the Final Finds

Hi Moonbase readers

Some final Zero Hour stuff.

1 - Control Tower built for the Toy Fair in London - Earls Court display .

2 - Army vehicles on London Toy Fair exhibit .

3 My very first look at a Scorch Bomber - pre-production prototype item.....this one is very close to a production item....

4 / 5 / 6 / 7 ....Zero Hour Artwork...for Comic.....this was a give away with the larger packs...not sure who did this artwork but its good.....

Hope you enjoyed it.

Best Regards 

Richard Dixon

Principal Photographer, Zero Hour Toys, Bluebird

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In production:

SEASTAR 5

Model Citizan: Mrs. Honeyman

Hi,

Here is the last in my little set of Camberwick Green scratchbuilds. Mrs. Honeyman!

Onwards and upwards.

Take care,

Kevin D
Trumpton
UK

Rob's Japanese Firebird 009

Here is the Paramount Firebird 009, a "junk" toy model from 1968, Japan. Rob C, USA

Richard Dixon's Zero Hour: Packaging, Settings and Catalogue Shots

Hi Woodsy

Image set number 3 for you .

Image 1 / Hovercraft on model river set .

Image 2 / Trade Catalogue landscape model set showing Mono Rail Set .

Image 3 / Selection of shots I did for the Bluebird Trade Catalogue .

Image 4 / Artwork pack shots I did for trade presentations .

Image 5 / Figure pack shots created for the Bluebird Trade catalogues ..

Image 6 / Army Wolf Pack set and Close Combat Set / Model landscape Desert Base .

Hope your followers like these......

Best Regards

Richard Dixon

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Image set 4 tomorrow!

A Wind to shake the Stars

 The impact of Star Wars on contemporary culture, not to mention the toy industry, can't be overstated. I probably have more Star Wars toys than any other single toy line. Here are just a few of my favourites.

DROIDS CARDED FIGURES ON YOU TUBE

Less well known than the Kenner Star Wars figures,

Have you any Droids action figures?

STAR ADVENTURE PLAY SET

In the early 1990's I bought a cheapo space toy set from a discount store in Wakefield near me. It was called Star Adventure and had small space vehicles and little chunky spacemen like a Playmobile chappie.

I had it years before selling it on Ebay and then I forgot about it. I was pleasantly reminded of my old set by this different one which appeared on the 'Bay last month.

This Star Adventure set came with two space jets, a pair of ray guns and an alien. The star of the set though is the 'robot animal', which was described on its listing as a 'baby At-At', which I thought was quite good.

Clearly the alien is the spaceman's buddy like Star Wars' Han and Chewie. Or maybe they are enemies? Anyway this set never appeared in my local discount stores back then so I thought I'd share it now. Despite pushing the Star Wars angle, the Ebay seller didn't get a sale.

The card art looks interesting but I just can't make it out properly. Anyone else got any of these kids' sets?

Tour de Yorkshire Cycle Race Flies Past Moonbase

Its not just Star Wars Day here at Moonbase. 

Its also the Tour de Yorkshire Day 2!

Tour de Yorkshire is a world-class cycle race and a Yorkshire off-shoot of the Tour de France. 

It passed by Moonbase around 4pm this afternoon, which I filmed and you can see my flick above.

Missus Moonbase and I were out along with neighbours to cheer on the Pelaton and the main rider group.

I'm not a cycling fan but the whole thing brought back great memories of my old Corgi cycling car sets.

Here's some pics I found on Ebay. I'm not sure if I had both but I'll include the two I remember.

Did you have them or maybe you still do?

Have you any other cycling toys?