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Saturday, 15 September 2018

TENTH BIRTHDAY BASH FILM QUIZ

Here we go readers, its a Birthday bash film quiz to get you thinking!

Answer 1 or 2 each in the comments. Some are harder than others. So maybe one or two each reader to share the joy.

1. In which film did a General say At My Signal, Unleash hell?

2. In which film did a young classical music fan say You Are Invited?

3. Whats the connection between SCROOGED and the punk band The New York Dolls?

4. Whats the connection between Val Kilmer and the 80's BBC TV drama series The Edge of Darkness?

5. Which film Super Hero seeks the Contract of San Venganza?

6. Who plays The Architect in the Towering Inferno?

7. In Night or Curse of the Demon what is the name of the catatonic patient who is hypnotised?

8. What is the huge devil-man called in the film Legend?

9. In Capricorn One in the desert scene what does each fugitive have to do when they are caught?

10. In the 80's horror XTRO which life-size toy comes to the door with a rifle?

Terranova47's Super Mousse Wrapper; A Birthday Treat

Hello Woodsy,

These are scans of Cadbury/Fry's Super Mousse wrappers. Just 2p when the Apollo Badge offer was running then up to 2 1/2p.

These are from 1972 along with a scan of the five badges I collected. You had to have two matching wrappers to send for a badge.

Did you collect these as a kid?

Regards,

Happy Birthday!

Terranova57

NYC

USA

tenth birthday tale: jr21 missile launcher: its gone full circle!

On our very first blog Birthday on this day in 2009 our first ever birthday special was this article by super collector Ferryman about his JR21 Missile Launcher.

Hi Woodsy

RE: My JR21 Missile Launcher

I managed to unearth my Corgi Corporal Missile Carrier after some minor excavations in my office.

I thought it might be nice to get a couple of shots of the two toys together, JR21 [left] and Corgi die-cast [right].

I suspect the unusual addition of chrome wheels on the JR21 toy was influenced by this variant of the Corgi model.

Ferryman

Fast forward 10 years to this Tenth Birthday.

Last month another pf these elusive JR21 toys surfaced on Ebay!

With no hope of winning I placed a meagre bid and hoped the Launcher stayed under the radar!

Wonder of wonders I actually won!

Despite being incomplete my toy is fabulously well boxed and now resides at Moonbase just in time for the bloggiversary.

But rest assured the story won't end here😉

watch this space!

TENTH BIRTHDAY SPECIAL GUEST EXCLUSIVE: CHARLES BUSSEY'S SECRET SERVICE GABRIEL CAR

In 2012 I asked the question Where is the Gabriel Car?

Steve Zodiac mentioned a possible location but I didn't chase it up in 2012.

In 2014 Scoop photographed the real Gabriel at Andercon 2014.

Still I didn't follow this up.

Well,for the tenth birthday I did!

I tracked down the owner from an old car showroom photograph and .... got a reply and a clutch of excellent new photographs from a very kind Charles Bussey, who explained how he came to own Gabriel:

Evening Woodsy

You asked for a few details regarding Gabriel.

The few I have which my not already be known are listed below.

I purchased it from Heath Garage in Newmarket.

It was being sold on behalf of Mrs Grade who's husband was the boss of the TV company that produced Thunderbirds and Secret Service for the BBC.

That was in 1968 or thereabouts.

I have used it on a few Model T owners Club rallies but it has not been out for several years.

My wife and I took it to Coventry some years ago for a Gerry Anderson revival meeting where I drove it around the area.

The car was suspended in our old premises in Palace Street Norwich for several years and created a lot of interest from many areas of the public.

That is where someone from The Gerry Anderson organisation spotted it and got in touch.

Her last outing was to an exhibition in London a few years ago but it has not been used since.

I intend to have a drive in it before it is returned to storage. That will however have to wait until new Tubes arrive as three of them are perished and will not hold any air.

I hope this is of use to you and I hope the reunion goes of OK.

I do actually have a video of the car being used in Secret Service.

Best Regards

Charles Bussey

PS. The one thing that I know has gone missing was a one third scale prop model of Gabriel. It was searched for in the '90s but as I understand it was never found. Do you have any info on that.