MORE LP SPACEMEN AND A CIRCUS CAR

More LP spacemen and vehicles from my photo archive of past auctions and sales.

Flash Gordon Space Warriors -

with a completely different spaceman on the header

Jak Pak Galaxy Raiders involving our friends the LP aliens

LP's contribution to the Major Matt Mason universe, the Space Set

Two scarlet workers, the LP diver and astronaut ready for duty

A blurry shot of an interesting Argentinian LP inspired pencil sharpener - a sacapuntas

A Japanese astronaut with one Yen

His green partner

and the interesting LP Circus Car vehicle, which I've not seen outside of this box.

Have you any LP spacemen and toys readers?

LP TOYS: LATEST SIGHTINGS

First up is this bundle of Japanese Omake. 

Green LP style spaceman on top, which looks like he's a blow mould.

and in a similar pile of Glico's and Omake we find a little blue LP style alien.

This one is clearly the worst LP astronaut clone I've ever seen. Maybe its been exposed to the full corona of Alpha Proxima!

These chaps are dapper LP types lookin for a good time.

Perhaps my fave sighting this year, this Lunar Pistol carded set. I love the header artwork. Not sure if this is actually LP. Does anyone know? 

There's another version on Alphadrome 

One we may have seen before on MB. The deranged LP Rabbit Space Blimp.

It has a moving umbrella!

Anyone got one?

No less crazy but becoming seasonal, LP's Space Blimp of Christmas.

What were they thinking!

Have you any LP toys? Or seen any?

Another Small Step

 I watched the NASA Mars Lander 'Insight' make successful touchdown on the red planet this week, not as you might suspect from a porthole window on Marsbase, but view a live feed on Twitter. The actual descent wasn't visible, but the control room nervously counting down the descent was clearly visible. It was amazing to see the action first hand on a phone, having seen the blurry monochrome pictures of the moon landing on our old cathode ray tv back in 69.

Space exploration seems to be having a subtle resurgence lately, not long ago we had the sun probe mission, this week its Mars and in a few days the Osiris probe reaches the large asteroid Bennu. Following in the wake of Insight were two cube shaped probes, wittily named Wall-E and Eva, experimental packages launched with the Mars probe to test the viability of smaller, interplanetary satellites. Wall-E successfully snapped a shot of Mars as it shot past during Insights descent.

These may be comparatively small, unmanned missions, but it does beg the question as to whether we will see man landing on Mars or the nearer planets, within our lifetimes ? I certainly hope so.

TONY PAN'S SWAP MEET HAUL

G'day Woodsy,

Attached is a picture of my eclectic haul from a recent swap meet. A real cross section of my collecting interests. The photos at the back were from the collection of an acquaintance who had a stall at the swap meet. Love the pic of Jeff Tracey reading the novelisation of "Thunderbirds are Go"!!

While the gorgeous tinplate B36 was the catch of the day, I'm fascinated with the orange moon buggy. It has no manufacturer's markings - the only markings are on the base "No. T21 Made in Hong Kong". The "T21" also appears on the label on the buggy's bonnet - maybe they were trying to piggy-back off the "TV21" brand.

I've also included some close ups of the moon buggy - maybe one of the Moonbase Central team recognises it, as I've never seen one. The bloke I bought it from had no idea of its origins either, other than to say that someone else viewing his stall on the day said they'd never seen one before.

I'm hesitant to clean it as it has the classic "dirtied-down" look, so I'll probably leave it as is. I'm sure Derek Meddings and Mike Trim would prefer it that way!!

Hope you enjoy the pics.

Cheers

Tony Pan

STREAMLINE TOY CAP PISTOL BY REPLICAST

Hello Woodsy

The question of where caps for cap guns were purchased reminded me of this pistol. 

I purchased it from my local newsagent in 1973. Made by Replicast in the UK. I kept this one and purchased a couple of others as gifts. That was the last time I bought rolls of caps, which I'm sure delighted the mothers of the recipients. 

I liked the packaging as a simple approach rather than the old Lone Star packaging with drawings of cowboys on horses. 

This being a US Civil War pistol I placed a Timpo US Cavalryman with it for scale. 

Back in the 50's there was a cavalry pistol made by Lone Star that was more a Colt Peacemaker than the longer barreled ones actually used, I think they also painted it blue. 

Nostalgia is such fun! 

Terranova47

NYC

A MESSAGE FROM OUR BLOG FRIEND KEN HOLT

I'm sure a few of you are aware that our pal Ken Holt has been a little under the weather lately and is spending a little time in hospital. Well, Ken took the trouble to contact me from his hospital bed would you believe, via video messenger, and the good news so far is he's stable, and in good spirits, and he just wanted to thank everyone and say how he really appreciates all the good wishes friends have sent him.

 All the best, and get well soon, mate. 

Here's the often seen photos of Ken during his Century 21 days, on the UFO set with special effects maestro, Derek Meddings.

  

Here's Ken and Derek in the rocket assembly building miniature used in 'Doppelganger'.

 And just for good measure here's a photo of Ken's former C21 secretary, Roni. 

Update: Sadly, Ken passed away on Sunday 2/12/2018. Our sincere condolences to his wife, Betty, and the family.

I was lucky enough to met up and chat with Ken at various conventions. He was a lovely man, and an unsung hero of the industry, and I was, albeit briefly glad to know you sir.

ITS HEADING OUR WAY!

THE CHRISTMAS SHIP

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATO

Remembering the late Bruce Lee, who would have turned 78 years today, and his starring role in the sixties TV series, The Green Hornet.