DID YOU TAKE TOYS TO SCHOOL?

Well my Christmas holidays are nearly over and I got to thinking about that old post-Xmas tradition when I was a kid of taking toys to school.

It must have been in early January when we did it and it was in Primary School. We got to take in our fave Christmas toys and show them off to the class!

I have a feeling I took my Mod Monster toy and my Mystery Action Army Jeep. They must have caused a stir especially Mod Monster dropping his pants!

Do you remember taking toys to school readers?

FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR R.A.L.F and other Hangar Mini-Vehicles

Over Xmas I caught the end of The Flight of the Navigator on the telly.

It featured a hot food delivery vehicle called R.A.L.F and is seen in the main character's room:

and outside NASA's hangar:

I looked it up on Disney Wiki and really liked the original sketches for this small Starcom-like vehicle:

It reminded me completely of this small hangar vehicle I noticed in my old Project S.W.O.R.D annual. It's coincidentally numbered 5 as well!

It would have made a nice little Tri-ang SpaceX or Golden Astronaut toy as well!

There's also a similar Repair Pack 3 in the SWORD annual

and a Skid 205 hover carrier

Do you know of any airport hangar or NASA hangar toys readers?

Atomic Toy Reactor? Really?

The plutonium drives of Voyager 1 and 2 remind me of an amazingly risky toy.

I've never owned one. Don't think I was born soon enough.

I'm talking about Gilbert's toy nuclear reactor cum energy lab!

As far as I know it came with tiny grains of plutonium! Really?

Holy moly! Anyone ever seen one or maybe even owned one?

How on earth did it work?

Wikipedia

Rob's Moguras Drill Tank

Woodsy,

Here are a few pix of the Doyusha reissue of the Midori Jr. Moguras Drill Tank, From 1967 - one of the first Thunderbirds Mole ripoffs!

Rob Craig

USA

Won't Get Thuled Again

Well it was worth the wait, after a momentous journey, New Horizons probe has arrived at Ultima Thule in the distant Kuiper Belt. Images are only now beginning to arrive and the first clear image reveals two asreoidal bodies fused together like a giant snowman!

More images will arrive as the probe speeds onward into deep space and whilst we wait  Osiris Rex silently orbits Bennu plotting the landing which will retrieve material to send back to Earth in a pod. Who says the space race is over?

Added 03/01/19 - China has just landed a rover on the lunar farside!

TERRAHAWKS HUDSON

One of the lesser known vehicles of the Anderson universe, at least to me, the Hudson Rolls Royce from Terrahawks would make an interesting addition to any collection.

This image is borrowed from flickr [T'Shot].

I'm still unsure if this is a die-cast or a plastic toy. You readers?

What's its story in the TV show?

Has anyone got one that you could photograph and send through some pics?

Thunderbirds Were Go

Hello Woodsy

Back in 1993 when my daughter was interested in collecting baseball cards there was a boom in collectable cards. You may remember The Avengers, Steed & Mrs Peel cards from that era that I sent to the blog. 

I saw these then, luckily no stinking gum, just picture cards from Topps. These were imported to the US from the Republic of Ireland and this is the only pack I bought as I thought at $1.25 this would be an expensive undertaking to try collecting the full set. They may only have been available from Comic Book retailers as I think I bought these at NYC's Forbidden Planet store. 

As the cards credit the models and photography to Martin Bower I'm not sure that they were from the actual TV show. 

Anyway, I gave this card set a miss. Maybe other blog readers have them all? 

Regards, 

Terranova47

NYC

YELLOW BLASTOFF

Being a fan of Billy Blastoff since I got my own one Christmas years ago in the mid-Sixties I am always checking in on the little fella.

So I was interested when I saw this Japanese Billy Blastoff set last year on Yahoo Japan.

Japanese kids and collectors seem to love Billy too and there are a range of Billy sets and toys in Japan.

This struck me as unusual as it has a yellow crawler.

I'm pretty sure they're usually white or grey in Western sets. Its even grey on the Japanese box pictured.

Have you seen a yellow one?