SHADOW BOXING

Hello Woodsy, 

IKEA shadow boxes were great but for some reason have been unavailable in the US for a few years now. 

One picture is the larger box with a Hallmark Cards Christmas Tree ornament Nautilus in the background with Captain Nemo and his crew walking the ocean floor with a shark attacking. 

The next photo shows two smaller boxes, the left has Anastasia by Comet Miniatures floating in the background with Dan Dare and Digby floating in the foreground. 

The right hand box for background has an enlarged panel from one of my Dan Dare Original Art pages with a Comet Miniatures Mekon hovering in the foreground. 

The third photo has the latest form of Shadow box by IKEA. On the left is a 12" Dan Dare with Plastic Man from DC Comics on the right. They seem to be wondering how to escape the box. 

(Note to self: replace US flag with Space Fleet badge on Drae's sleeve.) 

Regards, 

Terranova47

NYC

IKEA WALL BOXES AND TOYS

Looking through some old prints I came across a shot of me sitting beneath three deep frame pictures at some point in the late 1990's. I've edited the picture to remove my ugly mug, although you can just see my old military prop cap.

You know the kind of frames on the wall. Wooden boxes with glass fronts. From Ikea. Small collections can be hung up and displayed quite easily.

I used to do this a lot.

The three in this poor photo of a photo are my daughter's old Mickey Mouse collection - she had some great stuff; my Secret Wars action figures painstakingly located at 90's car boot sales and finally three space toys stood up portrait style.

These three toys were an X-series X40 blue and red rocket [yes, I had one before I even knew what it was!], a Masudaya plastic wind-up Robbie the Robot and a red mini Robot given to me by a close friend for safe keeping.

Only the mini-Bot remains of this lot I think as I flogged everything else when I had a toy stall and Ebay shop years ago.

Do you have small collections on the wall readers?

Have you less stuff than you used to have?

DO ASTRONAUTS EAT BOILED EGGS?

I love boiled eggs. With a pinch of salt. I remember when I was a kid and a budding NASA astronaut there was a TV ad that said 'Go to work on an egg!'

Not sure the after-effects of egg eating would be that popular in the space capsule!

As it happens I like all variations of eggs and I'm pretty sure if I lived on Mars I'd take a few hens for laying the breakfast.

In order of laying I prefer:

1. Boiled - soft for brekkers and hard for work
2. Scrambled
3. Poached
4. Omelette

Never had Mexican eggs or a souffle.

So how do you like your eggs in the morning fellow moonbasers?

Did eggs ever feature in a sci fi film or TV series?

SPACE TANK MICRONAUTS KNOCKOFF

Last year i blogged about the Space Pon Pon Car.

It was piloted by a Micronaut.

Here's another one that popped up on Ebay and Worthpoint last year, a Taiwanese battery-operated knockoff toy called Space Tank. 

Apparently, it's a knockoff of the Black Tiger Tank from Microman.

It seems to include the same elevating seat as the Space Pon Pon Car.

Anyone got one of these for better photo's?

SESAME STREET CALLING! CAPTION NEEDED!

This is an old shot of my daughter's keypad.

Her toy Samson from Sesame Street is trying to type with his other Street chums, Ernie and duck, looking on.

What should he type readers?

A CENTURY 21 POSTER NEW TO THE BLOG: DENNY HULME RACING CAR

Denny Hulme Ford F3l 1969 Racing car

Century 21 Merchandising

Seen on Worthpoint

Anyone got one pr any other C21 posters?

MAJOR MATT ON TV 1966

Ah, the Major. On You Tube.

What a cool toy line Mat Mason was.

Did you have any as a kid?

Have you ever encouraged someone else to collect vintage toys?

Have you ever encouraged someone else to collect vintage toys readers?

I think I may have influenced my daughter, who now n her thirties, is aware that the toys she played with are now considered as vintage and collectable.

My old toy stall helped a few folk with their collections and I enjoyed chatting about vintage toys. I even help a few with their wants lists, which they left with me.

One thing I've never done but thought about is doing a talk on vintage toys. You know, a slide show of some classics of the space genre and a few intelligent-sounding segways between them. 

Even more ambitious might be a full night school course in collecting toys! A nice dream but something for greater minds than mine to consider.

Have you spoken to others about toy collecting readers?