DIY SPACE TOY SPARE PARTS?

After an enquiry for SWORD antenna spare parts I had a look round for possible DIY replacements. On my Googling I found some interesting objects that would do for general space toying.

Here's some cool plastic disks, domes and tyres at EMA Model Supplies. I haven't bought any or used them so this isn't a recommendation, just a glimpse of what's out there.

What do you think?

SELENIUM SAUCER

I recently posted one of these flying saucers.

They feature floating balls.

Here's another one with a different name and make.

The Spanish Selenium by Joquet.

I saw this on Todocoleccion.

Do you like it readers?

WAS THERE A PRESSURE COOKER IN YOUR KITCHEN WHEN YOU WERE A KID?

Was there a pressure cooker in your childhood home?

My parents had a big silver thing by Prestige. It came in two parts: a huge lower pan and a massive top. Both parts had a half a handle each, that when joined together formed a full handle.

On top of the lid was a nozzle where the steam blew out. On top of this went the most exotic feature of the whole apparatus, a heavy silver weight that looked like a small rod of nuclear material.

In fact the complete unit reminded me of a nuclear reactor, ready to meltdown at any minute taking out the whole street. It was a time bomb full of spuds and carrots, a veg mine!

Inside were triangular buckets, with handles, full of holes, shaped like mandarin segments. These could be stacked inside so that even more material could go critical inside.

After measuring it with a Geiger counter, my Mum would approach wearing a ginormous kitchen glove in order to remove the top weight.

Upon removal a jet of steam was released second only to Old Faithful itself. Sometimes the weight had to be put back on because the veg wasn't lifeless enough.

Pressure cooked vegetables were sadly devoid of anything. They were basically skin and water, a form of mutation: X-veg.

Were you pressure cooked as a kid? 

PHANTOM FIGURES FROM FILMS

Fans of Colourforms Outer Space Men will recognise Electron+, The Man from Pluto.

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Toy creator Mel Birnkrant's inspiration came from the movie The Man from Planet X [1951].

Mel's genius for absorbing older fantasy and sci-fi references into his Outer Space Men has always fascinated me.

I often wonder which other films influenced space figure toys?

To get the ball rolling here's one I'm throwing in the ring.

See the red helmeted guy in this poster for Phantom From Space [1953].....

.... well check out this action figure, a Gi Joe miniature Deep Sea Diver!

What do you think?

Have you any ideas?

DROID CAPTION NEEDED

Ha ha, these droids made me chuckle!

They just need a caption readers!

CARDS ON THE TABLE

Found these in my archive folder.

Old blog business cards.

I think Bill made them for me.

I gave them out at the TV21 convention I went to in 2010.

Have you got or have you had a vintage toy card?

Happy Batday Scoop!

Best wishes Scoop from Mark J 

Southcoast Base

The Dragon Says .......

FROM BILL EV.