Kev D's Zeroids and Cubes

Hi,

The end of each Terrahawks episode had an animation of the Zeroids and Cubes playing noughts and crosses (animated by a chap with the same name as myself oddly!). 

Here is my go at it.

Take care,

Kevin

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POSTSCRIPT:

Original end credits of Terrahawks added for completeness, showing the noughts and crosses animation Kev describes. Via You Tube!

MOVIE NIGHT

Been watching films on Netflix. Caught Cloverfield Paradox again. Interesting space station flick but not enough Monster stuff at all given its famous name.

Onto Bird Box now. Looks like Shyamalam's The Happening but its a much stronger start, I shall keep watching.

What are you watching?

PS. I gave up on Bird Box, despite Sandra Bullock's excellent lead role. There was simply too much talking and not enough monsterizing!

K.E.V.I.N.S V.I.N.C.E.N.T.

Hi,

On the subject of robots, I recently picked up this clockwork, walking robot toy of Vincent from The Black Hole movie.

Take care,

Kevin

ROBOT CHILDHOOD

Hi Woodsy,

Following your request for more on robots, here are a few box lids I like. From the 60's I should think.

Always liked this sort of art, conveys the excitement of childhood for me.

Pictures of my robots to follow, when I have dusted them!

Andy B.

GI JOE ACTION MAN BOOK COVERS 2

Here's another old Curtis Books cover using our articulated friend in his astronaut suit.

I hope they paid him!

Not sure what the thingy is next to him.

The figure's pose looks like it was from the same shoot as the last Curtis cover I blogged. Do you agree?

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2019/04/action-man-gi-joe-book-covers-1.html

More covers to come.

TERRANOVA47'S ROBOT FRIENDS

Terranova47 has kindly shared more pics of his tinplate robots.

There's some live action too!

Have you got any robots readers?

KING KONG'S THRONE

Hi Woodsy.

I read your article on toy furniture.This King Kong doll has used my videogame chair as a throne for decades!

Brian F 

NJ USA

LEAVING GIFTS

I've waxed lyrically about Christmas, Birthday, Holiday and Sickness gifts many times on Moonbase.

These events injected important new stock into our toy cupboards when we were kids. Many still do.

But there is another day when we usually receive presents.

When we leave a job.

I have left many jobs over the years. Some have been short jobs and some long. My longest, part of an environmental career that I left behind in 2005, was for 19 years. After so long in the same office I was showered with stuff: a photo album of the past two decades at work, a Marvel Heroes framed print and a stack of DVDs including Ghost in the Shell.

But it's three particular gifts that I got that emotional September day 14 years ago that I clearly remember: a ceramic Tardis, which had been on a colleague's desk for years and after much coveting by yours truly, it was presented to me on my final day! I

I also got a golden lion statue for good luck from a conservation volunteer and most typical of all I suppose, a Company pen in its own presentation box.

I still have all three of these things. I suppose they have that indefinable quality imbued into inanimate objects at emotional times, sentimental value.

Most of my past leaving gifts have vanished in the mists of time and space but I have managed to keep hold of the leaving cards I got, which go back to my very first job in 1977 with General Accident. It was a typical Seventies card, large and of a green fuzzy creature holding a horse shoe. I was a mass of hair and beard in those days, all patchouli and cheesecloth and one colleague called me Inri [no offence to anyone]. I wouldn't have remembered but its in the card as is another odd name I picked up there in my late teens, Chavvers, for which I have no explanation!

I left my first job in 1980 in a controlled fit of hippydom and escaped the rat race to live on a bird reserve in the deepest Fens. I still have the presents the wardens got me when I left there after an incredible 12 months on the land, a huge tin of colouring pencils and a gorgeous drawing of a reed warbler.

Leaving gifts are a strange thing. Momentos of work done and in some cases of a lifetime of work when we retire.

They are seldom vintage toys though. Not in my case anyway!

Have you had many leaving presents and do you remember them?