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Friday, 16 August 2019

CABINET RE-SHUFFLE

Just tidying up.

Here's my bedside cabinet.

Monsters up top,

Bottom a mixture inc. Kev's fab scratch Hover Tank

Spacex and friends one down

My home made toys next

Have you something similar?

MAIL INTERRUPTED

I will be off Moonbase this coming week more often than not as the summer habit of visiting other places kicks in once more.

Please excuse me if I don't get back to you via comments and emails as quickly as normal. I will catch up eventually.

To the rockets!

SPACE PARTY FAVOURS

Hello Woodsy,

These things must have been found in a warehouse recently as they still show up from time to time.

Terranova47

NYC

Anyone got any more?

THE MEGO HAS LANDED

I saw these pics on Worthpoint a while back and saved them.

This is the LEM by MEGO [Hong Kong]. I'm pretty sure this is not the same as the famous Mego Corp of super hero figures fame.

I like this LEM. The astronaut attached to the opening door is quite clever. Its quite a chunky toy overall by the looks of these snaps. I assume it lights up and has mystery action.

Yankee Clipper is from 2001 isn't it?

Anyone got one or any other MEGO HK toys?

Thursday, 15 August 2019

PUT ME THROUGH TO THE TOY DEPARTMENT!

This toy caught my eye on the 'Bay so I saved the pic.

From 1972 by Tech Toys of Cincinnati and made in HK its a telegraph key toy.

Its what I'd call a telephone exchange I think. I'd have loved this as a kid. I can see a battery included too so there's current passing through to create the buzzing.

Did you have anything like this as a kid?

Who would you be put through to?

SCOPING FOR IDEAS

I spotted this kids' magazine in WH Smiths and thought, hmmm, that give me an idea for my next home made toy.

That plastic telescope is just too good to pass up on even for £4.99.

Moonbase Junior, our Grandson, got the magazine and the plastic dinosaurs.

Grandad got the dolly mixtures.

PLUTO SAD PLUTO

My Grandson Moonbase Junior loves the planets in our system.

He's learnt all their names and what they look like. This has been helped along by songs on You Tube and at nursery.

Sadly the main song misses out Pluto. I know its been demoted to tea boy but it deserves to be in the song for old times' sake.

Fortunately his Mum has painted a mural of the solar system on his bedroom wall and it includes .... Pluto. Yay!

So Junior will grow up with Pluto like I did nearly 60 years ago!

Did you Pluto?

MY LATEST SCRATCH SPACEX TOY: THE SALVAGE CRAFT

Its been a strange week since coming home.

I've badly burned my thigh with red hot tomato soup and finished my latest plastic model SpaceX toy.

The Salvage Craft.

Here's the original Tri-ang card illustration.

Here's my scratch toy.

This was a relatively quick scratch job compared to some of the others I've done this summer.

It's illustrated on the Triang SpaceX backing card towing the Nuclear Freighter. I haven't made one of those this time but I did knock up a tow bar. You can see it here 'towing' a real Nova Rocket to the Moonbase Scrappers.

Here's the Salvage Craft with its scratch pal the LAMA and a real NOVA 1 toy.

Fortunately I bought a bag of half plastic beads years ago for a never-produced Task Force blog exclusive but one of them made a great little cockpit blister on the Salvage Craft.