Ralph Morton's Aircraft Carrier: Another of My "What if" Projects!

Growing up in the early 60s I was lucky enough to be given some Triang ships.

https://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/index/Category:Minic_Ships

These metal models covered both the Cunard liners Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary and warships like the new County class destroyers (as featured in an episode of “UFO”).

At the same time in the “real” world the Royal Navy was supposed to be getting some futuristic new ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVA-01

Unfortunately the Government decided that the new aircraft carrier and its escorts were too expensive.

I always wondered what a Triang version might have looked like

https://members7.boardhost.com/Dockside/msg/1580918444.html

A good friend of mine who is a modelmaker agreed to help realise my dream.

Would have been a good Task Group to take on some UFOs in 1980!

Ralph Morton

BRAY STUDIOS

I've been trying to work out if this shot of Peter Cushing - see link below - is in the same set as the sunken garden seen in the Hammer horror The Gorgon at Bray studios - can't find a picture of it though.

http://petercushingblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/on-back-lot-at-bray-studios-peter.html

Looking at Imdb's list of films filmed at Bray Studios it would seem to to be the case.

I do love films made at Bray. Their castle frontage set was just spectacular and my fave film from it has to be Dracula Prince of Darkness starring Christopher Lee and Captain Scarlet himself, Francis Matthews.

I think they used it in Rasputin The Mad Monk as well, in which Francis Matthews appeared too. Can you think of more films using this set?

Does it still exist?

THE JERSEY REX COLLECTION PART 1

HI Woodsy, 

in January, while taking down the Christmas tree, I noticed that I had not one,but two T Rex ornaments.That got me thinking "Just how many T.Rexes do I have in this house?"

The hunt is on and here's what I have so far.

Part 1.

BrianF 

NJ USA

KEV D's THUNDERBIRD 2: A CLOSE-UP

 Pic: Kevin D

HAVE YOU A CAR STICKER?

Here's a question for your readers.

  "Do you have a sticker on your car?" 

 I nearly bought a Space Battleship Yamato sticker for my old car, but the "new" one is so massive, I've taken to calling it the SPV!

So this Spectrum logo (with a bit of extra typography that I did myself) seems very appropriate!

Keep on bloggin' 

Lewis

Oz

THE FRANKONIA TOYS SEAL

Frankonia is an old toy brand I mention in my new JR21 Toy Bunnies on Plastic Scooters book. Here's a nice example of its maker's mark on a Sparky Robot box I saw online [vintagespacetoys.com]

You can see that the f  for frankonia forms part of a seal nuzzling a red ball. The 'seal' idea is repeated in the marketing tag 'seal of approval' below it.

Have you any frankonia toys?

PAUL ADAMS'S HOT WHEELS CARTOON CARS

Hi Woodsy

Hot Wheels have included a number of Star Car models based on cartoons and comic strips in the Mainline in recent years, mainly from television. Originally, they were just part of the normal Hot Wheels line-up, but in 2014 and 2015 they were grouped into a sub-series called Tooned (a name now used for caricatures of real vehicles). 

From 2016 they were included in the Screen Time sub-series devoted to film and TV models. There have also been a number of models from animated shows in the Batman sub-series.

1 - The Mystery Machine van from Scooby Doo, released in 2012, with flower power graphics.

2 - The Fred Flintstone Flintmobile was released in 2013 in yellow and orange; and in 2014 in grey and brown. The model has small wheels hidden inside the front and rear rollers.

3 - The Jetsons Capsule Car, from 2014, runs on clear plastic wheels. Card length affects the size and layout of the artwork.

4 - The Homer was designed by Homer Simpson himself, it only appeared in one episode of The Simpsons. The model is from 2014, and was followed by a model of the Family Car, a pink sedan, in 2015.

5 - The Beatles Yellow Submarine from the 1968 animated film, which runs on concealed wheels. Released in 2016, it is smaller than the earlier Corgi version.

Paul Adams from New Zealand