GOLDEN DYNA-SOAR

For the Project SWORD, SpaceX and Golden Astronaut fan with everything! 

I saw this mini golden Dyna-Soar on the 3D printing supermarket Shapeways.

What do you think?

APPLAUSE FOR THE NHS

Last night at 8pm here in the UK many people went outside very briefly to offer a round of applause for our heroic health workers in the NHS, all at the coal face of the pandemic and risking their lives everyday for the rest of us.

Hearing the clapping in the street brought a lump to my throat and I felt immensely proud of our NHS and all the health workers across the world who put themselves in harm's way to save us during this catastrophe.

Thanks so much to you; heroes all, every one.

THE MOST UNHYGIENIC COLLECTABLE IN THE WORLD?

With a toilet roll search and rescue mission on the cards within the next few days I am naturally ruminating on the perforated paper.

Someone else ruminating on the roll is this home-made crocheted toilet dolly in pink [does anyone actually collect these?]

Almost Lady Penelope like!

Charmin!

The pink Rolls never looked so good!

If things get really bad and you start to see mysteron circles then collectors could always crack open their SPV box of tissues neatly stored away since 1993!

Have you got plenty of the soft stuff readers?

Are you sitting comfortably?

It's Time to Buzz the Tower!

 Having seen that auction photo of the spacex with the mystery space tower, I remembered a favourite model I have sat on the shelf next to me. A 3" GPO Post Office Tower - now renamed something more modern, but an icon of its day in central London. This must have been a commemorative souvenir at the time, but is such a nice little model. Made of perspex or some kind of UPVC, I actually have two, but one has lost the little mast off the top.

GET THE ROLLS PARKER!

Elegance Charm and Deadly Danger.

Those three words we shall forever associate with Lady Penelope, the Tracy Organisation's British agent and her pink Rolls.

They would be a great marketing line for that scarce commodity here in lockdown Britain, the humble toilet roll!

So what if the marketing slogan was 'Thick Long and Strong'?

Well this is the slogan for the New Avenger's Femme Fatale's namesake Purdey.

Purdi toilet roll!

Joanna Lumley would be mortified!

OK, OK, I'm isolated!

PLASTIC SUITCASES AT THE BACK OF TOY CARS

I was looking at some old pictures online of Plastic Rolls Royces and other cars.

Then I remembered!

Suitcases in boots!

Blimey, how I loved those little plastic suitcases!

I recall red  and yellow ones the most, neatly placed in the back of the car boots. Their was always a satisfactory click when you opened them.

You could even put tiny things in there like small paper messages or Major Matt Mason's screwdriver!

I could easily collect old plastic cars if I had the dosh and re-live those glory days opening the boots!

Do you remember those suitcases? Which cars had them? Any piccies? Did other toys have suitcases like trains and planes maybe?

UFO SATCHEL FROM JAPAN

I do love how the Japanese too gerry Anderson TV shows to their heart.

Virtually every household item was supermarionated!

This beautiful UFO satchel is on auction on Yahoo Japan.

It was made by the Union Co. Ltd.

Did you have a Gerry Anderson bag as a kid?

THE WONDERFUL WONDER JET

I saw this wondrous beauty on Worthpoint.

Wonder Woman's Wonder Jet.

From the lustrous 1966 Justice League of America box set by Multiple Toymakers.

I love the yellow colour and the overall shape.

Wonder Woman is snug in that clear wedge canopy.

Courtesy of the CosmicTeams site here's the yellow jet in its set complete with another Wonder Woman, Colonel Steve Trevor and two DC characters totally new to me, Countess Nishki and Angle Man. Just who are they?

What a jet! What a set!

You got one?