LONDON LAYOUT

Re. Jeff Friesen's Canadian toy trains, Wot about norf London in the '50's?

Here's Terranova47's from the USA!

Going Loco

Not nearly as adventurous as Jeff Friessen, but the thought is there!

 N Gauge trains running along an actual railway sleeper and a HO scale car transporter wagon does time as a bailey bridge!

 Some screw-headed moss makes for great trackside greenery.

2 MINUTES OF MATCHBOX HEAVEN

Check out British Pathe's 1965 clip of Matchbox cars being made and designed! Talk about brilliant! What do you think?

THEY CAME IN PIECES

THUNDERJUNK: MY HOME-MADE LOCKDOWN THUNDERBIRDS FLEET DISPLAY

With time on my hands now I'm done modelling this furlough I thought I'd snap my home-made Lockdown vehicles all together.

This first shot is in order of 'manufacture'.

Get, jet, go!

Thunderbirds ARE rubbish!

BULLYCAN SPACEX AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN THE 1980'S

I was checking Todocollecion for the Bullycan aircraft carrier I got a few years back and was really surprised to see it in a Bullycan catalogue ..... dated 1987!

Wow! You could still get something SpaceX-inspired as late as 1987! That's just two years before my collecting bug was kicked off by the Michael Keation batman movie in '89! I could have got a brand new one. I even went to Majorca in the early 90's!

Is there anything SpaceXy/ Apollo Moon Exploringy even later still brand new? LP-inspired baggy's made in China maybe?

Such is the circle of a toy life!

Here are two pics borrowed from the listing.

The aircraft carrier  - yellow - aka Portaviones - is bottom left.

The catalogue is 37 pages so it could well still advertise the three spacecraft on the carrier, which also came separately on a blister card and were branded Aviones Cosmicos or Space Planes.

Anyone got this catalogue?

BRING ME A CARD OF BIEWAN BARTERS

I love this plastic Hestair Toys Moon Buggy.

I sold a loose one at the start of the year.

This one I saw on an old auction has the cool box.

The figures are smart too.

Part of the SRL heroes line, although I'm unsure what SRL means and what it's relationship to Hestair is. You?

Hestair made many more little figures and they popped up across the world.

Here's the M2 Action Boys Gelenk Figuren [Jointed Figures] from Germany I saw on Worthpoint. A carded pair of mechanics I think. 

The Hestair figures feature yet another name on their soles, one Biewan Barter!

Now who is Biewan Barter may I ask?

Addendum: Reader Scots collection of boxed sets!

CEPPI RATTI STARBIRD?

This old Italian Ceppi Ratti space trio looks cool.

This red die-cast on an old auction archive has a familiar look to it - 

MB's Starbird!

Is it a knockoff of the 80's big spaceship?