MOONBASE CENTRAL

Monday, 13 July 2020

STOP WINDING ME UP!

ha ha!

First Generation Mobile Phone!

What a brilliant idea, a clockwork plastic phone with feet!

I hope whoever thought it up got the rest of the week off!

What would you put feet on?

MYSTERON ALERT!

Due to an increase in Mysteron activity, Captain Blue calls for backup.

ONE PIECE PLASTIC SPEEDBOAT ANYONE?

This is an old family shot of the Woodsies and chums at Butlins in the Sixties.

That's me in the stripey T-shirt holding the ship.

Does anyone recognise my blue speedboat with its pull-string lying on the floor?

I'd love to know the make and name again!

Did you go to Butlins?

BRAVE TANK

This obvious Bravestarr knockoff I saw on auction, the Space Sheriff, is a target set on a blister card.

The strange thing is that the knockoffers have opted for a tank as the chosen weapon to knock over the targets.

I'm pretty sure Bravestarr didn't feature a tank!

What do you think

Sunday, 12 July 2020

REFRIGERATED TRUCK MYSTERY: SOLVED

I saw this refrigerated truck on an old sale by Blue Box and thought, hmmn, Gerry Anderson, but i can't think where I've seen something like it on his shows.

You?

UPDATE:

Kev has got it, the Captan Scarlet Swift Removals van!

Here's Kev's own kit version all made up. How cool is that!

SHONEN KING 1970

Another vintage back cover from the amazing Shonen King comic book featuring lots more Japanese goodies!

FACEMASK FIGURES

Here's the little bushel of plastic I got from today's facemasked car boot sale rummage box. 5p each!

I recognise the Action Jack style figure by Biewan Barter, missing hat and pistol, but the rest are a grey area. Ideas welcomed.

We also picked up this assortment of classics for Moonbase Junior including Beethoven the movie about the big drooling pooch.

The big red magnet is just brilliant. I think its a modern version of a really old American toy. Did you have one?

I also noticed this John Deere decal on the back of a pick-up in the car park. The right-hand vehicle reminded me so much of the TV21 SpaceX Crash Tender! What do you think?

Apart from a single Charity shop a couple of weeks ago, its been unusual this weekend as we have gone out in the remaining quarter-Lockdown to look for toys for our Grandkids properly for the first time since February.

We went to several town-centre charity shops yesterday and a big Sunday car boot sale today. Amazing but scary to be out in outdoor crowds again. We wore face masks at the sale but only about a tenth of the punters did the same.

Anyways, here's what I can recall from what we bought for Moonbase Junior and what we saw - pictures taken from online equivalents.

Bought. £1, a Sainsbury's Blancpain extreme racer with revving sound effects, no box. The revving sounds are brilliant!

Bought. £1. Og on the Bog. A shrek-like figure has tummy trouble! All you have to do is remove loo rolls before he parps and blows his hut! Now that is my kind of toy! Junior will love it!

Bought. £1. Tesco plastic roadway. Interlocking parts form various road layouts. It'll be great for zooming round.

Seen. £40. Little Tikes Dolls House, Tikes Place, and all the accessories. very collectable as it turns out. Maybe we should have got this as an investment?

My Missus used to have them at the Children's Centre she worked at years ago. It was all new to me!

Seen. £20. Two die-cast Chipperfields vehicles like these minus the Lion's cage. Bit battered too. Loved these as a kid.

Seen. £20. Corgi Airport Fire Service. Lovely big die-cast toy. So Thunderbirds! I wanted this but £20 is too much.

Seen. Erector 200 boxed set by Ideal. Looked like meccano to me. The vehicle itself looks cool though! From 1983.

Final things seen, there was a seller with a huge divided stall with different bundles of old plastic toy soldiers in each compartment: Crescent, Kelloggs premiums, Britains, Timpo, Herald and many more including Lone Star Frogmen like these.

All £1 each. Too many to choose from! I didn't get any.