Homemade Batmobile: 1950 Studebaker Customized by Comic Book Artist Alex Ross

http://tomztoyz.blogspot.com/2009/02/homemade-batmobile-1950-studebaker.html?m=1 

further to my comments on the Batmobile [earlier this month] - MJ

UP CLOSE AND IKKY

I had a toy microscope as a kid.

It was a scientific wonder that came with glass slides and petri dishes.

I remember looking at large-scale images of my hair and dead fly legs. 

With the dishes you could look at twirling daphnia and ikky pond life, especially if a torch was shone on the tilting mirror. 

I blame toys like this, along with Survival on Anglia TV and Jaques Cousteau for a life-long love of the natural world.

Did you have a toy microscope as a nipper readers?

ANIMAL OPENINGS

Animals were allover Sixties kids TV and I loved 'em!

Here are a few theme songs for you, while you slurp on a glass of Tizer! What do you think readers?

Belle and Sebastian!

White Horses

Undersea World of Jaques Cousteau

Tales from the Riverbank

Black Beauty

Animal Magic

Skippy

Flipper

and Champion the Wonder Horse

ACTION FORCED

 

More ephemera from my drawers. Here's a mini-poster for the Palitoy Action Man Action Force range. This poster is called Ground Assault.

I've bought and sold quite a lot of Action Force over the years and recently picked up this SAS Frogman.

Is it a line you like?

TOAST TOPPERS

Today I had a blast from the past, a vivid memory of a foodstuff I adored in the 70's: Toast Toppers.

This delicious creamy spread came in dinky little tins and had a ring pull top if I remember rightly. The flavours were largely cheese and ham I think. That's what I recall, the liquid cheese bubbling under the grill with the chunks of ham all cozy and hot.

Biting into a toast toppered slice of toast was a unique experience. Hot, crispy, creamy, meaty. Totally delicious!

I've not seen toast toppers for years so I assume they fell into food oblivion. Please tell me that's the case and haven't been available at Farmfoods ever since!

HONEY WEST'S FIRST APPEARANCE ON TV: BURKE'S LAW PILOT - WHO KILLED THE JACKPOT

Further to Scoop's ace stills on the bloggiversary, here's the full episode on You Tube.

Honey gets out of a cab and takes it from there!

WHAT A FIGURE!

I picked up a few more plastic action figures at today's car boot sale.

All cheap as chips as well. I spent a grand total of £2.20.

From left to right we have a Burger King [BK] Batman, BK Dr. X [update: this is a GI Joe Dr. Mindbender], two BK Action Men, an unknown blue commando from 2005 [update: this is a Lanard the Corps SAS Diver] , a BK Action Man astronaut and a green Monster in my Pocket.

Next to that is an interesting plastic pteranodon, which comes in half to reveal a small paper leaflet explaining the wing span. No idea of the make or year. Could be a pencil attachment too. Do you know?

Perhaps the most interesting plastic figures are three brown thinnish ones from New Zealand front left. No idea what they are. Have you?

[update: these 3 figures are cereal premiums from 1962 issued in New Zealand's Sanitarium cereals]

The 20p in the £2.20 went on the only die-cast I got. A lovely 1970 Hot Wheels Redline Side Kick from 1970. Car boots are full  of diecast but this is the first redline I've seen for at least 2 years.

Finally I got this little female figure holding a parcel or pack of books. Maybe a schoolgirl. Anyone any clue?

Have you been car booting today?

KP SPACE RAIDERS ATE MY POPPETS

 Rifling through folders and files I keep finding papers I've squirreled away like this lot.

In it is an old Space Raiders snack packet and a Poppets Robot cover box and a WHAM chew wrapper!

Newspaper clippings about Michael's Keaton's Batman and a shop in Leeds with a set of ABC batman cards in 1990.

A Monsters movie flier, a modern Hammer flier and a Superman can label.

Do you file away stuff like this?