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Monday, 5 October 2020

COMBAT CAR BOXED

This fab bundle on an old auction contained some nice morsels.

What really caught my eye was the Combat car on the far left edge.

Its a relative of the Echo Car.

Unusually its boxed which maybe new to the blog.

Anyone got one?

Sunday, 4 October 2020

REARS OF A CLOWN

I saw this on Picclick and thought Wow! I recognise that clown!

The one at the bottom was the picture I had as a kid in the TV at the rear of my die-cast Lincoln Continental. It lit up too! God how I loved that thing!

I loved it so much I included it in one of my SARGE radio tales a couple of years ago.

Seeing this lot I was amazed how many more TV pictures there were available for the little TV screen. Which one did you have?

Me and 4 year old Junior were watching Disney's the Little Mermaid on VHS yesterday. I was amazed to see it was released in 1989 and gobsmacked to think I watched it with my own daughter when she was herself 5 way back when.

Seeing redheaded Ariel again I immediately thought of a cartoon character I loved when I was just 8 way back in 1969, Daphne, the feisty co-leader of the Scooby Do gang.

See what you think. Ariel right. Daphne left, if you couldn't tell!

HOT WHEELS 2021

Hi Woodsy

I found this clip on You Tube, showing the first box of Hot Wheels 2021 models being unboxed.

Yes, 2021 models start appearing towards the end of 2020, which is normal for Hot Wheels, although I have not seen any in NZ yet. There are several which I think will be of interest to you.

There is a model - part of a sub-set ? - devoted to Mattel games; a red Arkham Asylum Batmobile, and a Barbie camper van. Looks like 2021 will be a good year. No more Ghost Olympic models today, so still on eight out of ten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qLgCby_qgU

I have photographed the Matchbox Top Gun: Maverick models, so I will send these in soon.

Paul Adams

New Zealand

Saturday, 3 October 2020

never seeing no-one nice again

THE JOY OF CHILDHOOD

Moonbase Junior is having his final sleep of his monthly 3 sleeps at his Grandparents. He's just gone to sleep and we're already missing him. Taking him home to his parents tomorrow will, as it always is, be hard for all three of us.

Watching Junior is an education. A lesson in how to enjoy things for what they are and just enjoy them. Pure unadulterated fun. I suppose that's the key, unadulterated; no adult problems, woes and worries, which totally get in our way when we try to have fun.

I can't really remember that feeling. Just whispers and winks popping up from my past like flimsy bubbles. Having said that, Junior is only just 4 and for me that's 56 years ago, so quite a lot has happened since to blur the rear-view mirror.

I can at least recall my teenage obsessions though but that's as far back as I can go to dig up the joy I see in Junior when he's playing with his cars or his play doh or messing with apples in the garden.

Being with him is like a second childhood!

I'm already looking forward to his 3 sleeps in November!

Do you remember the joy of childhood readers?