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Friday, 30 October 2020

BUNDLE BYPASS

Missed out on this bundle of figures and stuff on Freecycle.

It was given away to someone else. The nerve!

Do you check Freecycle?

SEVERANCE PACKAGE: THE AURORA GUILLOTINE THE NIGHT BEFORE HALLOWEEN

Hi Woodsy

We were talking about the Aurora Monster Scenes book a while ago, and you mentioned one of the kits they had trouble with. I do not know if you want to post this, as it is a bit gruesome, but here are a few You Tube items on the Aurora Chamber of Horrors Guillotine, which show it 'in action'. Seems the kit was reissued in later years by Polar Lights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBC4ulOt2nc

This one runs through the process for beheading someone with a guillotine, so at least it is educational. There is also a shot of the sprues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1OVButfz_w

This shows both the Aurora and Polar Lights kits, and a much larger 1/8th scale model in wood and resin. The owner describes the Aurora kit as 'cute'. Not sure if that is the word I would use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB5RisBrN5s

A build of the Polar Lights Glow in the Dark version (only the figure glows in the dark - including his severed head).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLY9XScay-g

There are also several short videos showing the guillotine in use.

Yours Sincerely,

Paul Adams from New Zealand

MYSTERY MEN

On a field trip to a few nearby antique joints I came across some mystery toys. if you can ID them it stop me going crazy!

First up is this cheapo unbranded plastic rocket carrier. The helicopter behind it might be related too.

This robotic looking figure doesn't ring any bells either. You?

So too this is the white robotic robotic figure behind Captain Planet. It has spindly green stick legs and a head which can be pulled up. There's a red plastic head cloth at the back of his head.

Last is this dapper-dressed see-through headed Dr.Who character next to the Cyberman. Its dated 2004 and is 12 inches tall.

He's missing a shoe.

Go figure!

FARMER BELL TRIANG SCRATCHBUILD

Hi folks,

Here is my scratchbuild of Farmer Bell from Camberwick Green. His truck is a converted Triang steel toy and his digger (seen in Chigley) is an adapted Triang Tugster. All to help on his modern, mechanical farm.

Ploughing on,
Kevin D

COLOUR WITCH: THE MAGIC NEW WAY TO PAINT

I half remember these arty crones, the Colour Witch. I'm pretty convinced I had them as a lad in the late Sixties. Anything to do with monsters! Its those little cauldrons that really ring a bell. They would have fit in perfectly with other creepy stuff like the game Which Witch/ Haunted House at the time.

We've mentioned them in passing a few times on Moonbase over the years. Do you remember them? The only place I could find images - from a decade ago - is on the Do you Remember forum! [hope they don't mins me re-posting them]. These are elusive witches and perfect for a Halloween re-paint.

Colour Witch was released by Joyment, a firm I don't know much about.

I do know they made Dizzy Bug though, another great toy game I had back then. I had one right up to about 2015 I think but sold it on. Doh!

Did you Dizzy Bug?

Did you have any other Joyment toys?

Thursday, 29 October 2020

THE WORM HAS TURNED

Thunderbirds Are Go!

A small celebration of small things, the 1966 Kelloggs Sugar Smacks Cereal Premiums. Just over two inches long, each of the four models - TB5 wasn't included, presumably as it was too complex to make - these tiny kits fit together from a handful of parts into wonderful little models. I never saw these as a child, only really becoming aware of Kelloggs premiums with Crater Critters some years later.

Out of the four models, TB4 is the largest and simplest, whereas TB3 is delicate and quite detailed. To stand in for 5, I have included a much later but perfectly scaled gashopon version by Yujin and no Thunderbirds line up would be the same without a Zero X, so we have the tiny Morinaga OX too.