A PERFECT LIQUID

I heard on the radio that scientists have created the perfect fluid, a quantum material with stellar properties. Scientists believe that stars contain perfect liquids in their cores.

No idea really what this is but I liked the sound of it. I wonder if it could be made into a toy like flubber?

TOTEM GESTURE

I saw these modern Trash Pack containers online. In fact I think my grandson has some as part of of his Gross-ery Gang pile of toys and figures made by Moose.

The little plastic trash cans remind me of an old line of plastic totem pole connectables.

You can see one at the bottom of this vending pack in yellow with the monster face. Dunno what they're called.

You know what the totems are readers?

A CHRISTMAS WARNING TO THE CURIOUS: THE TV PLAY LOCATIONS

This is an interesting video travelogue of the locations on the Norfolk coast for the 1972 UK TV M.R.James' Ghost Story for Christmas A Warning to the Curious. It was done by BookoftheDead on You Tube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1fNHbPKtv8

I did something similar but less specific a few years ago when I was in Norfolk with Missus Moonbase. It was fun to do though and quite creepy!

BILL EV'S POWER JAM

 

Hi Woodsy, 

Nice blog piece waxing lyrical about heavy metal and Deep Purple! 

Sometime before I started playing the Hurdy Gurdy, I used to regularly play my own plastic axe. And here is a bit of me and a couple of mates doing a session at Swansea University in 1985. 

No name to the band, we were just four session musician mates who love Rock. 

Graham Wyatt on Lead, me on Rhythm, Dave Parton on Bass and Dave Frater on Drums.... And my guitar??? It's a customised Fender Stratocaster. And those power chords are real I'm proud to say. 

Generally, the stuff I'd end up doing would be short pieces used in commercial production, although I did play on a set of jingles used at Red Dragon Radio... I still play little today; the technology is a lot less bulky and more effective nowadays. So, it shows how good those original metal guys really were. 

Hope you like it!

Bill Ev

http://s124347079.websitehome.co.uk/Copy/URA.mp3 

MANDALORIAN ADVENT CALENDER

Hello Woodsy

I'm not sure if this is some kind of sacrilegious statement from Star Wars or whether Star Wars has become a religion?

Seen in a Connecticut supermarket.

Either way it's space related and therefore of interest to Moonbase.

Terranova47

USA

 

AN ECHO OF COMBAT

This Combat Car on Ebay this year looked great. 

Unusually it had a box too so I kept the picture.

The toy itself looks incomplete, missing its tailfin and missiles. 

I love the Century 21-style Zero-X blue plastic.

 The toy reminded me of my own Echo Car toy.

Have you got anything like these toys readers?

Simon and Simon Die-cast Cars

Hi Woodsy
Further to Autumn post on the Simon and Simon walkie-talkies. 

This was a US private eye show about two brothers who run a San Diego detective agency, with help from their Mother. Rick was the rough and ready one in a cowboy hat, A.J. (Andrew Jackson) was the younger, smoother one in a suit. The series was on from 1981 to 1989.

A good few years after the series ended, Hot Wheels included three models based on the series in one of their premium lines. Introduced in 2013 as Retro Entertainment, and renamed Hot Wheels Entertainment in 2014, it has been known as Replica Entertainment since 2017. 

I am not sure if any of these vehicles actually appeared on the show, as it has been a long time since I have seen any of the episodes. 

Interestingly Jameson Parker, who played A.J., also appeared in the same 1994 Burke's Law episode as Anne Francis. Clearly he was still meant to be A.J. as he refers to having a brother, who is not seen.

The three Hot Wheels models are:

2013 - '85 Camaro IROC-Z, a red convertible
2014 - 1980 Dodge Macho Power Wagon, a red pick-up truck
2014 - 1957 Chevy Bel Air Convertible, in black

Above is a photo of the two models I have. There is a Hot Wheels Wiki entry for this series, which lists all the models produced from the beginning, up to the present, which is very useful.

https://hotwheels.fandom.com/wiki/Hot_Wheels_Entertainment

Yours Sincerely,
Paul Adams from New Zealand