Keeping to Scoop's UFO theme I was amused by this imposter into the genre I saw online, the Burago UFO Interceptor.
Its a van!
It has a radar.
Well, Christmas is over more or less, for another year.
Despite its strangeness I still enjoyed the unique festive atmosphere at the top of the year.
The highlight was watching our Grandson opening his presents. It was a portal into my own past and reminded me that Christmas really is for children.
Four year old junior liked the wooden castle and knights we got him. It was big enough for him to sit inside and play. He also liked the Toy Story pen set and scribbled notes on a post it pad, which became letters to the King in the castle.
Top-it by Ideal from 1972 was another hit. We always like to introduce a vintage toy or two and at £2 complete boxed from a chrity shop it was a no brainer. The box art is that typically wonderful colour style that Ideal always had. I wonder who the artists were?
Without doubt though the biggest hit was a large plastic remote-controlled crane we got Junior. Nearly as tall as him he was in his element delivering buckets of purple hearts to the knights in the castle. He played with it for ages.
It reminded me how I must have felt when I opened up my Cape Kennedy Project SWORD set Xmas 1967 and remote-controlled it round the house!
Those were the days!
Did you get anything remote-controlled as a kid readers?
This will be controversial I bet but I can't stand Christmas walks!
Just when I'm snug as a bug in a Christmas sherry jug, enjoying the inexplicable delight of wearing my pajamas all day, after a lunch of festive meats and treats, some bright spark will chirp:
"Anyone fancy a Christmas walk?"
My heart sinks.
Just as I'm heading for the sofa to check out my new book on horror films and turning on a Superman II DVD for Junior, whilst balancing a saucer of mince pies and a glass of Captain Morgan, I hear that dreadful clarion call to don winter woolies, dress the grandchildren and head out into the sub-zero temperatures of a Northern hemisphere December!
God help me, why oh why this obsession to ramble, amble and hike on Christmas and Boxing Day, just at that very moment when we have achieved the perfect Hadron collision of food, drink, comfort and warmth, only to be casually thrown away for entering a world of dog sh*t, scrotes on trials bikes, pram disasters and the odd penguin lost in the freezing fog.
Please, no more Christmas walks Santa. That is what I want next year!
I loved a good pen as a kid and always a toy gun so a toy pen gun like this would have been a huge hit.
I had to chuckle when I saw this display card online. The artwork is just ace!
Not only do we get a mischievous looking Tom Cruise junior but also a fabulously monstrous ape!
By Success, I love the model number 01P. I wonder what 02P is?
Did you have a toy pen gun?
