WILL OSBORNE'S DINKY COASTGUARD AMPHIBIOUS MISSILE LAUNCH

You got one readers?

Wotan wades in: rather than bury this under another post, I thought I would add a little rider - the pages from the Dinky catalogue showing this and the Investigator Command Car, re-branded by Dinky. Great models.

The Invaders Diorama

Hi Woodsy
Here is a You Tube clip of a diorama featuring the Aurora/Monogram UFO from The Invaders, complete with multi-coloured flashing lights and sound effects. Really nice.

(1) The Invaders Vintage Monogram Models Flying Saucer Diorama - YouTube

Yours Sincerely,
Paul Adams from New Zealand

WILL OSBORNE'S TOPPER ROCKET BASE, TUDOR ROSE SPACE EXPLORER AND THE SOLAR-X 7 AND 8

Hi. Here are some pictures of the Topper Rocket Base USA.

My late father used to tell me that people would see the window display and come into the toy shop wanting to buy the toy, but when he gave them the actual object as pictured here, they used to say no no, I want the one like the one in the window!

He had to explain that it was all packed in to the small box and they would get everything that they saw in the window, but without the surrounding display of course.

The third and fourth pictures are Tudor Rose's X-400 Space Explorer with box.

and the fifth and sixth pictures are tinplate Japanese battery operated toys who’s design looks very familiar! All the best.

Will.

OH BRUDER, ITS ROSITA!

 I love this so I saved the listing pics.

Seen on the Spanish Todocolleccion site, its a sort mini space vehicles gift set by Rosita:

Batatlha no Espaco.

Those who maybe collect small space toys might be familiar with Bruder toys from West Germany. Well, you can probably see that this set contains what look like Bruder space vehicles.

Interestingly there's a vehicle on the box that I don't associate at all with Bruder. Its the Wasser Spinne, a sort of flying boat and can be seen roughly in the middle of the picture just on the left edge of the planet ring. I bought a largish plastic Wasser Spinne about ten years ago and wonder if there is a mini version here.

The alien figures are fun in red and green.

You can see the Bruder-type toys close-up here. Have you got any?

There are also some Manta Force-type smaller figures too in yellow.

Regrading that Wasser Spinne again, I'm wondering if its the mini toy far left that's obscured by the wrapping?

Have you got a set like this?

THE TINIEST DIE-CASTS

Hi Woodsie, 

getting so much pleasure (as always!) From your blog.

As an addendum to the chat from Paul Adams of NZ last year about duck cars...

I don't have the Hollywood Rides micro die casts of the Batmobile or Duck car, but I do have the Back to the Future 3 pack, which I'm sending you along with a World's Smallest Hot Wheels beside a pen for scale.

Keep on bloggin' , Looey

Oz

PROBE FORCE KAIJU

 

I love these old Kaiju blasters you get in Japan. This laccy band powered rocket machine-gun fires red-tipped rocket darts that look very familiar.

Compare them to the Project SWORD Probe Force 1 toy. What do you think?

TV21's THE DALEKS REPRINTED

Hi there, I just found a complete set of The Daleks from TV21 at my newsagent! I never had TV 21 as a kid, so this was all new(ish) to me!

Here's the website link.

https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=the-daleks-original-comic-strips-reprint-doctor-who-magazine [November 2020]

Strangely, I remember an episode where the Emperor Dalek falls through a time warp and comes off the worst from a joust with a Knight in armour!

The episode had (I think) a cut away of his interior to illustrate the epilogue where he is being repaired with a warning he will be even more dangerous when complete! 

As this adventure wasn't in this collection, I assume the story must have been in TV Comic or maybe Look and Learn?

One of the featured spacecraft [the Guardian] looked very familiar, and sure enough, a bit of Googling brought up the fact someone else had already made the SpaceX connection! I guess I'm the last kid on the block to notice this!

Did any of you read the Daleks strip as a kid? have you go this reprint collection?

Cheers,
Looey
Oz

Zero-X Plasticine Mould From Japan

Hi Woodsy

I stumbled across this on Yahoo Auctions Japan and it looks like the Japanese equivalent to the UK's Harbutts Plasticine sets. In the top left corner the red plastic mould is Zero-X!

Terry H