Scalextric No Time To Die Slot-car Set

Hi all,

Further to the wonderful No Time To Die James Bond layout from Lewis Morley, here is an item from You Tube showing the basic Scalextric set. 

The Micro No Time To Die set is 1/64th scale, and contains both an Aston Martin DB5 and a Jaguar XF (obviously the villain car, in James Bond only the bad guys drive Jaguars). With a about four metres of track, including a loop. 

The instructions give several different possible tracks layouts. This set is battery powered, but a mains controller is also available, as are additional track lengths, or you could use track from other Scalextric micro sets.

A review and unboxing of the set, showing it in action.

Review and Unboxing of the No Time To Die Scalextric Car Set - YouTube

 Paul A

NZ

007 JAMES BOND TOY HARPOON GUNS: LONE STAR AND ITS KNOCKOFF

I first posted this in 2009. Yes, 13 years ago, which is hard for me to believe.

Anyway I've always adored these toys, which I've only ever seen in this post!

These fabulous 007 toys, part of the spy craze that ran alongside the space craze, belong to erstwhile blog reader Ferryman. He explains that both toys were based on existing ray gun tooling with barrel and butt attachments. 

The Lone Star one (top 3 pics) is well known for having made various appearances as Dalek and Star Trek guns over the years. The smaller gun is less frequently seen but its original form appears to be heavily influenced by the Lone Star Dan Dare gun. The smaller gun has no makers name on it and simply says made in Hong Kong. 

The bottom picture is a comparison of both.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing way back when Ferryman.

Did you have anything like this readers?

MYFALL

It's been a very weird summer down here in Australia. Due to a La Nina, we've had rain, rain and more rain. Not that I'm complaining too much, as it's way preferable to raging bushfires!

Anyway, here's that cartoon I promised ya! I've actually had a few bingles making this model, earlier, I tripped up and landed, bending my left ring finger back at an interesting angle and yesterday I slashed the tip of the same finger with a scalpel -as you do...

I've always considered myself a reasonably bulletproof chappie, but falling off a ladder at age 63 is not quite the same as doing it at 23!

Now if I can just think of a suitably catchy title...

Hmmm.. Dr. Ow,     From Ladder with Rub,     Bentfinger,   Blunderfall,    You Only Dive Heights,   O.W.W.W.W.W, Onto Looey's Concrete Surface,   Balance Ain't Forever...

Awww, I'm never gonna figure one out! [what might you come up with?]

Hmmm, now I'm going to have think about something else to do! Cheers, L.

A JAMES BOND VOLCANO TOY: LICENCE TO SPILL!

Moonbasers. I just discovered someone made a 007 Volcano playset! 

 Do you know about this?

Looey

Oz

http://www.jamesbondtoys.com/collection/volcano/volcano.htm

THE NAME'S SET. ROAD RACE SET.

Looey from Oz explains: A short while ago, whilst I was still basking in the glow of finally getting my long coveted Bandai Captain Scarlet SPC, you posted a piccie of the Triang Rovex Captain Scarlet chase set and asked if this was the ultimate "wish I had this" set.

And I thought, no, if I was going for a slot car set, it would be this one...

Which of course set me on seeing what one would cost me these days. And the answer is STUPID MONEY (probably about a thousand quid in your money) and of course, they were always notorious for not working properly, so messing around with a vintage toy really put me off.

Then I discovered Scalextric had released a reasonably priced MICRO set featuring the classic Aston Martin and I HAD to have it!

When I received it, was really nice, but it didn't have enough track to do what I wanted to do, so I found a used Batman set very reasonably priced on eBay and soon I had enough roadway to recreate the street chase from No Time To Die in style!

I started off by designing and laser cutting cardboard buildings for the surrounding village landscape.

Finally I had enough to provide a decent village and I began setting them around the track layout I had planned

Next I laser cut some cobble stencils and repainted the black roadway in more appropriate colours and soldered everything together as I fastened it all down to my lightweight baseboard.

My final layout looks like this...

And now Mr. Bond in his Aston Martin, can tool through the World Heritage Italian village of Matera and spray machine gun bullets into the ancient masonry...

And of course, if this set had been actually made back in the 1960's it would have come in a box like this...

Now all I have to do is thank Scalextric for making such a nice product to begin with...

And draw a comic about how I fell off a ladder while taking photographs of my finished layout...

And maybe tape a micro camera to one of the cars and try to film a movie of driving around the set...

Hmmm, looks like I'm not finished at all!

"The name's Looey, that's Looey with a double O..."

Looey Morley,

OZ

NEW BRIGHT MOON DOG

 

This New Bright robot doggy appears to have a body more or less based on a much better known space toy.

What do you think?

Have you got anything like this?

LIONEL EXPLORER 12

I like this Lionel Yellow Explorer 12 Submarine Transport Flat Car I saw online. It may even be new. 

Anything with Explorer 12 on it always gets my attention.

Do you have a sub like this?

P A N C A K E S O N T H E B A S E

There's not much by way of celebrations between Christmas and Easter. The solemn darkness of deep winter. At least not now. 

It was completely different when I was a kid, as I had to go to church.

Lent played a big part in our lives: Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday and so on. 

These starter blocks for the coming huge Easter festival meant confessions, communion, ash crosses on my forehead, palm cross making in school and church and ringing church bells. All this built up to the incensed eggstravanganza that was the Easter festival.

As time went on the religiosity of it all faded from our Lancashire home and we were eventually left with just the sweet bits: valentines cards, pancakes and chocolate eggs.

Not to be sniffed at though, Pancake Tuesday was always important for obvious reasons and remains so on Moonbase. Back in the day the only toppings were sugar and Jiff Lemon on my parent's table. Nowadays our pancake spread is festooned with every conceivable garnish: of course sugar and lemon but also maple syrup, nutella, jam, peanut butter, cooked meats and my personal favourite, cheese.

And so it was Pancake Day just gone.

Yet there is nothing quite like a stack of freshly cooked pancakes anytime. Not just Pancake Tuesday. I can eat them whenever and often do! 

Leftover pancakes cold from the fridge are delicious too!

Do you like pancakes readers and what are your special tips? 

Did you get any gifts, prezzies or toys during the months before Easter?