A LARGE QUANTITY OF GERRY ANDERSON ANNUALS, MERCHANDISE AND MODELS

This is late news but there are tons of Gerry Anderson annuals, toys and models in this auction tomorrow. Have a gander. Search Gerry Anderson in the site search.

https://www.britishtoyauctions.co.uk/catalog/

COULD THUNDERBIRDS RESCUE FROM EXTREME DEPTHS?

I often wonder if the combined efforts of Project SWORD and SpaceX could tackle stuff like Thunderbirds did.

I got to thinking about deep places, really deep places like these pictured, two of the deepest places on Earth: The Gates of Hell and the Great Blue Hole, according to Conde Nest Traveller.

By way of aquatic power there isn't that much in the SWORD SpaceX fleet to be honest. Maybe SWORD's Scout 1 could plumb the Great Blue Hole?

As for the fiery Gates of Hell what about the SpaceX MOLAB? Maybe even the SWORD Snow Train in its shielded mode?

Is there a better toy range that could tackle extreme depth? Multimac? Explorer 12?

How would Thunderbirds have dealt with the deep?

What do you think?

THE WILLOW GAME 1988

 

I remember finding a mint example of this boxed game, Willow, from 1988, at a car boot sale. Finding anything mint was always a thrill and I quickly included it on my mail order sales list in the late 90's and on my toy fair toy stall. It sold.

I've never seen Willow or played the game.

Have you?

CADZZILLA LIGHTS

 I've been drooling over online coverage of CadZZilla, the ZZ Top Caddy rat rod.

Its a sleek thing of beauty and the sloped rear end is simply irresistible.

Seeing the CadZZill's amazing back lights I was totally reminded of my beloved Project SWORD Space Glider's rear lamps!

Have you seen the CadZZilla before?

There's even a Hot Wheels replica.

Change for Changes Sake

This is odd for me. I’m typing this on an iPad. My Missus needs my laptop so We’ve swapped. I’m really not used to tablets and find it a bit Like holding a slate. It’s also predicting my type and inserting capitals mid sentence. It’s slow going with one finger. Still it’s online so that’s good.

Whatever Google Apple tensions there might be it’s EBay that’s driving me bonkers at the mo. They seem to have to change things for the sake of change. It’s always been the same.

I love selling on EBay but infuriatingly they have done two things in April.

1. The buyer payments no longer go to PayPal but now go to our bank account mixed in with all our other domestic stuff. It’s a pain and more or less made PayPal pointless.

2. The seller summary magically vanished. I liked the seller summery a lot. eBay have bejazzelled it and taken it to another page. Why? I had to trawl through all this new gubbins to find the opt out button. Yay! I’m back now in Seller summary mode.

Have you had any experience of these issues readers?

They Ain't Heavy

Well technically they are - and very well made. Zylemex Metal Men were a range of die-cast figures which spun off from the earlier Takara Microman series. Repackaged and extended for the US market, the figures included Police and Army sets as well as the fabulous space series.  

See: http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/toys/metalman/

 

The AMT Klingon Battle Cruiser Kit

Hi Woodsy

                Here is a great item from Max of Maxsmodels, on the history of the Klingon battle cruiser in the original Star Trek series, and the AMT kit. 

The Klingon ship did not appear until the third and final season. The reason it appeared at all was the AMT, who had made a kit of the USS Enterprise, wanted an enemy ship to go with the Federation ship. 

It was designed at the request of AMT, who provided the screen model for use in the series, so they could make and sell the kit. A great history lesson from Max.

(1) Max's Models after hours 2/9/21 - YouTube

Yours Sincerely,

Paul Adams from New Zealand

WILL OSBORNE'S HAN SOLO BLISTER