GRUMMAN LSS ROVER ON FILM: THE PROJECT S.W.O.R.D ANT

 Oh my God! I have been checking for footage of this old rover for ages on YT.

Here it is!

Project SWORD called this vehicle the ANT in the 1968 Annual - click on the labels.

It would had made a fab Century 21 SWORD toy!

Do you agree?

Has anyone seen this rover in the flesh?

MOLAB ON THE MOVE!

 I love this old MOLAB!

What a treat to actually see it in action!

Have you ever seen it in the flesh?

BLAKE'S 7 ATTACK SHIPS ATTACK MY BRAIN

I'm seeing Guada - or is it Gauda? - attack ships all over the place now! Even when they aren't Gauda at all!

Here's another sci-fi mash-up, Space Ship King. Star Trek meets what?

It came in different colours!

What do you think? 

CYBERIA 23 BLAKE'S 7

Check out these 3D images by the talented Cyberia 23. I found them looking for Gauda Prime attack ships. There's one in there and much more for B7 fans.

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/user/1442952376441587263224339/cyberia23?filter=blake

BLUE BOX WINEX: A BLAKES 7 FLYING SAUCER MYSTERY

 

This is a strange one. This blue saucer appears to be part of the well-known Blue Box space vehicles series.

I saw this online ages and ages ago and thought. hmmm, I don't know this one. I saved the image.

My photo label says Winex, so I assume that's the maker but I can't find anything else or even this image. Has anyone got the toy?

Not only does this toy have all the things we associate with the Blue Box line - box art and arrowhead decals - it also recalls something we've blogged about before, the Blakes 7 connection.

Could this blue flying saucer be inspired by these Gauda Prime spaceships from Blakes 7 we've featured before? Look at the box art too.

What do you think?

ROB'S SCI-FI SUMMER BOOK STACK

Woodsy, Here are pix of my summer reading stash, but knowing me it will take much longer to get through all of these:

1. The Flying Eyes / Some Fabulous Yonder (reprint of an Ace Science Fiction double novel
2. I Speak for Earth / Wandl the Invader (original Ace Science Fiction double novel)
3. The Outer Space Connection (ancient astronaut stuff)
4. The Ancient Engineers (L. Sprague de Camp)
5. The Worlds of Clifford Simak
6. The Monitors (cool SF dystopia satire, made into an even cooler movie)
7. Ripley’s Believe it or Not (comic digest)
8. Macabre Mysteries and Horrors (1966 British horror anthology, including J Sheridan le Fanus great The Vampire)

I’ll be honest - it’ll probably take me years to get through all of these!

Rob C

USA

TIMMY TOAD'S TAR PIT

Woodsy, after your recent blog on the How and Why Wonder book of Dinosaurs, I managed to nab these 3 off ebay for just over £6 inc p+p. Bargain!

Comparing the Dinosaur UK softback and US hardback versions , the US one (right) is on better quality paper but suffers overcropping of the rhs of the page. Poor Dimetrodon has lost his head!

Whilst I don't remember owning the Mammals book, all the pics look very familiar-maybe I read it at school or had it as a library book. Standing out is the sabretooth on the back of a mammoth in a tar pit!!!! Is this the image you remember?

Timmy Toad

RUSSIAN BUG

I love this Soviet moon rover I have in my old photo archive. There aren't any more details with it. It looks maybe metal as well as plastic to me. What do you think?