TRIAD FIGHTER

 

I like finding Action force toys when I'm out and about.

This however is one AF toy I've never seen before, the Triad Fighter and Captain. Its an amazing looking vehicle.

Here's one I saw online boxed.

Is it one you know?

JET PASSENGER LINER

I saw this on Spain's auction site and thought it looked a fine sleek Chinese airliner. Not supersonic like the ones featured here last week but impressive nonetheless.

Have you got anything like this readers? Did you as a kid?

TYRED PROSPECTS: DURHAM AND TARHEEL BALLOON WHEELS

 When I saw this Durham Super Serpent I thought it looked familiar.

It wasn't the box, which is really quite nice.

But it was those tyres. They really looked familiar to me.

and here's what it reminds me of, the toy Moon Prospector's tyres, one of which is shown close-up below. Seeing it like this its clear its not the same but maybe related. As I don't own the Durham Serpent I can't compare the size of the two tyre types.

Interestingly Durham was associated with Tarheel Inc. who did indeed release the American Project SWORD Moon Prospector in 1967.

Have you got either of these toys?

ARTO'S PENCIL CASES

First up are some samples from a huge lot of unused pencil cases from the Sixties and early Seventies. 

These are salesman's samples saved by a purchasing agent of our largest department store of yore, Stockmann. They all come fully equipped with S.Y.M "Arabian" colour pencils and other useful items.

The set of four pencil cases has similar space motif but different locking mechanisms. Some of them still have salesman's tags on them.

The pencil case with an interesting curved form has a space ship on a mission on one side, a Jumbo Jet about to take off on the other. This one is marked S.Y.M on the inside, which I why I assume they all are by the same maker providing the contents as well. The patent number on this one is 749086. Could S.Y.M be a British (HK) company?

Anyone else got anything like these?

Then something domestic. The translucent rocket money boxes are by a Finnish company Prevex, presumably from early Seventies.

You got anything like this?

Arto

Hawk Guerrilla Combat Team Thunderjet

Hi,

          Back in the early 1960s (1961 according to Scalemates, 1963 according to Worthpoint) the US model company Hawk re-boxed their Republic F-84E Thunderjet as the Guerrilla Combat Team. The aircraft came with a booster rocket mounted under the rear fuselage for ZEL (Zero Length) launches - the aircraft being blasted off the back of a M-52 Tractor-Trailer heavy truck, and came with three figures. All in 1/48th scale. This was a stunning kit. I should imagine it goes for a pretty penny these days - if you can find one.

Rare 1963 Hawk 300-300 Guerrilla Combat Team Model Kit Complete Unassembled | #1816012759 (worthpoint.com)

Guerrilla Combat Team, Hawk 300-300 (1961) (scalemates.com)

The photo of the box top is from Ebay.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

SKOOLZ OUT!

School's out for summer and my work is done for another year! Yay!

The strangest and most infectious year ever, I am glad to see the back of it and look forward to 6 weeks of the 3 R's: rest, rummaging and relaxation.

I can't wait to get stuck into some car boot sales and charity shops after weeks and weeks and have fun buying lots of vintage toys and tat.

Let the games begin!

Enjoy your summer or winter wherever you are in the world.

ROB'S THUNDERBIRD 4

Here’s a cute toy-model kit of Thunderbird 4, by Bandai, from the early 1990s.

Since I don’t own anything even faintly resembling a Thunderbird 2 pod bay, I grabbed something to look vaguely industrial.

I still think the original Thunderbird 4 is a truly sublime design. On the other hand, the box art was about the worst thing I’ve ever seen - some sort of early CAD computer rendering - so I chucked it.

Enjoy!
Rob
USA

TRASH THE GUMBALL DRAGON

A friend of mine got the band 21 Pilot's new limited edition box set the other day. It includes a CD, stickers, a scarf, badges, a booklet and a miniature plastic blue dragon called Trash.

Their cool oriental graphic of Trash, no doubt inspired by Hokusai, recalled something else from my own monster-fueled childhood,

its one Fin Fang Foom from Strange Tales, created by Messrs. Lee and Kirby.

Apparently there are toy versions of Fin Fang Foom, but I've never seen any. You?

21 Pilot's pet Trash comes as a miniature soft plastic toy too housed in a small plastic gumball.

It really reminds me of something else, aside from the Welsh Dragon, but I can't think what. You?

Have you got special presentation box sets for bands, films, DVD's, VHS, comics or something else readers?