TRI-ANG MOON ROCKET PEDAL CAR!

This was on East Bristol Auctions online offer in 2019. Its an amazing thing and I was knocked out when I saw it. What do you think readers?

Here's the old auction description:

An original rare vintage 1960's Tri-ang / Triang made ' Moon Rocket EXP-5 ' child's pedal car.

The only known example to exist. Plastic body in red and blue, with integral moulded seat. Based on a tricycle chassis, the steering operated via two levers.

The dash fitted with various leavers, buttons and faux-dials.

Tri-ang label to interior still remains. Wonderful example of a space-age pedal car. Measures approx. 114cm long. From a private collection of vintage pedal cars.

Aircraft Box Art Colours

Hi

Here is an item from YouTube on model aircraft kit box art, specifically on the colours used, including green and yellow skies.  Most interesting, and it would really apply to any type of artwork designed to sell models or toys.

(2) COLOR IN MODEL BOX ART - The use of color psychology in designing model box tops. - YouTube

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Star Trek Communicator

Hi,

Here is an old TV ad for a working Star Trek communicator, with a range of 1300 feet. The aerial is a new feature.

What do readers think?

Early 1970's Star Trek Toy TV Commercial Mego - YouTube

Paul Adams from New Zealand

TRIANGULAR TRAIN!

Hello Woodsy

Further to Toblerone, this faked image has been floating around the internet for years.

One day I may take a crack at making a working model of it it.

Stay well,

Terranova47
USA

POPS IN SPACE LP: THE JOHN WILLIAMS?

I picked this LP up in a charidee shop whilst on my hols, one I'd not seen before: Pops in Space.

Its by John Williams and the Boston Pops and was released by Philips in 1980. I assume its THE John Williams - is that him in the picture?

Here's the LP track listing:

1. Superman

2. March 4:23

3. Love Theme 4:47

4. The Empire Strikes Back

5. The Asteroid Field 4:11

6. Yoda's Theme 3:19

7. The Imperial March 3:03

8. Star Wars

9. Main Theme 5:35

10. Princess Leia 4:03

11. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

12. Suite 10:03

Is this an LP you have readers? Do you have any other space film theme compilations like this?

VALUABLE VIDEOS

For the VHS collector in you! Maybe you have one of these at the back of the cupboard!

There's a lot of Disney in here uncomfortably juxtaposed with American video nasties so be warned.

https://www.buzzfuse.net/100-1/50-most-valuable-vhs-tapes-that-you-could-sell-for-a-fortune/

Old Haunts

Do you ever return to past places where you found some collectables in the hope of similar bounty?

I do. I did this holiday in the Yorkshire Moors but to no avail. Last year I found quite a lot of old toys. Gormiti boxed sets in a Teeside Charity shop in Stokesly springs to mind. Returning to the same shop like a wasp I was dissapointed to find nada, nichts, nowt.

In fact I've found not a single old die-cast car in thirty charity shops in the region. I can officially declare it a vintage die-cast desert, at least for now!

I did visit one of the two collectables haunts I have, one a shop and one a famous kiosk, in Whitby but the shop was .... shut! The kiosk in the old town was just too far to walk as Ive got a stinker of a cold and required hot tea and the sofa.

Here's part of the collectable's shop window.

SUPERMAN HAS GOT A FAN

Its the last day of our holidays on the lonely hills of the Yorkshire Moors, a place we really adore, and since 1989 when our daughter was 5, our spiritual home from home. Now her own 5 year old son Junior is here with us all too, along with her own 2 year old daughter. Hopefully one day they'll also bring their own grandchildren to the beautiful Moors by the sea.

We also shared our rented moorland house with Superman - or to be more precise - a Superfan. Junior loved this toy gadget and his joy reminded me of the happiness that holiday toys bring to kids. I was no different half a century ago when my Mum and Dad took me to Butlins. I'm sure you felt the same about getting toys - and comics - on your holidays. Is that right?

Here's Junior fanning the garden tree with his Superfan!