CHUAN SHIN CHINA PIONEER SAUCER

 

I think I've blogged this afore years ago, its the Chuan Shin 2001 P2ONEEL FLY SAUCER aka the Pioneer. I assume P2oneel was one way of saying it!

Its an interesting looking toy. What are its influences readers do you reckon?

MISSION TO MARS BY PLAYMOBIL

The modern Mission to Mars toys by Playmobil are pretty darn cool. Moonbase Junior has got most of them now. They remind me a bit f Major Matt Mason toys! 

Here's the Playmobil TV ad. Do you like them?

Here's Major Matt Mason on TV in 1968. I wuz 7! Did you have any Major stuff?

MASTERS OF MARS

 

These guys arrived at Junior's house on his birthday.

Playmobil Mars Mission and Masters of the Universe.

That space station could almost be Triang SpaceX!

Do you have a space station?

SOMETHING'S COMING! GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE TRAILER

This Ghostbusters sequel is coming this November! Will you be watching?

It looks completely amazingly nostalgic and the small Stay-Pufts had me howling!

Its a must-see!

Who ya gonna ...... go with?

https://youtu.be/HR-WxNVLZhQ 

Did you collect Ghostbusters toys at all?

I CAME, I SAW, I CONKER

Its conker season and British schoolkids are as busy as squirrels collecting chestnuts.

However despite the collecting I see very little if no actual conkering these days. You know, where a hole was drilled [how did we do that?] through the chestnut and a knotted string was pulled through.

Boy, did we have fun back in the day when conkers where a seasonal relief from pitch and toss and kick the can.

I was never really much good at conkers, never mastering the killer blow that could shatter a lesser nut in a single thwack. I did try though.

I imagine top winning conkers were guarded by rottweillers. I never had one.

Back in Preston where I grew up they were actually called cheggies or cheggers and not conkers. I understand that conker comes from conquer, which makes perfect sense. No idea where cheggies came from!

Did you smash each others' chestnuts as a kid in your part of the world readers?

It never really made it as a toy did it. A plastic conker?

New Toys 1957

Hi all

Here is a very short British Pathe film clip of the 1957 toy fair, with a revolving animated cartoon viewer - which seems to be mounted on a record player. There is also a money box which spins the coins around before gobbling them up, and an air power rocket that looks like a V2. Pathe certainly covered some interesting subjects. Unfortunately Pathe never identify the makers of the toys in these clips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPmOM1HBe5A

Paul Adams from New Zealand

KING OF THE BUNDLE: TOY TARZANS

 I've written about small plastic Tarzans a few times. It's a minor blog legend really.

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2019/08/fierce-toys-zoos-jungles-phantoms-and.html

I was chuffed when I found a Tarzan at a boot sale last summer.

Its amazing where this classic figure turns up. Besides the Phantom Jungle set here's another vine swinger in this Kindergeburtstag bundle bag of party favours I saw on Ebay so I saved the pics. I wonder if the King of the Jungle is in the public domain?

Have you got a Tarzan or a Jane in your life?

MONITORS AND PREFECTS

There used to be jobs at school when I was a kid. Secondary school I mean. the two I remember where Monitor and Prefect. Like Project SWORD ranks, they both had badges.

I think Monitors checked whether you had all the equipment you needed. Pen, pencil, ruler and so on. I'm not sure if they had spares - like an ice-cream vending person at the cinema? Maybe they monitored other stuff too.

Prefects were altogether more important than monitors. Fifth year Marshalls these Young Guns for hire patrolled the dark corridors of the institution searching out miscreants and forcibly pointing out the errors of their ways with a clip round the ear. A  bath full of scorpions was preferable to a corridor full of Prefects! At least that was my experience in a mid-70's Catholic High School in Preston. So much for saintliness!

Prefects also decided how much and what type of food we got. With one of this breed sat at every table like a dinnertime Sheriff they ladled out the meals and the puddings. If you said you hated swedes that's mostly what you got. I learnt not to say I hated skin on my custard. I learnt to keep stumm pretty quick!

I was never a Monitor nor a Prefect. I just watched them.

Were you one readers? Were you something else at school?