MOONBASE CENTRAL

Friday, 22 October 2021

REDBOX 707: CIGA-PAK

How many!

This just wouldn't be made anymore would it!

Did you have one?

GIANT CORGI DB5

I was blown away by this shot of a life size Corgi Aston Martin in the grounds of Battersea Power Station. Iconic!

Being a Superhero film fan I saw that Netflix was showing virtually all of the Marvel Spiderman films. The last time I checked in on the webslinger was probably Toby McGuire's stint 20 years ago, the first and the one were his suit is Venomised.

For old time's sake I re-watched Toby's output, 1 and 3. Kirsten Dunst is a plausible Mary Jane and the Green Goblin family - Dafoe and Franco - are not bad at all.

Being a fickle controller I skipped Toby's 2nd film to sample more modern Spiders, the Tom Holland catalogue in Netflix. I have to admit I turned it off. I just couldn't watch it. The actor Tom Holland looks and acts about 10 years old and realising that this would be the real target age for the movie I watched something else.

I'm just too old for Spider-Man maybe.

There's another burst of Spidey films in between McGuire and Holland but I forget the young actor's name. Wasn't he Anakin Skywalker in a Star wars flick? Are they any good?

Maybe I'll give these later Spidermen another blast when Moonbase Junior wants to watch long movies. He's only 5.

Which is your favourite Spidey readers?

One-Man Flying Platform Film

Here is a short clip from You Tube showing a 1950s one-man US Army Flying Platform. It would look great flying over a Lunar or Martian landscape with an Astronaut at the controls. There is also a tiny, one-man helicopter. Neither is for me - you are basically hanging in mid-air, with no structure around you.

Not sure if either of these have been kitted, but in 1961 ITC released a kit of the much larger, three-man Piasecki VZ-8P Aerial Jeep, or Airgeep, in 1/35th scale. This was re-issued by Glencoe Models in 1990. Again, it would look great in a space setting, exploring alien worlds, or even being flown by aliens on Earth.

Flying Platform mid 1950s - YouTube

Paul Adams from New Zealand

This is Aston Martin's!

The classic DB5 is back! Wow!

CHINESE TIN ROCKET

I always like the tinplate Secret Service Action Car but it's the neat blue tin Space plane I especially noticed in this old auction image. Its not one I know but it looks familiar.

The wedge-shaped box is up top.

Do you like it?