MR. DAGENHAM'S HELICOPTER

Hi,

After a year of searching, I tracked down the tinplate toy of the helicopter they must have used for Camberwick Green. I needed to scratchbuild the cab and spray it all red.

Must fly,

Kevin D

WINEX AND BLUE BOX TOYS

 

We may have had this Winex saucer on MC before but it's such a great looking toy that it's back!

The vehicles featured on the box header will be mostly known to all of us as Blue Box space vehicles.

I've never seen this Winex issued saucer as a Blue Box boxed or carded toy. Have you readers?

SIXTEEN 12 'EARTHBOUND' EPISODE SET

 Another look at the Sixteen 12 ‘Earthbound’ Episode set which appeared in August, 2020.

This set features the Kaldorian spacecraft, and a Rescue Eagle. It also comes with a docking tube, and an Alpha Buggy.

As the Kaldorian ship is intended to be in-scale with the 12” Eagle, it’s a good size, and has plenty of detailing.

‘Earthbound’ is a popular first season Space: 1999 episode, and one of my favourites.  The egg-like Kaldorian ship is certainly an inspired otherworldly design, reminiscent of a child’s spinning top toy.

The original filming props were built by Space Models in two sizes, the largest being two foot in diameter.

While the Kaldorian ship marks the first time the Alphans encounter an alien vehicle, the ‘Earthbound’ episode is where we first see the red-striped Rescue Pod.

It turns out that the original Product Enterprise Rescue had red stripes that were too thin; the new Sixteen 12 version corrects that error.

The docking tube attaches to the pod door and the flat surfaces on the Kaldorian ship’s main body magnetically, but as the Eagle pod doesn’t have extending legs, connection is only possible by placing on its display plinth.

Here’s a selection of photos I took showing both the prototype and released Sixteen 12 models.

Here's a few photos I took at one of the Smallspace events of the large Kaldorian ship studio prop.

LEGLESS EAGLE

 An interesting cover on a Space 1999 colouring book showing retracted legs on the Eagle.

I believed this was an original design intention, but ultimately dropped as it made the side view of the ship look too narrow.

 

PAN AM CONCORDE?!

 I'm pretty sure PAN AM never flew a Concorde !

 

Hong Kong Plastic Toys

Hi

          Here is another 60s Child item from You Tube, called Made in Hong Kong. 

It covers, mainly with photos, many plastic toys of the 1960s that were made in Hong Kong. Doll manufacture was a pretty gruesome business judging from the introduction. 

 I did have one of the cap-firing rockets (shown at 3:43) that you dropped on to a hard surface to detonate it, but mine was red and silver. The Dawn Patrol set of WW1 aeroplanes (at 5:38) is also interesting, there were two movies of this title, in 1930 and 1938. 

I also had some of the toy animals, but I think mine would have been bought loose, rather than in a set ?

Made in Hong Kong ( cheap crap but fun ) 60s and 70s - YouTube

Paul Adams from New Zealand

SAN FRANCISCO CABLE CAR MUSIC BOX

Hi,

Here is a most unusual little 'model', which I picked up second-hand a few years ago in a model shop. 

It is a wooden replica of a San Francisco cable car, but it is also a music box - the key to wind it up is just visible under the model, between the wheels. Red, white, blue, and gold. 

It came with its box, but there is no maker or country of origin on it anywhere. Looks to be a souvenir item.

Has anyone else got anything like this?

Paul Adams form New Zealand

SOMA STAR RIDER SET

We've come across toy outfit SOMA before. They released a white copy of the JR21 Thunderbird 5.

Seen on an online auction, here's there more recent Star Rider set with vehicles and mini-figures. There seems to be a bit of every influence in here!

Do you like it readers?