ROB'S MAGMA RISER

Woodsy,

Here are some pix of a Fujimi model kit I just finished, the TDF MR-1 Magma Riser, from the hit TV show Ultra Seven. 

This is a 1999 reissue of the 1967 kit, and it is big - over 11” long! One of the best “The Mole” knockoffs, I think. 

The original release was motorized and had headlights too! This is my second stab at building this kit - I didn’t like the green body color I picked for the first one...

Rob C.

USA

UNIDENTIFIED MERCURY MARK IV

 I've always been keen on T in a Circle.

Its a brand collectors later discovered was actually called Tai Hing.

A classic Hong Kong plastics firm, in the Sixties they put out beautiful space toys among others like sleek boats and bright cars. I've been lucky enough to collect most of them over the years.

One I have never got is the Mercury Mark IV Space Ship.

So I was intrigued when I saw this auction example online, which appears to be unbranded, so I saved the snaps.

Looking like a stripped-down Thunderbird 5 body, the toy was issued by various firms in its heyday including Clifford, but this is unmarked.

Have you got one readers?

MING TAT INFO

Company details for the old Hong Kong toy firm Ming Tat if you're interested in them.

https://www.hkgbusiness.com/en/company/Ming-Tat-Plastics-Factory-Limited

LASERTRON AND ADVENTURE 2000

 Its been a slow Bank Holiday on the touch-up front after the zealous surge yesterday. 

I did get out two more oldsters to see what I could do, both Sci-Fi influenced from the 70's, which you may have had yourself. 

I picked up the green Adventure 2000 Fight Hunter at a car boot and the orange X2 Lasertron was kindly donated by Wotan.

Alas, all the greens and oranges that I have are unsuitable for patching up these two vehicles. There are just so many shades of the these two colours.

Were these vehicle ranges that you had readers?

FAB1 STORY

This was interesting, a take on the history of FAB1 by Marc of Sixmania. Part 2 is linked in the article.

http://www.sixmania.fr/en/la-fabuleuse-histoire-de-la-vraie-fab-1-premiere-partie/ 

What did you think?

METAL EARTH VOYAGER

Hi,

Got this as a Christmas present from a friend. It is a 'Metal Earth' model kit of the Voyager probe. The kit consists of two flat sheets of metal with all the parts on them. You have to cut them out, bend them to shape and fit them together by putting microscopic tabs into equally small slots and then bending them over. No glue required in theory!

I hate working small anyway and this kit is highly detailed and quite small. It was like threading a needle using pliers! I ended up cheating and using glue and epoxy putty in some places.

Looks nice when done though.

Just nipping out to the oort cloud,

Kevin
UK

THE FUTURE IS HERE! HOP ON!

Moonbase Junior's Superfast coach on its overnight trip to tomorrow!

IS CHRISTMAS TV RUBBISH NOWADAYS?

Apart from the Ghost Story for Christmas on Christmas Eve and Alistair Sim's Christmas Carol a little earlier that week, I thought the 'normal' telly schedules were rubbish over Christmas this year in England. Some days on Freeview you wouldn't have known it was Christmas!

I dunno - like the big Sixties kid I am - I wanted Jason and the Argonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad or any Harryhausen, lots of Laurel and Hardy, lots of 1950's B-movies like Them! some Thunderbirds [from the Sixties] and maybe a whole haunting of ghost stories.

Having said that we were out a lot so it may have been just our bad luck to miss all of the above if they were on!

This year was the first one we didn't invest in a Christmas Radio Times. Maybe that had something to do with it!

What do you think readers? What's Xmas TV like were you are in the world?