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Tuesday, 11 January 2022

SPACE TRUCK'S WONDER WALL OF TOYS

Check out Space Trucks aka Steve Nyland's amazing wall of vintage rack space packs. There's SpaceX, Golden Astronaut, Marx and more! I'm drooling already! You?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChdI4Qx7br8

FAO SCHWARTZ TOY CATALOGUE 1970: THE SCHUCO AMPHIBIO

Here's the fabulous Amphibio by Schuco! Have you got one readers?

GALGO WHEELS

Check out this link to the fab multi-wheeled toy truck of South American toy firm GALGO. It has a real Explorer 12 vibe! What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeUTx_-qkeY

WATCHING 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT

Following on from my previous post a couple of days ago on spending the afternoon watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, Wotan suggested I dig out my copy of 2010: The Year We Make Contact, and give that an airing.

Well, I took his advice and settled down to watch. The copy I have is a R2 DVD released in 2000, with the 2:35: 1 widescreen presentation; the downside is however, it's set in a 4:3 aspect; put simply it doesn't fill the screen!

I hasten to add I don't intend that as a metaphor. When it comes to 2010, I suppose it's inevitable to be tempted to make unfair comparisons with Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Both are very well made but very different films.

2001 is a metaphysical, unconventional cinematic experience: In short, probably the best science fiction film ever made!

2010 is much more pragmatic and faster paced than 2001, and attempts to answer some of the questions raised in the original: In short it's enjoyable science fiction, and a lot easier to understand than 2001!

A couple of notable things to look out for; 2010 does contain a cameo of Arthur C Clarke, sitting on a bench, feeding the birds outside the White House, and briefly on a made up painted cover of TIME magazine, along with Stanley Kubrick.

But really I think 2010 has some pretty good imagery of its own, and some very good recreated sets.

Well worth a watch, in my opinion.

MPC WACKY RACERS

Here's a piece with the MPC Wacky Racers kits from Maxsmodels, Plenty on Star Car kits in this one too. Have you any of these kits?

Maxsmodels Livestream 15 - YouTube

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Monday, 10 January 2022

THE DAY BRIAN SHOOK HANDS WITH GODZILLA

Hi Woodsy. I share with you today a Medicom Toy Real Action Heroes Godzilla toy.

An interesting fact is it is not so much a Godzilla toy as it is a Takara Combat Joe toy.

Combat Joe is the Japanese version of Action Man or GI Joe. The doll comes with a rubber Godzilla suit to wear, accurately depicting how difficult it must have been to masquerade as the big G.

I had the rare opportunity to hand this toy to the original Godzilla costume actor himself, Mr Haruo Nakajima!

He was delighted by the concept of the toy and requested that I take it out of the package so he could see the finished product.

It took us a few minutes to figure it out, but after the toy was complete, we posed for a picture and he autographed the box.

Sadly, Nakahima-San passed away in 2017, but I am grateful for the opportunity to have met him.-

Brian F

NJ USA