AHI PENGUIN MOTORBIKE

Here's a Batman related toy I've not seen before, the Azrak Hamway [AHI] penguin bike. I will try to find a carded example online.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-batmans-comic-action-figure-3103779259

DAY FRAN FBI SET

 

Being a Project SWORD Space Glider knocker offer, cheapo plastic makers Day Fran have always caught my eye whenever I see their old stock. Here's an FBI set.

The flat targets made me think of that other target set, the Century 21 Toys Dart Gun Target set we've seen a few times on MC.

Have you got any target sets like these readers?

TALKING PICTURES NEXT WEEK

I'm not around much next week so I thought I'd check what I'm missing and see whether you want to catch any of TPTV's tremendous output of sci-fi and horror.

Anything you fancy?

Monday 21st March  - interview with Anita Harris 9.35am

Fantastic Voyage 10.15am

Footage Detectives showing Larry the Lamb 5pm

Tuesday - Fall of the House of Usher 2.50am

Thursday - Doomwatch the movie 10.50pm

Friday - Night Visitor 2.30am

The Outer Limits - The Borderland 8pm

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo - 9.05pm

The Raven - 10.55pm

followed by two more obscure horror films way into Saturday's early hours.

You can also catch up on last week's Outer Limits and Captain Kronos, together with Honey West and Burkes Law. Check TPTV online.

BLAKES 7 PRESSURE POINT SCRATCHBIULD PROP

Hi,

Each year when it gets too cold and miserable to use spray paint effectively, I try to scratchbuild something that doesn't need painting. This time I've made a replica of a gas grenade used to knock our heroes out in the season 2 episode 'Pressure Point'.

Off for a nap now,

Kevin

UK

What do you think?

WILL O'S ZOOMER BOOMER

 Hi. Dead chuffed to find this today. A Zoomer Boomer from 1970. Made by one of my favourite companies... Topper Toys. 

A very happy Will O.

HUDSON HAWK TALK

 I like Rolls Royces. I always have.

FAB1 is my fave but I like all Rolls.

Here's one I never saw on telly because I didn't watch Terrahawks for some reason.

This is the Hudson Rolls Royce.

The Bandai 1983 Hudson has been featured before on MC [Wotan has one] here's a snap from an old Ebay listing, which for me shows the toy in all its plastic glory. It isn't very big either.

I've never seen one in the flesh or ever seen one at a car boot sale so they can't be very common.

Have you got one readers?

Here's the real dope on the TV car from the Anderson's own You Tube channel.

Is it up there with FAB1?

I BLAME SPADER

I'm in a sort of Marvel loop at the moment. I can't stop watching the films, even though I've seen them all before more than once!

Last night watching Marvel movies I even forgot about The Outer Limits on TV, never mind Vampire Lovers and Squirm, which is one of my fave schlockers [my daughter got me the actual cinema quad poster for Christmas]. If that wasn't enough last night Castle Freak had an airing on the telly [Horror Channel], although I don't know if it was the modern remake or the scary original.

I blame Thanos and his infinity stones for distracting me like this. He must have a TV stone!

Watching The Avengers: Age of Ultron again I remembered that Ultron is voiced by one James Spader, so I blame Spader too!

Spader is an actor I associate with the Eighties. A strange eccentric, almost awkward young actor back in the day. He was never really going to be a leading man say in the vein of Tom Cruise. More like a Buscemi or a Torturro. 

I recall Spader mostly for his role as the cocky upstart in Jack Nickolson's Wolf, in which Jack pees all over his shoes in the Gents, perhaps the most understated werewolf warning in moviedom but one that made me chuckle. 

I also saw James Spader in more risque flicks like Crash and Secretary, in which his awkwardness was properly at home I would say.

He was a symbols expert in a sci-fi film way back but I forget the name. He had to decipher hieroglyphs in a scene reminiscent of the discovery scene at the start of Prometheus.

Anyways, I'm sure James has done more than this. He's the same age as me and it was fun to hear him again in Ultron.

Do you like James Spader readers?

British TV Stations

Hi

                just found this on You Tube, a collection of British TV station identifications - a whopping 8:41 showing many different versions from across the years. Most I have never seen before. You?

UK Regional TV Idents - YouTube

Paul Adams from New Zealand