A Plastic Lawn Mower?

I've just mown the lawn for the first time this year.

I seem to remember having a a plastic lawnmower when I was a kid in the 60s.

Maybe it was one of those heavy mowers with a large roller at the rear. This was the sort of mower my parents had before getting a petrol machine. 

This memory could be completely fabricated but I do have have a very vague feeling that I had one. Does this this ring any bells with you?

Superman Returns. But did He?

I caught Superman Returns on TV yesterday. I'd seen it before around 2007 but couldn't recall a thing about it. I can remember everything about Chris Reeves' films and Snyder's Man of Steel, which followed Returns some years later but zilch about Returns itself.

I think that's it's problem. Spacey and co create very little action or drama or anything really. It lacks zing. Even the pivotal scene of the new landmass growing in the sea is lacklustre. 

I think the final nail is the fact that I don't know the name of the Superman actor. Never a good sign!

Am I being super harsh?

DIE-CAST RESTORATION MACHINE! I WANT ONE!

I liked this gimmick, a scrap die-cast restoring machine made of mecano! Its daft but fun! What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZJq5gKzIyU

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.