SKY 1 AT SOUTHPORT AIR SHOW?

 It's not, of course; not that I'd expect a unique aircraft used by a super-secret organization to display anyway, but I can dream!

AIR SHOW TIME

It's the return of Southport Air Show this weekend following a two-year hiatus due to Covid. 

Hopefully, I'll have a few new photos to share later. Meanwhile here's a few reminders of the 2019 show.

Fast and Furious Monster Truck

Hi

              Monster Trucks are pick-up trucks (and later other vehicle types) with giant wheels, used to perform various stunts, such as crushing cars. The first was named Big Foot, and appeared in the 1970s. Since then there have been a number of vehicles with a Star Car link.

I recently came across this Hot Wheels version, which is tied in with the Fast and Furious films. It is a gloss black Dodge Charger R/T car, with part of the engine projecting through the hood (American car, American terminology). It even comes with a soft plastic car for you to squash.

Hot Wheels have done many Fast & Furious models in recent years. A few in the Mainline, some special 5-packs, and several sets of premium models in their own series at a higher price. However this is the first F&F model I have seen in the Monster Truck series.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

KNOCK-OFF GOLD

I love this particular knock-off's name. Robert Cop II. ha ha. That's priceless!

https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/superhero-knockoffs

Do you know any good knock-off names?

ANIMATED ZERO-X

I love Marcus Morgan's OX animated clip based on Thunderbirds are Go. What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JaWIKlpH3Q

Marx Man From UNCLE Figures

Hi

           Here is a You Tube video from The Toy Room which features a Marx playset, with WW2 US and German troops. The German tank looks a little like a Panther. There is also a demonstration of an 'exploding' machine-gun nest. After this, the video looks at other Marx plastic figures, in various sizes. At 10:22 there is a pair of Man From UNCLE figures; a range called Nutty Mads, which resemble the Hawk Weird-Ohs; and a line called Campus Cuties.

18 The Toy Room - "Marx Battleground Playset" - YouTube

Paul Adams from New Zealand

To cap it all off...

Hello again! 

I was just thinking about my typographic jokes and references while I was doing the washing up. 

I noticed these two bottle caps, the 60s one on the left was brought out from the UK when my mother emigrated. 

The other is an early 3D printing experiment using flexible resins and is my tribute to her and a lifetime's memories of the way she'd store brewed coffee in a glass milk bottle (long after they'd been replaced with cardboard cartons) sealed with that cap.

The typographic reference?

The word HYGIENIC is in Stingray font!

Lewis M,

Oz

BOAT LOADS OF FUN

Have a look at this report on the collection of toy boats at the Mikkelson Museum in MN, USA. Its an awesome flotilla of wood and plastic for the enjoyment of kids. I loved toy boats as a kid and still do. Do you readers?

https://www.woodyboater.com/blog/2010/10/29/mikkelson-collection-tour-a-treasure-chest-of-toy-boats/

I have a feeling all these were sold at auction in 2012.