CROMFORD MILLS EVENT FLYER

 

TOYS MADE IN HONG KONG: THE LEGEND

This is an interesting look at the history of toymaking in Hong Kong.

There's mention of the Century 21/ JR21 New Flying Saucer too!

https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/curriculum-development/kla/pshe/references-and-resources/history/CDI020170798_Ms_Lau.pdf

and here's a Chinese site about Supercar!

https://sledgehammer.pixnet.net/blog/post/406544860-%E8%90%AC%E8%83%BD%E8%BB%8A-supercar

What do you think?

JOE DARE

Hello Woodsy

In your search for 3.75" GI Joe's should you come across 'Major ?' - I don't remember his name - but years ago I converted him to Dan Dare!

Terranova47

USA

THE COMPLETE BERWICK THUNDERBIRDS UNIFORM

 

I always love seeing the Thunderbirds costume by Berwick from 1965.

I have a feeling I had one as a kid. Did you?

This set I saw this year looked mint and complete so I kept some pics. It had the cap, the elusive pistol, the sash and the box.

It even has the card Berwick cowboy standee which I understand is rare.

Have you seen the standee before?

TIME BOKAN FLYING SAUCER BY ROB C

Woodsy,
This is a Japanese model from the late 1970s, I think from an anime program called Time Bokan, and it’s some sort of flying machine. I decided to make it as “flying saucerie” as possible, thus the metallic shades.

Rob C
USA

NO JOE!

As expected my lost Joe's weren't there this week. Like a drunken wasp returning to fruit I stood at the same spot I stood at last week but no Joe's. In fact no seller or certainly not the same.

I scudded round the sale two times in 35 degree heat and no GI joy. Certainly not the ten. Thinking back I wonder if they were Lanard Corps! They were very colourful. Ah well. I always forget my golden rule. Buy first time. Don't wait.

So how did I do today? Not very well I'm afraid. 500 stalls and I came home with just two paltry action figures.

Any GI Joe? We'll sort of. A single Lanard Corps figure from 1984 called Shark. I looked it up. So not actually Hasbro. How is Lanard viewed by GI Joe collectors? Canon?

The other figure was another 1984 shorty, a Princess Leia. She'll be cleaned up and presented to Junior with his other old Star Wars figs for his sith birthday next Month.

Two figures. Two pounds.

I did walk past a naked Action Man from the Sixties for a fiver. He had real hair. More vintage Star Wars figures at a fiver each couldn't stop me hunting for Joe's. I was unstoppable. I was like the Juggernaut!

So, I still have some GI Blues.

Still. The Baroness will soon be here to cheer me up!

LA BREA

 The Missus and I have just finished box-watching La Brea.

Its a US drama about sink holes.

We fell into it the other night!

The strong attractor for me were the tar pits. I'm a sucker for a bubbling slick.

With pleasant thoughts of Tommy Lee Jones' Volcano flowing through my brain we sat down to watch.

La Brea isn't really about tar pits or sink holes for that matter. Its about human relationships. Ten episodes of human relationships.

I had thought about pulling out half-way through but the Missus said we'd invested five hours already so we might as well sink further into the cheese.

The prehistoric animals are good when they appear. Like the cover of that How and Why book coming alive!

Its true what they say, never smile at a smilodon.

If you're just embarking on building the Aurora tar pit scene then maybe have La Brea on in the background. Even if you mentally switch off whilst gluing, it's OK, they'll still be talking about the same things when you tune back in!

Let me know if you're a fellow sinker and watched it. Have you visited the real La Brea tar pits?

CABINET RE-SHUFFLE

 

Forget the Tory re-election, my new cabinet reshuffle could be more interesting!

As most of my older stuff is still in loft storage my cabinet now houses a few select bits from recent toy hunts.

Top - vintage Star Wars, middle - vintage and modern Transformers [and one  old small Thundercats], third down - two lonely GI Joes, bottom - waiting for something good.

More cabinet re-shuffles to come from Kevin.

What's on your shelves readers?