FIRESTORM ANYONE?

I took these pictures of a friend's Firestorm tin boxed badge set about ten years ago.

Is Firestorm something you know about readers?

THE TUMBLING LUNAR MONSTER

 

I recently discussed this Tumbling Lunar Monster with Arto.

It was made by K of Hong Kong. Anyone know the K brand?

Its a sort of weeble.

Yet the face seems familiar.

It reminds me of Professor Popkiss in Fireball XL5!

Am I seeing things again!

Do you like the tumbling monster?

I Have The Power!

The Power of the Rings is Amazon's new big bash at serializing Tolkien.

It comes as another platform launches House of the Dragon so the battle for our fantasy subs is on.

As I have Prime I have seen the first two episodes of Power.

Like anything new about something you've grown up with it's always going to be odd to start with.

In screen terms for me The Power of the Rings is a prequel to Peter Jackson's definitive Lord of the Rings film trilogy from years ago. In that sense it's like A Phantom Menace et al after the glory of the first three Star Wars films. It was never going to be easy.

In literary terms I assume Power is Tolkein's Silmarillion and other older tales prior to The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings but I'm only guessing. Despite the Silmarillion being on my bookshelf for 45 years I've never read it. I did try as a teenager but found the style a bit stiff. I regret not going back to it when I was young.

I will wait until I've seen The Power of the Rings in full before I decide what I think. It comes out an episode or two at a time at the moment.

At a cost of purportedly a billion dollars the stakes are high for fantasy like this. I wonder if Peter Jackson is watching? 

Are you readers?

SHOMBERG'S BOOSTER

I love this illustration by the late great Alex Shomberg for his Second Chance cover picture in Satellite magazine.

The tanks on the ship recall those of the Project SWORD Booster Rocket completely! Shomberg's craft could easily be a Booster re-fueller!

What do you reckon?

There's more Shomberg here:

https://images.app.goo.gl/YMB9iiqSeHTyo3tw8 

BACK TO BASE

I loved this modern moon living artwork when I saw it on Hackaday.

The moon vent reminded me of the spider-like baseplate that underpinned the original Moon Prospector concept, which appeared in space journals in the early Sixties.

Here's just one from Newsweek 1961. The baseplate is just behind the vehicle. 

I always think it would have made a great accessory to the Century 21 Toys Moon Prospector toy.

TIME TUNNEL ON LEGEND

Just settling down to watch the opening episode of  The Time Tunnel on the  UK Legend channel. I've got the series on Blu-ray , but I can't help watching it on live TV.

I've covered the Time Tunnel a couple of times already on the Blog:

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2016/12/focus-on-time-tunnel.html 

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-look-back-at-time-tunnel.html

A short post I did on the Japanese kit:

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2016/12/fujimi-time-tunnel-kit.html

TAKE A BREK: SPAIN'S BREK 1

I've admired the Brekar's Brek-1 from afar for some time, a neat little plastic spacecraft from Spain.

I like the lime green colour, which has a SpaceX vibe to it.

From the air it could even be Project SWORD!

Do you like the Brek-1 readers?

Have you any small plastic toy spaceships?

Brek-1 is part of a smart and big space base set, which included tracks and domes and a Brek-2 as well.

Check it out on this Spanish site Un Aficion de Juguetes.

16/12 RETRO EAGLES

 Another look at some of the photos I took of Sixteen 12's Retro Eagles taking paint inspiration from the old Dinky models.  

Very much a 'Marmite' item for collectors; some hate them, and some love them. I admit, I fall firmly in the' I love them' category.

When I bought my first Dinky Eagle Transporter, way back in the seventies, the series hadn't aired on TV, so I quite happily accepted the space craft was green .

Then I found the Eagles were white, so, like many people I just clipped the Transporter Pod  into my white Dinky Freighter Eagle - problem solved!

A little later Dinky decided to paint their Freighter blue which put a stop to that!  

As all the Dinky Transporters were green, Sixteen 12's versions are the same. With the Freighters, Sixteen 12 wisely chose the blue colour.

N.B. Sixteen 12 were planning to release a Retro version of the SHADO Mobile taking inspiration from the blue Dinky SHADO 2, but  unfortunately in these times of uncertainty that's been shelved for now.