LETS 'AVE A PROPER BOO!

 

Yorkshire,

Home of Moonbase Central.

Now get some tea!

HUSH! IT'S HERE!

 

Grieve not the day, for it is good,

but should you stray into the night 

then pray its not All Hallows Eve

that arrests the coarsing of your blood.

THE DARKENING BEAST

 

Settle down for the slow descent of night,

its sabled hassock growing tight around your head,

whereupon the antlered devil does delight

in dancing on the gossamer twixt the living and the dead.

Blue Blooded Pulse

Following right on from Kevin’s Pulse collection, is my pride of place model, currently gracing the man cave. Slightly larger than a standard toy, this is his interpretation of a real world version. Finished in beautiful Kingfisher Blue, like Zero X and so many other fabulous Anderson models, it’s much more aesthetically satisfying than that awful yellow-orange!

Here it is before leaving the Spacex shipyards with its sister ship finished in standard yellow.

From the moment I saw the toy on the card back, I was besotted. The box artwork promised so much too, but I was so disappointed when the real thing arrived at Xmas 1969, to find a wholly different looking toy.

So, some decades later, when my original toy had been battered and worn, I decided to repaint it blue!

Here it is in the Penney catalogue as part of the Golden Astronaut range, but as can be seen on this shot and on the Triangle card, it’s another prototype version.

 Finally, a recent modification I made to Kevin’s custom model. Whilst Kev had originally used a micro machines jet in the dorsal bay, I wanted something which was more akin to the original chrome spaceplane. The Matchbox Battlekings Hover Raider provided the perfect substitute, with one of the two side mounted cruise missiles!

YOU'LL DIE LAUGHING SERIES 1 SLIDESHOW 1959

 

I adored these cards and the black and white series too.  They came my way in the Sixties via my older brother, who collected them. I still have a few but not my originals alas.

This terrific Slideshow by ahsandworms on You Tube.

I VANT TO BITE YOUR FINGER GAME TV AD 1981

 

I've found at least two of these boxed games at car boots over the years and they sold quickly on my old toy stall.

Remember I Vant to Bite Yer Finger?

KRESKIN'S ESP BOARD GAME TV AD

 

I've only ever seen this board game in reference books. Did you have it?

Who was Kreskin?

SCREECH GAME TV AD 1970'S

 

I don't remember this at all. You?