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Wednesday, 21 December 2022

ALL THE CREATURES WERE STIRRING ......

Happy holidays from Brian F,

Monster Base,

USA

WILL O'S TV21: MORE COMIC TIE-INS

The TV21 Special Agent Badge!

Yes! Those wonderful annuals

and that Spectrum official pass.

Did you have any of these?

All courtesy of Will Os

SEND IN THE CLONES

For anyone like me that loves knockoff action dolls and action men then you'll like Chris G's pinterest gallery. Its choc-full of incredibly poor action clones and fabulous fighting knockoffs!

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/gillespie_chris/weird-ebay-dolls-male/

My favourite on there has to be Super Mike, a ridiculously brazen copy of a bearded Action Man that made me laugh out loud!

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/320670435951564611/

What's your favourite?

Tuesday, 20 December 2022

THIS TROLL CAN STAY

More old Troll from Brazil, this time their amazing Tracy Island toy [Ihla dos Thunderbirds].

Its such a perfect example of a Tracy Island toy for me, compact, beautiful coloured plastic and simple mechanisms.

It almost has a sort of SpaceX look to the colours and the styling. I could imagine a Project SWORD Moon Base Set at this scale working just great too.

Has anyone got one of these Brazilian beauties?

THUNDERBIRDS MODELS BY IMAI OF JAPAN: THUNDERBARO ADS

These old 60's Japanese adverts are so cool. How I wish I would have got some of those Imai Thunderbirds models as a kid at Christmas. Still, I've never been very good at modelling so I suppose my JR21 toys were OK too!

Did you get any Bandai Thunderbirds models as a kid?

Got any since?

LITTLE BILLY

I like this little Trol Billy Blastoff I saw online. He's probably related to the Capitan Boy range of South American toys.

Did you have a Billy Blastoff at Christmas?

Monday, 19 December 2022

Cut Price Collectables

Twelve years ago, I blogged about a couple of small inexpensive toy planes I had got when I was about 7, which had been appened to my Spacex fleet backnin the day, due to their suze and the fact that one was an X-15 Rocket Plane. I recall distinctly getting them from a little seaside shop in Gronant, North Wales. I know this for a fact as we never really went anywhere else for the main annual holiday and it was a lovely little holiday camp on the coasr near Prestatyn and Rhyl.

The toys were single piece castings with a heavy die cast base and a variation on superfast wheels underneath, so they fit and ran neatly on most tracks.

There were as I recall, three different models, X-15, Lockheed Starfighter and unusually, a Saab Viggen. At the time I got one of each and recalled them being sold loose from a counter top box.

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2010/08/x-factored.html?m=1

Since that time, way back in 1969, I have found another loose X-15 and an orange Viggen, which surprised me as I don't recall it at all. Both the fighters have Royal Canadian Airforce livery and the Viggen retains the Swedish aurforce badge on the nose too.

Just this week, I was amazed to see a whole counterbox of planes on ebay, which I bought. The toys are called 'Sky Slashers' and aside from 'Empire Made' on the bix and 'Hong Kong' on the die cast bases, theres no distinguishing marks. Its clearly old stock, as the top of the box has been opened, but none of the planes were sold. The box says 'low friction wheels to fit all standard tracks' so they were clearly aimed at Hot Wheels and Matchbox collectors.