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Monday, 3 April 2023

Will's Signed Vostok

Great to see wotans airfix vostok model. Many years ago I met Valentina Tereshkova and she kindly signed mine, as it was similar to the Vostok 6 she went up in.

Will Os.

Sunday, 2 April 2023

Advertised as 'The Big One', the Bolton Toy Fair in the football stadium was something of a damp squib for me. Having visited it some years ago with Woodsy and Scoop, I had high hopes, but it was just one of the large event suites in the stadium, with a few stalls in a side corridor. I got around in 30 minutes or so, the majority was standard modern trains and accessories, big truck models and diecasts.

The clientele were almost universally 65+ males, shuffling about and poring over the stock. Some stalls had recent and a little vintage Star Wars and there was a good showing of modern vinyl. Between the trays of battered diecasts were tables and tables of contemporary Hot Wheels, which seemed to be very popular with the 30-40 age group. Here and there, dads steered their young sons around the 50p trays, clearly using them as an excuse to come along and buy stuff themselves.

There were quite a lot of old Airfix kits, including two of the giant Saturn V models and a Lunar Module. I saw a boxed Colossal Mantis and one or two Revell missiles such as the Nike and Thor, but all excessively priced.

There was no real vintage plastic, apart from a couple of Hong Kong Formula 1 cars and a tipper truck. The only thing I might have been tempted by was a Topper Armoured Battalion set, in a really battered box, but as I have one there was nothing to worry about.

Ultimately, I thought i'd go home empty handed, but in a box of cheap parts, I spotted a spare missile for the Topper set and on the way out, I picked up the Superfast Swing Wing Jet and a random propeller for a wind turbine! £3 well spent.

Again, the question of what 'vintage' or 'antique' might refer to, arose - as many items were listed as vintage but were no more than a scant decade old.

Can Anyone Help?

Hi,

Just found your sites, I am hunting a set of replacement decals for a Vivid toys released Thunderbird 2.

I found your site has a photo of said decals, I tried Vivid in the U.K but they have no old stock available,

Would you know what size the sheet is and wether you have a higher resolution photo of them.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards

Petrus Timmermans

Woodsy adds: here are pics of the Vivid TB1. Sorry, no TB2.

KEV'S KABINET

Hi,

You asked where I put TB2. Here it is in one of the cabinets in my overflow display area.

Shelved!

Kevin

It's Palm Sunday

Its Palm Sunday, one week away from the big Easter day. I remember making palm crosses at primary school in the Sixties. We took them home and put them on the mantlepiece. Did you do anything like that readers?

Drivin' Saturday

We drove to North Yorks on Sat'day. Charity shops and coffee. Here's the few morsels I netted. Great fun and cheap as chips.

And here's some tackle I didn't get.

Anything you like readers?

Send in the Clones

I recently got these two Roxy clones of Spacex toys from ebay. They are remarkably like the Spacex ones.

When I was restoring the MEV lookalike, I found to my real surprise that in my box of scrap Spacex toys, the Hawk I'd slung in there was in fact not the Spacex one after all but the ever so slightly bigger, Linda one! So, now I've got 3 clones!

Copy that,

Kevin

SEASTAR 5: TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!

Hi Moonbase, just a quick update for you.....my project storybook on Amazon Kindle ....has just received a helping hand on a magazine " INFINITY MAGAZINE " in the UK.....its a Retro Film and Tv monthly - issue 59.....on sale today at all W H Smith's stores across the country....I have a full colour poster of SEASTAR 5 on the Rear cover....and a write up and colour pictures on their "News Editorial" section in the magazine!

More to come,

Richard Dixon

Lancashire