BODY DOUBLE

Its amazing what's on the 3d printing site Shapeways.

Here's a gorgeous little Lifting Body Space Glider a la Project SWORD and Triang SpaceX.

I wonder what else is on there!

GORGO POSTSCRIPT: ADDED SAUCE!

I came across this item on You Tube, where the American reviewer looks at the differences between the Gorgo film and the Monarch Books paperback. 

I had read that Monarch's book on Gorgo, and presumably Konga and Reptilicus, added some risque scenes to spice the books up a bit. 

According to this review, which includes quotes from the book, it was 'spiced up' more than a bit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JphT6F_Y8lg

Paul Adams

New Zealand

*Woodsy adds: if you're easily offended by risque language then maybe don't watch all of this You Tube clip from about half way. You have been warned.

QUICKMIX SUNDAY

I picked a few toys up at a Sunday sale last weekend.

The large 12" figure is a talking Thunderbirds Hood from Vivid in the 90's. More to come on this.

Hoody was joined by a lovely Speed Kings Fire Chief car and a stubbornly unresponsive Corgi Esprit.

 

Polar Mission Man came out of the 90's cold too.

A 60's Brutus, the Palitoy Mountie mutt, wasn't too impressed with him.

This 70's Zee Motorbike was a snip at 10 pence!

Maybe my best buy at just one Pound was this First Generation Transformer from 1987 called Quickmix.

This 10 pence box figure stumped me.

Last but not least, this little fella said Halo and jumped on board.

What do you think?

THE LOST QUATERMASS

Only now am I discovering that there are three lost episodes of the original 1950's BBC serial The Quatermass Experiment. I really didn't know this. Reading up it would seem that owing to poor film stock the first two episodes were not very good quality themselves - an insect landing on the camera screen of one - and the remaining three episodes now missing completely.

You can read more about this on various platforms including Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quatermass_Experiment

I know I have a BBC Quatermass series on a 1980's/90's BBC VHS video cassette. I assume it must only be episodes one and two.

Does anyone know anymore about these missing episodes?

A SUCKER FOR KAIJU!

 

I think some of these old vending gifts are Kaiju from Japanese films but I'm not sure. What do you think readers?

Looks like you could knock over the figures with a small sucker-dart crossbow!

LOOKING FOR JOE 90!

I'm not sure if readers also read the website for Anderson Entertainment, but there is a national 'search' going on to find the former voice actor of Joe 90, one Len Jones.

Len was a young actor in the Sixties and besides doing the voice of Joe he appeared in films like Spring and Port Wine.

I've written about Len on MC before; 

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2018/09/tenth-anniversary-dossier-len-jones.html

Anyways, if you should know of Len's whereabouts then Gerry Anderson's son, Jaimie, would love to hear from you! 

https://www.gerryanderson.com/whatever-happened-to-len-jones-the-voice-of-joe-90/

CARDED ANGEL

 

This is a nifty Japanese model Angel Interceptor I saw on Noppin.

Have you seen it before readers?

SMALL PASETAS

Spanish kids did well for toy s if the old catalogues are anything to go by.

I love that big tinplate police car by Rico. I wonder how much 690 Pasetas was in 1968?

Did you have anything like that readers? Any toy police cars at all?