OUR 15th BIRTHDAY PARTY STARTS IN:

TRIDENT STARFIGHTER: MISSILE CRISIS!

 This summer Kevin very kindly gave me an old Trident Starfighter.

I've blogged my re-colouring/ tidying up up earlier this July. The final addition this August was an original missile kindly donated by Bill, as were two more of the same.

I've read that the wing missiles were dummies, but the two originals won't fit. I'm loather to snap the ends off the missiles so does anyone have any ideas of how to get them in?

Sonic Woman, Sonic Man

A few years back we were discussing such TV luminaries as Farrah Fawcett and Lindsay Wagner. I think I'd found an unusual 18 inch Farah doll.

Another doll came up too, Sonic Woman, a knockoff of the Bionic Woman, although at the time we didn't know the date or the maker.

Paul A contacted me with a link to a cool short video by toy gurus Plaid Stallions. It covers the sonic couple, Sonic Woman and Sonic Man and shows us both the maker and the year of manufacture. Interesting!

Did you enjoy bionic kid stuff?

Will Power

Here's a Superior toys target game from the late 1930's I think. I love the spaceship gun! You?

Will Os.

UK

British Pathe: Animated Dioramas

Hi

Here is another wonderful British Pathe film from You Tube, featuring animated models. Closer to puppets than models, they are beautifully made, and painted.

The individual models have been set in to complex, animated scenes. Small motors power the scenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOpTHg80ckY

Paul Adams from New Zealand

EE BY GUM! ITS STUCK!

Breaking away from house, down the midweek booty today I picked up just a couple of cheap trinkets.

An old Waddingtons Battlestar Galactica jigsaw. Cylon Warrior. Did you have one of these?

A bag of old figures, knights and horses, which I've dunked ...

and dried off. Recognise any?

I also picked up some old Seventies greetings cards, which I'm always on the look-out for, as I enjoy sending them to friends and rellies. This was a box of varied greetings and sizes, all very nostalgic.

Quite a few envelopes had either self-gummed to the card top or in some cases completely sealed themselves with the cards inside!

Not completely sure how to separate the gummed edge from the card without damaging the picture. Any ideas?

The pay-off for a vintage greetings card fan like me is an image like this, hidden for decades in a sealed paper envelope yellowing with age, only to be re-discovered by yours truly in a house clearance jumble box in a field this morning.

Now that is a classic Seventies composition. Curls, browns and golds! Do you like it too?

Oddly enough I saw two paperback horse books in the house clearance boxes; Follyfoot, no less, and Black Stallion. I also saw an old boxed Evel Knevel Scramble Van and hundreds of rock music cassette tapes - like I had way back - such as Deep Purple, Van Morrison, the Jeff Beck Group and the Jeff Healey Band, but as I'm trying to cut-down on what I fetch home I resisted temptation!

Would you have resisted?

HAPPY BREAKAWAY DAY

 As it's September 13th, , and I know we have a great many Space:1999 fans who regularly check out the blog,  I'll wish you all a very happy Space:1999 Breakaway day,  

(Not to be confused with that well known biscuit of the same name, Mish!)

MYSTERY MEN

Woodsy,

More digging through old boxes, and found these two astronaut toys, still in plastic wrap, about 3” tall and in spiffy shape. Again, I have no idea if they’re from the day or more recent. Anyways, another mystery!

Any ideas anyone?

Rob C

CT

USA