Disney Time!

I'm all nostalgic about old Disney films at the mo. So far I've watched The Sword in the Stone from 1963 and Robin Hood from a decade later, both really really great. I laughed out loud!

I adore that early Disney style. Do you? 

It's what I remember as a kid. Beautiful washes of colour with cute comical characters and gorgeous music. What's not to like? I bet there's tons of collectables, more than anyone person can collect!

Alas, a complete creature of the Sixties, I can't abide modern Disney films. The old style canned in favour of, what is it, an anime look?

Ah well, I am officially a Disney fossil. My granddaughter LOVES Frozen above all other things anywhere! Let it go Grandad!

Interestingly I read that Robin Hood was criticised for recycling some scenes from earlier films. I definitely recognised the Jungle Book King Louie dance in there! Ha ha.

Have a look if you've time.

Jungle Book https://youtu.be/fwTClRr1x6g?feature=shared

Robin Hood https://youtu.be/JMXTVJmO8C4?feature=shared

The Computer Says No

As regular as the demon in Jeepers Creepers, every six or seven years my latest laptop packs up. 

It's happened again. 

There's always a final scrabble to retrieve stuff somehow, which usually means forking out at the local PC repairs shop. This time it's my second JR21 toys draft book that's on there, so it'll be worth it to persevere with one last go, even if I have to shell out. Don't forget, I'm an adopted Yorkshireman!

As for blogging, I'm doing it on my mobile phone. It's much harder to edit long posts with lots of photos, so I apologize if you've sent me anything like this in the past couple of months readers; it'll just take me longer with one finger!

At some point this year I'll get a reconditioned laptop and get back fully on board.

Where's HAL when you need it! 

WE'RE MOBILE

I've always liked this NASA MOLAB design. This postcard was on auction so I saved the pic. Here it is trundling through the barren wastes of the Northern Arizona desert way back when.

I've never seen a toy version of this in the flesh. I think there may have been designs but nothing produced.

Do you know of a toy version readers?

Selby Star Date

 A Friday mooch round Selby didn't bag much other than a fine sausage butty. The missus did get a lovely parka.

Here's what I got. This 1994 Unimax set looks like the USS Enterprise and a UFO Interceptor!

Here's what a passed on. Anything you like?

Madurdam Giant Dutch Model Village

Here is another British Pathe film, on the Dutch model village of Madurdam. It is built to a scale of 1/25th, and shows the progress of the town from 1000 AD to the present day (1955).

There are streets filled with houses, roads, railways, a port, and a modern airport. Many of the models work, with trains and vehicles running, ships moving through the water, etc.

The Lord Mayor of Madurdam was the then teenage Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, who was Queen from 1980 to 2013. Relatively long for a Pathe film, at four and a half minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YOEKhQQ2dY

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Mort Kunstler - Aurora Kit Artist

Here is a bit more on the American artist Mort Kunstler. He did a number of box tops for Aurora, including the two Man From U.N.C.L.E. figure kits - no idea if he did any for other companies.

He is mentioned several times in Box Top Air Power, by Thomas Graham, which covers model aircraft box art. Born in 1927, it seems he is still with us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_K%C3%BCnstler

https://www.mortkunstler.com/

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Terra Gup 5 Scramble Bug

 Check out the cool scramble bug free with the latest Octonauts comic! What do you think?

Space Moos

 I had to chuckle when I saw these space cattle pics!

.. Especially Belly up and backside