Sunday, 21 January 2024
BIG PLASTIC CARS: WILL'S JOHNNY SPEED
MADE IN JAPAN
Japanese Glico toys always amaze me. Just look at this lot I saw on a Japanese auction. See anything you like?
Saturday, 20 January 2024
ED's TIN: THE TT BOEING 727 MADE IN JAPAN
Tamiya Space Kits
THE CAR OF THE SHOW
Years ago I did a post about bigger TV and Film cars.
This is a sort of follow up.
First up a favourite of many, the ASC tin Monkeemobile.
Friday, 19 January 2024
AVENGERS TV SERIES REBOOT ?
I'm hearing some rumours that a reboot of The Avengers TV series is being planned.
According to RadioTimes.com Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, the creators of a TV series called Industry, which is a co-production by the BBC and HBO are penning an Avengers script, with Ben Taylor who has worked on Netflix's teen show, Sex Education, directing the pilot.
I can't say what we might expect, as I rarely watch modern BBC drama nowadays, and as my teen years have long past I've never felt the need to tune into Sex Education.
There has been several attempts to bring back The Avengers. Anyone remember the awful Avengers 1998 box office bomb, which failed to capture the mood of the original TV series, not helped by the total miscasting of Ralph Fiennes, as John Steed, and Uma Thurman as Emma Peel. Original Steed, Patrick Macnee has a cameo, but only as a disembodied voice!
Personally, I think most rebooted vintage series just don't work in these modern times. On top of that they might have an issue with the title, as a modern audience might confuse it with Marvel's costumed superheroes.
To paraphrase Steed , " Mrs Peel - a rebooted series? - NOT NEEDED!"
THE SHIPLEY SHUFFLE
A pearl among the junk, I found this compact stack of Guy N. Smith paperbacks in a charity shop shuffle across Shipley the other day. Bingo!
A great new haul this, as I collect Guy N. Smith paperbacks as part of my big horror novel collection.
Shelling out just three pounds, the stack included three of the well-known Crabs outbreaks, which Smith made his name with.
Despite the author having been very prolific, these 1980's horror paperbacks are now increasingly hard to find, as many will have been simply read and binned back in the day.
Although my favourite novel by the late great Guy N. Smith has to be the folk-trash, The Sucking Pit, the first one I ever read was Killer Crabs, so I'm really looking forward to a scuffle through its pages again.
Smith died aged 81 in 2020, very unwell and infected with COVID. Sadly gone but not forgotten, his many works live on and no doubt like the unknown Shipley reader who donated these paperbacks, I'm very excited about reading them.
Have you read any Guy N. Smith?
Do you collect books?
BILL'S BIRD: LEAVING LOCKDOWN BEHIND
A long-put-off project saw the light of day this week.
Way back in 2020, during the UK's homebound lockdown, I kindly received some broken Thunderbirds toys in the post from Tony K and Bill to keep me sane. Tracy Aid no less!
Tony's JR21 Thunderbird 2 was 'restored' at the time, which I blogged back then but Bill's box was put sadly aside and gathered dust.
No more!
My first project from the box is to brush-up Bill's old busted childhood Dinky Thunderbird 2.
As a kid Bill had painted it black. You can see the original blue inside.
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