Tuesday, 6 February 2024
The Airfix Starcruiser Interceptor Kit by Paul Adams
Macgyver's Toy Rifle
Barbarella's Starcruiser Mission Kit Ray Gun
Monday, 5 February 2024
MICHAEL JAYSTON R.I.P.
Just heard that Michael Jayston best known to classic Doctor Who fans as the Valeyard, and UFO fans as Russell Stone in the episode, The Sound of Silence has passed away.
The prolific actor also played James Bond 007 on radio, and featured in one of the segments in the portmanteau horror film, Tales that Witness Madness.
Our sincere condolences to his family and friends.
Here's some photos I took of Michael at SHADO Con, when he shared the stage with Susan Jameson who played his sister, Anne in UFO.
Jumping for Joy
Italy's Quercetti is well known for rockets and parachutes.
Their JR21 marketed Fireball XL5 has featured here many times, as has the Mach-1 and TOR.
These toys incorporated a small blow moulded parachutist and chute.
ED'S TIN: The Japan Straco USAF Sikorsky UH-19B 'Chickasaw'
THE AIRFIX STARCRUISER KIT BY PAUL ADAMS
THOMAS SALTER TOYS: STARCRUISER AND BEYOND
Thomas Salter were a great toy company. In the late Sixties I loved their Adventurer set with its compass and water bottle.
In the late 70's they released a toy I would have enjoyed in the Sixties, the 1979 Starcruiser Mission Kit. The photo box art they used worked really well I think, a strategy they deployed on their 1979 catalogue.
and the fabtastic looking Space Explorer Kit!
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CHECKLISTS BY BRAND (FOR COUNTRY BY COUNTRY SEE TOP OF BLOG)
PROJECT SWORD SPACEX TIMELINE
- 1968 SPACEX LT10 CONCEPT
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER REAL THING
- 1969 LUNAR CLIMBER & MOONSHIP
- 1968 PROJECT SWORD ANNUAL
- 1968 TV21 #168 PROJECT SWORD PHASE 2
- 1968 PLEASURE CRUISER CONCEPT
- 1968 CENTURY 21 TOY MANUAL
- 1967 SCOUT 1 CONCEPT
- 1967 NUCLEAR FERRY TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER CONCEPT
- 1966 HOVERTANK IN COMIC
- 1966 NUKE PULSE NEEDLEPROBE IN COMIC
- 1966 ZERO X FILM DEBUT
- 1966 MOONBUS IN COMIC
- 1966 SPACE PATROL 1
- 1966 P3 HELICOPTER IN COMIC
- 1966 SAND FLEA AND SNOW TRAIN
- 1966 MOBILE LAUNCH PAD IN COMIC
- 1965 SPACEX MOONBASE CONCEPT
- 1965 APOLLO FIRST UK TOY AD
- 1962 NOVA CONCEPT
- 1962 MOONBUS CONCEPT
- 1961 MOON PROSPECTOR CONCEPT
- 1953 MOLAB CONCEPT