SUPER 7 BLACK HOLE ROBOTS

As my previous post on The Black Hole has generated a fair amount of views  here's some photos of the Super 7 Black Hole robot figures which I believe were released  early last year.

60ldfinger Anniversary Car

We have not had any James Bond models from Hot Wheels for some time, but the 2024 Screen Time sub-series has a new version of the Aston Martin DB5. 

This is on a special 60ldfinger Sixty Years anniversary backing card.

Note the spelling of Goldfinger, which includes the number 60. The number is also printed in gold, rather than white.

The model is silver, with a grey interior and grille, and chromed base and bumpers. There is very fine tampo printing for the front and rear lights, Aston Martin logos, and rear number plate - BMT 216A.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Ed's Linemar 'Elegant Miniatures' Metal Moon Buggy

Woodsy and Gang,

I picked this up recently and was a bit surprised at just how small it was as you can see by the comparison shot. 

It's from Linemar and is one of their 'Elegant Miniatures' offerings. Kind of like Matchbox but smaller, the line consisted of planes, trains, automobiles, trucks, etc.

 

All done in cast metal and individually boxed (although mine is missing the box).

You got any?

From Vegas Base

Ed

USA

Sunday Sundries

 Today's Sunday sale garnered a few things.

A modern Action Man in vintage Palitoy clobber.

A threesome of plastic. General Grievous looks over a VTech Helicopter and a weaponised Optimus.

For a future project. Found not one but two Speed Kings mod trailers.

I think this is an Action Man mine.

This beret was inside the Action Man bag along with a sten gun.

One more of the threesome. Anything here you like?

THE BLACK HOLE COMING TO TALKING PICTURES TV

For those who don't pay for Disney plus, or have it on DVD. the cult Disney film, The Black Hole is being shown on free-to-air  Talking Pictures TV, here in the UK. 

TPTV have announced it will be broadcast at 4.05 pm on 1st April and Saturday  13th April at 1.05 pm. 

MPC Cygnus kit

Mego Maximillian 

Paint-by-Numbers Pyro Birds by Paul Adams

The Pyro Plastics Corporation, of Union, New Jersey, was one of the smaller American kit makers. 

Originally a general plastics firm, it was active in the kit field from the 1950s until the early 1970s. In 1958 it launched a small series of Bird kits, carrying the Mark Trail name. Mark Trail being a newspaper comic strip, with a conservation theme.

 There were only three kits in the series:

C280-.89 American Bald Eagle

C281-.98 Ring-Necked Pheasant

C282-.98 Mallard Duck

The Eagle sold for 89 cents, and the other two for slightly more, at 98 cents. There was apparently also a set, containing all three kits, but I have not seen a picture of this.

All three kits were re-issued in 1963 in new boxes, with new numbers, as Paint-by-Number sets. This being the first such range by Pyro. The paints came on a palette, and were common to all three sets. The colours were generic: black, white, yellow, red, blue, and green. A brush was also included.

All the birds were basically brown, and the kits were moulded in brown plastic (dark brown for the Eagle, and medium brown for the Pheasant and Duck), so only the details and the base needed to be painted.

At some point, possibly 1965 when the Paint-by-Numbers line was extended, the original paints were replaced with NEW ! Water Soluble Paints. This was pointed out on the side of the box, but not on the box tops.

All the kits now sold for 98 cents, although this did increase later. That was good value, given that most of the kits were no more expensive than the original issues, but now included paints and a brush.

The new boxes were basically white, with a full-colour painting of the bird within. This would have undoubtedly helped with finishing the model.

C353-98 Bald Eagle

C354-98 Ring-Necked Pheasant

C355-98 Mallard Duck

In the 1970s the Pyro range, including the birds, went to Life-Like, who sold the kits under the American Wildlife name. According to the Scalemates site, these kits were also issued by Bull Mark, which seems to be a Japanese company. The Eagle has also been re-issued by Lindberg. None of these appear to be Paint-by-Number sets, with paints and a brush, just normal kits.

The series was also released in Britain by Kleeware, as these pages from a 1960 Hobbies Annual list all three kits, with a retail price of 7/- (seven shillings, or 35 New Pence). But the only kit I have seen on-line is the Pheasant. Again, these appear to be the original kits, not the Paint-by-Numbers versions. Kleeware kits of any subject seem to be rare.

Category:Kleeware plastic construction kits - The Brighton Toy and Model Index (brightontoymuseum.co.uk)

Eight photographs, all from Worthpoint

Paul Adams from New Zealand

KEV'S IMAI SHADO 3

Just made the Dinky toy sized kit of the Shado Mobile from Imai. It's not a bad little model.

Sighting confirmed,

Kevin

UK

JURASSIC LARK

The Missus and me have just watched Jurassic Park Fallen Kingdom.

I was keen to catch up on this franchise we used to love. We got up to 3 in the past.

Fallen Kingdom was Jurassic Pants. The same old tired narrative, dragging grouchy saurians back to the States that we saw in JP The Lost World when it was fresh decades ago. Am I missing something?

And the cynical way that an aging Jeff Goldblum was wheeled out at the beginning and end of the film was just laughable, despite the fact that he said the most interesting lines in the film!

Please don't tell me Spielberg had anything to do with it. Michael Crichton will be turning in his grave.

The next installment is Jurassic Park Fallen Kingdom Dominion. The names are getting longer as the films get worse it seems. 

Its on Now TV, which we haven't got and I'm not paying for another channel. Dominion's dino's will just have to wait, no doubt sedated on a ship somewhere near New York.

Have you seen Fallen Kingdom or Dominion readers? What did you think?