IT KEEPS STALLING!

 

YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE

 

What a hoot! Star Wars Episode 4 auditions! Over an hour of nervous readings with youthful wannabees like Kurt Russell no less and less-well known actors like William Katt, who went on to star in the cult horror movie House in 1985. Cindy Williams was already known as Shirley in the hit TV show Happy Days and Robby Benson, who I personally don't know at all.

Did George pick the right actors?

HAPPY STAR WARS DAY!

May the Fourth be With you!

My Older Bruder!

 Dropping off lots of old clothes, we took the opportunity to have a wander round the Diakonie again, the large German charity store. Here's some snaps.

As expected, tons of Playmobil, the national toy.

Soft toys and a Playmobil hospital.

Cabinet stuff. Not sure what that orange dragon egg is. You?

Games galore.

Old tech too like vintage cameras

And this toy motorbike in a cabinet. At 18 euro it must be something good. Any ideas?

The handful of bits I got were as follows: a lovely old West German skip wagon by Bruder. I love their logo. What is that font?

Also two unbranded cowboys, probably modern and three die-casts: a Majorette Gull Wing coupe 1975, a Hot Wheels Stingray 1979 and a modern Hot Wheels Aston Martin, which I thought was unusual.

What do you think of my meagre haul readers? 

MOON FLEET CAPTAIN BADGE

This badge caught my eye on Ebay so I saved a pic.

I used to eat Sky Rays and remember their Moon Fleet marketing.

Here's the Captain badge. I wonder of there were more? 

Do you remember Moon Fleet readers?

Ding Dong!

The previous post rang a bell for me, as I have a couple of Avon premiums, from back in the day! First up is the Avon moon Flight Bubble Bath, with playmat and capsule.

The lid detaches from the bottle to become a lunar lander and the main (emptied) bottle becomes the command vehicle. Squeezing the bottle pops off the lander too.

The game is basically a turn based route to the moon, using counters and a die. Avon probably made loads of space-themed items, such as robot shaped bubble bath containers and I remember my sister being an Avon agent and looking at the catalogue every few months to see if there was anything good.

Another space themed item, is this lovely art deco Spaceship, which was given to me some time ago by Paul V. I assume its an Avon piece given its designation 'AV-1', but there's no makers marks on it. 

My other obsession has always been totem poles, so spotting an Avon aftershave bottle, I had to grab it! This one came with the original box and held 'Wild Country' aftershave, which I can still smell!

The bottle is brown glass, with a tampo transfer on the outside and the lid is a nifty plastic Eagle figure.

ITS BOUND TO ESCALATE!

 This caught my eye on an old auction, Space Flash with Escalator and Cars.

The box art is fabulous although I don't know the brand, a single stylized S.

The contents look good. I've seen sets like this before by different makers. The three cars look like little staplers!

Have you an elevating or track space toy readers?

Avon Calling!

Woodsy,

That '007' Spy Bath decanter was pretty cool - never knew there was such a product! 

It brought to mind the series of after shave decanters Avon sold back in the day. 

They came in a wide variety of shapes and I can remember having probably a dozen or so - it was one of my early collections. 

The photos were all culled from fleaBay but give you an indication of what these things were like. Remember them?

Cheers

Ed

USA