Ed's Airfix Space Warriors

Woodsy and Fellow Moonbasers,

One of the benefits of blogging and getting replies is acquiring new knowledge and discovering new things. For me that usually means going out in The Cave and opening a box. I'm sure to be surprised.

I had made mention that Airfix had their own set of Galxay Laser Team figures. Nay, Nay. Tony commented that, while Airfix had their own figures, they were not the GLT. Out to The Cave I go. I have been photographing as many of my spacemen as time and energy permit, so the Airfix box was right where it could be easily reached.

Pulls, out box.

Pulls out figures.

Looks at figures.

Scratches head.

Says, to self, "Self! These are not the Galaxy Laser Team figures'.

Yay! I have a whole new set of figures I didn't realize I had! How could I not realize? Wellll, these were bought somewhere around ten years ago, and I never cracked the box open. They were quietly stashed away in the hoard and forgotten about. Until today.

The figures themselves are 54mm and molded in a gray soft plastic. They have that same '70s/'80s vibe as does the Tim-Mee figures though and make great companion pieces to them, but I am not at all a fan of the horrid colors of the originals. 

Fortunately, some years back Jeff Immel re-started the Tim-Mee line under license and now makes copies from the original tooling. 

They come in a variety of awful colors as tribute to the originals BUT he also offers a set in silver and black which I believe I'm going to order!

The modern Tim-Mee Toy site can be found here: Products – Tim Mee Toy (timmeeusa.com)

From Vegas Base

Ed

ART SHRECKO

This 1946 art deco illustration of a sprawling Moonbase by Alexander Leydenfrost is just stunning.

It appeared in Colliers magazine

It reminds me completely of that other art deco monolith, the vertical movie house in House on Haunted Hill 1999.

Does anyone know this location?

There is something intrinsically gothic about art deco piles. Brutal, towering, they do give me the creeps. You?

P L A Y M O B I L

Having just woken up from a post-Flohmarkt Schlaf I've been half-day dreaming about something I saw on another stall, a huge old set of the Playmobil Polar Station range.

Two large fruit boxes of loose items: labs, figures, kayaks, a plane, yellow snow buggies, buildings and a really large wide-tracked snow cat.

Here's a similar bundle I saw online.

I was sorely tempted but there's no way I could fit two more crates into our already planned to be crammed car when we return to Blighty.

Besides, I'm not a Playmobil collector but if I was then German Floeh und TroedelMarkte strike me as being extremely worthwhile.

There are entire stands rammed with the range, on the tables, on the floor and on shelving!

I know very little about Playmobil alas but the magpie in me is attracted to old shiny toys and it's such a seductive line.

I walked away from the Polar station.

Another Geobra toy I liked there was an old plastic angular cash register.

I picked it up and embarrassingly the ringing plastic drawer shot open and all the play money fell out into a mixed lot beneath! 

I retrieved it all and scurried away in search of the Kaffee stand!

Do you like Playmobil readers?

F I G U R E N

 Picked up six of these nice West German plastic figures this morning for two Euro. Maybe a small Tarzan too, which the Missus is tracking down.

Not sure of the make.

LAMA Chameleon

 Feeling bored at this morning's car boot sale stall I spotted these bits and thought .....

.... The SpaceX LAMA!

SCOUT MEETING

 Doing a Japanese GLIGO online search it was great to meet up with a miniature Scout 2 again, here in green.

Scout 2 is one of the three scout ships from the Century 21 Toys Project SWORD toy range, which I adored as a kid.

Being ,asters of reduction, the Japanese have miniaturised many of the SWORD toys and issued them as small gifts in candy.

I used to collect these but buying from outside Japan has become difficult.

Have you anything like this?

Lots of Scammels!

 Terranova47's Fifties Northern Heights train layout in the Big Apple has it's fair share of Scammels too!

Ed's Error: Can You Spot It?

Woodsy and Gang,

I have two of these tin Lledo Days Gone Breweries. I had always wanted a brewery on my train layout but ultimately, I went with Menard's 'Sprecher' Brewery for my layout as it was an actual brewery in my hometown of Milwaukee.

Anywho, can you spot the error on the boxtop of this set?

From Vegas Base

Ed