ORANGE AND WHITE: LEMS THE RIGHT COLOURS!

Remember the beautiful Tri-ang SpaceX LEM we've featured in the past? 

A wonderful old plastic toy in detachable white and orange parts. Along with its companion Apollo capsule Its one of the larger SpaceX toys. My friend Paul Vreede covers it beautifully on his Triang SpaceX website

https://www.triangspacextoys.info/SpGAtoys/Apl8/SpLTApl8.html

BILL BULLOCH

Well look at Etsy's 3DStuffUK's Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 crew dragon capsule, a 3D printed model rocket. They could be from the same SpaceX! This model is 22cm tall assembled and it looks great!

3DstuffUK also make a Dyna-Soar! For the Project SWORD fan on a tight budget!

You could get anything 3D printed I imagine these days!

Have you got anything readers?

KRIS AND THE FLARES

 At the house clearance table I rummaged over a lot at yesterday's boot I saw few other things that caught my eye, which I left because I'm saving up....

...... A Midland Bank elephant money box like this online - the one at the sale was chipped and cracked. 25p but I passed. Does anyone collect these?

A large die-cast Zeroid from Terrahawks made by Bandai [or is it Popy?] as seen here in Wotan's collection. It was too dear for me at £5.

A large food bag of small plastic toys, about 100 I would say: small figures, tiny novelties and about 6 Action Man Flare guns like this online. Again, at £5 it was too dear. Could the flares have been knockoffs I wonder too? I wish I'd have got that bag now! ha ha. The booter's curse!

A small Malay souvenir Kris paper knife like this on the net. I recognised this immediately from my teenage years obsessing about martial arts and ancient weapons around the world. I owned several kukris and a katana back then. I still have the katana, a cheapo copy my Mum got me from Kay's catalogue circa 1972, but I loved it then and still do. Seeing a Kris again was a real joy.

Anything you would have got readers?

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Postscript:

I also passed on this little plastic chunky car, a Burger King AERO Record Breaker from 1989. Very cool design. 25p. I could kick myself! [picture from the net]

The Thing Behind the Fridge

 This is an odd one; when we moved our fridge we saw this strange dark stain on the wall behind.

It immediately made me think of the tripods in the War of the Worlds!

All tentacles and heads,

It recalls the fabulous inky monsters of renowned artist Terence Cuneo that Wotan Bill introduced Moonbase to nearly 15 years ago in his Scary Monsters and Super Creeps Scary Monsters and Super Creeps post.

Have you got anything randomly sci-fi or creepy spooky or futuristic going on in the home?

TERRANOVA'S ROYAL TIN MONEY BOX

Hello Paul,

Back during lock down it was surprising to find I had a substantial money box collection without being aware of it happening. The only conscious purchase was of the British traditional red Post Box/Pillar Box.

The mailing slot in miniature being the perfect coin slot.

Having just returned from a trip that ended with a few days in London I was disappointed not to find a Charles III version. Not surprising in that there probably there will never be a Pillar Box with his cypher as people don't use the mail as much as they used to. Somewhere are probably tons of Elizabeth II waiting to be placed on street corners.

What I did find was a year old Coronation tin money box. I did purchase it for the charming label on the bottom.

The traditional way to rob one of the tin boxes was a knife blade through the slot to balance a coin.

This one has a better solution!

Terranova

NYC

USA

JEAN'S TWIN MACHINES

 I love the look of this West German sports car. It looks so futuristic. Looking at the header this car maybe actually two vehicles, one inside the other. Its not clear which two.

Made by the prolific West German toymaker JEAN.

Do you like it?

WEDNESDAY WARES

 The Missus and me stood at the local car boot this morning. Up at 5am and floggin' till noon. We wuz cream crackered [knackered for non-rhymers] and have slept afterwards like we've been abducted by Mysterons! Hard to believe, we had four cups of coffee at the sale to keep us going!

Sales were mediocre but we got rid of quite a bit of stuff hoggin' the shed. Lots of Grandkids' old toys thrown out by their Mom [noooooo, I hear you shout!], a few ornaments and pictures.

In between selling both of us had a mosey round the site. I didn't get far because near us was a huge house clearance stand with a very very affable seller. Among his wares were boxes of old tat, four items for a pound. Boy, did I rummage, my favourite activity!

Here's the small haul.

the two die-casts were £1 each and after a clean and spruce-up should look OK. I just need a cab for the Porsche trailer.

... but the old Super 8 reels were 4 for a pound! The small one drew me in with its label name, Mountain. On the back are listed loads of titles including Supercar. On the mystery film itself is scratched the title The Big Splash. I've no idea what that is.

The figures I've yet to ID, but they were a snip at 25p each.

The View-Master was a bit dearer at £2 with the bundle of discs, which include one Masters of the Universe!

Waddaya reckon?

BRIAN'S KAIJU CAVE

Hi Woodsy.

Here is my Kaiju Room!

 In its current state not too messy, but getting tricky to navigate in. Other Monster Base denizens are stored in totes, residing in the attic or spare bedroom closets. I rather enjoy my house and don't want to move, but I'd love to have these obscured toys on display also. My future plan is an out-building on my property, possible a pole barn, to keep my overspill.

-BrianF 

Monster Base 

NJ USA

t r a v e l l e r s

The Missus and me have just finished our latest box set, Travellers.

We really enjoyed it.

Time travel, crises, catastrophes, secret organisations, it's got the lot! It's a good few years old too.

Yep, it's a bit talky and there's human interest but it is a series and not a film. 

Having said that, we recommended Manifest to relatives and they can't stand it, naming it soap sci-fi.

So, I wonder if any readers have seen Travellers as well?