REMEMBER, REMEMBER...

 As it's Bonfire Night, here in the UK, here's what I'll be watching tonight after some treacle toffee and sparklers!

AQUA DOUBLE

 As there's been mention of the Airfix Stingray on here, I thought I give a sneak peek of one of my build projects that's currently on the go.

I managed to pick up an original unassembled  Airfix Stingray kit a while back and have unsurprisingly started to assemble it.

There are a couple of repro bits in the mix but in the main it's fairly complete, and will compliment my resin version I've already made and blogged about back in June.

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-incredible-resin-stingray.html

I'll do a decent post on it once it's finished.

Mystery Stingray Model Seen on You Tube: Lyons Maid?

 

This clip appeared years ago on You Tube and I've just found it again. What do you think it is readers? Is it a Lyons Maid Stingray, like the one posted today from Will O?

WHAT A DRAG! SWEET CIGARETTES AND MORE

With debates about smoking bans and stopping the sale of disposable vapes in the air my mind wandered back to my own smokes.

Both my parents smoked. After fighting in WWII they did everything. Smoked, drank, worked hard and had lots of babies, two of whom still smoke in the 70's.

For some odd reason it never appealed to me growing up in smoke-filled Preston. I can sum up my own smoking 'career' as 1 Gitane [French?], 1 black Sobrane [Russian?] and 1 herbal cigarette [Boots?], all puffed as a teenager in the 1970's and not an experience I enjoyed at all, although I always liked the packaging and artwork.

Much more to my taste were the chocolate cigarettes of my earlier youth, which I bought for pence in the local penny shop near Sacred Heart school. I don't think you ate the paper and I'm pretty sure they were always in packets like these I found on the net.

The chocolate was quite delicious, sort of powdery, about halfway between Cadburys and cooking chocolate. Its unlikely you can get them anymore given the current climate but I was wrong about Old Jamaica so who knows.

What's for certain,is that on the Continent you can get chewing gum cigarettes for kids still. When we were in Germany I saw stacks of them in sweet aisles. I suppose I was a bit shocked really but then again I ate tons of chocolate cigarettes and didn't make the leap to childhood smoking. Anyhow here's a large assortment currently on Amazon de. I assume the 'tricks' mentioned is a blowable cloud of icing sugar or something like that, certainly a step too far. What do you think?

As a kid there were smoking gags around back then. I got mine from Ellisdons in Liverpool but I reckon jokes and tricks were available on racks most everywhere, especially at the seaside.

The two I recall the most were a smoking monkey [not a pleasant thought now], which puffed special roll-ups, which gave off intermittent smoke and also a more robust card cigarette which sort of glowed at the end when you took a drag. That's how I remember it anyway!

Here's a the smoking monkey just as I remember it, this one seen on sale online.

Do any of these light any fires for you readers?

WILL'S GERRY ANDERSON MODEL MAILAWAYS

Hi Woodsy. Some of my recently acquired model mailaways. 

Enjoy,

Will O.

UK

Kellogg's Sugar Smacks SPV. 

Smiths crisps Thunderbirds.

Lyon’s Maid Airfix Stingray with paperwork.

SPAIN'S ACTION MAN GAMES

 

I'm pretty sure I had an action man board game as a kid. These two Spanish games caught my eye on Todocollecion, both branded as Falcon, although I'm unsure what that is. Adventure Team?

This second one, Falcon-80 Contra Torak, could have a space theme, as there's an alien loitering behind the men.

The two games were released by Estrela

Have you anything like this?

Brian's Saturn V Poster

Hi Woodsy,

Here's the poster! As I said, I got it in an estate sale and it was grouped with a bunch of topographic maps of the southwest. I don't know who the original owner was.

Best Regards,

Brian P.

A Right Good Brewster

 This little bear from the 1980's is called Brewster.

I'm guessing that he's a marketing item from Brewers Fayre but I don't know.

I'm as perplexed as my funny apple.

Brewster lives in a little nifty tin box.

Do you know Brewster?