Moon Rescue

 Whilst browsing Todocolleccion I saw these neat space toys.

This is some sort of 8 wheeled space crane. 

The crane folds up at the rear. Something maybe missing on top.

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ADDENDUM FROM WILL O.

Hi Woodsy, Is this moon explorer a cousin of the crane posted here on the blog? The base looks similar.

Will O, UK

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This Spanish Rescate Lunar is very swish. A moon rescue craft. But which moon?

It's clearly some sort of futuristic pedalo.

There could be some this missing on top.

Do you like them?

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Postscript:

Extra shot of the Lunar Rescate by Bobby's/ Vansa

Courtesy of THE MILLION blog [reader Antionio Saz]

This shows the top radar, side rockets and the box inner tray. Anyone got the box?

and another toy branded Bobby's, which appears to be a brand of the company Vansa.

THUNDERBALL WEAPONS SET FROM JAPAN

This is an interesting set I saw online from Japan. It appears to be a gadget set inspired by the 1961 James Bond movie Thunderball.

The gadgets seem to a small cigarette lighter, a wristwatch and a penknife, all weaponised.

Its a basic looking set but I like it. You?

Bedknobs and Broomsticks Action Bed [ "Eglantine's Bed" ] on YouTube

Reader MJ kindly sent in this footage link for the Action Bed toy featured on MC a coupla weeks ago, the one from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

I'm not sure who Eglantine is. You?

https://youtu.be/crYu8j3RP3s?si=kxK_kHil4RqBQSje  

ITS TIME TO LEAVE THE CAPSULE

 This is a beautiful toy space capsule I saw on auction.

Not one I have but I can appreciate how nice it must be to have in a collection.

Simply called SPACECRAFT this large plastic toy was released by blog legends T in a Circle aka Tai Hing of Hong Kong. Their moniker is the T in a circle pictured on the side of the box.

There are some gorgeous art panels depicting radar stations, lift off, lunar activity and splashdown.

The main box top is particularly attractive with a painting of a capsule and spacewalk.

The toy came with a small astronaut on a wire circling round the cockpit.

Let me in!

Is this one you like readers? Have you any capsules?

Lost in Space?

This year I've been selling on eBay a lot again. As in times before, one thing always baffled me. What happens to lost mail? 

Where do all the thousands of mislaid parcels go? They must go somewhere? To neighbours or dare I say couriers themselves? Where?

I imagine a vast hill of packages somewhere between continents, the address labels slowly greening over and desperate gulls ripping them open. Occasionally a tin robot or wind-up spaceship will spill out and attempt an ascent, the gulls pecking at their bent antennae and flashing lights as they stagger towards the sun.

My reverie over, a more serious sub-genre of lost property is the relatively new and quite baffling phenomenon of tracked but mislaid.

Tracked but mislaid? Surely this is an oxymoron, like wet fire or bright dark: things that can't exist. Or so we thought. Tracked but mislaid is the latest insult to eBay sellers totally reliant on couriers of one kind or another, whether national or private. 

I have refunded five buyers this year already for lost mail. None were tracked, which I aim now to change, but it appears that that also offers no guarantee of delivery.

The biggest implication for the seller of lost eBay goods is the refund, sometimes substantial, leaving them out of pocket and without the goods.

For the buyer, well, they've got absolutely nothing either.

Have you experience of this readers?

M.NIGHT SHYAMALAN'S FILMS

M.Night Shyamalan's films are Marmite. You either love them or loathe them.

My feelings fluctuate depending on the film and its largely his earlier films that I know, beginning with his famous debut the Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis, which probably everyone on the planet has seen. Hard to believe its only 25 years ago. It seems older than that.

Signs wasn't too bad either, the crop circle suspenser starring Mel Gibson and the Happening starring Mark Wahlberg held great promise, especially the mysterious apocalyptic opening before it became mired in melodrama.

And so to Unbreakable, the Shyamalan super-hero flick featuring Bruce Willis as the eponymous 'unbreakable' super-human The Guardian [I think he's called that]. An unusual super-hero film unlike Marvel or DC's cache of Metas, Unbreakable also introduced us to the 'breakable' Mr. Glass played by Samuel L. Jackson, nearly ten years before he worked with Marvel. Again, all this was nearly 25 years ago.

This week I dipped my toe into Split, a much later effort by the Director and the second part of a super-human trilogy beginning with Unbreakable. Split stars James McAvoy as a person with 23 split personalities [Sybil only had 13!]. 

As I've only seen half an hour of the film so far I've only had the pleasure of about five of them. Mention has already been made of a sacred being and reading up I see its a personality called The Beast. I'll carry on watching tonight as I'm intrigued by the thought that McAvoy physically changes somehow.

Glass is the latest and final part of the Director's super-human trilogy, a film I've yet to see, where all three of his characters come together in one movie.

Have you seen this trilogy and or any of M.Night Shyamalan's films? What do you think readers?

BUCK ROGERS' RING OF SATURN

Ever since I got my copy of the book Comics Collectables and Their Values in the early 1990's I've adored vintage American comic hero rings.

I've been especially in love with the 1946 Buck Rogers Ring of Saturn.

Interestingly, there were three different heroes using this ring with different stone hues as merchandise, the other two being the Shadow and Jack Armstrong.

You can read about them on the Hakes auction site

https://hakes.com/Auction/ItemDetail/225793/JACK-ARMSTRONG-THE-SHADOW-BUCK-ROGERS-GLOW-IN-THE-DARK-PREMIUM-RING-TRIO-WITH-MAILER-BOX-PAPER

Costing a Cosmic Ransom online nowadays and basically practising making rings I began to mess around with some of my late Father in Law's plumbing parts.

And voila! Before I knew it I had my own Saturn rings, gas rings and rocket rings! Well, sort of. See what you think.

I think my personal favourite is this simple blue and red plastic ring.

Have you any super hero or cereal rings?

KEVIN'S SCRATCHBIULT CHIVE

I've made another Herbs TV character, one of the Chives!

Herbidaceous!

Kevin

UK