ED'S ONE AND ONLY SCHLEICHS

 Ed at Vegas Base kindly sent these live pictures of an Apatosaurus in Las Vegas!

The Dino was swiftly joined by Ed's one and only Schleich dragon!

Grrrrr!

Have you got a favourite dragon readers? In books, films or toys?

TYPHOO TEETERS

 

Another sad day for iconic brands from our childhood. Typhoo Tea are about to call in the Administrators.

I remember collecting their tea cards as a kid, along with PG Tips and Brooke Bond.

I've drunk Yorkshire Tea for years now, so I haven't helped Typhoo either.

Will you miss Typhoo Tea?

A Friday Treat! Norman's Thunderbirds Chocolate Bar Wrappers and More!

Hi Woodsy

You asked if I should dig out the chocolate bar wrappers, could I send you scans? Well the answer is YES!

I remember having lost one collection of TV21 to a Thrift Shop in Valletta, Malta (thanks Mum!), the next set came from a friend at school who didn't want them any more. 

So here I had the opportunity to assemble all my ephemera that no-one would ever care about (!) and create a good old-fashioned scrapbook - lots of cutting out shapes and images and texts from TV21, the TV21 Diary, colouring books, party cracker boxes, nougat bar wrappers, the toy boxes and of course ... those foil chocolate bar wrappers!

I was going to crop the images to just the wrappers but thought you might get a kick from seeing what I did and you might even spot some more rarities.

I have collected 12 of them, but who knows how many more there were. There are as follows:

Thunderbird 1

Thunderbird 2

Thunderbird 3

Thunderbird 4

Thunderbird 5

FAB1

Jeff

Lady P

Parker

Scott

Tin-Tin

Hood

So if I were to guess what others might have been:

Virgil, Alan, Gordon, John, Kyrano

But maybe that's just in a sweet shop in my dreams!

Captain Scarlet and Stingray are tucked away somewhere too!

Best wishes

Norman

Frank Bellamy Checklist and Blog

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and my other interest

Raymond Sheppard

WILL'S JOHNNY EAGLES

Hi Woodsy. 

On the blog a few days ago there were some catalogue pages with some toy guns. 

Here are some of my Johnny Eagle weapons by Deluxe Reading, Topper.

Will O

UK

Have you anything like this readers?

Any Johnny toys?

KEVIN'S BLAKES 7 SPACE STATION INTERIOR SCRATCH BIULD

I've made another A4 wall plaque in tribute to the sets used in Blake's 7. 

This one is a style used in a lot of Federation structures.

Kevin D

UK

KOMODO DRAGON AND CONDOR KITS: Revell Endangered Animals by Paul A.

Two kits from the Revell Endangered Animals series of the 1970s. Most of the kits depicted various mammals, but this pair depicted a reptile and a bird.

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H-701 Komodo Dragon, 

1/10th scale - green plastic, 20 parts;

Moveable head, tail, and legs. A Long-Tailed Macaque Monkey was also included.

later 6461 Bedrohte Tierarten Komodo Waran.

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H-702 California Condor, 

1/8th scale - black plastic, 18 parts;

later 6462 Bedrohte Tierarten Californ. Condor.

The only bird in the Revell range. Moveable wings and head.

Eight photographs, all from Worthpoint.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

TERRANOVA47'S CARMEN CERRA GODZILLA

Terranova47 kindly sent me this fabulous drawing of his favourite "dragon", the original Godzilla, part of a private family commissioned work by the artist Carmen Cerra, who Terranova47 discovered from Hugh's Small Scale World blog [there are the occasional links with updates of Carmen's painting of gaming figures.]

ELSECAR ANTIQUES

 A trip this week to a nearby Barnsley emporium was fun. 

Amidst the thousands of send hand treasures on two huge floors I spotted a few for the blog.

This array of die-casts caught my eye.

The Zygons were very appealing at £10 each but I resisted, what with Santa on my case and all.

So too the Lunar war Chariot, just £6. Note the Joe 90 Car exhausts! And is that a SHADO2 missile?

Some old plastic as well, Manta Force and Batman, nicely boxed and encased in plastic boxes. I imagine these are high grade items for such care and attention.

Lethal Enforcer isn't a game I know. the protected Spawn action figure was £75, again, a high grade item.

The Toy Biz Joker Cycle took me right back to 1990 when I first started getting excited about toys again. It was the merchandise tsunami following Tim Burton's Batman in 1989 that did it. I recall standing in front of an aisle of discounted Toy Biz Batman toys at Pontefract's Poundstretcher, including a big stack of these Joker Cycles, and I was hooked.

I came away with these two cute Sixties Skiiers, who were going for a song in the bargain bin outside.

Anything you like here?