WILL'S JOHNNY SEVEN SPEED CAR AND BOAT SET

 My Topper Johnny Seven Speed Set.

Will O, UK.

MYSTERY MACHINE 2

 

Another ship I don't know at all I saw online is this.

I like its complex body but what is the LIABE?

MYSTERY MACHINE

I saw this on the web and thought, hmm, I don't know what that is.

There's a lot going on. There's a rotor at the rear and maybe a missile position at the front.

Little green monster looks impressed.

Any idea what it is readers?

J O H N N Y S P E E D

 What a toy! What a TV ad!

Did you have a Johnny Speed toy?

Auf Wiedersehen Pupp

 A few final notes from abroad last month now I'm home.

I saw this toy cable car in a German shop window, which I thought was neat. Whether it moved I don't know. It didn't when I was there. 

I think the maker is Lehmann but I may have seen a Rigi one.

Me and the Missus said goodbye to everything in her late parents' apartment. Everything that we didn't sell at Flöhmarkten or give away. This old plaster grandma held on till the bitter end, finally parting with us in the final days before we closed the door for good. She just didn't want to leave.

This long model ship was in a Trödel Laden or junk shop. It will make someone who collects ships sehr zu frieden (very happy).

I snapped this hot air balloon as it was passing near our car boot stall. I hadn't realized I'd got the chap in too. He looks non-plussed! I've never been in a hot air balloon and with a bad fear of heights I wouldn't ever. I do love to see them though. You?

This beautiful Isetta caught my eye whilst we delivered a deck chair to someone. I remember these from being a kid in the Sixties. We called them bubble cars. 

Has any reader driven one? Have you ever sat in an Isetta?

And a final sad note: despite trying to re-home a lovely and large 1960's home-made Puppenhaus, or dolls house, with various friends, alas, it went back to the charity warehouse we bought it from four years ago to start yet another journey in its long life.

Auf Wiedersehen Puppenhaus.

F U T U R E T E C H C A R: A Mushroom Comics Mystery

 This is unusual and a new one on me. I saw it online this year.

Futuretech.

A sort of futuristic friction sports car.

The body is iridescent.

The rear spoiler gives it a sort of Sam Loover's Car vibe.

Part of a Funline brand, the toy was issued by Mushroom Comics. The logo is an atomic mushroom cloud!

I know nothging about Mushroom Comics. Do you readers?

I dunno, I like this toy and the whole Futuretech look.

Guards! My Moonbase Star Maidens Home-Made Doll and Backing Card completed

My Star Maidens project is complete.

At the start of November I had a crack at making my version of this rare Guard doll from the Star Maidens range.

Using a Sindy clone, a small American football helmet* and a pair of cheap Supergirl boots I got on Ebay, here's what I came up with, which I blogged at the time.

Next up was to recreate the backing card and blister.

Our friend Arto over in Helsinki Base kindly sent a fabulous scan of his own original and well-loved card; the blister was already off the card so no harm was done to it.

Wotan Bill was able to do his magic and tidy it up - and sent a lovely new copy over to me.

Here it is glued to some card. Its still drying!

 

Made to measure, my doll sat snug on her new backing.

Next up was the blister. This proved much harder than I thought. Scouring the shelves of cheapo toy aisles, toiletries shelves and food aisles in shops I searched for a 12 inch blister. Nada!

The best I could come up with was this bauble box made of two sides glued together. The seam runs along the left side down the shoulder and leg line. Its not perfect at all - I'll keep looking for a cheap doll box in a discounter - but as a temporary measure it'll do.

So here's my take on the Star Maidens Moonbase Guard doll on its backing card.

Hope you approve.

From the front 

and side

I'd like to thank Arto and Wotan Bill for all their kind help with this fun project.

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* Years ago I blogged the exact American Football helmet online which the original toy company used. One day I'll get one of these, which is a proper colour match for the original. 

Does anyone recognise the team badge?

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?