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Friday, 29 November 2024

Station to Station

I've always liked the rare three-legged space station by LP or Lik Be seen here top right in Wotan Bill's old collection.

It's composition is described in detail by Bill n MC and our friend Paul V's Triang SpaceX site (link to site in the labels below)

Such a cool and simple thing, I love the two flat circular platforms the most.

Another structure with circles are these futuristic buildings with Saturn-like rings on the old cover of the US Tarheel Project SWORD catalogue.

Here it is in close up. Again, simple but effective.

The busy cover brings to mind a Worlds Fair like this artwork for Seattle in 1962 with it's iconic double-ringed needle.

Or Mike Trim's Car Vu, with those spiral ramps and the saucer tops, seen in the first episode of Captain Scarlet, where an SPV drives to the top!

Another rare toy is the card space-port tower found on the back of the Golden Astronaut gift pack described again on Paul's fabulous Triang SpaceX site ( the only place I've ever seen it).

In close-up it's a central spike topped with another ring structure and a final smaller ring like the LP station.

Again it recalls the Seattle Century 21 Needle

Or even the Tracy Island roundhouse from Century 21's Thunderbirds, seen here being worked on by Mike Trim back in the day.

Another Century 21 building I like is this yellow Century 21 Toys, where Agent21 gets all his deadly gadgets in TV21.

That huge glass sweeping front could be straight off the pavillion at New Yorks World Fair in 1964.

My final sweeping structure is this excellent building and skyway on the box of Bichi's Carlos V Batmobile released in South America.

There is a black and white sweeping cityscape with FAB1 too but I can't find it.

Can you think of any circular space stations, ringed towers or sweeping future scapes you like readers?

MYSTERY AMPHIBIOUS TRUCK

This mystery vehicle is in my photo archive. I've no idea what it is.

Have you readers?

THOSE PUPS JUST KEEP ROLLING THEIR EYES

Years ago my friend Paul V discovered that LP Lik Be re-used their toy puppy eyes as space domes. You can read about this fascinating discovery on his fab SpaceX website.

https://www.triangspacextoys.info/SpGAderv/LPHK/LPhkSmTy/LPdomes/LPdomes.html

Those domes are a mindworm. I just cant help coming across rolling dog dome eyes. I've spoken about blow moulds before and here's another one in the US, a large ball visible underneath that propels the pooch along.

This is a big puppy at 12 inches long, much bigger than the LP Space Dog but the same principle.

Paul V has just found one of these doggies pictured in a French Sitap toy catalogue too!

Can you spot any dome eyes readers? Keep your eyes peeled.

Let me know.

Will's Kitmaster Fireball XL5 Restoration

Hi Woodsy.

My restoration of the Kitmaster Fireball XL5 is nearly complete.

The decals are reproduction ones , the observation dome is the cockpit glass from a Yak 15 kit .....

but I haven't found anything that will do for the glass on fireball junior yet!

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Will O

THE JO TEK THUNDERBIRD 3 MYSTERY

This is an odd one, the JO TEK Thunderbird 3 toy on a very basic blister card.

All I know is that I saw it listed in Budapest. Does that mean its a Hungarian Thunderbirds toy?

Anyone know?

Thursday, 28 November 2024

IT'S RIGGED!

This CLIM extravaganza is a classic multi-wheeled monster.

Interestingly, the listing on Spain's Todocoleccion suggests that the red driver cab is somehow linked to a Star Wars Mini Rig!

What do you think?

Here's two I saw on Ebay.

Is it the MTV-7?

or ISP-6?

More Home-Made Lincoln Monsters: The Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula's Daughter

Continuing with my custom Lincoln Victim project, I've had a crack at two more DIY figures.

The Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula's Daughter.

Not the same dolls as the Victim. I can't find my spare Mod Misses.

These are old Rexard Queens I had hanging round. No professional tailor this time though.

I may do a Mummy too.

What do you reckon readers?

The Phantom

The prototype costumed superhero, Lee Falk's The Phantom debuted in comics in February 1936.

The character fought his baddies from his cave in the fictitious African state of Bangalla and had done for hundreds of years, the first Phantom pre-dating even Christopher Columbus.

The iconography of The Phantom is in some instances ancient. His Skull ring, reserved for villains, was said to be made from the nails that crucified Jesus Christ!

Kit Walker is the 21st Phantom and as a comic character has enjoyed huge comic success, being printed in many parts of the world.

Merchandise is easy to find online and one of my favourites is part of the rack toy boom of the mid-1970's, Larami's The Phantom Jungle Play Set.