KEVIN'S SCRATCHBUILT DR. WHO TV GUNS

 Hope you like them.

Staser 1

Cybergun 2

H1

Earthshock Trooper Gun

Tesh gun

Judoon Gun

Cybergun

Its the First of Decemberrrrr

I always think of James Taylor's Sweet Baby James today, because of the reference to the first of December.

Have a listen whilst you're wrapping your presents.

https://youtu.be/k2x0fPgAj_Y?feature=shared

TANNERS TOYS

 image: Security Hazard

It looks like Christmas Day down at Tanners in the Thunderbirds episode Give or Take a Million!

Check out all those original toys!

What do you recognise readers?

Mystery Radar Car

Cruising Worthpoint I found another mystery amidst the many spaceships -

The white radar tank like vehicle on the left. What is that?

Yellow Mystery Fellow

Seen on Worthpoint,  What's that mystery yellow vehicle at the bottom left?

Any clue?

Hover Bovver

 Checking old auctions it was nice to see these distant cousins of SpaceX and Golden Astronaut, the Hover space range.

Years ago, we saw them boxed on MC.

Bottom is the loose Space Car and mid right is the space glider.

Not often seen, has anyone got any Hover toys like this?

RE-INFORCED! THE STORY OF KENNER'S RECYCLED STAR WARS TOYS

Even if you're not a Star Wars fan this is interesting for toy collectors generally.

Long time Star wars collector and writer Ron Salvatore has torn apart the Falcon to find all the Star Wars toys that Kenner up- and re- cycled. It looks old and I've no idea when it was written but I liked it a lot.

For instance, did you know that the Kenner Gamorrean Guard became their Friar Tuck? Me neither!

Its a fascinating story, so have a shufty.

http://theswca.com/images-speci/recycle/ 

I also found Ron's bio page really quite poignant, talking about his Mom and Dad and those gloriously free days of our childhoods. Even though I'm much older and British, it struck a chord, which I imagine is universal.

http://theswca.com/ron.html

Have you come across Ron Salvatore before?

U N I V E R S E : the 1960 short film that is said to have inspired Stanley Kubrick

This is new to me and a revelation.

https://aeon.co/videos/prelude-to-the-space-age-the-1960-film-that-inspired-2001-a-space-odyssey

Shown on the Aeon website, this was originally on the National Film Board of Canada's website.

To quote Aeon:

Universe also altered the course of cinema’s evolution: the film’s masterful cinematography and groundbreaking animation inspired Stanley Kubrick when he was researching his own space-traversing masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Kubrick even borrowed the voice of Universe’s narrator, Douglas Rain, for the iconic role of HAL 9000.

What do you think readers?