Can anyone ID this insignia at all?
I've read that its from a 12 inch GI Joe knockoff. Anyone know which figure?
We've seen this beauty before on MC, the X-20 Space Car.
Not sure we've seen a box before so here's one I saw earlier on an online auction.
Such a gorgeous toy and box, like the link between the 1950's Atomic age and the more modern age of Space toys in the 1960's.
Does anyone have one?
A pointy-eared cousin of the Lincoln International Monsters, Mr. Rock is rarer than a Vulcan laugh.
A Spock rip-off, this figure has attained legendary status among Lincoln and Mego collectors and is seen, like the Victim, as a bone-fide member of the Lincoln International Monsters.
To create a pauper's version I enlisted my pointy-eared Hornby elf and his trousers.
I added a blue top, coloured the trousers black and re-styled the hair and eyebrows. I added shoes for 'elf and 'appiness!
As we've seen with Space Ace, those pop guns get everywhere in space. They pop up on auctions constantly.
The 80's was awash with target sets like this Space Robot set with a cork gun.
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I was right about the recycled Palitoy rifles!
And there's lots more Space Ace recycled toys here on this fabulous webpage by Scottstoys.
Have a butchers Space Acers.
https://www.scottstoys.co.uk/space-ace-arcade-game/
Is it a game that you played readers?
As soon as I saw this I knew I'd seen those 1984 Space Ace rifles before. But where!
Christmas in the Sixties and Seventies meant drinks iny parents house. Lots of festive drinks.
As a kid I stuck to my usual beverages: Tizer, dandelion and burdock, sarsaparilla and lemonade float. Some cola too, preferably Pepsi even though Santa seemed to promote Coke.
The adults, my parents and their friends, on the other hand, imbibed in all things Yule. This was the great generation who fought World War Two. They'd lost their youth over those dark five years and needed to party.
Beer was served from small metal barrels with taps hammered in. Watneys Party Four was a favourite. Bottled beers too, with scre in tops, in wooden crates: Mackison, Pale Ale, bitter, Newcastle Brown and Guinness. I don't recall lager back then.
For the ladies was a whole bar full of bottled delights: Sandemans Sherry for the daytime tipples, Cherry B and Babycham ( in labelled glasses) for the early evening and then came the snowballs.
Snowballs were either mixed by hand using Warnings advocat and lemonade or straight from a small green bottle. I think we had labelled Snowball glasses too for the occasion. It's a festive treat I like myself nowadays.
Hard liquor like Bells Whisky, Gordons Gin and Brandy came out later. Mixers where Canada Dry and Schweppes Tonic Water in small bottles. I adored Canada Dry and grabbed a bottle off the drinks table whenever I could!
I don't recall wine being drunk at all but that maybe just my memory playing up. There must have been wine in the UK in the Sixties.
Whatever the case, for my folks, having just turned 40, Christmas 1960 onwards was a decade for making merry. Everyone had a job, the kids were OK, the big family was round and Santa's sack was bulging.
What more could you want.
Which festive drinks do you recall readers?
