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Saturday, 4 January 2025

FYI UK READERS! You Cant Pay for Evri in a Post Office Anymore!

If, like me, you sell on Ebay, this is yet another change that makes it harder to send collectables through the Post Office!

Changes to Pay in Store services

ParcelShop 'Pay in Store' ends January 6th

From 6th January 2025, we will begin rolling out updates to the software on our Pay in Store devices at ParcelShops. As part of this update, you will no longer be able to book or pay for deliveries in-store.

Here's what this means for you:

You can no longer pay for Evri in a Post Office
You can still print labels and return parcels using our Pay in Store devices.
To book parcel deliveries, you can:Visit your local Post Office in person, where Evri services are available at selected branches
Download the Evri App
Use our website at Evri.com

This change will take effect from 6th January 2025.

We appreciate your understanding as we continue to improve our services.

We sent you this email because you have used a Pay in Store device within the last 13 months. Please note this is a service message and you remain opted out of our marketing communications.

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Registered office: Capitol House, 1 Capitol Close, Morley, LS27 0WH.

All Good Things

Last summer my Missus took me to the Leeds Museum Repository.

A warehouse stuffed with old treasures ready for Museums but also on display themselves.

Here's a small selection of the fascinating exhibits.

Friday, 3 January 2025

MY CUSTOM MATTEL SPACE 1999 ZYTHON FIGURE

Continuing my project making my own custom versions of rare sci-fi toy figures, here's another one I've finished.

Zython.

To make Mattel's elusive Space 1999 alien I bought a cheap loose and green Monster High doll.

I then shrank her head but I'm unsure it worked. All her hair was removed and her tippy-toes clipped. I adjusted the head a little with some hot pinching and fimo, added long ears and a beard and painted it a similar lime. Finally the eyes and brows were drawn on.

The costume is from the Missus's felt stash with gold braid, all glued together. The cap is a plastic spoon. Shoes are trimmed Barbies. The trident is a marshmallow stick with Cootie legs on top.

Here it is complete.

Hope you like it.

Here's Mattel's original doll for comparison

Not perfect, by a long chalk, more of an impression really, my Zython - Mython! ha ha - will look even better once mounted on a recreation of the original Mattel backing blister card.

That particular piece of graphics wizardry is in the hands of Billy the Boxer!

Watch this Space .... 1999!

[you can read more about the original figure on the ever-informative Plaid Stallions https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/toy-ventures-zython-from-mattels/]

HYDROMIC MISSILE BUILD

A project I've been working on on and off for a while is scratch building the Hydromic missiles silos, seen in Stingray.

I've already built the missiles out of wood and bits of plastic card, and started to build one of the launch towers, which are built using parts from the old Revell Jupiter "C" kit.

The rest of the parts I'll use will come from the re-issued Atlantis 'Everything is Go' kit .

2000 AD - The Time Has Come

I have been an avid comic collector for years, probably starting seriously in 1978 with the advent of Fleetway's 2000 Ad comic, which arrived on a weekly basis and introduced the character of Judge Dredd and kickstarted a new career for Eagle staple Dan Dare. I missed the first 4 issues, with the free gifts (!), but collected every issue, including Summer specials and annuals for the next 30 odd years, until a few years back it became hard to get hold of in the standard newsagent and I decided to call it quits. The quality of the art and stories had dropped off and it had also been branching off into other magazines, such as the Judge Dredd Megazine, Crisis, Revolver and various other demands on my time and pocket. Coupled with the rise of manga distribution and my many other collecting demands, something had to give.

As a result, I now have boxes and boxes of comics sitting in the attic, taking up space. I have sold a couple of specials on ebay, but am still left with a massive collection needing a new home. All the early (pre-2000) issue are bagged up and most of the later ones are in good condition, so I would like to be able to donate them to a new owner. The logistics of moving are large collection preclude just selling them as a job lot on ebay, so anyone who wants them would need to collect.

So the question is, is there anyone out there who would like 30 odd years worth of comics, or can anyone suggest anywhere where I might donate them as a collection? Free to a good home, with one careful owner!