Ed's Captain Video Photo Shoot

Woodsy,

Here's some photos I took while recording my Lido Captain Video toys last year.

Enjoy!

From Vegas Base

Ed

TERRY's NEW JOE 90 COLLECTABLES FROM JAPAN

Blog friend and Anderson fan Terry H has kindly sent me pictures of a small pocket notebook and a jigsaw puzzle he's recently got from Japan for his collection.

Hope you like them.

Corgi's Popeye Models

Hi Woodsy,

Great job on your re-creation of the Corgi Popeye's Paddle-wagon. Corgi did four different Popeye vehicles, of which I have these two.

Regular large Corgi model [above left]

802 – Popeye's Paddle-Wagon, 1969-72. With Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Swee'Pea figures, plus the heads of Wimpy and Bluto. This 126mm toy is easy to identify as the anchors are part of the mudguards.

Corgi Juniors Extra

1008 Popeye Paddle-Wagon, 1971-72, smaller and simpler version of 802, without the mounted heads. The anchors are part of the boat hull, 70mm.

There were also two Corgi Juniors:

67 – Popeye's Tugboat, 1980 until the end of the line. A small open vessel that ran on concealed wheels. Plastic Popeye figure, 77mm.

79 – Olive Oyl's Aeroplane, 1980 until the end of the line. Open cockpit monoplane. Olive Oyl figure, 68mm.

I have the small Paddle-Wagon, and the Tugboat, and the photos are of my models. The other two are from Worthpoint.

Anyone else got any of these?

Paul Adams from New Zealand

SUPER7 TOYS: A BLISTERING RANGE!

 I'm in awe of just how prolific this modern nostalgia action figure company is. 

I've seen a few ReAction carded action figures in shops but had no idea there were so many Super 7 figure lines - there's hundreds!

Shogun, Mars Attacks, Thundercats, Universal Monsters to name just a few.

I can really relate to the urge to recreate figures and Super 7 have caught the retro zeitgeist. A really fantastic job for a modern toy company.

Clearly there's a vein of meme humour running through some of the lines that I don't get - The Worst and Wing Kong for instance - its an age thing I bet, but all in all I'm astonished by the fabulous range and vision of Super 7 toys.

Have a look and see what you like.

https://super7.com/

Blast from the Past

 I was just looking at Will O's Space Communicators and the artwork on the first box, of a space helmeted child brought back a clear memory! In the sixties, Matlow Sweets (now Swizzels-Matlow) made some small bon-bon like sweets called 'Climpies', in a small tube pack of about 8. These were usually in a counter box or on a tray, in sweet shops and kids could buy them along with other small items.

As they are small spheres, arranged in a row in the package, they looked a little like the ping pong ball guns that were all the rage at the time and at some point Matlow marketed the sweets with an image of one of these child astronauts holding a space bazooka loaded with Climpie sweets, gleefully blasting them out into space. The artwork was very reminiscent of the painting on the walkie talkie box, but also always put me in mind of Fireball XL5, with the big winged shoulder pads. Try as I might, I cant find any sign of advertising or packaging for Climpies online, although the sweets are quite well remembered by boomers, even if only as a choking hazard!

HOLD THE PHONE!

Hi Woodsy, I think these qualify as phones. 

have you got any of them readers?

Will O. UK

Probe a Bit More: Lucky Toy's Lunar Probe No.1

 A few toys only ever appear once or twice; online, in books, on auction, on here.

This is such a one.

The Lunar Probe by Lucky Toys.

I think it's first appearance on MB was probably 15 years ago at the start of the blog.

This one [it could be the same one] surfaced on Ebay last year [I think the seller was ZZRobot]. I kept the snaps.

Very similar to the rocket at the rear of the JR21 Rocket Transporter, its a fabulous space toy and worthy of Project SWORD livery I think. It even has those X-series silver rocket exhaust fins.

There's an unbranded silver grey version from Eastern Europe as well.

Lucky is the word, as its not a rocket we see often at all and as such, its a blog legend. 

Have you anything like it?

LOGAN'S DONE! MY CUSTOM LOGAN 5 CLOTHED PRINCESS DOLL

 A while back after finishing Zython I was flicking once more through my new and fabulous Knockoffs christmas gift book and found a another rare cheapo toy I just had to make.

The original and elusive toy appears both in the Plaid Stallions Knockoffs book and the related Mego Museum website.

Here it is, the fabulously cheesy 1970's Kmart Princess with new Long Hair doll in original Mego Logan's Run garb. The maker's clearly wanted to use up male Mego Logan 5 outfits rather than kit her out in the more diaphanous slip Jessica 6 wears in the 1976 movie. 

After all, this is a knockoff and nothing to do with Logan's Run.

[you can read all about Mego's attempt at Logan's Run toys on the brilliant Mego Museum site].

Image: Mego Museum

I looked around for an original Princess Long Hair doll and found a few for sale but they were all too dear for a tight-fisted Yorkshireman!

I also found this modern repro Logan's Run jumper made professionally for 12" dolls on eBay by BlackAshKitBash. Beautiful work but ten pounds would make me cry.

image; BlackAshKitBash

I decided to start from scratch and raided my doll stash for a suitable 12 inch Barbie clone.

A few swags of felt and cloth later and hey presto!

The boots came courtesy of Ebay from a very inexpensive seller. I coloured them black,

All she needs now is a card and blister. I will have to be extra nice to Bill!

What do you think readers?

I'll have to watch the film again now. Do you like Logan's Run? Book, film or series? Any toys?

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A Fawcett Footnote: 

As a footnote, this project reminded me that Farrah Fawcett starred as Holly 13 in Logan's Run too wearing a glittery dress..

 and that I once found a huge doll that I thought was Farrah in yes, a glittery dress [it wasn't Farrah!]

You can read my blog entry at the time about this find here.

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2017/09/dont-fawcett.html

Farah's stint in Logan's Run has inspired others to make custom figures of her. Here's a neat one I saw on Figure Realm by Nightwing1975 with Holly 5 in an equally glittery dress, a project which also includes an Action Man dressed as Logan 5! Now why didn't Palitoy think of that!

What do you think?

Image: Figure Realm

Coming full circle, Farrah even had her own Seventies knockoff too called Tanya/ Sport Girl ripping off Hasbro's Charlies Angels range. Don't fawcett!