The Bandai Sears Supersonic Jetliner

 I've never seen this Bandai tinplate beauty in the flesh. I think it was a Sears Christmas exclusive.

Online auction pictures like these have to suffice but boy oh boy does it look grand!

Has anyone been lucky enough to have one?

The double teardrop cockpit blisters really make it for me. The flattened engines too. It's so Gerry Anderson! What a toy, almost too good to play with!

Do you like it readers?

oh, and here's its US patent diagram online:

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/29/b2/62/ae0439f73b5712/USD193013-drawings-page-1.png

Sugar Puffs Famous Puffers

MC recently mentioned the You Tube channel Cerealmad, which looks at various lines of cereal packet toys. Here is another one, featuring a series of Lenticular cards.

Quaker Sugar Puffs Famous Puffers from 1973, was a series of four cards, which showed a famous steam locomotive moving across the card as you tilted it. The locos moving in three stages.

The Rocket (1829), The Jenny Lind (1849), Central Pacific Locomotive 1867, and The Coronation Scot (1937). A great looking series.

Have you got anything like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzFcXqji03E

Paul Adams from New Zealand

 

Nazgul at the Gates

 A few snaps of my home-made Ringwraith and his dark charger ( borrowed from Sindy!).

It was fun being with them but mordor getting away! 

Enjoy! 

Flight Club

The First Moon Flights Club was a Pan Am gimmick to boost its image by offering future flights to the moon!

The marketing linked to the beautiful Pan Am Clipper in Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey.

This is the back of the Membership card courtesy of Wikipedia, where you can read much more.

It all reminds me of the connections between Gerry Anderson's Century 21 and 2001 A Space Odyssey, which we've covered many times on the blog such as Scoop's https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2022/01/2001-meets-century-21.html

It also recalls the hovercraft ride first prize of a Project SWORD campaign, whereby kids could design a new SWORD vehicle, a campaign which never happened I don't think. It was first posted by the Philosophic Toad in 2012 in MC https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2012/05/tuppence-hapenny-to-neverwas-avin-u.html

Have you come across a good transport marketing gimmick?

A real-life flying car takes to the skies!

This is bonkers! 

A flying car ... At last! 

It's from Alef Aeronautics via the BBC.

What do you think readers?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cx20nwlqe07o 

LOFT PROPERTY

Watching old episodes of Toy Hunter has been fun.

Here's two old IDEAL games that Jordan found in American lofts.

This one, Ideal's Mr. Rembrandt, I don't know but I like it. A sort of Mr. Machine robot combined with Spirograph. It draws shapes as it motors round its paper. How cool is that!

Is it one you know? 

This one I do know, Electronic Detective. At least I know of it. I found two of these in the late 1990's at car boot sales and sold them on. A fabulous 'computer' helps work out who the perps are in a sort of electronic Guess Who.

Is this one you know readers?

The Airfix Napoleon Kit

The fourth kit in the Airfix 1/12th scale range was the French Emperor Napoleon.

 Definitely a 'Bad Guy' as far as Britain was concerned. Oddly, this was the only Napoleonic figure in the series (until the much later French Imperial Guard Grenadier in the 1970s) - there was no Duke of Wellington or Lord Nelson to oppose him.

This was the first of the kits to be described on the header as 'One of the Airfix Series of realistic models of Historical Figures'. It was another 1959 release, meaning that about one-third of the entire Historical Figure line came out in the first year.

The kit was numbered M4F, although the paper header actually has MF4 in the upper left hand corner. It was sold in the usual plastic bag. There were just 22 parts, in white plastic, including a small textured base. The header does not actually say 1/12th scale, just 6 Inch Scale Model.

There seems to have been only one type of paper header, unlike the previous Military Figures. At least, I have only found the one style. A change was then made to cardboard boxes in the early 1960s. 

At the same time the kit was moved from Series 1 to Series 2, and re-numbered, becoming M208F. In the early 1970s it became 02508-5. There were again three styles of cardboard box, the last of which carries a copyright date of 1978 on the side.

Now we come to a rather confusing situation. In the late 1970s, Airfix began to reduce the 1/12th scale figure line, before dropping these kits entirely in the early 1980s. But not all the retired kits stayed retired - some popped up again in a later catalogue.

Napoleon was in all the Airfix catalogues up to the 14th Edition (dated 1977). He was dropped from the 15th Edition (dated 1978), but was back in the 16th Edition (dated January 1979), and gone again by the time the 17th Edition (dated December 1979) appeared.

To date, this figure has not been re-issued.

Six photographs, in three batches. From Worthpoint and planetfigure.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

THE ATLANTIC STAR BASE

 

I like this Atlantic Star Base with its dome and blister on the planet surface. They're fabulous looking panels for galactic play.

Its not a line I know really do you?