Kang Moguras!

 I found this Kang figure and a massive plastic auger at the car boot! 

Yes!

Kang Moguras! 

The auger is the same colour scheme as the Masters of the Universe Man at Arms figure too!

Mortar Works

 This modern mortar toy is like the one I had in the 60's. It looks so damn cool.

Did you  have anything like this?

Looey Loves to Read the Blog in the Morning

I love a read of Moonbase in the morning! I especially enjoy the interaction with the other viewers who leave comments.

My only regret is we can't upload pictures as well as comments.

Just today there were three posts I wish I could visually contribute to.

In no particular order:

Talk of Video cassettes reminded me of a rubber suit I was commissioned to build for Fox Video of Giger's Alien, way back in the early 80's....

Talk of 60's War comics made me think about how I'm using the layouts to inspire my own puppet film...

Talk of Mole Machines and kit bashing fits in with my current 3D modelling adventures...

Thanks for making my mornings so stimulating, Moonbasers!

A Couple of More of Ed's Banks

Woodsy,

I totally forgot my Lionel boxcar banks. Lionel turned several of what we call 'shorty' boxcars into banks.

 They had coin slots on the roof, but no way to access the coins unless you took off the body casting. I only have two of maybe the half-dozen Lionel made:

-Van Camp's

-Swift Premium

From Vegas Base

Ed

The Corgi Dick Dastardly Racing Car

The Corgi Dick Dastardly car recently came up, so I thought it was time for a quick look. It was part of a series devoted to film and TV related models, some of which had Corgi Comics on the boxes.

A few were original models, such as The Beatles Yellow Submarine; while others were based on an existing Corgi toy, with a few changes, and the addition of a plastic character figure. This allowed a 'new' model to be produced very cheaply, using a retired die-cast, as the only new items needed were some plastic figures.

This is usually described as a Wacky Races model, but I am not so sure. Wacky Races originally aired in the US 1968-69, while the spin-off show Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines was on 1969-71.

Both Dick Dastardly and his sidekick Muttley the Dog are wearing WW1 style leather flying helmets and goggles, so I think they are actually from the latter show. But driving a racing car.

The Corgi Comics 809 Dick Dastardly Racing Car was released in July 1973, and was available 1973-74. According to The Great Book of Corgi, 117,000 were sold.

Now we come to something odd. The Great Book of Corgi says 'This car was originally designed for the Qualitoy's range which had long been discontinued'.

The Qualitoys line was introduced in 1969, as a range of simple, sturdy models aimed at younger children. The models were all trucks, and shared a large number of components, which kept costs down.

There were no cars in the range, and I can not find any other Corgi models that look anything like the Dick Dastardly car. So was the Racing Car intended to be part of an expanded Qualitoys range, that was never actually produced ?

I have no idea, but looking at the Dick Dastardly car, it seems to be a dragster or dirt track racer which has been modified to turn it in to a Character Car. Everything which follows is pure speculation on my part, with no evidence at all to support it.

Having the rear-mounted engine enclosed within a cage seems very unusual – was this originally intended for the driver ? The large, plastic Dick Dastardly figure then going where the engine might have originally gone ?

Muttley the Dog is clinging to the top of the vehicle, and looking very unhappy (I would be too). This figure often seems to be missing from models being offered on-line.

The underside of the model says Corgi Comics, Dick Dastardly Racer (although the box says Dick Dastardly Racing Car), and Made in Gt. Britain. 

The model came in the usual 1970s Corgi window box.

Four photographs from Worthpoint

Paul Adams from New Zealand

I've Got it Taped

 I've been in the attic this afternoon now it's warm up there.

It's been years since I looked at my old VHS video collection, so I got them out of their crates and had a look, cleaned them up and formed a plan to put them on shelving. I guess I have around a hundred. 

Mostly 1980's big box VHS, there are some clamshells too, along with a group of slipcases. Quite a few are pre-certification. There are a very small number of Betamax. I'm only half way through getting them out.

Do you have any old videos?

Remember these?

Rob's Amazing Model Moguras

Woodsy,

In response to your recent "Driller Thriller" post, here are pix of two Midori Moguras models I have built. 

The smaller, yellow one is Moguras Jr., and the larger, orange one is King Moguras, the cousin of the toy version you've shown. 

There is also a larger model, called "Big Moguras," which I have never run across.

Rob C

USA

There's a Mole in Ed's Yard

Woodsy,

Here's my lone mole from Lincoln Intl. It's a nice little beast and goes well with many of my other smaller sized space toys.

Have you anything like this?

Ed

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