No Hurry at Harrisons

 A visit to Harrison's emporium in Rotherham is always fun. Vast halls of Old toys, vintage furniture and sausage butties in the cafe. What's not to like!

Here's a few snaps of a recent trip so you can enjoy it too.

See anything you like?

Tune In and Fire

 I've always loved little radios. As a kid I had a small portable transistor. I don't think I had a radio gun but I would have loved these.

The Transogram Girl from Uncle Radio Pistol. How cool is that! The Flashlight Whistle is pretty smart too!

Here's another fab toy bullet firing radio from Japan. It looks really ace.

Do you have any toy radio guns?

You Know When You're Getting Older When .......

You flatten bread bags and save them for re-use another day!

Arto at Vintageland 2025

A couple of weekends back, with Vintageland and the Old Toy Swap coinciding, it was Heaven on Earth!

 I got to spend a good three hours at Vintageland on Saturday, and then a second serving on Sunday. On Saturday, I managed to visit also the Swap for its final hours.

My purchases were mostly smalls, except, finally, for a complete Clifford Batmobile (that beacon is the tricky part). It was a long journey, but well worth it!

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2022/10/artos-batmobiles.html

I found an interesting lot of vintage pencil sharpeners, some by German manufacturer KUM, in various guises (mini television, revolver, football, abacus, automobile), plus a lot of plastic sheriff badges by a Finnish manufacturer Plasto.

 They were 1950's chocolate premiums, and there was an individual badge made for every U.S. state!

 Bought also that Heinerle Manurba Tarzan figure, remembering your great Tarzan recreations.

This is a You Tube video of the Vintageland event.

Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/3cZhl8cF7oU?si=piPAJaIci7rFC8xE

Arto

Helsinki Base

Mo Mortars

 New:

https://youtu.be/k8eboOWYWPI?feature=shared

Old: 

https://youtu.be/jTMT94ObKU8?feature=shared

Which do you like the most?

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!