FAB EXPRESS OUT NOW

 The latest FAB Express magazine has been sent out to members of Fanderson. The issue has all the latest Anderson news and includes fans' recollections about TV Century 21, and obituaries on Prentis Hancock and Clifton Jones. There's also mention of a upcoming special event featuring Joe 90 and UFO.

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STUNNING!

I would have loved finding this beauty hanging up in my local market.

I love that colourful backing card.

IT'S A BUGS LIFE

 The popular and fun looking Corgi Lunar Bug, which appeared from November, 1970 until sometime in 1972.

Door sometimes appears reversed and the folding solar panel wings are sometimes yellow. 

Paul's Lion Book of Speed

Hi Woodsy

Lion was a British weekly comic for boys, published between 1952 and 1974. In addition to the actual comic, and the hardback Annuals, there were a number of other books carrying the Lion name, including this Lion Book of Speed, which has the copyright date 1962.

I found this at a recent Lions Club book sale, for just $1.00 NZ (44 New Pence). The spine has been taped up with brown parcel tape, but the contents are intact.

It measures 10 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches (27 by 19 1/2 cm), and runs to 128 pages including the hardback covers. Black and white text and line drawings, with red on a few pages; and several pages of black and white photographs.

It is rare to find older books like this at the sale, and I was very pleased to snap it up. The contents cover everything that goes fast.

Speed in the Animal Kingdom; cars; motorcycles; bicycles; speed record holders, Father and Son, Malcolm and Donald Campbell; boats and ships; Hovercraft; computers; aircraft; the Schneider Trophy seaplane race; the X-15; trains; snow and ice sports; and finally out in to space...

There are several cut-away drawings of various machines. One of the photos shows a model of the Super Caravelle super-sonic airliner – ancestor of the Concorde.

Anyone got anything like this?

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Moon Traffic: It's Triffic!

I recall finding a loose Moon Traffic vehicle like this decades ago at a toy fair. I didn't know what it was back then. 

The thing I recognised was the antenna, which was the same as on my SWORD Scout 1. It was the wrong one and took me years to get the proper rectangular antenna, courtesy of Bill. I then lost it in the compost! 

Moon Traffic is a great knock-off of SpaceX: such blatant copying. A me-too with bells on, Roxy even shoved in a Golden Astronaut. Was that a SpaceX one I wonder? 

A lovely and unusual little space vehicle nevertheless with echoes of those big tinplate moon rovers around in the Sixties. Is it a toy you have or any other Moon Traffic readers? 

The one pictured is on Worthpoint's archive.

Looey's Tiger

I  thought these pages from the 1969 Tiger Annual  bought at The Chapel Street Bazaar would interest you Moonbasers.

Did you have it? 

BOLDLY GO!

I must admit I have little interest in the small Hotwheels toys, I much prefer Johnny Lightning,  or the older Matchbox toys, as they both provoke plenty of nostalgic thoughts. 

Even though this Hotwheels example below uses a subject I enjoy,  I think it looks awful and gimmicky. It reminds me of those 'bobble-head' toys that some people are obsessed with collecting.

Each to his own, I suppose. 

Kevin's Star Cops Box

Another obscure scratchbuild. 

 This is my replica of Box, the personal computer of the lead character in the 1987 BBC series Star Cops.

Kevin

UK