BATTLESTAR GALACTICA LUNCH TIN

 Some photos of the Battlestar Galactica lunch tin, made by Aladdin Industries in 1978.

Another piece of spin off merchandise I'm pretty sure we never got in the U.K. This lovely example is currently on eBay.

Sarge Lives!

 As this round of our MoonBase International custom toys slowly comes to a close, our latest reincarnation is this 1960's Action Man knockoff.

This was Bill's childhood buddy and along with some of the original kit he totally deserves a new lease of life. The buddy that is, not Bill! 

With a good scrub-up and freshly cleaned clothes, Bill's buddy, via the Quartermasters Store, has been sent on one last mission before hanging up his dog tags:

To secure the back garden for the summer!

Mission Status: SNAFU!

After debriefing, The next step in buddy's reinstatement and immediate de-mobbing will be a new retirement package, which is currently in pre-production.

In the meantime our plastic chum is off down the NAAFI for some well-earned tiffin.

Said retirement package concept is pictured below, a full backing card designed by Bill with a baguette box blister I found in true rack toy style. 

Alas, Bill's old buddy proved just too buff for that blister, so a simpler demob package was offered, a basic baggy with this neat header card produced by Bill, his buddy now re-named The Sarge.

Fully bagged up, Sarge is now looking forward to some decent kip in the cabinet.

Hope you like it.

Conan's Back!

 Last week I dropped on a neat Hasbro Conan Thunder Battle Stallion from 1993, complete with armour for the horse and figure.

A full and glorious box set would look like this example online. Besides a Conan figure I'm also missing his original sword, sickle and the red horse crossbows.

Then finding a correct and bargain pull-string sickle-slashing Conan on eBay I've been able to further my Thunder set. 

I then re-coloured his locks, boots, wristband and shorts (I don't have the right brown tho!)

With a new DIY sword and fully armoured up, here's Conan and his horse ready to battle evil and sorcery again.

Hope you like it.

Addendum:

Conan Conundrum!

There appear to be two versions of the Hasbro Thunder set.

One is just Thunder and just the word Conan

One is Thunder Battle Stallion and Conan The Adventurer

The question is, if I have the shield, do I need the sickle or not?

SPACE:1999 CONCEPT ART

A couple of examples of preproduction art by Keith Wilson, showing Area 2 from 'Breakaway '.

Baron Greystoke was reminded of this image on the 2001:A Space Odyssey soundtrack album.

2001:A SPACE ODYSSEY CONCEPT ART

Some preproduction concept art for 2001:A Space Odyssey by Roy Carnon.

Rover the Moon

We've seen Paul V's ace toy Moon Crawler recently. Here's another.

It's the online poster for an X-Minus One podcast I happened upon on Lifehacker (I've not listened to it):

https://lifehacker.com/15-sci-fi-podcasts-to-listen-to-when-you-need-a-break-f-1847881059 

The poster is lifted from John Schoenherr's superb magazine cover showing the original Moon Crawler with those wonderful balloon tyres and science arms.

Years ago in 2011 John's son Ian was kind enough to show us his Dad's other fantastic Moon Crawler artwork:

 https://share.google/A0MvirSdlubIdxE3t

That crawler painting's sure got legs. Do you like John's art?

Task Force Blue

 This gorgeous Project SWORD inspired Task Force 1 popped up my feed earlier in the year.

Weve seen metallic blue TF1s before on MC.

This one's got a fabulous orange undercarriage.

I had thought it was a Tarheel toy but I'm unsure about this model number.

Does anyone have a Tarheel Task Force 1?

Does anyone have this blue metallic toy?

AVENGERS GIFT SET

 The popular Corgi Avengers Gift Set.