BARGAIN GALACTICA

Picked up a couple of bargain basement rebooted Battlestar Galactica sampler DVD's yesterday for a pound a piece . Not for everyone, but it'll be a bit of a reminder for me.

Boys! It's Airgam!

 

How cool is Airgam! I can see Frankenstein top right! 

This old catalogue proves how neat a line Airgam Boys was. Is it still going?

It's Another Quiz!

We've not had a quiz for ages so here's a bit of wordplay fun for you to get your rockets round. Simply come up with the right name of these films, books and TV shows. 

For example, Arachnid Fellow would be, yep, Spider Man. Easy.

1. One after the fourth abattoir
2. Ebony orifice
3. Sun Battles
4. Void in the final year of the 20th century
5. Ocean floor journey
6. Sun Hike
7. Male Monarch rubbery dogchew
8. Flee from Hex Hill
9. The Plantain Cracks
10. The Lethal Bumbles
11. A wooden casket for a gory medic
12. Stories from the Mausoleum
13. The Home that Leaked Gore
14. The Final Sun warrior
15. Sandhill
16. World of the Simians
17. No Power Cells Within
18. Prohibited World
19. Dusk Area
20. Scarlet gnome

And a final one:

   21. Satan's Lass from the Red Planet

Walking Spacemen: Tiny steps for all Mankind

These Walking Twins are neat. There's two sets of Spacemen too, the yellow clear-headed fellas with the flag, top right and .. The more common Walking Spacemen, below top right.

I really like the hatted singers too!

Such simple technology, ramp walkers like these use a plastic weight and line, which slowly drags these boys to where they want to go.

Which is your favourite readers? 

MORE 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY CONCEPT ART

 Photos I took at the 2019 London Stanley Kubrick Exhibition of  more Roy Carnon pre-production art for 2001.

'Space Station'

'Aries' over Clavius Moonbase.

Dawn of Man: Note the Monolith.

'Discovery' over Saturn

Sweet Vehicles: Milk Duds Diecasts

Hi Woodsy

You recently mentioned an American chocolate called Milk Duds. So I thought you might be interested in this trio of Hot Wheels Milk Duds die-casts.

They were originally made by Hoffman and Company, of Chicago, in 1928. But are now made by Hershey.

Caramel pieces covered in milk chocolate (although the formula was changed, and it is no longer technically chocolate). Milk Duds have gone through several owners over the decades.

Haulers were a fairly short-lived line of Hot Wheels heavy trucks, released between 1997 and 2002. There were a limited number of cab types, fitted with various body styles.

This conventional-cab model has a white die-cast cab and chassis, with a yellow plastic body, and is from 1997. It was also available in a four-model Haulers Gift Pack.

On to 2010, and the Sweet Rides series of 20 models. These were from one of the premium lines, with metal bodies, metal base plates, and Real Rider wheels.

The Milk Duds model was a '49 Ford C.O.E. (Cab Over Engine) truck. This time in yellow and brown.

Haulin' Gas was a streamlined petrol/gasoline tanker, in yellow, with brown trim. It was part of a ten-model Hershey's series from 2011, and was again a premium model with metal body and metal baseplate.

Four photographs from Worthpoint

Paul Adams from New Zealand

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA HOT WHEELS

 As I've said in the past, I'm not a fan of the garish look of Hot Wheels cars, but, as I've also said there are exceptions.

Here's a couple of Battlestar Galactica 1978 contenders.

These were released by Mattel in 2013, to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the original series,  and use commemorative blister-packs with backing cards that look like the original Mattel packaging from 1978.

 

Woodsy's Book News! American Friction

After five more years of research I've published a second volume on the less-well known Jack Rosenthal toys. 

Having hit the ground running it took half the time volume I took, a whole decade! 

This second volume covers JR toys released by other companies like Gordy International and also UK toys not covered in the first book. 

It's smaller than volume I, with fewer pages so Blurb print it for less. Photography is in part once again by our very own Bill.

It was great fun to do on Blurb and volume III is now also in the works.

This new volume II is called..

 American Friction.

 Details will remain in the side-bar. Should you be interested,  ask me about a discount code.