The Super Jet Boat

 Sometimes something comes along which knocks me off my feet.

This is such a one seen on Tradera.

The Super Jet Boat  - from Yonezawa I think.

Wow! I love its simplicity and primary colours!

Google Lens came up with the Plaston Supercar. I can see why. 

My own mind's eye thought of the fabulous Submarine Aircraft Carrier from JR21 Toys.

There's also a hint of the Sea Bird I think. 

Has anyone got a Yonezawa Super Jet Boat?

Field Trip

 I took Moonbase Junior in the field next door the other day. Currently fallow, It's a big field with lots to see like a reed bed and old sheds.

The wildlife moment of the hike was an aerial mobbing of a Red Kite by five angry local Buzzards. It was amazing and Junior and me wuz thrilled.

A keen budding archeologist, Junior had a real good look around the hedge edges and the waste tracts for interesting bits.

This is what he found just lying around.

Golfballs, a Shippams potted beef glass jar, a Country Way milk bottle (no idea if the jar or bottle are old), fragments of pot and brick, a shell casing, a bulb bottom ...

.... and this curly bit of ornate glazed pottery, which he said was the best catch.

Amazingly Google Lens ID'd it and it turns out to be the foot of this German lustre ware pot basket! Again, no idea of age. You?

Still, Junior was chuffed with his field trip! 

We've Found A Noddy

 

I picked up this mysterious broken chappie a while back.

Terranova47 kindly ID'd him as a Noddy.

Using that and the tiny MARX brand on his back I had a gander as to which Noddy toy it was.

Turns out it's this cute fully-posable figure that came in a smart window box.

I was never a Noddy follower - nor much Enid Blyton at all really - but this is a nice toy. Mines missing all his clobber and that quaint watering can.

Are you a Noddy or Enid Blyton fan?

Mystery Monster

 

Here's another Spanish CI FI cover and I bet that monster is lifted.

Anyone know?

No Toy is an Island

The island of Taiwan has a long proud history of toy manufacture.

Here's three space toys from the former Formosa.

See what you think readers?

The Super Jet Car. It looks chunky.

The Machine Cop. You do not want to mess with this guy! 

The most ambitious of the three here and with echoes of Gatchaman, the Dolphin II.

I really like the look of this. You?

The Price of Karloff

 I love browsing the old Spanish sci fi pulp Ciencia Ficcion, there are so many ace lifted covers! 

These two use old monster masters!

Vincent graces this one! 

Not seen the robot before. You?

And here's Boris! The Bride too! Not sure about the glass case or the thing at the back. You?

Six Million Dollar Three Dimensional

 

On a recent mooch round Pontefract these two oldies caught my vintage eye.

Above is Three Dimensional Noughts and Crosses. How space age is that! 

Now I've got it in my head that Spock played this in Star Trek. Is that right?

My older brothers played a similar tiered game called Space Lines when I was a kid. Remember that?

Below is Steve Austin in his special chamber. Not a toy I had - I was too old by then - but one I like. The best feature on the figure is the see-through eye. Ha e you looked through one?

Skin Deep

 When I saw this Galaxia 2001 cover it rang bells. I've seen that skin diver before.

In fact , I've got it iny Eerie comics collection, the very same frogman on the superb cover of Eerie #3! 

Waddaya reckon?

Footnote:

You can get prints and copies of Frazetta's original cover art. Here's one online from 1975.