Space Snips

More Spanish space, here's a cut-out album with lots of spaceships to clip and snip.

I see a Bandai toy - name? -  far left. Anything you see?

The Vorpal Blade

 Something spooky happened today. I was having my morning coffee, when I switched off the ever-depressing news and flicked onto Tales from the Unexpected.

In my mind I hoped it would be an episode I watched decades ago called the Vorpal Blade.

I couldn't believe it. It was!

There are 112 episodes of Tales of the Unexpected, so I guess the chances of me simply stumbling across this episode on TV are pretty slim.

But there it was just as I remembered it.

Starring Peter Cushing in his last ITV role, this 1983 slice of unpleasantness centres around Heidelberg University around 1930, where rival fraternities are battling it out in the traditional duelling sport of Schläger or Mensur.

The aim of this stiff-looking fencing style is to cut the opponents face with the sword. In upper-class Germany these scars were marks of honour back then.

Needless to say, the particular bout in the show goes horribly wrong with blood spilt and reputations ruined.

The final scene of Cushing and his friend chatting as old men was a neat twist and yes, unexpected.

The title the Vorpal Blade was borrowed from tne Lewis Carol poem the Jabberwocky.

I wonder when I'll see this episode again? 

Do you have a favourite or recurring episode?

Flight at the Museum

There is an interesting old board 

game called Sputnik I saw on a Museum's superb site about German space board games. I love its plastic rockets! They remind me of a project SWORD Probe Force 3! 

Is it a game you know readers?

You can check out the games site here

 https://www.wirtschaftswundermuseum.de/weltraumspiele.html

What do you think?

Shiny Shiny!

 New to me and words fail.

Holy cow!

An iridescent beetle road sweeper maybe?

Nope!

It's got a dalekesque robot gunner inside!

One for you or for the space dump?

Breaking the Mould

I was intrigued by the 9 inch rubber moulds for sale on eBay.

What would you say the figures are?

Let's go to war.....

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxyVBoRbY9_CaJ_PkGNJLQpNuyYTSJJxKu?si=BFGqHmYfWxlR__ZG 

In the pipe 5x5!

MJ

Mystery Man

Slim Pickens today, our last trip to Thorpe Arch boot sale this year.

 A forty minute drive is too much for a dwindling outdoor sale reduced solely to traders with only the odd family braving the cold with a stall. We'll start going again next year. 

My only purchase was the 50p mystery man dated 2016. Any ideas folks? 

Are you still car booting or flea marketing?

PS.

Identified by Bill, here's what a bubble carded Mechanic looked like. Mines missing the tools.

Anyone else got this figure?

Laser Sunday Afternoon

 This Lancha Laser is such a neat design. I assume it's a sub. Seen on a Spanish site, it echoes other toys like the Japanese Gakken.

Do you like it?