The Noir Knight

https://youtube.com/shorts/GOqpdtN8dSM?si=k_TRIg7BBswFjLCp  

hi woodsy check out this Batman film Noir short i created with some black and white photos i took recently,  somehow the ai took it upon its self to add dialogue 😀  who knew 😀 

Have a great Christmas 

MJSCB 

Z-Cars, Bottle tops and Höfner

Wandering round Oakham Museum in Rutland I spotted these old games.

Z-Cars was a great TV show. Don't think I had the game but I had the annual.

Did you?

They also had milk bottle tops! Remember those!

Out and about last night there I spotted a gorgeous electric guitar, another area I'd collect if I was rich.

A Höfner Colorama from 1961.

This is what it would it would look like in daylight! (Seen online in another shop).

Wow!

Is Xmas When you got New Toys?

Was it Christmas when you got your new toys as a kid?

It was for me.

OK, there was a slow drip of gifts and impulse buys throughout the year, maybe a surprise at Easter and certainly pick-me-ups when I was ill and off school (yay!).

But it was Christmas Day when my shelves were re-stocked properly, the new must-haves like Haunted House and the Johnny Seven One Man Army appearing under the tree (just how did Father Christmas get that down the chimney?). 

My Christmas-located birthday just added to the festive bonanza and basically the two big days brought me up to date in the world of toydom and annuals, not to mention clothes and selection boxes! (They were the best!)

What was it like for you readers? 

Tony's Xmas Card

Paul's Merry Christmas Message

Hi Woodsy

I just wanted to wish you, and your family, a Merry Christmas. And to thank you for another year of wonderful posts. Something to look forward to every day.

Paul from NZ

Airships and Saucers

These are unusual toy spaceships. Remote controlled or sound controlled, they appear to have similar designs. 

The Red Astronef is described as an airship.

The white Space Ship can be shot at using the sound pistol. 

Do you like them?

The MoonBase Christmas Quiz 🎄

OK Moonbasers, time to grab a glass of advocaat and have a go! It's as easy as mince pie!🕯️

1. The name of the building in Die Hard
2. When did King Wenceslas look out
3. In which carol is Let Nothing Ye Dismay
4. When is Nikolaus celebrated
5. Who released the Secret Sam attache case
6. Name the Three Kings
7. What was there none of at the Inn
8. Who appears in a Christmas Carol: Santa Clause or Father Christmas
9. Which toy is Arnie after in Jingle All the Way
10. Does Mistletoe grow in the soil
11. Which singer sang Walking in the Air in the Snowman
12. Is the North Pole in the Antarctic or the Arctic
13. Who brings gifts on her broom on the Italian Epiphany
14. What colour is the Spirit of Christmas Present's clothes in A Christmas Carol
15. What is it that we won't go until we've got some of it
16. Which two male leads appear in the film The Holiday
17. Where did the first Christmas tree in London's Trafalgar Square come from
18. Small plastic pegs pushed into a paper picture in an illuminated frame. Which toy is this
19. Who invented the 12" GI Joe toy figure
20. Which song is sung at the end of Elf to boost Santa's sleigh
21. Which two glass creatures does Kevin buy in Home Alone 2
22. What will Rudolph go down in
23. Where is Jack Skellington when he discovers Christmas in the film Nightmare Before Christmas
24. Which old British black and white TV sketch do Germans watch every New Year's Eve
25. What does Buddy do at his Dad's work at the end of Elf
26. Who is Joulupukki?

🧸🖖🎅