From the Blog Xmas 2008

Treasures of Will Osborne

December 2008

Above - Spacex II Booster Rocket backing card rear Above - Spacex II MOLAB backing card rear Above - Spacex II Lunar Orbitor backing card rear

Above - Spacex II Lunar Orbitor and Apollo Tracker backing card rears and Boxed Moon Base Set ( foldable plastic lunar plan not shown)

Above - Spacex II MOLAB backing card front and Lunar Orbiter front (with toy, astronaut and badge)

Above - top left: Elf Toys Tracy Island Prototype with Dinky die- casts: Top right - Elf Toys Tracy Island actual toy with JR21 vehicles

Bottom left - Spacex boxed Superset with hard plastic moon surface; Bottom right - Linemar space vehicle

Above - top left: MARX Lunar Exploration boxed sets: Top right - 2001 NASA remote- control Glider

Bottom Left: MARX Moon Grabbers: Bottom right - MARX Moon Grabber Train Set

Will Osborne, a good friend over many years and a keen Space toy enthusiast, has sent me these pictures of part of his brilliant collection of Spacex, Thunderbirds and Marx toys. The original pictures are colour photocopies and prints, some of which I received many years ago. Enjoy! Xmas '08

If Only it was an Optimus Christmas!

P  R  I  M  E

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