Wooden UFO Interceptor Prototype?

As alerted by the ever-cool Dinky Toys TV Space Blog here's auction news of a possible prototype Dinky UFO Interceptor! It's wooden! 

See what you think readers.

https://www.vectis.co.uk/f017-lot-1121820

Image: Vectis

Xmas Passed

 I've just come upon this great photo on facebook local history site, of the toy department in Liverpool's Lewis's department store. It would be the mid to late seventies, judging by the Matchbox Cascade toy front right and the Dusty Bin toy next to it. Somewhere in this morass is probably the Dekkertoys space set too! Lewis's was one of the best toy departments in Liverpool and had huge window displays at xmas, probably six separate spaces, each with a distinct theme. I clearly recall the 1969 xmas display, full of Matt Mason and Billy Blastoff toys, supported by lots of japanese tin robots and rockets. Those were the days.

Stamp your Fleet!

 More gorgeous space stamps.

I love these three Ajmans

This Ajman Apollo 15 could be the Project SWORD Scout 3! 

How many Manama Novas?

Any you like?

Three Wheels on my Wagon

 I like this Loco Movel, which I think is Argentinian.

Essentially a monster truck with tri-tyre wheels.

It's reminiscent of the Paya Z and the rare Century 21 Lunar Climber - see labels.

Do you like it? 

ONCE (Again) IN A BLUE MOON

A re-post of the original Dekkertoys diorama bloglet, with a new addendum at the end!

I love plastic moonscape dioramas. Ever since I saw one with the Spacex Superset and the Johnny Astro toys, I was smitten. It was so much easier to imagine that the little plastic toys  from LP and Tri-ang were landing on the lunar surface, when there was an otherworldly terrain to aim for.

JOHNNY ASTRO BASEPLATE

SPACEX SUPERSET

However, I am mystefied as to why almost all of the available moonscapes are all painted blue! I got a set of four Dekkertoys vacform moonscapes from the early 80's and shaded them in blue tones, to match the two main ones.

DEKKERTOYS

I picked up a small vacform battlefield diorama, only about 8 inches long and after a quick wash of blues and lilacs, It made for a nice base for some of the very small toys.

BATTLEFIELD DIORAMA

AIRFIX LEM BASEPLATE

 

The Tri-ang Luna-Cy game goes a step further and gives you a whole moon hemisphere to play with too! You could attach this to the back of the door and blast spring powered rockets in to it!

TRIANG LUNA-CY GAME

Guardsman Games 'Moonshot' - basically tiddly winks with a nice 4" diameter crater base!

Finally the two remaining items from the Dekkertoys set that I cadged off the company, the bubble car and blue mercury capsule. Both inferior quality to the originals and probably, re-purposed cake toppers.

Half-Remembered Telly

Thinking back to UK telly in the70's, 80's and 90's when we had normal, terrestrial channels, there were a few TV series that passed me by. Here are those I can recall the names of. Any thoughts readers? Did you watch them? 

Northern Exposure

Eerie Indiana

My Private Idaho

Indian in a Cupboard

This Life

Dark Skies

Millennium ( I saw a couple)

Chocky

Sliders

seaQuest

Quantum Leap

Animal

Street Hawk

Airwolf

Kodiak( I think I saw this with my Dad)

Goosebumps

Are you Afraid of the Dark?

Angel

Worzel Gummidge

Lexx ( I actually watched this a lot, Ch.5, late Friday night after the pub!)

Any more you half-remember?

Baking Boats

 Hello Woodsy

Here is your photo with the unidentified yellow boat ( bottom right) and mine (green and red) with my old Kellogg's cereal toys. All are baking soda powered.

Terranova47

USA

Hot Wheels 1966 Bat Boat

Hi Woodsy

Hot Wheels have been producing Batman models, in several sizes, for the last couple of decades. Mostly in the Mainline series.

Most years there has been a Batman sub-series of five (occasionally ten) models, all depicting actual Bat-vehicles. These are sold individually on cards.

Then there is a 5-pack, containing five different models, only one or two of which are Bat-vehicles; with a Gotham City Police car, and two or three villain cars. The latter are unique to these sets, and not available as individual models.

For 2025 there were four different Batmobiles in the Batman series, from live-action television, cartoons, and films. All were existing models in new colours.

The sole new model for the year is something really special – a small scale 1966 Bat Boat. Overall length is 78mm.

This first appeared in the 1966 Batman movie, which was a spin-off from the TV series, and was based on a modified Glastron motor boat. Aurora did a plastic kit of the boat, to go with their other Bat-models.

Corgi released a die-cast boat at the time, with a trailer, and plastic figures of Batman and Robin. There was also a Corgi Juniors version, again with a trailer.

In addition to their small-scale models, Hot Wheels have a 1/50th scale Batman line, and a Batboat on Trailer appeared in 2009. This has been re-issued several times.

The new Mainline Bat Boat has a metal deck and fin (with cast-in Bat-logo), in metallic blue; with a blue plastic hull; silver-grey seats; and clear windscreens. The tampo printing is excellent.

The model will not float, and runs on three black plastic wheels hidden under the hull – this time there is no trailer. The underside markings describe the model as the 1966 Bat Boat, with various copyright notices, the Hot Wheels logo, and give the country of manufacture as Malaysia, but there is no copyright date for the model itself.

The card is very nice, with an illustration of the boat, but the figures shown are not included. Both the DC comics and Batman Classic TV Series logos appear in the upper left corner, with the new for 2025 logo on the right.

Four photographs.

Like it?

Paul Adams from New Zealand