Where Have All The TV Dinners Gone ?

Hi Woodsy

Here is one for your Food Files. 

When did manufacturers and retailers stop using the term 'TV Dinner' for a pre-cooked, frozen meal that you just heated up in the oven ? 

I do not think I have seen or heard 'TV Dinner' in decades. In the olden days they came in metal trays for heating in a real oven, not plastic trays designed for microwaves.

Remember them readers?

Paul from NZ

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From Woodsy:

A 'TV dinner' ( roast chicken microwave meal) I had last year from the shop Iceland.

Lionheart Art

 There are hundreds of film covers and posters knocking off the famous Star Wars New Hope cover art.

Here's another one, Lionheart. This one is a VHS.

That could almost be Luke and Leia on the artwork! 

Do you know of any sci fi film cover art that's a knockoff? 

War in Pocket?

War in Pocket?

That looks like a G1 Optimus Prime and trailer to me! 

Waddaya think? 

The Captain's Tractor

My young Grandson, Captain Moonbase, has just created this avatar for me on Pixel art, a cool psychedelic tractor.

What do you think?

T O R U S

 I love a ring torus.

Basically a ring donut.

Such a fantastic shape.

Very Sci-Fi and there are at least two or three TV and toy tori. 

Here we have the Nemesis from Star Maidens 1976 ( I copied a doll from the show last year)

Here's the utterly beautiful ring device of Colorforms Xodiac, one of the Outer Space Men. These were my favourite space figures as a kid, bendy like Major Matt and so damn cool.

Photo: Mel Birnkrant

The inventor of the Outer Space Men has his own extensive and wonderful website, in which the gallery includes his pre-package photography such as this truly gorgeous Xodiac and ring.

The Outer Space Men Photo Gallery https://share.google/LX8r3KYEckGda6lTi

Photo: Mel Birnkrant

Tinplate ring space station. Many examples such as this lovely toy by SH of Japan

(I've never seen a plastic ring space station)

Any more Toruses?

Space Explorer Car by LN

 This lovely item was recently seen on auction by Arto, a gorgeous Space Exploration Car.

It's a blister carded Hong Kong friction toy released by LN, model no. 3086.

I'm pretty sure I've seen a similar One Man submarine toy.

Anyone got anything like it? 

It's in it's Jeans

I love this car copter!

So ingenious! 

It's fabulous how the pick-up disgorges a chopper. Does such a thing exist in reality?

What do you think? 

By Jean of West Germany with the distinctive drum and drumsticks logo.

 

Ed's Century 21 Project S.W.O.R.D. Official Manual

Woodsy,

I got a new toy in which this Project S.W.O.R.D. Official Manual was in. The manual is fragile, and the paper has darkened considerably (I'm assuming it would have been white originally?). I don't recall seeing this on Moonbase before, but I could be mistaken.

From Vegas Base

Ed