Mattel's Hot Shots Anyone?

I've not been able to find a TV ad for Mattel's vintage Hot Shots online. I saw one recently, Heat Wave, a dragster, in an antique shop and thought it looked really well-designed and not a range I know at all.

Here's a short introductory gallery to the toys by a collector I found  on You Tube. The backing music is noisy so maybe turn it off. The toy vehicles look great tho. I love that long motorbike!

Did you have Hot Shots? Do you like them? Would you class them as Redlines?

https://youtube.com/shorts/7iZBKSLJWbs?si=z-noonnQ2pACtbDt 

Mystery Spanish SpaceX

Being a fan of knockoff SpaceX toys I was intrigued by two which appeared on Spain's Todocollecion.

I'm used to seeing Bullycan's Aviones Cosmicos there but the seller thought the pair maybe another vintage Spanish brand well-known for simple plastic toys,namely Montaplex.

All my Aviones Cosmicos is in storage so I can't really compare them to the pictures.

See what you think, images from Todocollecion.

Estes Excalibur

Wow! What a design!

Do you like it!

https://www.rocketreviews.com/estes-patrol-cruiser-excalibur-larry-zeilmann.html 

Globe Making by Hand

Hi Woodsy,

Another batch of British Pathe films, this time from 1949 (in black and white) and 1955 (in colour), on the making of globes.

 From a wooden sphere, covered in paper, nine layers of plaster, segments of map being glued in place, and a final spray coat of varnish – all done by hand.

Globes were expensive, and you can see why once you realise the amount of labour and hand finishing involved in making them. Pathe packed a lot in to these short films.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldUnXrZYfY0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RWcWSN4HhI

Another look at modern globe making, which is still impressive. But a lot more mechanised.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgErv6M19yY

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Have you got a globe?

Remember Mr. Jinks and Pixie and Dixie?

Hi Woodsy.

Still clearing! Found this. Only vaguely remember this cartoon. 

You?

Will O.

Space Bird 6 Update

 Last September for the bloggiversary Arto treated us to his fabulous Space Bird 6 duo in a special post.

Well here's another Space Bird 6 I spotted whilst googling. 

It's a colour reversal of the red yellow one Arto has (the other, 1 of 1, was the same as Artos)

I love these Space Birds with their Fireball XL5 looks.

Do you? 

The new Project SWORD Comic Kickstarter

John Freeman over at the excellent Down The Tubes comics blog very kindly alerted me to the upcoming kickstarter campaign for a Project SWORD graphic novel by Anderson Entertainment and Time Bomb comics.

Here's John's own post on Down the Tubes, which gives the kickstarter link and explains the enterprise in detail: https://share.google/QNm2nbrRsJhldG3wC

I have signed up as a follower and the prospect of a comic hardback version is tantalizing to say the least, whatever you think of the comic style. It will be the first SWORD publication since the new story and illustration in the custom TV21 a good few years ago.

Many of Gerry Anderson's famous comic strips have found new life in complete collected editions from his son's company, Anderson Entertainment, and I hope that this kickstarter may one day lead to interest in a hardback collection of the much less well-known Project SWORD strips, which featured in SOLO and TV21 comics.

Here's to a fair wind behind this brave new campaign. 

What do you think?

Gorzak! His Monster's Voice

 I must say Gorzak is  news to me. 

A 1990's Tyco dogzilla, it's the monster you control.

I would have adored it as a monstrous kid.

I mean, voice controlled! How cool!

Waddaya say?