I know next to zero about Gatchaman. My mate used to collect Battle of the Planets and I guess they're related.
Part of a recent car boot bundle of cheap tackle were these two Japanese die-casts, which I've ID'd as a Jun motorbike and a Condor Attacker, mainly because that's what it says on them! 😂
Are these toys that you know?
I picked up this little Scalextric set, Starter on Rostrum, for a squid tother day at the boot sale.
In poor shape, I've had fun in the sun untangling the arm string, re-gluing the chap to the rostrum (nearly the wrong way round!), re-attaching some fencing and best of all, ironing the box to stiffen it.
Those clever Scalextric folks made it so that pulling the string raises the arm. I wonder if he held a flag originally?
The silver rocket in today's Deep Purple Piles had me intrigued, so a bit of silver surfing took me to Buyee and Japan.
Turns out it's a rubber!
It seems to accompany gorgeous Thunderbirds vehicle moneyboxes. Not sure what the green bits are. You?
The Japanese love of all things Anderson knows no bounds! It's in their soul!
Such a gorgeous little thing. It always amazes me the piles of stuff SpaceX and it's kin turns up in and often it's Apollo Space Exploring piles like this.
There's a few extras here too, a silver missile, a grey Enola, a TB3 knockoff and even a sleeping Captain America!
Do you have piles like this?
A couple of space theme record covers caught my eye recently.
The Moog Invasion. Not sure which robot that is buts it's part of a long tradition in the Sixties and Seventies to use toys on the covers.
A rocket-powered church steeple and so beautifully done.
I first came across this in Roger's big softback Visions.
What a talent.
Do you like Roger Dean's work?
Hi Woodsy
Some extra info. The small boxed Bandai vehicles - I attach some images of the ‘MS’ made versions, which are identical, albeit they have no friction motor.
Regards
Terry
