Do You Want to Know More?

I really like this boxy 1996 Galoob Starship Troopers Drop Ship. Do you?

I've never seen this toy in the flesh. It must be big. In fact I've never come across any Starship Troopers toys, unlike say, ALIEN and all those strange Xenomorphs.

In some respects Starship Troopers sits well with ALIENS, albeit much more tongue in cheek with its frenetic TV ads asking Do You Want To Know More (or was that Robocop?),  enormous brain bugs and very giddy troopers. I enjoyed the film.

Have you anything from Starship Troopers? 

Will's Hornby Chocolate

Hi Woodsy

My latest purchase. A Hornby O gauge Cadburys van. I thought…what’s this got to do with moonbase and space? Then I remembered that someone took some Cadburys chocolate on the shuttle up to the International Space Station!

Will O

Virgin Territory? The Red toy Thunderbird 2

 I wondered why I'd never seen one of these red Thunderbird 2's at a car boot sale. There's just 250 of them! 

Made in 1999 by Vivid Imaginations, this Virgin Atlantic release was a limited edition blister carded toy.

Here's a carded one and a loose one I saw on auction. 

What do you think? 

Is it the only red TB2 toy?

ITV Sold!

It was an odd feeling hearing that ITV will be sold. 

As a UK boomer kid ITV was so important for my 60's and early 70's telly watching. After all, there were only three TV channels back then in Blighty, ITV being one, providing no less than true icons like Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and The Avengers.

OK, regionalization of ITV meant that different names appeared on the box, like Anglia and LWT - where I lived in Preston it was Granadaland - but it was all ITV.

In the modern world of a million trillion stations available on everything with a screen ITV probably isn't that important now. It's not a channel I seek out myself anymore, so times have changed.

Anyways, ITV is sold. Another part of our childhood gone.

What do you think?

You know the Drill

 I like these little Japanese candy moguras.

They have a basic SpaceX LT-10 vibe too.

They connect too!

You like? 

Bizarre Oz Space Balls on Beach

This is bizarre!

These strange spheres have landed on Oz's beaches.

Australian Fire Department

Seeing the photo I immediately thought of the LP space dome balls as seen on my friend Paul Vreede's fabulous website! Could the objects be big LP's! 

 https://share.google/sKuLpK86YsIqlA4kf

You can read the full BBC account of this Australian beachcomber space junk found in Queensland here:

 https://share.google/DTggQoTt42HzGcxHC 

Have you any space junk?

Ever come across anything that's been in space?

Mystery Spaceship Toy

 I had to look twice at this dalekesque spacecraft online. I thought it might be a Major Matt Mason vehicle I don't know!

Standing just 12cm tall it's alas, too short for the burly Major.

Is there another suitable figure you'd get to pilot it readers?

I'm unsure if it's make and whether it moves too.

In Praise of Cuppa Soup

 There's nothing quite like a Cuppa Soup. My fave is tomato.

A relatively new experience for me, I don't recall cup soups as a kid.

Like a spaceship powdered meal, It's fun to make them in the garden with Junior using a camping stove to heat the water. A camping thing too.

Do you cuppa soup?

What's it called where you are?