The Eagle is Branded

I saw this vintage boxed EAGLES Terror of the Deep Adventure set, branded Airfix, on auction and I think I love it!

That box art! 

As a kid I had the Airfix Deetail toys and the wonderful Mini-Sets, but never these Eagles. Did you readers?

We're there action figures to go with them? 

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Original Eagles artwork of the Exterminator held by the V&A Museum, London. 

How cool!

MJ's Dan Dare Pilot of the Future Fan Edit

https://youtu.be/NJU3F3tKTJY?is=0WEmbAGytjxuM_pe

Hi Woodsy, here's a little thing I cooked up from a few photos and some ai trickery.

I hope you like it.

Regards MJ

Southcoast Base

Joined at the Hip

There's something Star Warsy about this flying hip flask. I don't know if it's real or CGI. I do like the look of it with all those bits joined on.

I've never owned a hip flask. You? 

Ed's YOT Thunder Bird 3

Woodsy,

I came across the tiny YOT Thunderbirds 3 a few weeks ago and thought I would pick it up. 

It was quite cheap and appears to have had one too many atmosphere re-entry's, but I thought the USAF stickers on it were a blast! 

I'm not familiar with YOT toys but this little thing fits in quite well with SpaceX / Golden Astronaut / LP sized toys.

From Vegas Base

Ed

Radio Radio!

 I was amazed how many space related and novelty radios came up on auction this week. 

There's Proteus, satellites and so many more. 

Do you see anything you like?

Have you a novelty radio?

Philip's Finished Photos of 1/72 Scale Icarus Spaceship Crash Diorama From the 1970 Movie BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES

The groundbreaking, classic 1968 sci-fi movie THE PLANET OF THE APES introduced the world to the very sleek ANSA (American National Space Administration) spaceship that accidentally propelled American astronauts 2,000 years into Earths future where apes are dominate over humans.

In that movie the Liberty 1 spaceship (later nicknamed Icarus by the movie fanbase) crash lands in a lake and sinks. In the 1970 sequel movie (BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES), a second near identical rescue ship is launched and travels on the same trajectory into the future.

This ship lands tail first on the ground but an apparent explosion in the drive section causes it to topple over, burning up the rear half of the vehicle. Sci-fi TV fans may recognize that some of the wreckage in the burned out section is actually the landing legs of the Jupiter 2 spaceship from the 1960s CBS TV Series LOST IN SPACE.

The image showing the spaceship after the fire is one of the most iconic from any of the PLANET OF THE APES movies. I have long wanted a model diorama depicting this setting, so I was very happy when resin garage manufacturer Skyhook Models came out with their model kit.

The diorama base has a length of 14-1/2 inches (368mm) and the spaceship length is 8 and 3/8 inches (212mm). The last couple of photos are stills from the movie showing the spaceship crash site. 

 I hope you enjoy the photos.

Philip Gore

USA

Who can Clone SpaceX? Bullycan!

 What's better than one toy aircraft carrier? 

Five! And they all carry SpaceX Hawk copies. These are red, more often they're green. These were seen on Spain's online marketplace. 

The maker was Spain's Bullycan and although it isn't labelled as such they're part of their wider Aviones Cosmicos Spacox clone brand. 

The bag header depicts Bullycan's other plastic boats and interestingly the more complex yellow aircraft carrier #3162, which carries three of the multi-coloured Aviones Cosmicos SpaceX clones, which are found carded in packs of three. I was lucky enough to pick up one of these carriers about ten years ago, a superb toy. 

Released circa 1970.

Have you any SpaceX clones?

A Dream of Paper

 I remember buying one of these modern printed copy ephemera sets from Pastimes. 

The vintage copy catalogues and papers were really ace.

Not the kind of thing you light your bonfire with! 

My favourite had to be the Ellisdons mail-order catalogue. I ordered ordering from them in the early Seventies. Truly happy times. I still dream of buying from them.

I've noticed on Etsy the sets been upgraded to include a box of UK coins from 1967.

Flip, I do recall all those,be specially the Threepenny bit! Do you remember these readers?