UFO MONEY BOX

I do like the look of this UFO money box. I saved the pics from an auction. It has a Popy Thunderbirds vibe to it I feel. Reading the box the saucer turns round when given money!

Have you got one?

Honey West Custom Die-casts

Hi

          I just came across this custom-made Honey West die-cast set. Someone has done her Cobra in yellow, and the surveillance van in grey-green, then put them in a faux Corgi Gift Set box. 

The artwork on the outer box is clearly based on the real Honey West boardgame by Ideal. The results look pretty good, although the models are not totally screen accurate. 

Honey's Cobra was an early model, without the side exhaust pipes or roll bar behind the driver. Also, Honey was blonde, not a redhead.

Honey West - Corgi Toys Gift Set 41 (Culfi Toy Soldiers) - Honey's AMC Ford Shelby Cobra & Sam Bolt's Ford Falcon Econoline (lulu-berlu.com)

Paul Adams from New Zealand

 

 

HALF TERM GLIMPSES

 A few snapshots of this half term break.

Buzz's nemesis in a Richmond charity shop. £8. I resisted.

Moonbase Junior Miss's plastic pizza. One slice already taken!

Miss's shop and checkout with working microphone!

Junior's Play Plax.

Play Plax made up.

Drac inspecting a dummy.

Monster and the radomes.

Apples and grapes for Junior's garden wine.

Junior's garden wine making station - apples, chives, sage, pears, rain water, muck and grit. Not for drinking!

Snowdrops and the garden queen.

If you're off then hope you have a nice week.

Hope you do whatever your doing readers.

BUBBLE CAR COOL

 

I always liked Isettas.

I remember seeing one or two on the roads in the Sixties and Seventies. 

Getting in and out of the front of the car struck me as super cool and practical. I wonder if they were comfy?

Here's a nice toy version from the Sixties that I spotted on Worthpoint.

Did you have a bubble car like this?

MIDORI CLIMBER

This is a part of a blog legend, the legend of the Century 21 Lunar Climber toy. Here we have its forerunner from Japan's Midori models. How astronomically cool is that! Anyone got anything like it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXaxT-1B-jo

Historical V-2 Rocket Launched from USS Midway

Hi

         Here is a great new documentary from Airailimages on Operation Sandy, the launching of a captured WW2 V-2 rocket from the aft flight deck of the new American aircraft carrier USS Midway. Several modifications were made to the Midway for the test, which was the only launch of a V-2 from a ship. The test took place on 6th September 1947. 

This is a great film, showing the V-2 being moved by road and rail - it just fitted inside a big American box car. The support equipment and road transport trailers were carried on open flat wagons. Then loading equipment aboard the Midway, and the test itself. The film clips are a mix of colour and black and white. 

An amazing piece of history.

Captured V-2 Launch At Sea Aboard USS Midway - YouTube

Paul Adams from New Zealand

 

REMEMBERING OLD CELEBRITIES WITHOUT GOOGLING

Here are a few names from the past that I have wrestled from the ether of my farthest and foggiest brain crannies. 

I haven't looked them up at all so what I've put is the very scant info I remember about them, which could very well be wrong! I'm sure you remember more readers! Please let us know, but no googling if you can help it!

Paddy Clark [or is it Hopkirk?]: Monte Carlo rally driver, famous for his mini. I think I had a Dinky die-cast version of it.

Charlie Drake: one of the original Sixties comedians. He had a small breathy voice and wispy hair. I remember him in a TV show called The Worker.

Peter Gordino: a handsome dancer who my Mum fancied. A feature of Saturday night variety shows. He may have been in UFO?

Kathy Kirby/ Sandy Shore: I get these two lady singers mixed up and can say virtually nothing else.

Nana Moskuri: Greek or Czech lady singer famous in the Sixties and Seventies. She had her own TV show and long black hair. She wore glasses too.

Freddy Laker: airline magnate. May have had a famous plane, Skybus?

Annie Nightingale: the prog rockers' totty. I was in love with Annie when she presented the Old Grey Whistle Test, her raspy voice entranced me!

Dennis Gifford: comics expert. He may have been on the telly. I get him mixed up with the guy that presented It'll Be Alright on the Night, who's name I forget!

Ben Guerin: may have got the name wrong. Israeli General who wore an eyepatch. On the news in the Sixties and early Seventies.

Tom Conti/ Barry McGuigan - two British boxers often in the public eye. Conto was on the cover of Band on the Run I think.

Powers Boothe: he was a tough guy soldier in Southern Comfort. He resurfaced in the Avengers much older. Someone else looks like him too.

Lucilla Ball: explosive American comedienne. Starred in TV's I Love Lucy.

Millicent Martin: I get her mixed up with Lucille Ball.

Rowan and Martin: American comics and presenters of TV's Laugh-In, which I watched with my folks on Saturday night.

Pearl and Dean: the makers of cinema adverts, who's ads showed throughout the Sixties and Seventies. The theme tune was memorable.

Olga Korbet/ Nelly Kim: Rumanian gymnasts who scored perfect 10's at the Olympics.

Lena Zavaroni: Greek? singing teenager, who took the world by storm. With what I don't know.

Geoffrey Wheeler: nothing but the name!

That's it for now. Anything you can add readers, without googling?

X-Men X-Jet - Now in Black

In 2021 Hot Wheels released a model of the X-Jet, from the Marvel X-Men universe. 

The initial version was dark blue, and it was included in the Screen Time series of film, TV, and computer game models. It also appears in the 2022 line-up, but now the model is gloss black. 

There are two small yellow squares atop the fuselage, just behind the cockpit windows. The windows, and the air intakes, are translucent red plastic. 

A plastic stand is included, as the model does not have an undercarriage.

This is the Hot Wheels Wiki page on the model:

X-Jet | Hot Wheels Wiki | Fandom

Paul Adams from New Zealand