CHAD VALLEY PROJECTORS: ANYONE?

This one is Dr. Who [courtesy of Jon Knutsen]

Do you remember Chad Valley projectors?

Will's Flashy flickers

Hi, My flashy flickers with a list of extra films.

 Will O

UK

Did You Have a Flashy Flickers?

Did you have a flashy flickers readers, the Marx movie rifle?

I had one and loved pointing the projector onto a pale wall to see those flickering stories that came on little spools in separate boxes.

I can't recall what the stories were. Can you readers?

Kevin's Mr. Carraway Scratchbuilt Figure

Hi,

Done another one! The Camberwick Green fishmonger, Mr. Carraway.

Cheers,

Kevin

UK

Golden Astronaut: Peering into Oblivion

Woodsy,

I was out in The Cave yesterday and took a few snaps of some of my small toys.

Here an LP astronaut stands next to his Space Explorer Car to view the terrain.

From Vegas Base

Ed

ARTO'S RECENT FUN FINDS

The best find was the no feet "regular" Pez from the 1960's. In regulars, there is no head other than a simple mechanism to eject the candy. These are very desirable in good condition.

Have you anything like this?

I also found a stack of unused colouring books from the U.S. Wondering how they ended up here, the answer was simple: they were all printed in Finland! Must be samples preserved by some printing house. 

I picked up this Fun Time Coloring Book for its marvellous cover illustration, which reminds me of Maurice Sendak's wonderful children's book Where the Wild Things Are.

Arto

Helsinki Base

Looey has a Robocop in his Garden!

Hello,

In response to a recent query about Robocop figures, we do have one!

He's driving a ruined car on our entryway with a lot of plants - courtesy of my good wife.

You can also see our Home Cinema in the background!

The car is a set dressing model I made for an Alex Proyas Adidas Claw TVC backing the late 90s.

I've included some on set snaps of the set up and the car, along with a suitably distressed Barbie's Jaguar! 

The Claw commercial actually contained a lot of visual elements that would see full fruition soon afterwards in Dark City. A film that would prove to be the highlight on my film miniatures career.

How is my puppet film going you asked? 

I'm working on a pre-viz film which is allowing me to get a good feel for the finished product. 

On the screen are some of the 200 plus hand-drawn elements needed to make an animated version of the final story. You can also see some rough pencilled storyboards and a toy version of my puppet heroine in her Ancient Egyptian phase!

The work is hugely satisfying, but very time consuming. I worked all yesterday afternoon and produced just 60 seconds of finished screen time!

Keep on bloggin' 

 Looey

ONE GOOD STEED DESERVES ANOTHER!

 My next planned toy project will be to recreate two vintage and rare 1960's Lone Star swords. Bill has kindly agreed to recreate the cards too, so we should be good to go.

The two are:

The Avengers Steed Sword Stick 

[with secret Aqua moisturiser!]

image: murdersville

and the Zorro sword

image; worthpoint

I first saw these old Lone Stars in old vintage toy dealer catalogues in the 1990's and have hankered after them ever since.

There was a 3rd Lone Star TV sword, the Adam Adamant one, but currently I have no plans to make one of these, as I never saw this TV show as a kid and can't recall seeing it my old dealer catalogues. The card art portrait of him isn't great either; the proportions seem out. That signet ring looks great though with its double A stamp!

I may change my mind about not making one, I'm not adamant! ha ha

image; murdersville

You can see more about Steed's and Adam's sticks on the fabulous Murdersville cult TV site, from which I've borrowed two of the images.

Are these toys that you recall readers or indeed did you watch either Zorro, the Avengers or Adam Adamant on TV?