Kevin's Nuclear Freighter Traffic Light

Hi,

When going through my box of scrap Spacex toys all very battered, I found enough bits to put together a couple of Nuclear Freighters.

 I decided to swap parts over to create a complete yellow one and a green one. 

To complete the traffic lights, I included my red one from the 2005 and Beyond toys.

Cheers,

Kevin

UK

Arto's "Strato Bank" at the Fleamarket

The best find was the metallic savings bank akin to the US Strato Bank. They made those money banks with Finnish bank logos printed on. I have a couple of them from before, but this one was the first with the red plastic ring around the planet still intact.

Hope you like it

Arto 

Helsinki Base

Mystery Train Set

 

I see this plastic train set all over. Usually it's loose and in bits.

This one in a charity shop appears complete.

Anyone recognise it? 

Berwick, Yesteryear and the Mystery Oriental Archer

A recent ramble round the old Roman town of Castleford taught us a lot about Roman life in Northern England but there wasn't much in the charity shops.

I did see this jigsaw puzzle of a car I'm pretty sure I had as a Yesteryear as s kid. But what was it?

I also clocked this boxed draughts set by Berwick, who were a popular toy company when I was a kid. Did you have any Berwick toys? 

The box art screams the 1960's, a graphics style I love. Do you?

And I'm still trying to ID this action dolls dressed in oriental garb, complete with plastic long bow and quiver. He's about 12 inches tall, like an Action Man

 I've a female red ninja too. 

As per usual I should have bought all 8 or so figures the boot sale seller had but I just got the two. Returning to the same stall last week all the other figures had gone. Serves me right! 

There are no makers marks at all in the visible areas.

Any ideas who he is readers?

I Saw Three Flicks

I've seen three flicks this week.

Shazam: Fury of the Gods. A new one for me, number two in the Shazam franchise. I like the look of Shazam more than I like the back story, a red suited Superman with a lightning symbol and an alias to swoon for, one Captain Marvel. What's not to like? For me the adolescent message is too ... Adolescent now I'm 64. Shazam is for younger super hero fans and I bet they love it. The daughters of Atlas give this movie some adult swoosh but I'll leave Billy Batson for the kids.

Flash: mired in his personal complications, Ezra Miller did a decent job of his own movie despite the unpleasantness. I like the Flash character and his desire to fix things I can relate to. The true spark of the film is Michael Keaton though, his reprisal of Batman an injection of genius. It recalled his acclaimed Bird Man too and seeing him again as the Dark Knight is a reminder of just how important Batman the movie was in 1989. I enjoyed the Flash, even Gorgeous George's cameo at the end! 

Seventh Son: I've seen this sword and sorcery flick before and I'm half way through this time. Despite being a box office bomb I like it. Monsters, wizards, witches. It's got the lot. I even like Jeff Bridges' gobstopper voice and Julianne Moore as arch witch...well, enough said!

What are you watching readers?

Brian H's Tudor Rose Find

Woodsy

Here's an interesting carded set of Tudor Rose spacemen. It's the Space Cadet Boy Adventurers set dating from around 1953. It contains three figures, one 72mm figure and two smaller 47mm figures.

I've seen the larger figure before, it's one of the regular Tudor Rose spacemen as shown at the top of the picture, but in forty years of collecting I've never seen or even heard of the existence of the small scale ones. 

The large figure is marked though the smaller ones have no marks. Once they become separated from the card they would be impossible to identify.

You'll find a variation of this card in Blast Off! but it was used as the base of a blister packed set of figures. 

The figures are standing on the card with the blister dome rising over them. 

Most unusual!

All the best

Brian H

Ed's Lionel Butterfinger Boxcar

Woodsy,

Here's a 'sweet' car from Lionel made during their MPC era - an era known for its wide variety of colorful, licensed rolling stock. It's one of many candy-related pieces of rolling stock out in The Cave.

From Candy Land Vegas

Ed

VTech Monster

Another recent one pound special at the local cricket club sale was this VTech beast.

It's massive and heavy.

The fun comes in trying to get it to work. The battery compartment is a mess and filing and scraping are the order of the day.

 

Watch this space!