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Sunday, 30 November 2025

Auto-Converting Optimus Prime and Trailer

I so want these Robosen Transformers toys!

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxEA_XJd_8pfPR5QSUoUNcSbrK9sRPeZ8j?si=ItYcWI_OPQwxgQWa

You like?

Did you make an Advent Wreath?

It the first of Advent today and I was recently talking to a mate about making the Blue Peter Advent wreath based on what Valerie, Peter and John made earlier! ( Blue Peter was a 1960's and 70's UK kids TV show).

I'm pretty sure it was made from two coathangers somehow joined in the middle with tinsel wrapped round it

I've no idea now how the candles were fixed but maybe they were just placed in the four gaps.

Was the whole thing rested on a plate or something?

Candles and tinsel seem a bit flammable to me now!

Did you make one readers or anything else home-made for Advent or Christmas? Snowmen, candles, sweet boxes, lanterns, cards?

Corgi Model Club's Exclusive Re-issue Corgi Toys 267 Batmobile with Batman and Robin

Holy Cow!

https://vimeo.com/1017965992?fl=pl&fe=sh

Anyone got one?

Hi I'm Karin!

I'm mesmerized by this Citróen Karin. Really, the stuff of front-seated dreams. Do you like it? Anyone got anything like it?

https://youtu.be/o1EgrDtpx4o?si=nFdgtWVOel86Gdzy

That's the Spirit!

Saturday, 29 November 2025

Christmas Films? What will You be Watching?

Which films will you be watching this festive season? It's the first of Advent on Sunday so the proper countdown begins then so it's OK to watch seasonal flicks!

Maybe Scrooge, Scrooged, Elf, It's a Wonderful Life, the Grinch, Die Hard, Black Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, Home Alone, Whistle Down the Wind, the Snowman, Father Christmas. Wow! So many!

I particularly like William Shatner's Christmas Horror Story set in Bailey Downs. Bill gets merry on egg nog on air. It's great!

So what will you be watching readers?

Peanuts 75th Anniversary

I have only just noticed this – 2025 is the 75th Anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip. Written and drawn by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000), from 1950 until his death in 2000.

Peanuts featured the adventures of a boy named Charlie Brown, and his pet Beagle named Snoopy. Snoopy lived in a small kennel, which he often flew in combat with the Red Baron, as he dreamed he was a WW1 fighter ace.

Hot Wheels released a Hot Rod version of Snoopy's doghouse in 2014. The model was metal, with Snoopy in white plastic, with black detail painting, on the roof.

There have been numerous Mainline and premium versions since then. The finish of the model is always the same – black and white Snoopy, red doghouse, and green base, with a silver V8 engine.

While the finish remains the same, the type and colour of the wheels does differ. Those at the rear are larger than the front wheels.

For 2025 there are Anniversary models of Snoopy in both the Mainline (Screen Time sub-series), and the Pop Culture premium range. The Mainline card carries a small 75 Years logo next to the Peanuts name, in the upper left hand corner.

Two photos of my carded Anniversary model, and this shot of an earlier version.