Boy Oh Boy! It's a Batman Toy!

 Imagine having to choose between these two glorious Lincoln Toys Batman wonders!

The magnificent Freez Ray Gun and the stupendous Batamaran.

How utterly superb.

I'd want them both!

Have you got either?

A Mr.Softee Landing

It's funny how the mind goes all Mr. Whippy when you're remembering stuff.

The Artemis II splashdown reminded me of eating ice cream as a kid from a plastic capsule.

After further mind splashing I realised I was recalling a plastic ball and not a capsule.

It was the Tonibell and I remember it being a yellow or beige plastic football with a lid.

Here's a couple floating around the web along with a mag ad at the time.

So what's the plastic capsule ice cream connection I'm thinking of?

It can't be Dinky's Sea King Helicopter capsule. You'd not get much I've cream out of one of those!

No, I know now I've been misremembering something from the very early days of the blog.

Wotan Bill posted a fabulous post in 2009 about an ice cream brand called Askeys which he had as a nipper. The brand had an offer for a fantastic Lone Star Gemini space capsule, pictured here from Bills original post.

It didn't get filled with ice cream but if you are enough Askeys you'd get one. 

There can't have been many sent out I don't think. Or?

Do you remember it or an ice cream connection to NASA splashdown capsules?

Further googling brings you pictures of auctioned boxed examples like this  (with a yellow astronaut this time).

 How cool is that! 

Action Man's Mercury Mission

 Here's a cool short film from Wisdom Designs,

The Action Man Mercury Mission.

So well made, do you like it?

https://youtu.be/qcLChpgkLAw?si=YCs8GcrJZLUWyyag

Did you See the Splashdown?

 Just as iconic as ever!

It could be 1969!

Well done Artemis II. Awe Inspiring!

Splashed down. Job done!

Did you see it readers?

Tony's Captain Scarlets

Hi Woodsy

Some new painted Captain Scarlet figures recently purchased. They are actually board game pieces.

Tony E.

Capsula Spacial

This is a neat tin Spanish space capsule toy. Again by the mighty Jyesa.

I love the box art. The flying spacecraft is wonderful.

Did you have a capsule readers?

Godspeed Artemis II.

Safe Splashdown Artemis II

As I remember my GI Joe/ Action Man Space Capsule I had as a kid my minds turn to the returning crew of Artemis II and wish them safe passage back to Earth and a secure splashdown off the San Diego coast.

https://youtu.be/mrQ1j35ZusA?si=lXecPVMhi76OSZBT 

Paul's Haul

Hi Woodsy

Here are the highlights of my April 2026 haul, from one of the Auckland fairs. This is the first one to be held at a new venue.

The motorway overbridge set is going to come in very handy for a diorama I am planning – only a few more bits needed for that. The kits comprise the late US MPC issue of the Airfix F-84F Thunderstreak – it is very rare to see any of the American versions in NZ, and I snapped this one up.

The Hat re-issue of the Airfix Tarzan figure set, here called Jungle Adventure; the PM version of the two-seat Hawker Sea Fury fighter; and a fairly modern re-issue of the 1960s Revell Fokker D-VII. This actually has two kits in the box, which was a bonus.

Two Smer (from the Czech Republic) re-issues of vintage British Merit kits – the Fairey Swordfish floatplane and the Supermarine Walrus amphibian. The 1990s Airfix re-issue of the 1970s Milton Bradley ship-in-a-bottle Charles W. Morgan whaling ship – with a real glass bottle.

On to the die-casts – a Hot Wheels Harry Potter Racer Verse twin-pack with Harry in the Hogwarts Express locomotive, and Ron Weasley in the family Ford Anglia. Looks like they are about to collide.

The Johnny Lightning Heavenly Hearse (on a cut-down backing card), which is based on a Jo-Han plastic kit. The front row has a trio of vintage Matchbox models; a 1950s Charbens Old Crock veteran car; and the Corgi Juniors Old MacDonald’s truck.

Lastly, a collection of Wells Brimtoy trucks, in various states. These had a plastic body, some with friction drive to the front wheels, and a printed tinplate body.

I had two of these as a boy, they were larger than Matchbox models, so did not fit very well with my other toy vehicles. The dealer only wanted to sell these as a boxful, so I ended up with three examples of the television outside broadcast van, and several models without a body, or missing wheels.

I also got a nice aircraft book, a couple of recent Revell catalogues, and some 1967/68 Meccano Magazines. Several of these models deserve a more detailed write-up in due course.

Paul Adams from New Zealand