This pic is crying out for some MoonBase wit.
Do your worst.
I do love a good disaster movie. The sub-genre of extinction level meteor strikes is a particular favourite, from Deep Impact right up to Greenland with that burly Scot Gerard Butler.
This week I caught the sequel to Greenland, Greenland Migration (no spoilers here) on Prime.
I was genuinely excited. The Missus watched it too. I thought after five years in the bunker there would be some interesting stuff going on.
It was OK. Entertaining enough. But for some reason I was disappointed. I dunno, the actors just didn't seem to have their heart in it and I found the whole affair a bit of a mess. Maybe I was having an off-day and a second helping might taste better.
Have you seen Greenland Migration?
Well I ticked another thing off my list of stuff to see this morning. Purely by chance I caught The Simpsons Halloween special, The Treehouse of Horror on TV, after watching Frasier.
For years I've seen cards, comics, toys and all sorts from this special but never the thing itself.
I used to watch the Simpsons when it first came out but stopped. It was fun seeing the Treehouse though, I enjoyed all the horror references, especially the famous Twilight Zone episode with the monster on the plane's wing. Was that William Shatner?
There was lots of stuff from Coppola's Dracula too, with the distinctive double bee-hive hairdo. Oddly enough, I thought Treehouse was older than that. I'm not sure when it was made.
Anyways, job done. I've seen it now. Have you readers?
T Toys aka T in a Circle aka Tai Hing toys made some gorgeous space toy vehicles in the Sixties.
Hong Kong forerunners of Project SWORD, you can clearly see echoes of the Moonbus in this plain titled Space Vehicle. Those are the Moonbus pilots too!
T in a Circle did release the SWORD Moonbus, eventually picked up and rebranded by Century 21 Toys.
Have you any Hong Kong T?
More old auction shots, this time that neat six wheeled trundler from the Imperial Toys Apollo Moon Exploring carded range.
Here's a Funmate carded Space Command clone in orange, along with some blue space rock, radar and more.