O Ráio Laser: The Rays in Spain

I love the box art on this Estrela made board game, o raio Laser, which I guess means Laser Beam.

The game itself looks pretty basic but the art is where it's happening. A space jet, a Gemini and a flower pot laser canon.

Do you like?

My Missing Hong Kong Novelties: Your Help Needed

 Like many of you I have a few collections on the go. Completing them is always the tricky part. There's always a stubborn rump of items, which evade capture.

Such is the case with my collection of 1960's plastic friction Hong Kong novelties.

I'm missing five and I wondered if you had any of them by chance? 

Boxes aren't essential, loose examples are fine, even ones in bits. Equally should you see an inexpensive one at a sale or toy fair it would be great to hear from you.

I can also trade vintage toys too.

Anyways, here are the stubborn five.

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Bunny and Bunny Jr. 

( Forget the duck!)

Policeman on Scooter

(Telsalda box)

Postman on Scooter

 (Same box as above, they share!). 

This is often called US Mail Man on Scooter by collectors.

Friction Carrot Eating Bunny

Hitch Hiking Piglets

 ( they share a box with Hitch Hiking Doggies. Picture from my book on these toys)

Kim Space Flyer

I like this, seen on auction. Made in England by Kim Toys, a brand new to me, the Space Flyer. The blurb mentions a catapult, which may be missing.

The astronaut is fabulous. With the bell jar helmet and stylized body it's straight from the atomic age.

There's two other great looking vehicles in the card art too.

Anyone got one or similar?

What are You up To?

It's Sunday afternoon here in the UK. Late Spring and it's warm. The missus and I are drinking coffee and eating cake with an elderly friend.

🥮

If it's Sunday still or Sunday gone, what are you doing or what did you do readers? 

More Cave Finds: The Hoard Has Yielded More Unexpected Finds

Woodsy,

I've been out in The Cave the past couple of weeks trying to make sense of the mayhem out there!

 It has yielded several surprises, not the least of which was finally getting together the Echo Car, Moguras, and Vanguard that was featured on Moonbase just last week.

Well guess what? An additional unbuilt Moguras and Vanguard were found lurking in a tote bin of LP toys! Stoked I am 🙂

From Vegas Base

Ed

 

Remembering Frank: Frank Frazetta Paintings

Hi,

As artist Frank Frazetta (1928-2010) has come up a number of times on Moonbase Central, I thought these two Oil Paint By Number Sets would be of interest. Both are on Black Velvet.

The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta sets included ‘A beautiful 12 x 16 Velvet painting panel – twenty oil colors – artist’s brush – and complete instructions’. There were two different sets – 1821 Death Dealer (the original was painted in 1973), a mounted figure with an axe; and 1822 Silver Warrior (painted 1972), which included a sled team of Polar Bears.

The sets were made by Craft House Corporation, of Toledo, Ohio, in the USA, copyright date 1978. They were recommended ‘For ages 8 to adult’.

In very tiny lettering it does say ‘Frame Not Included’. There are very few sales listings for these sets.

Six photographs, from Worthpoint and Ebay, in three batches.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

 

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Frank Frazetta

February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010

Silver Machine

This is a neat and slick silver-coloured toy rocket from Poland I saw online. 

You may have a JR21 rocket which is very similar.

Anyone got any rockets like this? 

Are You Sitting Comfortably?

Some more flicks seen of late. Have you seen them?

The Island. A vehicle for beautiful young things Ewan McGregor and Scarlet Johannsen to shine in, this sci-fi actioner hit the spot and even the Missus enjoyed it. Basically about the evils of the super-rich, I won't spoil it, suffice to say there are whiffs of 1984, THX and Logan's Run.

The Invasion. Another platform for youthful beauty, this time the golden pair are Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. We had to rent this for £3.50 but it was worth it and pleasant enough whilst scoffing tea. The title is an abbreviated form of two other older iterations of the same idea. As I point my finger at you, my mouth agape, I won't spoil it.

Old. I've come to realise that M.Nite Shyamalan's first name is actually Marmite. Not M.Nite. You either love his films or loathe them. This phenomena can also happen mid-film and it very nearly did in Old. However, the Missus and me carried on and in the end, slightly older, enjoyed it. As you may have guessed the film is about wrinklies like us.

The Skull. I may have mentioned this already, but then again a Cushing-Lee horror is worth screaming about. They're the dogs b*llocks and I love their stuff. Think of Jonny Depp's 13th Gate, replace the grimoire with a skull and you're near the mark. Sort of like extreme toy collectors! What a film!

Horror Express. I often confuse this with the equally brill Creeping Flesh, as they both contain Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and a strange humanoid laid out on a gurney. Chuck in a trans-Siberian train, Rasputin and Telly Savalas and you come out with Hammer horror Kojak verses the Monster.

Rot. A low-point in the listings, this shoestring effort wasn't worth watching but I did and wonder why. There was something about the poster and the name, Rot, which appealed. Alas, the crew would have been better off simply filming a few rats at the local landfill for authentic decay. At least then they could have called the thing Rat.

What have you seen?