Streets Ahead

I Love the look of these two toy street cleaners!

So beautifully made. I assume they're Japanese or American.

Anyone seen anything like this?

Alan's Car

 As far as I know this is Alan Tracy's sports car. 

It's a Japanese miniature by Glico the candy kings.

I first came across this little premium in black and white in Dennis Nicholson's Anderson Merchandise guide book in the mid 1990's, the Bible.

In reality, as shown in these Buyee auction shots, it's a beautiful bright orange.

Do you like it?

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Seeing Kevs and Yorkie's comments I thought I'd add the vehicles mentioned for completeness' sake.

Imai TB2 Container 4 with the yellow racing car. Box art by the master Shiguru K. Anyone got a pic of the built up car?

Alan's BR2 Lightning 505 in Thunderbirds

TV21 Summer Special 1966

Above two images: Thunderbirds Wiki

The World of Tomorrow

 Back home now I've been told by Google to free up space in my photo store or else!

So looking through my archive I found these great shots of pages from a book, The World of Tomorrow I saw online. 

By Robin Keroll, it's all new to me. I don't know the artist but I do like the imagery. Do you?

The cover reminds me of Booster Rocket fuel tanks.

This gleaming van is very Syd Mead.

A whiff of Eagles here?

And it's biggest fan. That little red craft better watch out!

Anyone got this book?

The Cosmic Helico

 I've seen a lot of loose Multi Mac and big selection boxes but I've never 

seen these individually boxed vehicles before now.

The Cosmic Helico.

The Utopiaprobe

The Cosmic Bulldozer

They do look interesting but I can't gauge the size of them.

Have you got any of the Multi Macs readers?

Was Multi Mac a significant space toy range?  

Toy Auction Alert!

Hi Woodsy et al

I thought you might want to highlight the extraordinary Peter Hansen collection

It's the third part of his stuff being auctioned (Excalibur then Anderson & Garland and back to Excalibur and so on.)

You will be overwhelmed!

Best wishes

Norman B

(the Frank Bellamy fan!)

A SELECTION OF PROJECT JOHNSON PHOTOS

 A small selection of photos I took at the recent Project Johnson UFO event, that took place the other week at Cookham, nr. Maidenhead.

A fuller review can be found on my website here: 

https://mikeburrowsphotography.co.uk/project/project-johnson-and-uforia-3-part-2/

The event was named after SHADO operative Ayshea Johnson, played in the series by Ayshea Brough.

Other guests were  Tessa Wyatt, Gary Raymond, Georgina Moon, Penny Spencer, Ayshea, and Alan Shubrook.

There was also a special appearance during the location tour by Suzanne Neve.

We visited several locations seen in UFO.  During the tour we visited what's left  of BBC Elstree, and Elstree Studios.

Here's a group shot of attendees with Elstree just visible in the background. Sadly Neptune House (SHADO HQ to the uninitiated) has now been demolished.

The event had a selection of both original and replica models on display, which  former Century 21 Special Effects technician , Alan Shubrook enjoyed looking over,.

The SHADO Jeep made an appearance, restored and owned by Jim Winch. I can never resist getting in and reaquanting myself with the feel of it.

Jim was happy to give joy rides.

Another group shot of the attendees taken outside the venue. 

Finally, the main man behind the event, Andrew Staton.

The next event is planned for March next year, and will take place in Leeds.

Das Spiel: Games in Germany

 Our month away in Germany is up.

Es ist vorbei.

On our way home, a few more reflections about games here in our friend's home.

Interestingly there's aln old Star Wars boxed board game, the Escape from the Darth Star one. It's a re-issue - I think there's an old version? - this one being dated 2018 Hasbro. From the price tag It's second hand, probably from Diakonie. I may well have bought this on a previous trip and forgotten it. It's staying here though, there's a new generation of fans in the house and besides, the exclusive retro Moff Tarkin carded figure is missing. Was it exclusive? Do you know the 2018 figure?

Another game here in the shelf was a bit of a light bulb moment for me. On Saturday I bought what I thought was an old metal footballer figure. Discovering the game at our friend's house I realised it's from a table football game called Tipp Kick and may not be old at all. Then again Tipp Kick may have been around for years? Anyone know?

Here's the modern game. My battered figure has yet to be photographed. He's retired. 

I love the goalie, with it's clever wire twisting buttons for diving left and right!

Finally, a card game I found lurking on a cupboard top. Dutch Blitz. I thought it was Dutch but it's American. A new one on me. You?

Up in Smoke! The Topo Gigio Fireman:

 It's not often these days on eBay though see anything unusual from Century 21 Toys.

This though is.

The Topo Gigio Fireman Dress-Up Outfit, a lovely blister carded costume for the C21 Toys soft plastic Topo mouse doll figure.

I guess this range was aimed at girls but being a mouse it's hard to say. Topo may have had universal appeal.

There's a few carded Top costumes to go with the boxed figure, all uncommon now and really interesting to see. 

Have you any of these Topo items readers?

Do you like this costume?