Friday, March 15, 2024

Not Barbie's Corvette...

Buick LeSabre concept car, ? 

Only marking is an "8" below

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Only 100 km/h and electric ? No, I'm not happy either !

La Jamais Contente, RIO, Italy, 1980's

Of course, the real one was driven by a Belgian !

One of the first land speed records (over 100km/h  was acheived with this electric torpedo-shaped car in 1899 by Belgian Camille Jenatzy. Read more about it here.

Monday, March 11, 2024

Green zapping power !

Tomi gun, Shawnee Mfg. Inc. 1955, USA

What happens when yout transform a Colt-like pistol into a raygun ? Something like this. Add some lightning, a water-squirt mechanism, a red plug and a round water tank at the top and voilá !

Very simple design, but definitely oozing 1950's space-age ! (thank you Brian :)

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Diecast Slave 1

A Bountyhunter needs a ride !

Slave 1 Diecast, Kenner, Macao, 1980

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

If you cannot buy them... make them...

Hotwheels went the right way when they started the line of the movie cars, with classics like the Batmobile, the Delorean from Back to the Future and even lately some Star Trek ships...

But what if they could go all the way, and create miniatures of iconic vehicles that have not been released yet ? This is what a passionate fellow collector is doing. And the results are just spectacular !


Korben's Taxi, Hotwheels recreation, 2020's

Kaneda's Bike, Hotwheels recreation, 2020's

Other vehicles on my wish list ? Starsky and Hutch Torino, James Bond Dragon tank, Little Nellie and Lotus Esprit, Green Hornet's Black Beauty, Mad Max Ford Falcon, Deckard's Bladerunner car, Tron's bike, Starship Troopers Roger Young, Hardcastle and McCormick Coyote, Condorman's car, T-2 motorcycle and truck, etc. etc.

I'd buy these right away !

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

YL 821, is this you ?

Wind-up Robot, 821, YL (?) maker,
Hong Kong, 1970's

Monday, March 4, 2024

The blue racer from Belgium

Nº7 car, Belgium, 1950's

Anybody knows who made this ? 

"MADE IN BELGIUM" on bottom

... no other markings

 

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

The Clinch robot

Clinch, Nikko, China, 1980's

 

Monday, February 26, 2024

Fighting Buzz

Buzz Lightyear, Mattel, 2009, China

Sunday, February 25, 2024

Double lipstick barrel !

 

RAY-W-GUN, Marubishi TY (?) - Japan, 1961

See more about this gun on Alphadrome.

a Roman with a raygun ?

Space Warrior, Airfix, France, 1981

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Buck Roger's Battlecruiser

Buck Roger's Battlecruiser, Tootsietoy, USA, 1937

Going art-deco ? 

Next to the Venus Duo-Destroyer

Sunday, January 21, 2024

My little big Tomcat... oops - sorry... Skystriker ! Go Joe !

Combat Jet Skystriker (XP-14F), Hasbro, 1983, Rep. of Ireland ? 

This toy is quite amazing, really. It is my "customized" Skystriker with both Action Force and GI JOE stickersheets (but originally it came with the AF box If I remember well). Now all I need is to find an USS Flag somewhere where I can land this aircraft 😄

Friday, January 19, 2024

Yes Commander !

Space Commander Robot, China, 1980's

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Albator - le jeu (the game)

Le Jeu d'Albator, Orli Jouet, Italy, 1979

In the series of board games based on my childhood heroes, this one is the French (but made in Italy ???) ORLI JOUET game of Albator. Why did the French continuesly put robots in their renderings of Matsumoto's Space Pirate is still a pending question. (it started in the French-drawn Albator comics in the Capitaine Fulgur magazines, but here too, you have robotic drawings on the tokens that suposedly should represent the Sylvidres / Mazones...)

It's lacking Matsumoto's original artwork, except for
 3 small images of the cartoon...
from the cartoon

Monday, January 15, 2024

They forgot one !

Scott Tracy, Tyco, 
China, 1994
Gordon Tracy, Tyco,
China, 1994




















Alan Tracy, Tyco,
China, 1994
Virgil Tracy, Tyco,
China, 1994


Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Supermarionation SUB - you go Troy Tempest !


Stingray, Charawheels, Bandai 2001, Japan 

Before the Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet, this show helped get the puppeteers of Supermarionation team / Gerry Anderson up to level with the different techniques needed in their art. Read more about it here

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Monday, December 4, 2023

It's a baby AT-AT !

Imperial AT-AT Walker, Nostalgic Heroes, HASBRO, China, 2009

Friday, November 10, 2023

It's cold on Hoth part 2... (SD version)

Luke and Tauntaun, Funko, Vietnam, 2022

I'm not really into the Funko POP craze, but this bobble-head Luke on Tauntaun is a flea market find and I just could not let it stay there. (after all, it's from Empire...)

Thursday, November 2, 2023

... or Captain Future
Capitaine Flam, HL PRO, China, 
2023



Finally a (big) toy with the correct colours


... and the famous "F" belt !

Capitaine Flam / Captain Future was yet another one of these cartoons that made a generation stay in front of their TV day after day. Especially since a whole story spread over 4 episodes each - which gives a choice of character development that other series did not have.

Detail of his atomic watch

See more about the pulp hero by Sci-Fi writer Edmond Hamilton and the anime here.  

Alter Ego ? Curtis Newton
Cool box ! 



Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Thunderbirds to the rescue ! (of your plants...)

Thunderbird 1 watering can,
Maruka and Asahi Toy Co.
Japan, 1967
Thunderbird 4 watering can,
Maruka and Asahi Toy Co.
Japan 1967


As always, great artwork !

Japanese kids have always been pushed into the joys of gardening... so much so that they had an array of super-hero, robots and spaceships watering cans to chose for.

In previous posts I showed you the ones of Astroboy and UFO robot Grandizer, but here are the versions made from the ever popular Thunderbirds show.

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Eagle-gun - Space 1999

Arm's Master gun, 1980's AHI, Hong Kong