This blog is an ongoing listing of space toys, superheroes and just about anything I find worthwhile saving as a collector. Please enjoy !
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Friday, December 24, 2021
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
The Kaiser's limo...
Monday, December 20, 2021
It's really getting hard to travel...
They are, 80 days are, 80 nothing more, to go around the world!
Nowadays a lot harder to achieve due to all the Covid restrictions ...
Willy Fog, unmarked, Spain ?, 1983-84 |
Check more about the cartoon here.
Thursday, November 25, 2021
Pirates of the sea
Saturday, November 20, 2021
A future for fossil fuels ?
This simple design is still one of my favorites for futuristic verhicles... Tankers will probably all but dissapear in the future (at least for fossil fuels), but this is what it may have looked like...
Archer Space Truck, USA, 1952 |
design à la Buck Rogers |
... whenever you need to transport your space gasoline ! |
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Gliding into space ?
2001 Space Glider, Hong Kong ? 1970's ? |
Just found at the Feira da Ladra ! |
a one button remote ? really ? |
Definitely not the same tooling... |
Project Sword Space Glider, Century 21 Toys, Hong Kong, 1967 |
This is one I have in my collection since childhood... |
A lot of other colour combinations and models of this toy exist. To see more of them, please check the MOONBASE CENTRAL blog.
And if you ask yourself if it ever existed... of course, it did. It was in fact one of the experimental planes (X-Planes) from Nasa itself - so the Nasa markings on the toy make perfect sense !
M2-F2 lifting body (picture courtesy of NASA) |
The M2-F2 was a joint program between NASA and Northrop Corporation. The aircraft flew 16 times between 1966 and 1967. All flights of the M2-F2 were non-powered glide flights performed by dropping the aircraft from a modified wing pylon of a B-52 aircraft. See more information on the X-Planes here.
So now you know why they were called Space gliders... these had no power of their own in real life...
Friday, November 5, 2021
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Take the tram !
Tramway (Copenhagen), Hanse, Denmark, 1950's |
In Denmark, you have LEGO, but did you know there were a lot of different toy manufacturers over there ? And before the plastic bricks took over the world, a lot of them (including LEGO and HANSE) used the readilly available wood.
Paper overlay (like Fisher Price toys).
The funny thing about this one is that it is almost the same color as the famous "Elétrico 28" that I have in my street here in Lisbon !
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
It's a chopper baby !
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
The small jumbo Goldorak / Goldrake
Monday, October 4, 2021
Sesame Street
And the correct answer is...
Quiz Robot ? possibly JUMBO ? 1960's ? |
Flat and same design... |
on both sides ! |
See also similar robots here. How many different disign were there ? I don't know...