Little red riding hood...

Before people carriers and mono-volumes came this little one. Loosely based on the Scarab, it is a kind of minibus but with that 1930's sense of streamline and futurism. Automotive design came to a very interesting mixture of front fenders with partial running boards and Buck Rogers's styled fin.

Streamlined Car, Hubley, USA, 1930's (?)

Shogun brotherhood...

Goshogun + Galaxy Cyclone Braiger, Yamato toys, China, 2010's

Anyone remembering these ?

June the Swan - going for Highway Patrol duty ?

June with Bike, Popy, Japan, 1970's

Why the Police stickers ? Why the Beacon ? 

Sometimes you just wonder - what were they thinking of ?
Has anyone else a "police-version" of this toy, or is it just a wise-guy that "customized" this toy to be able to ride along with other CHiPs agents ?

Little CO-MA, big CO-MA

David and G.

Spacemen, mini and regular, CO-MA, Italy, 1950's

Spaceman and Selenite, CO-MA, Italy, 1950's

Just to give an idea of the size of the carded set seen below at the fair... Above the 2 versions of the CO-MA spaceman.

Incredible spacetoys...

Here are some of the rare space-items seen at the fair...

Futuristic Bus, PSA (Plásticos Santo António), Portugal,
1950's

Pattuglia Selenita, CO-MA, Italy, 1950's-60's

Raja Space Station (complete with Aliens), Portugal, 1950's - 60's

Toyfair Lisbon - Hotel Roma

Yesterday's toyfair was very nice, a gathering of all the major Portuguese collectors out there.

Here are some pictures for all of you who could not make it there...

My booth / table

Lots of Portuguese plastic !

Great attendance !

Christmas shopping anyone ?

GM's weirdest.

Cars and trucks and... irons. 

It's a robot ? No ! It's a freakin' walkin' radiator !

Kaiju Radiator Monster (?), ?, China, 2000's

Some Kaiju designs are so extreme you kind of wonder what the creators were thinking about (or smoking) when they came up with these ideas. This is a monster of some sort (maybe from Ultraman ? or others ? please help me out).

Headgear for space

Space Helmet, J&L.R.Ltd., England,
1950's

Love that music !

Space Helmet, no markings, England ?
1950's ?

The blue, red and yellow helmet is an obvious English version of the American Renwall helmet (by the way, I am still looking for the clicker gun that goes with it). The red, yellow and pink version, however, I have no clue. It seems that the thickness of the plastic is different (especially the head-piece is thinner) as well as differences in the closing at the back. (it is in one piece - the yellow version is splitted at the back for easier opening). Any extra information ?

OK, here we have some news on the yellow helmet:

"The markings are for J & L Randall otherwise known as Merit Toys, the company had been called Bellbefore the J and the L got married! "

and regarding the red and pink one:

"the Merit moulds went to PPP/Gaugemaster in the 1990's, they wouldn't have reproduced it, they only deal with model railways and there is little market for that sort of toy now, but maybe the unmarked one is Bell? If the mouldings are the same, they will both be Bell/Merit. But...Merit was a bit of a pirate....Pyro being a victim?"
Thank you Hugh !

Rainbow rayrifles ...

A little time ago I showed you some Portuguese versions of the Pyro rifle. Here are some more, in different colors...

Space rifle, Sirolite,
Portugal, 1950's

 

orange and red - versions

Bounty

 Wookie wookie, where's your scalp wookie ? 

I got a backpack !

Mighty Muggs Boba Fett, Hasbro, China,
2008

Boba Fett, Funko, 2010's, China

Boba, large bobble head, China, 2010's

Pick-up : Back to the Future

Futuristic Truck (FORD ?), OK toys, Hong Kong, 1960's (?)

Straight from the Syd Mead - FORD years comes this prototype of a pick-up truck. Low, very low. Bubble top. Twin Headlights.

You remember Syd Mead, right ? He's the guy responsible for all the Blade Runner vehicles...

The design is quite similar to the one of the Ford Nucleon designed by Jim Powers in 1958...