The same theme was also in evidence on my
last visit to Tiger, or Flying Tiger as they are now, camera was
forthcoming, shelfies were taken and that's what we're looking at here!
Large astronaut erasers and I mean big;
biggly-big, biggerer than a big-thing that's gone to university and had itself
elected head of the Department of Bigness! Candy pink or a sort of dark
ultramarine were on display, but I know that with the similar animals they've
had the last few years, other colours tend to turn-up with re-stocks, so that
may be the case with these, you can see they've obviously emptied a stock-box
of pink and topped-up with blue!
Various novelty ball-point pens included an
astronaut, I didn't buy one as it wouldn't make a stand-alone figure like the
regency lady (courtesy of Peter Evans) I converted a year or two ago, due to
the visible shaft between his legs . . . Matron! But if you are a novelty-pen
collector, rather than a 'figurine' purist; there are three colours to find
(that I know of), along with the alien (?) or fish in a bowl and Japanese
ladies also visible.
To hold your novelty pen is this rocket
pencil-case with a hinged hatch, it looks more like a booster rocket/fuel-tank
than a proper Apollo series launch-vehicle, but the homage is there!
More space-related novelties including
glow-in-the-dark ceiling decorations of planets with small stars or a packet of
larger stars and a slime-filled rocket of more 1950's 'pulp' lines, in fact it
looks a bit like the head section of Fireball XL5 - there's a project there for
someone!
Plastic money-boxes of rather blunt rockets
and weird space-alien monsters, I wasn't taken by these at all; the production
values are fine, but the designs (and colours) are beyond kitsch and heading
toward horrid, in my opinion!
Next to them were space-themed book-ends
(which don't look heavy-enough to do their job) and a nice corner shelf in the
shape of a rocket which does temp me - to make my own!
Finally and of no real interest to loyal
readers, but photographed because they were there and covered in space imagery
was one of those block-things which keep folding or unfolding into different
pictures, they work like a Jacob's ladder . . . a bit!
Expect more and more space-stuff this year,
both in the shops and on the Blog as we head toward the actual date, and I dare
say the telly will be knee-deep it it.
1969 - increasingly looking like the
high-point of human civilization, still striving for post-war
liberal-democracy, striving for the stars, striving for peace, raising living
standards . . . but Vietnam was grinding-on in the background, then came
Thatcher, Regan, neocon 'Libertarian' psudo-economics, Afghanistan 1 (and 2)
The Falklands, Nicaragua, big-hair and the Spice Girls, 9-11, four Gulf-wars, Internet
porn and the Tellytubbies . . . I blame the Tellytubbies, horrid little monkey-faced Brwreakshitieers . . . Eh-ohh! A Mars-bar was 3d!
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