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No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Sunday, August 9, 2026

News, Views Etc . . . Toys in the Media

We haven't had a 'news/views' for a while, nor have we had a 'toys in the media', so here's a quickie, using a couple of dodgy shots I took off the screen, from a puff-piece on sci-fi movies on YouTube, where if you watch one, you get another hundred in your feed!
 
"Movies which broke the studio", "Sci-fi movies nobody saw", 10 sci-fi movies which everyone's forgotten", Sci-fi movies which never got a cinema release", 20 best erotic sci-fi movies" (tamer than you could possibly imagine), "20 Italian Sci-fi knock-offs" that sort of thing, they show you the same clips of the same few dozen sci-fi flicks, most of which were actually on VHS in three versions for the whole of the 1980/90's!
 
 
Among which is The Terrornauts, a 1967 film which utilises a fleet of Pyro/Tudor Rose Space Clipper toys, previously also seen in the 1950's Spaceways Annual;
 
 
That's it, just a bit of a factoid!

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