Because of Lack Of Space/finances Ect..i've had to loose a lot of the Toy room..it was getting out of control, and i'm sure most collectors at one time, or another have had to make tough decisions about their collections, i really needed to downsize, and concentrate mainly on the toys i really loved & wanted to keep, as opposed to trying to collect everything pop culture wise that i liked.
So for the past 6 months i've been downsizing, thats why theres been no new posts, and i now have a new blog, the thing i liked most of all while grownig up were the 60's Secret agent toys that were available, so i decided to concentrated on those, this as been a big help to me Mentally & financially! and enabled me to start creating a new & more manageable collection..
please take a look, all new posts will now be on the new blog
http://codenamespytoy.blogspot.co.uk/
i'd like to thank everyone who joined the Atomic Toy Blog, and for your support & comments.
Thanks!
MY COMICS /BOOKS /TOYS & COOL STUFF
Welcome to my blog, I am based in Nottingham UK & I love toys, comics, science fiction, horror ect. This blog is dedicated to my trips around the flea markets, toy shops & charity shops, toy fairs & E bay in pursuit of that elusive bargain and holy grail toy.
All the toys & comics reviewed are mine.
I shall be regulary updating my finds and trips out to various car boots & toy fairs.
Hope you find it of interest!
All the toys & comics reviewed are mine.
I shall be regulary updating my finds and trips out to various car boots & toy fairs.
Hope you find it of interest!
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Sunday, 15 January 2012
MEGO UHURA ON THE BRIDGE!
Uhura at the Com! |
Distance pic of the Bridge playset |
Bridge box.surrounded by Mr Fox! |
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
TWILIGHT ZONE FIGURES
Love The Howling Man Devil figure |
Once again the packaging, in the MEGO style is fantastic and the likeness to the actors is also very good, and just like the retro Action DC figures i don't really want to open them, but i really want to Display them.
Backs of cards with the other figures available |
MARVEL ANNUAL 1972
Great Kirby Cover |
Art by the great Steve Ditko |
Even in 2 colours the story's came to life, and to me, still looked great, a tribute to the great Marvel Artists of the time, and the wonderful storytelling of Stan Lee.
This lead me to tracking down the original comics, which of course were in colour, and started my Comic Collecting mania which lasted until 1977, when i started to collect records.
I eventually sold most of my Marvel collection in 1983, to a Comic book store in Birmingham UK, i started again about 7 Years ago, when i found you could get relatively cheap comics off E Bay, if you were not too bothered about Condition & Grading.
This was a great pressie to receive, and hopefully, next year I'll ask Santa for the 1973 Marvel Annual!
The Secrets Of Spiderman..Revealed! |
Even In B & W King Kirby's art is Fab |
CHRISTMAS GOODIES RETRO ACTION DC Figures
Hello everyone, hope you all had a great holiday, and hope you all had some nice pressies, I'd like to share a few of mine with you, as Christmas day is also my Birthday, then i tend to get a few extra pressies, I'm lucky in that sense, and I've never really missed having a birthday earlier in the year.
I was lucky enough to receive these great Retro DC figures of Batman & Cheetah, they are of course based on the classic MEGO style.
I absolutely love these figures, the whole look of them is great, I'm very tempted to open them as i always think figures look much better displayed that way, on the other hand they are so cool. i don't want to spoil them in any way!..they are usually quiet expensive to buy in the UK averaging around £20.00 a figure, that Black Manta one looks Fab, i must attempt to get that.
Shame they are not packaged in the clam shell way like the Emcee Star Trek figures i got to add to my collection..
The salt Vampire being the Star figure here.its Fantastic, these are deffo being opened, as you can carefully cut along the dots without damaging the packaging too much, and i really need to display the Uhura figure on the Enterprise bridge along with my other MEGOs
These re-issues of the Original MEGO figures a great, I'm not a Purist collector, if i like it. I'll buy it and display it regardless of age or collectability.and they were on sale in Forbidden Planet at £6.99!..absolute bargains really, i may go back and get the Sulu figure, for my now overcrowded Enterprise bridge.
I was lucky enough to receive these great Retro DC figures of Batman & Cheetah, they are of course based on the classic MEGO style.
Super Cool Retro DC Figures |
Backs of Cards |
I absolutely love these figures, the whole look of them is great, I'm very tempted to open them as i always think figures look much better displayed that way, on the other hand they are so cool. i don't want to spoil them in any way!..they are usually quiet expensive to buy in the UK averaging around £20.00 a figure, that Black Manta one looks Fab, i must attempt to get that.
Shame they are not packaged in the clam shell way like the Emcee Star Trek figures i got to add to my collection..
The salt Vampire being the Star figure here.its Fantastic, these are deffo being opened, as you can carefully cut along the dots without damaging the packaging too much, and i really need to display the Uhura figure on the Enterprise bridge along with my other MEGOs
I need A Gorn! |
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
HULK AND SUPERHERO 1970"s BOARD GAMES
Instructions & Hulk /Banner Counters |
Hulk Board Hulk Smash! |
so merry Hulkmass everyone!
This is the other game i got just a few days after my Hulk purchase, I'm always on the lookout for vintage Superhero toys & games anything from the sixties or seventies, the artwork & design of those decades was fantastic, and a lot more imaginative than you see nowadays.
Made by the Bradgate division of Palitoy comes the 'Marvel comics Superheroes Game' i guess between the 2, this is my fave as it features not one but five superheroes all battling against the mighty' Mephisto', a character i must admit to not being familiar with, i would have thought 'Kang' or 'Doctor Doom' would have fitted the game better, but saying that, he does look pretty mean & cool.
Great Board Excelsior! |
Iron man & Torch |
Super Spidey |
WOW! |
Mighty Mephisto..Cube! |
Complex Instructions.. |
Hopefully I'll get a chance to do one more blog before Chrismas with a few of my recent charity shop finds..but if not.
Happy Holiday's everyone!
Monday, 28 November 2011
SIX MILLION DOLLAR FINDS!
We had an attempt at playing the game one night, its pretty awful to play, but the board spinner & figure cards look great..very basic, throw a dice, miss a go stuff, not very challenging even for the time, i remember a Friend having it but i don't remember it being so dull to play.
Most of the other Denys Fisher games had the same problem, ( except War of the Daleks) and used the same game play, They had a spinner instead of dice, carded figures..etc, they were obviously quick money making spin offs what saved them was, as I've said, they looked great.
Great board & bionic Spinner! |
A total surprise was finding this 1970's poster mag in the box, hidden under the inside board!..it opens out into a huge poster of Lee Majors i can imagine this graced many walls in the UK during the 1970's.
Dollar Bonus Mag! |
the great Steve Austin |
great Box |
The actual outfit is hilarious. but as a child's dressing up outfit it kind of works, just a red suit of some kind would have been really dull, so i guess they overcompensated with this!..its madly Psychedelic.
WILD! |
I love the side of the box too..great little graphic, i also have the Batman dressing up outfit from around the same time, but the box is nowhere near as good.
Good Side! |
Shame about the faded box |
The slides look great, but its no longer working but i do love those old Chad Valley projector sets, i have a few more Dollar Man items scattered around the Toy room, my fave being this Old Oscar Goldman doll who's fallen fowl of the Mighty Jaws..
Poor Oscar he'll need Bionic legs now! |
Steve and his pal The Green Goblin! |
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