Toys and Stuff

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Kellogg's Sugar Pops and Sugar Smacks 'Starbot' Space Shuttle Cereal Premium (1985) - Silver SP

In 1985 Kellogg's came out with a nifty little series of space toy cereal premiums piggy-backing on the Transformers craze. They were called 'Starbots' and featured toys which, when unfolded, turned into Transformer-like robots. To-date I only have the Space Shuttle toy in two different colors because the Shuttle was more interesting to me. Maybe I'll pick up the rest next year sometime - or not - we shall see. The shuttle measures: 2.75" (6.98cm) L x 1.625" (4.12cm) wingspan x .625" (1.58cm) H (3.125"/7.93cm H when deployed). They come with peel-&-stick appliques' but I bought my silver Shuttle used and missing the stickers. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Culled from the Internet

Is it just me or does thing look like a frog??

My red Starbot is still MIB

Britains Deetail WWII British Infantry Set #7342 (1973) - Pt 1

Hey, I got an idea - let's look at some toy figures! 😄 Okay, okay, I know, it's what I've been doin' all year, right? Anywho, more photos of Britains Deetail figures were found on the hard drive so let's do this thing!

This set of six British Infantrymen came out in 1973. I noticed while perusing the "Britains Toy Models Catalogues 1970 to 1979" (compiled By David Pullen) that a lot of the figure sets included battlefield accessories like trees and this set would have had two different barren or bombed out trees included with it. The photo of the infantry set shown here does not include the trees and while I do have them somewhere out in The Cave it would be a real task to try and locate them now. As for the 'set', it is put together from several separate purchases over the years, so therefore I have no box, and one or two of the figures shown below have since been replaced by figures in better condition. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

GIANT Plastics Corp. (aka GIANT of Hong Kong) / Helen of Toy Space Toys - Pt 20 25mm Aliens (Martians) Pose 5 - Light Green SP

From what I've seen over the past couple of years collecting GIANT figures, this pose is among the hardest to find. Fortunately, I acquired mine from another collector in one of the facebook groups who was willing to part with it for a reasonable price. I'm not quite sure what he's holding: light? universal translator? And, as you can see, this is another figure with antenna issues - oh well. Enjoy! Opa Fritz