"Take me to your Leader!" - Unofficial Sci-Fi collectibles thread

[bigbud]

Toy guns and battery op robots....a true combination for world domination! HA!

[bigbud]

I love helmets, and this is one of the best! this is a 1950s (or maybe alittle 60's too) Mirro Satellite Explorer Aluminum Helmet. Really a well made and neato item. The plastic shield is SUPPOSE to be one way and is called a Cosmic Ray Protecto Shield....ha! Love it!

[jimm]

Now THAT one may actually fit!

[Hepcat]

Toy guns and battery op robots....a true combination for world domination! HA!

Hmmmmm. How about this combination from Remco?

[bigbud]

Yea, Hep...that'll be a good start at equipping our toy-gun and robot army....

[avenger]

A set of sixty Space Orbit coins were issued as a premium in Dare, Krun-Chee and Hunter's Potato Chips in Canada in 1965(?). Here are scans of some of my Dare coins:Wow ! These remind me of the hockey coins we used to collect when I was growing up in the early 60's.







And here are scans of some of my Krun-Chee coins:





The Dare coins are more common than the Krun-Chee ones since Dare chips were distributed in and around Toronto while the Krun-Chee chip plant was in Windsor and the chips weren't sold much beyond southwestern Ontario. Krun-Chee chips were not that common even in London when I was a kid. Meanwhile, the Hunter's Space Orbit coins are the toughest of them all. I have only one.

[Hepcat]

Wow ! These remind me of the hockey coins we used to collect when I was growing up in the early 60's.

The 1960-61 Shirriff Hockey Coins were the first premium coins of this sort issued, and the three Hockey Coin issues in 1960-61, 1961-62 and 1962-63 were phenomenally popular with young boys in Canada. Their popularity peaked with the second issue. As a result, the Hockey Coins issued in these years are pretty boring as collectibles these days because they're so very common.

Here's a picture of The MAN holding up my binder of the much scarcer and therefore more interesting 1968-69 Shirriff Hockey Coins together with a binder of the 1962 Shirriff Baseball Coins:



The Jell-O Car Wheels and Aircraft Wheels are also common as spit these days because they too were so widely collected when issued in Jell-O and Hostess Potato Chips in 1961 and 1962 respectively. I've been plugging away at the various coin issues for more than thirty years. Other than the 1968-69 Hockey Coins, the most interesting coin issues to present day collectors are the 1963 Humpty Dumpty CFL Coins, the 1964 Nalleys CFL Coins, the Krun-Chee/Schulers/Hunters Fighting Ship Coins, the Royal Pudding Fish Plaques, the Old London Rocky & Bullwinkle Coins and the various issues of Space Coins.

[jimm]

Hep, that belongs in the sports collectible thread you are about to create...and I will be glad to contribute to 

[Hepcat]

Hmmmmm, yes, that could be done.



Back on topic, I just picked up this kit for my collection:





Interesting that it's the first Lindberg model kit I've ever bought. Moreover, it wasn't even on my radar screen until our own lblambert infected me with his own enthusiasm for it.

[jimm]

tear it open let's see that glow plastic 

[Hepcat]

Not necessary. Lblambert already did that to one right here:

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=17269.0

[jimm]

Thanks, now I need to track one down!

[Hepcat]

Here's an HO scale Lionel Satellite Launch car I have in my collection:

[Hepcat]

I finally added this Aurora kit to my collection via Ebay:



I like the Pan-Am logo. How wrong the script writers were about 2001!

[Monolith]

Nice Aurora Space Clipper. Interesting they used a photo on the box cover instead of a painting.