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Welcome to my new website. Apologies if you are searching for something and the site is 99% broken. I had a melt-down during a server update and lost the old site. In the end toys.thowden.com.au had been getting very little attention and, mea culpa, I did not maintain a decent backup. So this is the… Read more: New Website

I have a Noddy Builder toy which is essentially a Tinker Toy copy with wooden pieces. The tube container is metal and missing it’s lid. The contents is incomplete, but consists of the typical Tinker Toy wheel and rod components. The tube shows “Registered” near the bottom of the metal container. However, I think this… Read more: Noddy Builder Construction Toy

R&L Cereal Toys issued two different sets of Hollow Polystyrene Cereal Toy Motor Cars. The vehicles are hollow moulded with fixed wheels in a single casting. The cars have tow loops on the rear and the towing trailers have a bar and pin for attachment. The earliest release was the 1960 Vehicles & Road Signs… Read more: Hollow Polystyrene Cereal Toy Motor Cars

For anyone interested in cereal toys, or Australian made toys, there is no better book than Craig Halls’ indispensable reference Breakfast Barons, Cereal Critters and the Rosenhain & Lipmann Legacy. Craig L. Hall 2002 ISBN 0 9578614 0 0. This book is a bible for R&L Cereal Toys, made in Australia and exported to pop-up… Read more: Breakfast Barons Cereal Critters and the Rosenhain & Lipmann Legacy

Among the new acquisitions are More Neptune Switched-on Seaweeders Band. Of the 4 items 2 are colour variations that I wanted. While I do have some of these already, I will pick the better condition ones and update my collection listings.