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  • Toy Collection Updates

    Time flies when you are having fun. That means I must have been having fun since April when I last updated anything on this site! Today, I managed to get a couple of hours to work on my toy collection updates and have updated all the thumbnail images to be 200 x 200 to provide

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  • Cereal Toy or not

    The question, is this a Cereal Toy or not? It was in a small collection of cereal toys that I purchased recently and it appears to have been partnered with a Cowboy from the late 1950’s so the era is possibly correct, but it is not included in the list of Cowboy and Indian cereal

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  • Australian Pope Industries Diecast Toys

    The galleries and pages on Australian Toys have been updated today to cater for more items and information as I learn about the diecast and plastic toys made in this country post World War 2 and before it all went pear-shaped in the mid to late 1960’s and Australia stopped trying to compete with the

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  • Updated Crater Critter Galleries

    The updated Crater Critter galleries now include a gallery of 1968 series 1 and 1972 series 2 comparisons to help distinguish them. The galleries were also expanded and now include all of my collection of both the 1968 Crater Critters and 1972 Crater Critters. More information and gallery links are found at my R&L Cereal

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  • Blue Box Plastic Toys

    Added a new gallery and some details on a retail counter display box of Blue Box Plastic Toys from the 1960’s. I’ve had this one for a while, purchased from the USA. The outer box has been a bit water logged at some stage along with the contents of the box, but as that is

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  • ASC Japan Monkee Mobile

    ASC Japan Monkee Mobile

    Added my ASC Aoshin Japan tinplate Monkee Mobile to the site today. There are a number of pictures of this 1960’s japanese creation. It was interesting that the made similar models to the Corgi Toys diecast models. I might try to get the James Bond Aston Martin and a Batmobile one day if funds permit.

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  • Open Road Cereal Toys added.

    I collected over the last month or so some really nice items from a collection. The ones I added today are a blue Valiant Station Wagon with grey wheels, a green speed boat complete and with a matching green trailer, and a red Jaguar E-Type with the rare Tow Truck towing bar. 1966 R&L cereal

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  • Cereal Toys gallery updates

    The R&L cereal toy gallery for Neptune and his Switched-on Seaweeders was updated today to include some more information and update the photos. Also updated the Funny Fringes (Inges) pages and added 5 new items to the collection. New wants or buying lists have been added for Neptunes Band and Funny Fringes.Watch movie online Rings

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  • Cereal toy collection updates

    The curating of my toys is taking more time than I ever planned for and I forget where I am up to. So I am starting to post my site updates into this list as much as anything for me to keep track of the changes. Today was all about my cereal toy collection. I’ve recently

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  • Hotwheels Redline Olds 442 Spoiler question

    An interesting question was put to me today via my RecoverToy site that I thought I would share. My thoughts, without really knowing, was to offer the following: “I could not tell you what the original spoiler had on it. However, my reproduction Hotwheels Olds 442 Spoiler show the numbers 6467-015 8 which suggests to

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