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Thanks. The ebb and flow of Star Wars descriptions is fascinating. You're right. It is Light Saber on the inflatable version but Lightsaber with "The Force Lightsabre."

There is plenty of reference material regarding the Palitoy Star Wars action figure range but I have never seen a comprehensive list of all of the toys. I had a go listing all of the action figure toys and role-play toys. Of course loads of packaging variations ended up in Britain but I have...

Okay, here’s one. How about Airwolf as being undeveloped toy-wise? There were few die-cast toys and an annual but where were the action figures, vehicles and playsets? I loved the show (and I still do) but I never found anything except for an annual and the Ertl/AMT model kit, that has...

I'm still unpacking from my move and I came across a BATEE backing card. Let me know your address indianawars and I'll post it to you (PM sent).

This is an item I have had knocking around my collection for a while. I'm finding it difficult to value due to the condition of the card. I was thinking of keeping it because my loose example is in unmint condition. Any ideas on the value?

I remember Terrahawks really well but I was old enough to see the show’s shortcomings. I loved the ships and technology though. It recaptured some of the same spirit as Thunderbirds. Starfleet/X-Bomber predated Transformers in the West by a couple of years but the fighting robot tradition goes...

You were one up on me. I didn’t have a single thing from Starfleet as a lad, as my slender budget was always focused on Star Wars. Thanks for the response to my photos. Starfleet seems to be almost completely unknown, except to the few of us who watched it at the time. Corresponding with fellow...

I always attempted to make a Dai-X out of Lego but never had enough parts – trust me to try to keep it in scale with the minifigs! I think the BBC made enquiries if they could commission a second series but all of the puppets, props and sets had been destroyed in a fire. You probably know that...

I was a bit too young to fancy any of the women in Blake’s 7 but watching the series now, I think Cally is just my type. They should definitely bring it back. I must admit to be pretty obsessed with Starfleet and I’ve always picked up items over the years. My wife Karen is a huge Queen fan and...

It's a shame. A lot of the toy lines mentioned here - Police Academy - Jase and the Wheeled Warriors - Ulysses - Tron - either did not make it to the U.K or were very much under-realised. Blakes 7 was absolutely huge in Britain in the late 70’s and early 80’s (I loved it) and I think a toy...

Both publications are pretty much identical. "The Star Wars Album" was simply the American edition. Its a nice item to add to the collection though.

Great that someone else remembers the film. Thanks for posting. I don’t remember what the creature was called. I just remember it being very realistic – a little too much! The other thing I remember being scared by was the black suited and masked Federation Troopers from Blake’s Seven. Unlike...

Some interesting choices here. My parents were very strict and I didn't see any horror films on television or video. Unlucky me! One film that really scared me as a child was “The Legend of Boggy Creek.” It was shown on television when I was around ten or eleven years old and scared the hell...

I won’t argue the point about DjSadhu’s video, except that I believe that the average person would find it surprising – rather than someone who is extremely knowledgeable about the subject. I am finding the conversation I am having with you (and you too theforceuk) to be valuable and extremely...

I am an “unsatisfied customer” of the output of the science community, partially because I have taken ten minutes to actually question things. I had already seen Horizon’s programme explaining the deep rooted problems with current cosmological theories and I had read Michael Brooks’ book “13...

The sun has a direction of travel around the Milky Way – which could be represented by your finger moving horizontally in front of your face. The “disk” of the planets orbiting the sun is almost vertical in relation to the Sun’s movement – not horizontal which is shown on television and in text...