TVTA is pleased to present a selection of print images from the 1997 and 1999 catalogues of toy designer extraordinaire Todd McFarlane. Featuring rock legends KISS in their The Action Figures and Psycho Circus toy guises.
Enjoy.
Look out for more exciting action figure images from McFarlane Toys coming soon to TVTA!
McFarlane Toys 1999. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
From Ford and Wooof at TVTA: wishing all our vintage mates, readers and visitors a very happy Christmas. May love, light, spirit and healing be ours, and may our endeavours and art be fruitful in the new year ahead!Â
We celebrate with a few fun images from the McFarlane Toys 1999 catalogue.
Enjoy 🙂 Â
All you need is love, mates!
McFarlane Toys. 1999. The Beatles Yellow Submarine.
And some McFarlane Diamond Exclusives!
McFarlane Toys 1999. Diamond Exclusives.
And some Metal Gear Solid!
McFarlane Toys 1999. Metal Gear Solid.
And, lastly, but not leastly, a bit of Ozzy!
McFarlane Toys 1999. Ozzy Osbourne.
Ozzy, just the same as me, is a Brummie, from Birmingham in the UK, and although I just gave him the last word, our post is interrupted by another Brummie contingent… the Peaky Blinders, who in no uncertain terms tell me:
“This blog is under new management, by order of the Peaky fu@!#ng Blinders!” Â
Peaky Blinders. Image courtesy of BBC and Peaky Blinders Website
Now, have yourselves a very merry Christmas, or else!
🙂Â
I’m linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog where she hosts Six Sentence Stories and everyone is invited to write a story or poem constructed of six sentences based on a prompt word.
This week’s word is Horizon
Ghosts of the Seven Seas
O lover of mine, O Lily my love, I sail to thee across the sea
‘Neath a gown of stars twinkling in a mannequin sky,
O’er tumbling waves to the beckoning lantern
Of a lighthouse tall on a distant horizon.
I pass Christmas islands and frozen shores,
Cross coral reefs as pink as your lips and blue as your eyes,
To find you my love, O Lily my love,
I’m so sorry I’m late – but I have been to war.
A war which wounded me yet claimed without success my beating heart;
For each battle with invaders, charlatans and thieves,
Each duel with a demon and dance with a devil,
Did but strengthen my love and desire for thee.
Is it too late? I call out across the waves to the pirate breeze,
For I feel I am a ghost upon a ghost ship,
Sailing to deliver the gold ingots of my soul,
And all the trinkets and treasures of my pining heart.
Is it too late? for the lips of Lily to press mine in tender kiss,
For our arms to embrace, for our fingers to caress?
Is our love so far, so stretched, so tempered, so drowned and diluted
By all this sea which cruelly divides us?
Replies the pirate breeze: Ye poor fool captain upon the deck
Of your vessel bereft of direction and crew,
Ye seek the kiss of your living lover? Well, let me tell you the cold truth:
Your Lily died while you were at war, and is nought but a ghost
The same as you.
***
Poem: by Ford.
Image: La Tartane by Francis Bergèse. Heller catalogue 606. 1979. France.
PS: I love you
PPS: **if they smile at you thru sharpened fangs*and no matter how much they dress up their lies with fake gold*know that the truth will always sting*know only you can set yourself free*and see beyond the misery of what they want you to be*question everything*question it all**
PPPS: Look after my star
24/12/20.
Presenting:
The Vintage Toy Advertiser’s collection of Wonder Woman goodness as seen across the years in print advertising, comic books and toys!
Click images to go bigger, and enjoy this treat of one of the finest superheroes to grace the pages of comic books and the screen!
Wonder Woman N°240. 1978. Garcia Lopez et Dick Giordano.
Lynda Carter as TV’s Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman Japanese Chirashi poster. 2017.
Wonder Woman 1984. Japanese chirashi. 2020.
I’m linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories and everyone is invited to write a story or poem constructed of six sentences based on a cue word given.
This week’s cue word is Change
Editor’s note: I’m placing my notes at the top of this week’s Six Sentence Stories because some context is required before you read my entry.
Let me introduce you (if you don’t already know her) to one of our fellow Six Sentence Stories writers Reena Saxena who during three SSS challenges in November and December wrote an intriguing trilogy set in a mysterious asylum. I remarked at the time how elements of Reena’s trilogy were in parallel to the novel I am writing currently – also set in a mysterious asylum. Reena asked me if I wished to carry her story forward, to which I replied “Don’t tempt me!” 🙂
So here we are. And it’s a pleasure indeed to carry on the work of one of my writing peers, but also a revelation – for I was struck by two things: One, the synchronicity of individual themes able to meet unexpectedly. Two: the action of Reena offering me to carry on her trilogy mirrored a major plot twist in my novel. And here I was stunned – real life meets writing life meets common themes. I won’t elaborate because of spoilers for my novel, but what happened was pretty wild!
My aim is to carry on where Reena left off with her trilogy with my own trilogy, plus a title to catch it all. Will it provide answers to the mystery? You’ll have to read on to find out.
I’ve copied and pasted here Reena’s trilogy in the order it was made, then added my continuation after. Links are also provided. Thanks, Reena, for starting something 🙂 Thanks also to Denise for inspiring us with the weekly SSS challenges 🙂 And thanks to everyone else for reading 🙂
And so, let us go to the main event…
Jacques Poirier journal and magazine illustrations.
TVTA is pleased to present a selection of print images from the 1997 and 1999 catalogues of toy designer extraordinaire Todd McFarlane. Featuring action figures from horror legends of literature and movies, plus a look at the McFarlane exclusive Total Chaos figures. For those who don’t know, Todd McFarlane is a Canadian comic book creator, artist, writer, filmmaker and toy maker, and is recognised for his work on Spider-Man and the Spawn series.
Look out for more exciting action figure images from McFarlane Toys coming soon to TVTA!
The Remains of She.
“A journey to a childhood castle in search of ancient artefacts, healing and renewal; and a love story about to unfold which has travelled across the centuries.”
Announcing: a new art project featuring sculpture by Spira (aka the Wizard) and poem by Ford (aka the Mage) … 2021 will be bringing you the latest collaboration from these two artists.
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A wordless “come in”. A blast of barely warm air from his cheap electric fire. She. She pulls down her mask and smiles, and he, he stutters, You… you haven’t changed a bit. She says, You… you look like shit. I’ve seen better days, he says, but now… I don’t have much time.
She says, So let’s hurry along, do you have the key? And he, though enchanted by the shanty of her azure blue eyes, turns away to a desk missing several handles, its rosewood top tattooed with time and the ringlets from tea cups, and he plucks an iron key from a stack of biros in a plastic desk tidy. And he says, The key to the castle?
She says, Yes, we should go there now. And he blinks a sole pale and blue eye and asks, Will we find treasure? She is already turning to the door when she answers, Every castle that ever was, and is, contains a treasure.Â
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The Remains of She
Coming 2021
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