Bandai Porsche 928S Instructions

Instructions for a 1980s Bandai Porsche 928S

To be honest with you, I'd rather have kept the transforming Porsche than the instructions for it, but like a of my toys from the 1980s they were sold at car boots. Yep, Star Wars and Action Man got sold to buy transforming toys, and the transforming toys were so sold to buy, erm, I dunno. Records probably.

This particular one was pretty cool, though I was hoping for the Autobot Jazz. I'd probably dropped hints about wanting a transforming Porsche and a well-meaning relative picked this bad boy up instead. It wasn't Jazz but I liked it nonetheless.

Thoughts on Value

Whilst there are likely to be quite a few unboxed Bandai transforming robots out there, there will be less boxed ones, and not all of the boxed ones will have the original instructions. So, someone somewhere would want these instructions to make their toy complete. Plucking a figure out of the air, it could be worth a tenner, possibly less, possibly more. I haven't seen the instructions being sold separately at any time, so it's a bit of a guess. 

Wrist Racer Stunt Cars

Spoiler Alert. I don't actually have the stunt car. At least, I haven't found it amongst my boxes of old toys yet. But I do still have the Wrist Racer wrist strap, so here's a couple of pictures for you.

These toys were made by a defunct American company called Knickerbocker Toys.

I found this advert on Youtube.

I totally forgot the ramp comes out. When I get a moment I'll take a picture with the ramp out.😊

The Donkey And The Carrot board-game

This was one of my favourite board-games, and I have recently played it with my own kids who enjoyed it too.

The aim of the game was to get your little donkey to the stable by rolling a dice (with straights, curves or carrots) to build a path or to move the donkey along the path.

There are some available on ebay, but I'm keeping mine for now because, well, it's kind of like a family heirloom or summat. Ok, I like it and I can win at it too!



 

Corgi "Fire" fire engine/truck

Not much to say, other than this little truck from the early 1980s is in pretty decent condition. I've found a few similar ones (the stickers on the side are different to mine) but they aren't in as good a condition as my fire engine.

Evel Knievel Super Jet Cycle - What A Cool 70s Toy

This Evel Knievel Super Jet Cycle (not to be confused with the stunt cycle or any other Evel Knievel toy bike) was one of the coolest toys ever!  Plonk Evel on his bike, attach the bike to the red ramp, crank the handle and let it zoom off across the floor!

Me and my brother both had one each and I think we've both still got them (well, I've got mine). Apart from a bit of fading and general wear and tear it's still in decent knick too.Most importantly, it still works so whenever I fancy unleashing the daredevil in me I'll just set up Evel Knievel and launch him on his bike, hurtling across the canyon (well, the floor), hoping he stays upright.

Want to be a daredevil like Evel Knievel? Here's everything you need to get started. 😊

Bendy Dinosaur

Here's another shelf-dweller for you, a bendy dinosaur. Let's call this one, ahem, a "cereal killer" because he came free with Kelloggs cereals in the late 1970s . Well, not free. You had to send away to collect them. Thanks again Internet for filling in the memory gap!

I think it's supposed to be a Bronotsaurus, but there's a fair degree of licence with the body shape and look of this particular beasty! By the title of this article you've probably gathered it can bend; Head, neck, legs, body, tail - all movable, so it is a little a little bit like a stop motion wire armature.

Quite cool, and this bendy dinosaur is still in decent condition too.

Random pull-back toy car

What it says on the title.

I'll have to find it again to add more info such as manufacturer, year of make etc.

Tomy stretch-legged Stoomdorm

Air pump powered fun! Me and and brother both had one of these cool gizmos. His (the Hoomdorm) hopped, mine (the unusually named Stoomdorm) scooted across the floor like a robotic rodent on steroids. Apparently they were marketed as "Space Pets". Weird.

Just pump up this bad boy and watch it clatter away, bringing unbridled carnage to livign rooms across the country. If you thought toy cars were a trip hazard, well these fellas moved so fast that the trip-factor increased tenfold. Probably.

I couldn't find a modern equivalent "Space Pet" - this thing below is the closest I could find.

A solitary Weeble

Weebles wobble but they don't fall down!

Weebles. Little round wobbly characters. The ones I had date back to the 1970s. I recall having quite a few of them with the odd vehicle too. I fondly remember having a playground set with roundabout, slide, swings and see-saw. None of that stuff survived the various car-boot sales and clear-outs of the late 1980s at my family home.

I suspect other "Weeble people" ended up with my kids modern day Weebles collection.

This one is on a shelf in my office (there's a lot of old stuff in my office, me included.)

There's even a Paw Patrol version of Weebles nowadays!

Elephant

Any Thoughts On This Blue Toy Elephant?

My guess is this little fella dates back to the mid-1970s. He sits on a shelf in my office and I don't really know what he came from (was he in a set of rubbery toys?). All I know is he was made in Hong Kong and he's been with me for a very long time.

It's possible he's from a set. I say this because I can't imagine he's the sort of toy bought individually. Of course, I could be wrong. As to a value, I have not got the foggiest. There's a collectors market for everything, including elephant fans. Similar items fetch between £10-40 on the vintage circuit on Etsy. Somewhere in there is a reasonable starting point, but I think we'd need to know more. There's certainly sentimental value for me.