Month: July 2025

Alien Space Zoo – Do Androids Dream of Electric Shugs?

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A Space Bestiary / Farm / Zoo / Botanic Garden would indeed be an interesting addition to my 54mm space port city and desert town, rural or agricultural outpost.

They would also provide useful alien races for my Not Quite Star Wars / Close Little Space Wars project?

If space kids or space parents bought toy space soldiers and spaceships in space toyshops, I wonder if the other Britain’s type toy figure ranges would exist in space?

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HMS Thunder Child mentioned in H.G. Wells’ Floor Games of 1911

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I noticed a curious little detail amongst the J.R. Sinclair illustrations whilst reading through my 1931 reprint of Wells’ predecessor to Little Wars (1913), the delightful  Floor Games of 1911. 

Look close up on the cap tally, showing the ship’s name on silk ribbons on the drunken wooden toy Sailors’s hat – THUND …

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My Strand Magazine 1911 article on ‘Floor Games’ and one part (The Battle of Hook’s Farm) of ‘Little Wars’ article in Windsor Magazine 1912

More Space Toys from Star Wars Andor Series 2

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Sometime ‘space toys’ and space toy soldiers are glimpsed in the background of sci Fi films such as Star Wars serials.

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Inspired by (Not Quite) Star Wars, my ‘Darke Troopers’ battered lead ‘playworn’ paint conversions of Star Wars figures. But who in Star Wars: Andor series 2 also collects space toy figures?

Britain’s 1962 Box Back version of Wells’ Little Wars

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Browsing through James Opie’s Great Book of Britain’s 1893-1993, I found this interesting variation on Wells’ Little Wars printed on the back of some Britain’s 1962 display boxes.

Little Wars of 1913 (above) updated by Britain’s to 1962 and the closing years of hollowcast lead figures?

These Little Wars rules variations were apparently devised and designed by Roy Selwyn-Smith and Charles Biggs for Britain’s Ltd.

I have yet to try and play out these rules.

Do any of you remember playing this 1962 Britain’s box back rule version of Wells’ Little Wars in the final years of Britain’s metal figures?

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Army Red – Britain’s reduced paint scheme basics …

The Shape of H.G. Wells To Come …

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H. G. Wells pictured on set of The Shape of Things to Come (1935 novel and 1936 film) … and a more futuristic costume designed or redesigned for him ninety years later.

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