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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 14h

Good old Ai. Always so great at giving out 100% factual information…

Google’s Ai Overview on the availability of Live and Let Die on VCD (video cd).

My official copy of Live and Let Die on VCD (Video CD) I bought from a physical media store I used to work in late 90s/00s.

Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A nice pick up recently from a local bookshop. Really lovely collection of black & white vintage Doctor Who photographs/stills. I was trying to work out where they might have come from originally? Were they available in Shops? The quality looks too good to be just run off from someone’s computer.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Evolution of Life (Plants in the Sea). Video from a series of vintage educational science slides from the 60s/70s that recently came my way. Absolutely adore the vintage style illustrations in this.

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Evolution of Life (Plants in the Sea): Educational Slides from the 1960s/70s

YouTube video by Ian Welch

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Respiratory Organs. Video from a series of vintage educational science slides from the 60s/70s that recently came my way. Absolutely adore the vintage style illustrations in these old clips.

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The Respiratory Organs

YouTube video by Ian Welch

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is awesome. Probably the best thing I’ve picked up in ruddy ages. A genuine autographed photograph of Ernő Rubik, creator of the Rubik’s Cube, taken whilst he was out and about in the 80s promoting the Rubik’s Snake. The old school gamer in me absolutely loves this.

Signed photograph of Erno Rubik promoting the Rubik’s Snake in the 80s.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Digestive Organs. Video from a series of vintage educational science slides from the 60s/70s that recently came my way.

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Digestive Organs: Educational Slides from the 1960s/70s

YouTube video by Ian Welch

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Great pick up from my local bookshop yesterday. The Man Who Sold Death by James Munro. I bought it solely for the amazing cover though as it instantly gave me hauntological vibes. Sapphire and Steel (The Shape) anyone? #booksky #themanwhosolddeath #sapphireandsteel #theshape

Corgi Paperback copy of James Munro’s The Man Who Sold Death.

Photograph of The Shape/the man without a face from Assignment 4 of the TV series Sapphire and Steel.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Beautiful find of the day. Awesome collection of 1960s (I think) medical films all produced by the Rank Organisation. The films, from what I can see, all look amazing i.e., gorgeously retro and kitsch. Also love having the little metal canisters with original Rank logo on them.

Old film canisters containing old medical films from the Rank Organisation.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I quite genuinely could listen to Carole King’s demos for The Monkees all day long. youtu.be/FtyqPzeso5A?...

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Carole King - Pleasant Valley Sunday (1966 Demo)

YouTube video by Vic Berger

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Awesome book find this week. I absolutely love the cover on this little anthology. The artist obviously had it in for Hitch with both the noose and the voodoo pins. #booksky #alfredhitchcock #panpaperbacks

Pan Paperback of Alfred Hitchcock’s Stories not for the Nervous part two.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Book find of the day. How can I possibly resist reading something with such an amazing back cover blurb like this… #booksky #counterculture

Front cover of Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson

Back cover of Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Just a few digital art texture experiments done recently using old books and trees as a basis. Just parking them here till I decide if want to do anything with them.

Digital art texture collage using images of trees and old books

Digital art texture collage using images of trees, buildings and old books

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Love means never having to say you’re ugly.

Old Postcard showing the original horror film poster for The Abominable Dr Phibes starring Vincent Price.

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

RIP Alan Rothwell, the laid back, soothing face and voice behind countless soap operas, drama roles, and Scarred For Life favourites Picture Box and Hickory House (and his role as heroin addict Nicholas Black in Brookside was an all-timer)

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

Captain Dolphin: Pushed to the limits of endurance.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Pulpy crime pick up from Emsworth’s Magic free book shop Telephone box yesterday. Love the sleazy James Bond inspired cover on this one. Have to admit the title is kind of giving me Alan Partridge vibes too.

Pulpy Crime paperback by John McPartland. Published by Five Star. 1973.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I always forget 33 years ago I had a very brief stint in the computer games industry. Believe it or not this is the first time I've ever seen this game being played. Crazy to see it again after so many years or to actually hear the Rick Wakeman soundtrack. Always remember designing those cockpits.

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Random DOS Game Show #1085: Microcosm (1993)

YouTube video by The Random DOS Game Show

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A BLOB from a big old set of 35mm film slides that were found in a skip outside an FE college (and found their way to me thanks to @welchtoons.bsky.social !)

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Paul Putner @realpaulputner.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

For whom it may concern. (ie- Library music fans) Another recent record fair acquisition. 1971 De Wolfe LP 'Cult & Colour' Cinema intermission music. Time for a choc-ice from Angela the usherette. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxNc...

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Tired this morning. Mainly due to waking up in the middle of the night to watch Nine Inch Noise playing at Coachella. Totally worth it though. What an amazing gig!!!

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

@stoopalu.bsky.social Forthcoming attractions... ...Thought you might like to see a preview of couple of beauties from the Slide collection. 🙂

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Speaking of numbers stations, a million yrs ago when it was all hauntology everywhere, me and the nipper had ludicrous ambitions to make a 70s HTV kids telly style series called The Number Lady. Got as far as the title sequence youtu.be/U0UcSzCOoSc?...

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The Number Lady

YouTube video by peter cushing

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A City Within These Walls. Lovely wall texture I came across in Chichester earlier today. #texture #textureart #torn #derelict #urbandecay #urbex #decay #streetphotography

Lovely texture on a wall on a derelict post office building in Chichester. The texture resembles the look of the silhouette of a city’s skyline.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Only two episodes in and I’m already addicted to Small Prophets.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Picked this beauty up yesterday in a local bookshop. This is the 1st UK edition of Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer’s 1979 novelisation of The Wicker Man. This is definitely the best pick up I’ve had in quite a while. Absolutely love the cover on this one. #booksky #folkhorror #thewickerman

This is the 1st edition UK hardback of Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer’s 1979 novelisation of The Wicker Man.

Inner dust jacket of the 1st edition UK hardback of Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer’s 1979 novelisation of The Wicker Man.

1st chapter of the 1st edition UK hardback of Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer’s 1979 novelisation of The Wicker Man.

Page showing the lyrics of Willow’s Song from The Wicker Man book.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Reading the incredible ‘My Favourite Thing Is Monsters’ by Emil Ferris at the moment. It’s a great book with a great storyline & every page is literally filled with illustrations that literally take your breath away. It’s a few years old now but I’ve been absolutely blown away by it. #booksky

Excerpt/illustration from ‘My Favourite Thing Is Monsters’ by Emil Ferris showing a girl looking up at the tangled branches of a tree whilst on the telephone.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Found this the other day. Made me chuckle. Me, Christmas Day, 1977!! The Hulk punch bag, Action Man helicopter, Doctor Who (Tom Baker) doll & Remus Dinosaur sets were all beauts!! Wish I still had them. Can anyone remember the Devil Riders game though? I can recall the cover art and that’s about it.

Photo of Christmas Day 1977 with a picture of me surrounded by a haul of toys.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas Bluesky peeps. 😀

A snowy scene with Santa flying through the sky while a big skeletal dinosaur creature dons a Santa hat and revels in the snow.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Nice TV tie-in book pick up the other day sending my mind scurrying back to the Christmas of my childhood. Loved the Phoenix and the Carpet at the time however for some reason, over the years, my old brain has blurred this series with The Feathered Serpent which aired the same year. #booksky

The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit (tv tie in edition)

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Love this. My first thought was that this was a photo of some weird but incredible brutalist structure, but NO! It's actually a photo of the back end of what was the King Alfred Leisure Centre in Hove before the curly-wurly water slides were taken away. Looks beautiful & horrifying in equal measure.

Back end of the King Alfred Leisure Centre in Hove before the water slides were taken away.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Lovely pick up from my local 2nd hand bookstore yesterday. Absolutely adore the pulpy cover art on this Edgar Wallace mystery on Pan Books. Just couldn’t resist it. Wonderful stuff. #booksky #panbooks #pulpfiction

Paperback copy of The Forger by Edgar Wallace on Pan Books.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Posting this here to remind myself to listen to it properly tomorrow. Had no idea the Cocteau Twins did this. youtu.be/X1cyfRoMzj0?...

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Cocteau Twins lost webcast 22nd May 1996 remastered

YouTube video by Stuff Billionaires Cant Afford

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

It amazes even me the stuff I keep hold of sometimes. Had a BIG WIN this morning and found this beauty at the bottom of a box of old comics!! Ladies and gentlemen, for your viewing pleasure…. …the 1981 Millets Camping List!! Big bargain offers in Sleeping Bags?!?

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween... #halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

The Womble and The Clanger in the style of The Omen and The Exorcist

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

To be effective, an assassin must be invisible as well as deadly, hiding behind the most innocent disguise. A bowl of beef ramen metamorphoses into a fearsome ninja; an apparently harmless can of tea becomes a sword-wielding samurai of death. With Lunchbots, each meal may be your last…!!!

Lunchbots. Can of tea transforms into a Samurai Warrior. Bowl of Soup morphs into a Ninja Assassin.

Lunchbots.

To be effective, an assassin must be invisible as well as deadly, hiding behind the most innocent disguise. A bowl of beef ramen metamorphoses into a fearsome ninja; an apparently harmless can of tea becomes a sword-wielding samurai of death.

With Lunchbots, each meal may be your last…!!!

Tea Samurai
Soup Assassin

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Definitely a massive me-treat!! Woke this morning to find a new Gary Numan track has been released. It’s a rare outtake from the Telekon album. Thought I was going to have to wait for the forthcoming reissue to hear it. Love stuff like this. Great track too. youtu.be/wOdJ8zgWids?...

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Like a B-Film

YouTube video by Gary Numan - Topic

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Watched ‘She Killed in Ecstasy’ by Jess Franco last night and have become more than a little obsessed by the house in the opening scene. Love the fact it still exists today too and remains untouched.

Big creepy house in the opening scene from Jess Franco’s film, She Killed in Ecstasy.

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Welchtoons @welchtoons.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Late night movie watch… Fresh Crisp Apples: Vincent Price! (Not quite the opening scene I was expecting!!)

Opening scene from the film Scream and Scream again.

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Well I know what it is (for me anyway), it's "strong lines on creamy background". See also Giacometti's paintings, which caused my head to explode when I first came across some in an encyclopedia of art as a teen back in caveman times

'Annette', a painting by Alberto Giacometti. Portrait of a woman, sat straight up facing the viewer, arms crossed over and resting on her lap. Strong dark lines on a background of creamy greys, predominantly blue

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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