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Links to My Other Web Sites
(Last Updated: 23 September 2009)
This site was launched on 27 October 2000. Its original name was the NZ Mondo Collectors’ Site, but on 5 August 2004, it was renamed the Mondo Museum. Like all my Web sites, it has plenty of information, including a Reference List of all existing Mondo figurines and cards. Plus it has many of the other characteristic features of an NZ Collectors' Site, including a contact list for NZ Mondo collectors, introduction, my personal collection (in the Mondo Exhibit Rooms) and what I have for sale or trade (in the Museum Shop). And of course, I offer an opinion on what I like and don't like about Mondos. Very much a site for tutto il mondo! Like the erstwhile Yowie site however, it is seldom updated nowadays due to the total lack of any new Mondos.
My newest Web site was launched quite recently—on 15 August 2007, to be precise. It’s all about Enid Blyton books that Enid Blyton herself never actually wrote, and some she did write originally, but which have been extensively rewritten and regrouped into different series. It covers continuation novels, spinoff series and “manufactured” series like the Fabulous Four and the Young Adventurers (which comprise updated versions of older one-off novels). While there is plenty of information available about Enid Blyton’s own writings, there is nothing about the continuation novels, spinoff series and so forth, so my new site aims to fill that void and make some sense of what can sometimes be a confusing picture. Another major element of this new site deals with literary translation, and in particular, my attempts to translate one of Claude Voilier’s Famous Five continuation novels (which has not previously been translated into English). I have also recently translated continuation novels by Sarah Bosse and Evelyne Lallemand, and these translations are featured also. This is less of a collecting site and more of a reference site, although I do plan to put up some information that will be of interest to collectors (such as cover formats). It also has a global focus rather than a New Zealand one.
NZ Yowie Collectors’ Site (RIP)
This was the granddaddy of all my Web sites, and the most sophisticated, with pictures, a comprehensive variation list and many other features besides. It first "went to air" on 12 December 1998 and lasted for over a decade. My Yowie site had many of the same features this one has, but an additional attraction was the Yowie Zoo, which divided the Yowie animals into the six main groups: Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Invertebrates, Mammals and Reptiles. There was scientific information about the real animals, statistics of how many animals of each type appear in each series, and, most importantly for the collector, variation lists. These were divided between mould, paint and paper variations. I has hoped to close that section of the site and put up a comprehensive Yowie Variation Encyclopaedia in its place, but that was never completed. Another very useful feature on this site was a section providing basic lists of each series and offering some points of note. For instance, you could find out which was the only series never to have had special characters released with it, which series had the most variations, and so forth.
It's hard to evaluate one's own site, but I'd say the best thing about the NZ Yowie Collectors' Site was the extensive information it provided. Over time, I think it may have become the best reference source for Yowies anywhere on the World Wide Web. However, my heart hadn't been in it for a while, and it had not been updated since Christmas Eve 2007. Click here to read the site’s final farewell message.
I also once had a site called the NZ Whitman's Looney Tunes Collector's Site. But because Whitman's Looney Tunes failed dismally as a collectable, with the result that no one was visiting the site, and because I had pretty much lost interest in Whitman's Looney Tunes, I decided to close the site down and concentrate on my other three sites (well, two now). That's All Folks!
Where to Find Kinder Surprise in NZ
Current Kinder Surprise Situation in NZ
Current Kinder Surprise Situation in Other Countries
What I Like About Kinder Surprise
What I Don't Like About Kinder Surprise
Personal Kinder Surprise Collection
Kinder Surprise Toys For Sale Or Trade
Links to Other Kinder Surprise Sites
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