"Astronauts Review" Topic
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Tango01  | 28 Jul 2020 3:23 p.m. PST |
"In the 60s and 70s there was a huge interest in going to the Moon, and consequently there were a lot of space-themed toys. These figures stand out in my memory because I used to own a set, and loved the little gadgets you could put together and play with. I have no idea where they went in the long-term, but when I opened the little box from Airfix the other day, I was beaming from ear to ear (not the Star Trek kind) almost immediately. Arriving in a small end-opening rectangular box, you get four sprues of pure white vinyl, unlike the old ones with were a cheesy yellow colour, even from new. Funnily enough, the illustration of the contents on the back of the box show them to be yellowish, but white is the colour, and a proper colour it is too…"
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| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 28 Jul 2020 5:49 p.m. PST |
Mine were yellow when I bought them new in 1979! |
| Arjuna | 29 Jul 2020 1:41 a.m. PST |
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| Insomniac | 29 Jul 2020 5:21 a.m. PST |
Mine were yellow as well :) . I had the Airfix Lunar Lander as well… so I could put together quite a little diorama :) . |
| Arjuna | 29 Jul 2020 8:42 a.m. PST |
That html parser bug connecting my post and Insomniacs bodes ill with this forum. |
| Tango01 | 29 Jul 2020 12:28 p.m. PST |
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