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Tuesday, 22 January 2013

BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE MOON BUS

Toho, the Japanese film makers who brought us the fantastic Godzilla in 1954, launched their grand space epic BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE in 1959. Stuffed with tons of sci-fi machines and spaceships, I particularly like the look of the moonbus-like planetary rovers pictured in the movie poster.
 
 
To re-live every scene with the rover Japanese kids could go out and buy a model of it. Luckilly for us, we can see it on You Tube. What do you think of this as a kit toy?

2 comments:

Ed "ICE" Berg said...

This is a really nifty toy. As a kit it was probably pretty easy to assemble. In any case I like!

Arto said...

A battery pack on wheels, with Tetsujin face and in SWORD colours - who could resist! Absolute fave of mine as well!

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