MOON BASE
The Triang Stage One series Moon Base series includes the single most complex toy of the fleet, the eponymous base itself. Based on a NASA concept for an advance base, the toy has four modular capsules, each sitting on four tiny detachable legs. Inside three of the four units are tiny scaled items of furniture and equipment, including a computer array, recreation hall with cinema and dormitory with pool table and bunk beds! The fourth module is the garage unit with opening hatch and the four units are connected by a cross shaped tunnel unit.
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| MOON BASE |
The Moon Base series is possibly the closest that SPACEX comes to Project SWORD in one sitting. Featuring a central base, the almost identical Prospector and Moon Bus lookalike, parallels between the series begin here and radiate outward.
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| PROSPECTOR |
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| EXPLORER MEV 2 |
The MEV design can be found in Arthur C Clarke's 'Man in Space' book and the Cricket P1 appears in many other toy lines, most notably in Remco's Hamilton Invaders line.
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| BASE PATROL CRICKET P1 |
I know it's been said but this is a superb Spacex toy, so many little details . I love the little pool table for off duty lunarnauts!
ReplyDeleteNice photos. Pool in one sixth g would be interesting!
ReplyDeleteHa; ha! Kevin, all the balls would be one sixth heavier of course! ; - D
ReplyDeleteDrat, Kevin beat me to it - I was much amused when I got my very first Moon Base back in the 90s and had the same thought. Scoop, those balls would need to be six times heavier, not one-sixth. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd in general, this wasn't a NASA design, but a Lockheed concept to propose to NASA. The modules may have been recycled fuel tanks, though I may be mixing that up with another concept (which incidentally had floors with a triangular mesh (to allow the fuel to get through) which may have inspired the floors in the MMM Space Station).
Best -- Paull
Ha, ha! It was a joke Paul, and until we get a chance to play a game of pool on the Moon together there's no way of proving the point! : D
ReplyDeleteWhat a load of balls!
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