I'm excited about this bloglet - more fabulous pictures of the MOONSHIP in various forms! WOW! You remember I covered this gem in September as part of the PROJECT MOON thread. The pictures are ( top to bottom):
1. AHI Super Rocket Plane and box cover 1960's - plastic - (with kind permission from Anthoni Emchowicz, from his book Future Toys)
2. AHI Super Rocket Plane 1960's - plastic - courtesy of WOTAN ( Blast Off, Space port edition -boxed set with slipcase, supplementary booklet, in which appears the moonship and an actual Archer plastic spaceship)
3. Century 21 Moonship with box 1960's - plastic - likely to be the PROJECT MOON moonship - courtesy of WOTAN
4. Kang Yuan Toy Factory of Shanghai, China Moon Ship with original box 1960's - tinplate - with chinese lettering on the ship ( SOLD on http://www.ozziesrobots.com/ - great online shop!)
5. Kang Yuan Toy Factory of Shanghai, China Moon Ship with original box ( flat view) 1960's - tinplate - with English wording on the ship ( with kind permission Anthoni Emchowicz from his book Future Toys)
BTW - Anthoni Emchowicz's excellent online shop is http://zoomertoys.com/ and his truly amazing FUTURE TOYS book, crammed with hundreds of colour pictures of space toys, can be found athttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Toys-Antique-Collectors-Club/dp/1872727689/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223133069&sr=8-3
So I challenge anyone to find any more MOONSHIPS!
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