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Wednesday, 27 January 2010

RUSSIAN BUG


I love this little Russian space car that's on Ebay. Tinplate and plastic with AT wheels like a Scramble Bug. The big clunky antenna is great! And in space anyone can drive, even happy schoolkids! It's fascinating how the space race played such an important role in popular culture including toys allover the world and specifically in the USA and the USSR in the Sixties/ part of the Seventies. That's certainly gone now sadly.
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4 comments:

  1. The Philosophic Toad1/27/2010 11:44 am

    You know what I really like about this little Bug? It looks like it's a girl driving it! (Unless Russian boys have really girly hairstyles).

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  2. WOODSY1/27/2010 4:00 pm

    Hee hee - a Ladybug! The Soviet view of Space and no doubt space toys will have been much more everyday and utilitarian than in the West. I rememember walking round East Berlin the other year and seeing space murals and mosaics on street corner walls left behind from the old Iron Curtain days. When did you last see a space mural in the UK?

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  3. Anonymous1/27/2010 4:28 pm

    I think there is mild space fever in China at the moment. It's a new adventure for them.

    Next stop the moon ...

    Sean

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  4. The Philosophic Toad1/27/2010 5:53 pm

    Woodsy said: "When did you last see a space mural in the UK?"

    You know, I don't think I've *ever* seen a space mural here. Isn't that sad?

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