Move over Rover, Let Jimi take over

In the year that James Marshall Hendrix blew crowds away with his amazing guitar work, managing to coax the sounds of aircraft, rockets flying overhead and sirens blaring while blasting out a memorable rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, men landed on the moon and Earth history changed forever. In celebration of this and to extend their range of fabulous Action Transfers, Letraset included another cool set of space themed transfers in the yellow second series.

Moon Expedition took advantage of better print techniques included another gorgeously dramatic background. As the LEM was at the time bleeding edge technology, the fact that its shown against a backdrop including an advanced Moonbase, makes it look a little anachronistic today. As with the SWORD toy range which included sleek nuclear powered rockets alongside a solid fuel Apollo rocket, it almost seems like turning up to a 2011 motor show in a Ford Anglia. However, at the time, the LEM was the means which took men to the moon as was instantly recognisable to everyone.

The transfers included with the set had standard NASA environment suits instead of the sleek flexi suits seen in Meteorite Menace a year before and also showed more technologically accurate rocket assisted flying platforms, similar to the one included in the Airfix Astronaut set. A large solid looking spacestation rubs shoulders with some Skylab inspired designs and an interesting variation on the McDonnel Douglas Moon Buggy sits just below a sturdy looking fictional MOLAB.

 The Moon Buggy showed up later in the second Spacex range and also as the GAMA Lunar Jeep.

 The Coman Boys space set from Spain included a nice rounded moon rover similar in shape to the robust yellow MOLAB in the transfer sheet.