Woodsy, [here's my] Marx Lunar Exploration Miniature Playset! "Hand decorated by Artists", says
the box. From the sweet 60's and made in Taiwan, and with Hong Kong box art. I just
love these dioramas with little pieces of lunar surface, beautiful background
decor, the space tank and the dynamic trio! Perhaps even better than being
there!
Cheers
Arto
Cheers
Great pictures. I had one of these sets in the 1960s. They were expensive, so only had one. I recall most sets had a small polythene copy of one of the larger Marx battery-operated space vehicles.
ReplyDeleteWonder which tank hull was re-used for this vehicle!
From what I can make out in the picture, the tank hull looks like it might be a M-47 Patton tank, Andy, esp the nose and deck. Though if I look at other simple plastic Marx tanks, the wheel arrangement on those is more that of an M-48. Could even be a hybrid of the two. :)
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Paul
Good point about expense Andy. Love the diorama boxed sets like this, but as a helpless child remember this was just the sort of thing that made my parents scoff at value (all that...space)...and so, it was a header carded bag of green GI's for me...sob.
ReplyDeleteThose were the days when such a simple thing as a box the toy came in was a work of art itself. Even the tri-tone screened images on the Remco toy packages had their own charm too.
ReplyDeleteWhat a rich childhood we all did share !
Copy that!
DeleteOh how I remember these sets, hellishly expensive at the time, I was fobbed off with a header card bag of polythene Thunderbird 3 and a bunch of spacemen at a Grotto one year.. sob.
ReplyDeleteBox art is lovely and lifted directly from the Ladybird Exploring Space book!
http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/glory-days-of-space-by-wotan.html
I remember I got the white astronaut at the back in a cracker one year too - a green ripoff version, but for ages he was my favourite and definitive astronaut. I never knew he was based on a Marx toy.
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