This caught my eye on the Bay. Its an insurance advert from an old US mag from 1966 showing a Father and Son holding a toy rocket. I do love old pictures like this where toys are used as props to represent everyday life back then. I suppose they were easy to get hold of and cheap as well!
The rocket sort of rings a bell. It looks to be plastic. Anyone recognise it?
Yes it is plastic. I had this one and a later issue that had a different capsule. What I can remember about mine is I believe some of my colors was different but this may be because I had both and ended up with a mishmosh of parts combined. The rocket was essentially 5 pieces in 4 stages. The main stage on mine was white with a separate red thruster base that fit up inside it like a plug. The second stage was red on mine and was hollow. The third on mine was white with a red plug and tabs that you squeezed together to launch the 4th/command capsule. It was spring loaded but not overly powerful. My Mercury capsule was red with a silver astronaut and a clear window insert like in the picture. The later one I had had a larger Apollo capsule and if you looked under the capsule module, it had a silver plastic disc with folded up LEM legs molded onto it.
ReplyDeleteI'd almost wager the one in the picture is in red white and blue colors.
great memory Lance! that toy you had sounds really cool. I don't think I had a multi-stage rocket as a kid. The nearest was the Apollo Saturn from the Project SWORD range. The one you describe and the one on the picture - I wonder if it was Processed Plastics, MPC or even our friends Multiple Toymakers?
DeleteIts red and white, possibly Park Plastics. Ive got the capsule off the top. Turns up on ebay us frequently.
ReplyDeleteConfirming Lance's memory: I had this as well! Though I never saw it with the style of capsule depicted above. It's the Processed Plastic Apollo Moon Rocket, discussed here:
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