As promised here are a few photos of some of the small model
vehicles that come with the Moonbase kit.
The kit has the full complement of three Moonbase
Interceptors (oddly,one has a slightly different shaped missile)
The Moon Mobile is a bit of a disappointment as it bears only
a vague resemblance to its TV counterpart.
There’s two moon vehicles that were seen next to Dalotek’s
base in the UFO episode, ‘ The Dalotek Affair’.
I’ve already shown the tiny Lunar Shuttle in my previous
post on the Moonbase. Although it’s
small, the top half is a fairly reasonable representation, however the bottom
half is blessed with a set of tiny wheels!
There's a fairly simple, but effective representation of a UFO
Three other Shado vehicles come with the set; however these
are principally Earth-based.
The first is Sky 1 which I’m assuming is similar to the one
that came with the Imai Mobile kit. Even for its size its reasonably detailed,
sadly though it’s also cursed with a set of three superfluous wheels.
There’s a little Shado Mobile, similar to the one that came
with the Imai Sky 1 kit.
And finally for now, here's a Shadair Tilt Rotor Helicopter.
I’ll cover the last three vehicles – The Scramble bug, Moon
Crawler and Moon Prospector in a later post.
Uforic Scoop! They look great those little vehicles. I suppose the wheels were considered extra play value to make them more like small toys. I wonder if the original Imai kit had them? Can't wait for the three SWORD vehicles. We've never had really good close-ups!
ReplyDeleteI imagine you're right about the wheels Woodsy, but as a parent I wouldn't have let my kids have these tiny toys - not so much play value as choke value.
DeleteAs the Aoshima UFO Moonbase is a reissue of the Imai then I'd think these models would have come with the original. They were illustrated on the box art, although, as we all know the Moonbase depicted on the box isn't exactly what the kit looks like ; )
Cute!!
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