A PROJECT 40 YEARS IN THE HIDING.......

Hello Moonbasers, 

as Woodsy has already said, I had a weird experience with the Space Safari toy as a kid. It was too high up for me to get my jammy hands on, so I only had half remembered memories of the real thing.

Fast forward to around 1976 when I was studying Interior Design at Sydney College of the Arts. I had to design and build a child's toy and I decided on a Noah's Ark.

Unwrapping the stored object for the first time in decades, I was surprised at the amount of Daizo printed hand lettering on the package. The comic story on the back was all hand coloured using inks. 

These days the whole thing would be laid out in a Vector program and laser printed, but back in those days I was hand using a Rapidograph pen on tracing paper. The triangular package was me thinking I could make a cleverly stacking product, but it doesn't work quite as well in the real world...

Anyway, to set the scene, here's the included backstory featuring a suitably 70's multi-ethnic crew with Biblical first names!

The next post, we'll get down to the toy itself which features a Slow-Slow friction motor as recently featured on this very blog...

Enjoy, 

Looey

Oz Base