Moon Explorer and Mystery Von Braun

 This was an interesting bundle I saw on auction.

I love the boxed Moon Explorer car. What a design! 

What's the leaflet at the back in German? It says Reach for the Stars or similar? Is that Werner Von Braun pictured?  

Rack of Lem

More vintage Hong Kong blister rack toys of space vehicles seen on Worthpoint.

There appears to be a bundle of golden astronauts in the top Toy House set above the blue capsule - or is it a LEM? I love the little orange Billy Blastoff space sled.

The bottom set by Larami includes four golden astronauts.

Do you like these sets? Are they must haves  for SpaceX Golden Astronaut collectors?

Gantry from the Pantry

Here's another of those simple rockets sold as cake toppers. This one is in a plain stapled bag.

It would have been the icing on the cake for my birthday as a kid!

Did you have anything like this?

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By way of comparison, the Cake topper set previously seen this week.

Kitbash Moon

I liked this bundle of Apollo Moon bits on Worthpoint. I reckon some have been been painted and kitbashed! 

Waddaya think? 

Amber Vanguard

 The Japanese love different colours and finishes.

This translucent vanguard is neat.

It's tiny too!

Is it one you like readers?

An Event Sociological

The Grandson and me watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind again today. Always an incredibly moving experience for us both, we share the same excitement for the arrival of the huge mothership. The high point is always when it finishes the finale two notes of the famous five note phrase. We literally punch the air when it's done and I always have a tear in my eye.

This time though we opted for the Collectors Edition. There was definitely new stuff in it we'd never seen such as part of the beginning and the inside of the mothership with Roy at the end. Some parts were missing too, notably the bit were Roy chucks all the bushes in his garden through his front room window. 

Next time we'll watch the Directors cut to see what Steven Spielberg kept in, chucked out and most importantly added.

We both agreed it's an utterly fantastic movie, maybe the best sci-fi film ever.

An event sociological.

Is it a film you like?

Easter Greetings

The Astronaut Wrangler Mystery

I recall the other night, after watching the wondrous Artemis II lift off, the array of post-launch talking heads on TV.

One of them was the Astronaut Wrangler. I had to look it up. It appears that it was Buzz Aldrin's promoter. Fascinated that he needed promoting I looked for it on Wiki, only to find nothing.

Checking further it appears that as it's the promotion, marketing and management of a famous person, the promoter isn't by default famous and therefore doesn't get a wiki page!

I was amazed. An American news channel interviewed her five minutes after Artemis II took off!