Did you get your kid what they reallllllly want?

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Sears,  Christmas Catalogue, 1962 (seven years before the Apollo moon landing)

Comments

[hutchlover]

Did they really think we were gonna blast some 'little green men' w/tanks?

But in all honestly, minus those two aspects, the makers are fairly accurate.

[murakozi]

I could do without the giant Gemini capsule and whatever that phallic thing is that's suporting the space station.

Other than those, I'd seriously love to have that set.

[baron_waste]

For shame, mistaking a Project Mercury capsule for a Gemini!

- And far from being giant, that's the only thing that's to scale! Those lunar vehicles are NOT built to the scale of the “Moon men.”

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And I'm guessing the space station is "in perspective, as seen from the ground in orbit"? :D

[baron_waste]

It's undoubtedly circular, but yah, maybe 2" across…

The top of that 'moon mountain' suggests a graveyard, with all those crucifixes and cenotaphs and obelisks and like that. In a thousand (or on the Moon, a million) years it might be taken for just that, with all the paint faded and microdust covered into a uniform grey…

[joebehrsandiego]

So. Cool.

[baron_waste]

That's a heavily armed moon base! I guess the Reds were going to sortie from their hidden Farside base; it's well to be prepared.

Interesting to see the two guys who look like they're in R2D2 costumes, on far right and left: That's basically a man-mobile spaceship, like carrying a circular phone booth around - in 1/6 gravity you could get away with that.

[vilakins]

I want that! And all for $8.88 (not, oddly, $8.99)? How much was that back then?

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One website suggests $65.

[vilakins]

A major gift then! Thanks for that. :-)