I have a thing about Rocket Gantries. This one not only on LP Toys wheels but with a spring loaded "launch" mechanism which spits its rocket form vertically. Likely to a height about equal to the top of the gantry. And you know, when I was six that would have been plenty.
Appears to have been used as a sponge, a phrase we invented to describe used/trade-in product which would arrive with visible water damage at Rhino Records in Albany, NY (now closed, and one of my favorite jobs ever). The trade-in form which would be added to the register drawer for the day would have looked like this:
TITLE: Apollo Moon Exploring #304-E
GENRE: Hong Kong Space Toys
MEDIUM: Moulded plastic.
CONDITION: Appears to have been used as a sponge.
APPRAISED VALUE: n/a (see above)
PAYOUT: $.75
AS: Store Credit
INITIALS: SN
DATE: 6.22.19
NOTES: Immediately purchased by SN from store for $2.50
Been wondering where to find or how to make more of that checkered rocket bling label ... Model shop? See, I want to use it to decorate space looking stuff that I've been collected. Instantly looks like something from a missile range.
Am not holding my breath on it functioning.
The launch trigger.
The only markings visible through the packaging.
Which is about ready to come apart, and I may decide to help make that happen for real.
The set's Golden Astronaut, and by golly if he isn't a real one.
Yup.
To be complete here's what appears to be a matching gantry set from a Creepy Clown "Unique Cake Decorations" set I have posted previously.
ISN'T THIS EXCITING??
Difference being of course that while apparently utilizing the same basic moulding for the gantry + rocket the base does not have the spring loaded launching mechanism.
Just an empty box for static display only, on top of your cake. Right.
Figures likely sourced from MPC.
Hong Kong on their bases, no markings on the gantry. A second example of the set in a compromised package is incoming and I cannot wait to open it.
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