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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

K is for Kennedy Space Centre - Rocketry

As well as the larger rocket seen in the truck and gantry posts of this Carry All Action Cape Kennedy Play Set, there were a bunch of smaller ones which seem to slip over identical metallic-blue finned launcher-bodies with matching two part launchers, but there's a twist-and-fire mechanism, which requires springs, which are definitely missing, but easily replaced I think, they are quite wide and open springs, which just slip over the tops!
 


There were three missiles and the parts of six launchers, but only enough for the three needed, however, looking at the artwork on the tin, I think there should be three designs of these, two similar 'tube' ones, with one having a thinner probe-end? So I may need one of those, although there's a set on Etsy with two of the finned-ones, and another on evilBay with the same ones I've got, so Marx may have had given them a more random issuing? And most of the stickers are long-gone!

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