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AIR DEFENSE CENTER - CRAGSTAN ?Battery op tin console with radar screen and flashing lights
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ATOM GUN - MAKER? GERMANYBrightly lithographed tin gun on base. Gun rotates and tilts. Shoots plastic balls. Based on the chassis for a variety of cranes.
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CAPE CANAVERAL ?AK 1100 ROCKET LAUNCH PAD - STRENCO - WEST GERMANYTin wind up rocket launch pad. Red and white rocket on blue base with gantry. Rocket approaches the gantyr then launches. Small plastic figure included.
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CAPE KENNEDY - PROJECT SWORD - Century 21 ToysCentury 21Toys Very large plastic battery-operated launch pad and Apollo rocket. An adjustable crane lowers the ship onto the gantry. A hand held control drives the pad forwards and backwards on caterpillar tractors. The rocket is friction drive and about a foot long. The words Made in Hong Kong appear underneath.
Large oblong 2- piece box. The toy is called Cape Kennedy Three in one Toy. The artwork shows a painting of the rocket and gantry coming out of the hanger. On the box is Made in Hong Kong for Century 21 Limited? No reference to a badge on the box, although the set comes with the Official Manual and a plastic Sword badge
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DISTANT EARLY WARNING RADAR STATION - MASUDAYATin battery op tracking station. Radar N Scope. Radar screen. Morse button. Rotating antenna. Detachable pylon with light. Console.
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EXPLORER AND VANGUARD TRACKING STATION - MASUDAYAStructoys / Masudaya tin battery op console MT. Satellite rotates around Earth in the central window. Rotating antenna. Morse key operates buzzer and light on pylon. Versions exist with Structoys and Masudaya logos at bottom left of box lid.
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FLOATING SATELLITE TARGET GAME - HORIKAWATin battery op shooting game. (See also the Floating Satellite Target game with a rectangular space scene.) A battery powered fan behind the arch shaped space scene supports a floating ping pong ball. Two pistols with darts. First seen in 1960 when it appeared in the Niresk 1960 Book of Gifts
Note the misspelling "sattellite" in the lower version. It's possible that this is the earlier of the two
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ICBM VANGUARD SATELLITE LAUNCHER - REMCOPlastic missile launch station. Launches planes and spinner disks.
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LANZA COHETES SPUTNIK - ARGENTINA?Tin missile launch toy. A stubby plastic rocket fits inside a launching tube mounted on a rotating platform. Two sentry posts. Marked Rodado Brillo. The term Sputnik is included for topicality: there is no obvious connection.
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MISSILE LAUNCHER - HORIKAWA FOR CRAGSTANTin battery operated ICBM launcher with mirror sight. Fan-powered target unit with printed card target supporting styrene target ball. Japan 1960s. See the other Horikawa lower-tech versions of this theme
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NASA CONTROL CENTER - MASUDAYATin battery operated command center console. A command ship orbits the Moon. The object is to dock it with a lunar module.
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OPERATION ORBIT - TRANSOGRAMPlastic battery operated control panel with levers and dials.
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PIONEER 3 STAGE ROCKET WITH LAUNCHER - NOMURA FOR ROSKOTin spring loaded rocket launch pad with USAF rocket. 49cm
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ROCKET LAUNCHERSBoxed hoopla game.
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ROCKET LAUNCHING BASE - MASUDAYATin battery op rocket launch station. Countdown action, plastic rocket launches. Morse buzzer, spinning antenna and lighting pylon.
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ROCKET LAUNCHING PAD - COUNT DOWN VERSION - YONEZAWATin battery op rocket launch pad. Countdown clock with lighted screen and "radio signal". Push the firing switch and the countdown meter starts backwards from ten as a radio signal sounds. TV screen shows rocket takeoff.
Two versions of this rocket launch are known, this one with Count Down wording and one with Firing Command wording. The Firing Command version has been sighted in various 1959 catalogs including Aldens. It is possible that the name later changed to reflect the popular TV countdown sequences.
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ROCKET LAUNCHING PAD - FIRING COMMAND VERSION - YONEZAWATin battery op rocket launch pad. Countdown clock with lighted screen and "radio signal". Push the firing switch and the countdown meter starts backwards from ten as a radio signal sounds. TV screen shows rocket takeoff.
Two versions of this rocket launch are known, this one with the Firing Command wording has been first sighted in various 1959 catalogs including Aldens.
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ROCKET LAUNCHING PAD - NOMURATin battery op rocket launching station. This is a green version of the Nomura Two-Stage Rocket Launching Pad. In addition to the litho change there is a completely different box art and name. No date yet but details suggest it is later than the Two-Stage (See Gernot's article in Alphadrome)
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ROCKET LAUNCHING TRUCK - LIMEMARBlue tin friction truck with star on door and two fixed missiles X-2. Japan 1950s
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ROCKET STATION No 136 - RAKETEN STATION - HWNTin spring loaded rocket launching building with plastic rocket. Wind up timing release mechanism. West Germany.
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SATELLITE TARGET GAME - HORIKAWATin battery op shooting game. A variation of the Floating Satellite Target game with a rectangular space scene. A battery powered fan behind the scene supports a floating ping pong ball. Two pistols with darts. The downed version of this game has been dated to when it appeared in the Niresk 1960 Book of Gifts
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SPACE SATELLITE STATION - MARX - ENGLANDMarx Great Britain - English box version of the SPACE SATELLITES WITH LAUNCHING SITE AND ROCKET. Tin space station with launching flying saucers and spring loaded rocket.
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SPACE SATELLITES WITH LAUNCHING SITE AND ROCKET - MARXLithographed tin launch sattion with crank powered spinners, large oval antenna and the spring loaded rocket. This is a variation of the Space Satellites with Launching Station
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SPACE SATELLITES WITH LAUNCHING STATION - MARXTin lithographed space launch base with crank powered spinners. See the "Space Satellites with Launching Sites and Rocket" variation.
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SPACE TRIP STATION - YONEZAWATin battery op and wind up drive. Electro Toy space launch station. Shoots spinners. Approx. 13.5" long. Brightly lithographed console. Lighted space scenes moving across central screen while the top dome with astronaut spins around. Saucers can be launched via wind up mechanism at either side.
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SPACE TRIP STATION - YONEZAWAElectro Toy - detail
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THE SATELLITE TRACKING STATION - MASUDAYATin battery op tracking station. Behind the screen is a model Earth with an orbiting satellite. Morse button. Rotating antenna. Detachable pylon with light. Console.
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TWO-STAGE ROCKET LAUNCHING PAD - VERSION 1 - NOMURATin battery op rocket launching station. This is the rarer light blue version with a "flatter" finish than the slightly raised litho of the purple version. There are no rocket holder clamps and the litho on the launcher top and base is different. The plate at the bottom of the launcher also has a different shape.
The main difference is the crank handle attached at the front and the presence of an additional button on the launch tube. The crank is used to start the launch sequence mechanically. The later version is started by simply pushing the rocket down. The handle folds flat for storage in the box. It is assumed that this is an earlier version which was unnecessarily complex and dearer to make.
(Gernot)
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TWO-STAGE ROCKET LAUNCHING PAD - VERSION 2 - NOMURATin battery op rocket launching station. This is the more common light purple version. In this version the rocket is pressed into the silo manually, instead of crank action loader. The launching function is automatically started (battery oprated) after pushing down the "launcher" part. A countdown sequence begins, the controller pulls levers, then the rocket launches. This version has extra rockets mounted around the firing tube. Some examples still retain a direction arrow at the point where the crank handle of the earlier version would have been. The earliest sighting of this, the more common version, is in the 1960 Higbee Company catalog.
There is a less common green litho version, the Rocket Launching Station.
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X-15 ROCKET TRANSPORTER - STRENCO - WEST GERMANYMilitary green tin friction? six wheel rocket launching truck with red plastic X-15 rocket. Launch ramp elevates and fires rocket. Germany 1950s
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