Okay, so what do you do if, perhaps, you have too many projects in the works or have run out of ideas for a particular line of toys? Simple, take the same toys, design a new box with a different title and then go to work at your full time job! After many years of collecting the only reasonable conclusion I can come to about the toy industry as a whole is: They're a goofy lot! I look at these sets and want to go back in time and ask the designers/marketers/sales reps/managers, "Why did you bother coming in to work?"
This is essentially the same set as the Apollo Lunar Landing Miniature Playset. The vehicle is an ever-so-slightly different design with a "light dome" on the cockpit roof but the same figures were found in both versions of the Lunar Landing set I have. Still, it gives us collector's something to write-about, even if it is only, "Hey look, different box." Of course we all know that was standard industry practice. Every company did it and Marx and MPC/Multiple Toymakers were masters at the art of re-issuing toys utilizing new packaging. Sometimes of course they did bother to include new figure sculpts and accessories but often times it was just a matter of re-hashing existed products. Anywho - Enjoy! Opa Fritz
This Lunar vehicle has seen some action: is that blood on the light dome?
...or the near-sighted work of one of vaunted 'artists' employed by Marx to paint their miniature playsets?
Smile for the camera
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