1978 was a busy time for seeing the sights in and around Shawano County. Here's a nice little falls I had been to a couple of times, but this was the only trip that I had a camera with me. The 'falls' is the result of a small damn on the Embarrass River. Enjoy! Opa Fritz
Here's a cool set based on Disney's version of Werner von Braun's visionary RM-1 spaceship as covered on SpaceX Central. The set also has the last variant of the MMM sled to be included in this series. Enjoy! Opa Fritz
Got a bit too busy yesterday to post anything so let's try and catch up on our series of Apollo Moon Exploring posts. The set consists of a figure, a MMM sled variant, and a rather odd boxy looking vehicle. There are two color variations that I'm aware of for the vehicle: orange and pink. When I took the vehicle out of the packaging it appeared to be little more than a non-descript lump of squarish plastic. SpaceX Central simply refers to this as a 'Moon Transport' - yes, but of what kind? After more scrutiny and a short mental game of 'what if?' it came to me that, were I to build a larger vehicle of this type with more detail, that box and cylinder-ish looking detail could in fact be - duh - boxes and cylinders. This could very well be the Lunar equivalent of the Army's Deuce-and-a-Half utility truck. I imagined the vehicle being used to haul cargo from the spaceship landing pads, to the cargo depot! There's even a rudimentary seat built into the casting on which I posed a seated astronaut (see pix below). Another option came to mind: a portable generator. That being said, I'm still partial to the Lunar Deuce-and-a-Half idea :-) Enjoy! Opa Fritz
