Tri-ang Earth Launch Pad Set #1176-20 - Pt 4 (Final) Set-up

This was an enjoyable set-up to do. As you can see by the photo of the launch pads at Cape Canaveral, Tri-ang did a nice job of capturing the essence of a launch facility in a limited space. I would say the only thing that really doesn't belong is the Rocket Ship 'Hawk'. This portion of the installation is strictly for launching missiles and rockets - there is no active runway for aircraft. The helicopters are sort of okay, but they too would have been located near the runway on a different area of the installation. All that is minor though, as the one thing to keep in mind is: it's a toy! 

First, I set this all up with the pieces that originally came with the set. As you can see there's a lot of open space on that big playmat. The playmat itself is rather fragile because it's paper not plastic, making it more prone to rips and tears. That said, plastic isn't perfect either and I have plastic playmats that are wrinkly & crinkly and next to impossible to set figures down adequately. Next, I placed all the Rocket Base U.S.A. clones on the mat and they made a really nice addition to the overall look and feel.

Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed

Launch pads at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Courtesy Wikipedia

Without Rocket Base U.S.A. clones

With Rocket Base U.S.A. Clones

Tri-ang Earth Launch Pad Set #1176-20 - Pt 3 Vehicles, Aircraft, and Figures

The Earth Launch Pad set included the pieces listed below. As I've already posted full photo essays of the types vehicles and aircraft included, I'm just going to give a quick photo overview (besides, I'm not feeling good again! The granddaughter had caught another cold and I think I'm coming down with it - damn!!) Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed

Here's what came in the set:

1 Mobile Launch Pad (covered in yesterday's post)

-1 each Forklift 7

-1 each Tractor T-5

-1 each Rocket Ship 'Hawk'

-2 each Helicopter P3

-4 each figures

The following photos were all taken years ago and already blogged here on Toys and Stuff. I simply didn't want to re-invent the wheel and re-do all of the photos. Except for the Helicopter P3, all the pieces that came in my set were in decent shape.

Forklift 7

Tractor T-5

It looks too yellow here - the result of poor editing on my part I'm afraid. It is in fact a orange-yellow tone

Rocket Ship 'Hawk

Helicopter P3 x 2

My set came with one intact P3 and one broken and incomplete P3. Since then I have gotten replacement pieces.

Figures x 4

The figures included in Tri-ang's big sets were all thrown in at random. Here's the poses that were available and any four of these would have been selected for inclusion. As my set was missing a couple of figures I went into my collection and pulled out a couple of pieces to complete it.

Tri-ang Earth Launch Pad Set #1176-20 - Pt 2 Mobile Launch Pad

Today, we'll look at the Mobile Launch Pad (MLP). This version has the green rocket with yellow gantry, while another version I blogged back in June 2020, had the white rocket and orange gantry. The MLP that came with the boxed set is missing its two catwalks. Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed

a) MLP = 11 1/8" (28.25cm) high overall 

b) Mobile platform = 4 7/8" (12.38cm) D x 3 3/8" (8.57cm) W  x 1 7/8" (4.76cm) H  

c) Gantry = 9 1/2" (24.13cm) H w/crane

d) Rocket = 7" (17.78cm)  H x 1 1/2"

e) Silver Dyna Soar Rocket = 1 1/8" (2.85cm) L x 1 1/4" (3.17cm) wingspan (3.81cm) dia.

The white rocket/orange gantry version covered in an earlier blog post. Notice it has the two catwalks going from the gantry to the rocket.

The subject of today's post

Here's it's shown with the clone rocket transport truck covered last week.

Tri-ang Earth Launch Pad Set #1176-20 - Pt 1

While I was preparing to cover this Earth Launch Pad Set #1176-20, I was looking at my photo files and turns out I never blogged my Superset 1 either! Okay, so we'll take a look at this Earth Launch Pad set and afterwards take a look at Superset 1. Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed

Tri-ang basically divided its line of small space toys into four separate series:

-Earth Base

-Space Station

-Moon Base

-Outer Space Travel

Within each series, four or five individual carded toys would be offered, for example this Helicopter P3. Each card held a piece of equipment and any one of a dozen different figure's packaged at random. 

As well, slightly larger boxed sets were also offered featuring a large toy from the series like this SpaceX Moon Base HQ.

Welll, if that wasn't all, Tri-ang repackaged a bunch of toys into Supersets! I know of four:

-Superset 1 having a mix of land vehicles and spaceships, and a large vacu-form Moonscape

-Earth Launch Pad Set featuring the Mobile Launch Pad with rocket, two helicopters, a couple of ground vehicles, Swing wing Hawks, and a large paper playmat

-Moonbase Set featuring the Moonbase HQ set along with several land vehicles and a couple of spaceships

-Space Station Set featuring the Nuclear Pulse Space Station and several spaceships

To start things off let's see what ended up getting delivered when this was ordered a few years back. 

Originally, the set as sold contained:

-Mobile Launch Pad

-Two Helicopter P3's

-Forklift 7

-Tractor T-5

-Rocket Ship 'Hawk'

-4 Figures

Paper launch site playmat

Lots of wrapped-up goodies when delivered

When I took out this cardboard insert, lo-&-behold, underneath was the intact paper playmat!

Without toys

Loaded with the toys from the purchase

37" (93.98cm) x 28" (71.12cm)

My set was delivered with a few extras. Looking closely at the photos, on the far left you can make out the components of the Deluxe Reading Rocket Base U.S.A. clone I just finished blogging.

My set was complete in that it had all the major components, however, there were a couple of small issues:

-One helicopter had broken landing gear and a missing rotor (a replacement rotor has since been found)

-The Mobile Launch Pad is missing the two tiny walkways which lead from the gantry to the rocket