Apparently, this car is actually a modified (with extra sci-fi gadgets & "alien" figure) reissue of a George Barris 1970 design car called the "Moonscope" (reissued by AMT again in 2002).
Friday, April 15, 2011
SPACE: 1999 - "The Alien" Model Kit
Apparently, this car is actually a modified (with extra sci-fi gadgets & "alien" figure) reissue of a George Barris 1970 design car called the "Moonscope" (reissued by AMT again in 2002).
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Back in the '70s when SPACE:1999 was first airing this car model was such a disappointment, Fundimensions should have made one of the Alpha moonbase LASER TANKs.
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As a fan of all things Moon Buggy, I can say that is one dope Buggy!
ReplyDeleteWow...bucket seats!
ReplyDeleteI actually bought one of these stupid things. As a completist collector at the time, it seemed disloyal not to. I built and painted it to match the box art, and as a model it looked okay, but totally ludicrous to try and relate this to "Space:1999". MPC was notorious for doing stuff like this though; at around the same time, they re-released their 1966 kit of the 'Monkeemobile', modified with the front of the roof piece chopped half off, as "Fonzie's Dream Rod" ( including a newly tooled Fonzie figure ) to cash in on the popularity of "Happy Days". Fonzie must have been amazingly prescient to dream up a 1960's GTO back in the '50s!
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Oh, an update to my previous post; I had no idea just HOW modified this kit was from the original "Moonscope". Just take a look at the original here:
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I saw one of the 2002 reissue kits in a store recently. It looks a hell of a lot more like "The Alien" than it does the original kit it's being marketed as.
Dep1701
I had that model. It didn't bother me at all back then that it was made up. I didn't pay attention to the Space: 1999 title. Otherwise, yes, I would have gone insane before completing its assembly.
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