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The Cold War was now in
full swing, and filmmakers found science-fiction to be the perfect
medium in which to express many of the anxieties being shared by the
public at large. This was also the Age of Affluence as
millions of Americans entered the great Middle Class for the first time,
snapping up cars, washing machines and those new-fangled inventions,
television sets, like there was no tomorrow. For the first time
since the 1920s, the future looked promising -- assuming we could survive
The Bomb -- and the nation's aspirations turned ultimately toward the
stars.
The result was the Golden Age of Science Fiction, a period that saw an unprecedented boom in spacecraft designs culled both from the serious experts (see "1950s - Concept Spacecraft") and the mass entertainers. Oddly, while this period saw plastic modeling become America's number-one hobby by mid-decade, neither Revell, Monogram, Aurora nor Strombecker thought about producing kits based on Science Fiction designs of the area. Instead, that would be left to the specialty and "garage kit" companies that came decades later. A few of these "Golden Age" models are featured in this collection. |
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ROCKETSHIP X-M FROM "ROCKETSHIP X-M" (1950) |
LUNA FROM "DESTINATION MOON" (1950) |
LUNA FROM "DESTINATION MOON" (1950) |
POLARIS FROM "TOM CORBETT: SPACE CADET" (1950-1956) |
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SPACE ARK FROM "WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE" (1951) |
MARTIAN WAR MACHINE FROM "WAR OF THE WORLDS" (1953) |
ROCKET SHIP FROM "COMMANDO CODY - SKY MARSHALL OF THE UNIVERSE " (1953) |
XV2 ORBIT JET FROM "ROCKY JONES - SPACE RANGER" (SYNDICATED 1954) |
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METALUNA SAUCER FROM "THIS ISLAND EARTH" (1955) |
UNITED PLANETS CRUISER C-57D FROM "FORBIDDEN PLANET" (1956) |
POLARIS II FROM "THE SPACE EXPLORERS" (1958) |
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