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Flying Saucer (1952)

Lindberg Flying Saucer - 1

The Lindberg Line Logo

SCALE: 1/48

INITIAL RELEASE: 1954

MEDIUM: Polystyrene

RARITY: (2)

 

Lindberg Flying Saucer - 2

 

Lindberg Flying Saucer - 3

Lindberg Flying Saucer - 4

  Lindberg Flying Saucer - 5

 

ABOUT THE DESIGN

ABOUT THE KIT

This classic alien "flying saucer" comes straight from the Golden Age of Little Green Men.  A basic convex disc with a bubble-dome cockpit within which the big-headed Martian pilot is visible, the craft also featured twin jet/rocket engines on its "tail," additional engines on its "rotating" rim, and a pair of "zap guns" for shooting down pesky Air Force fighter planes.  A timeless relic of Eisenhower Era mythology and paranoia, the Lindberg "Flying Saucer" captures in plastic the hopes, fears and innocence of Pre-Sputnik America.

The Lindberg "Flying Saucer" holds a place in history as being the world's first injection-molded science-fiction model.  Re-released repeatedly during the 1950s and 1960s, it again hit the shelves in the 1970s in a "glow-in-the-dark" version, in the 1990s as one of the Golden Age science fiction kits resurrected by Glencoe Models, and finally in 2011 by Atlantis Models, which specialized in flying saucer subjects.

The model was also released by Lindberg in the mid-1950s as part of its "Spaceships of the Future" and "Past, Present and Future" collector's sets.

This is a build-up of the 1990s Glencoe re-release.

 

Lindberg Flying Saucer - Original Box Art

Original Box Art

 

Lindberg Flying Saucer - Re-Release Box Art 1

Re-Release Box Art

 

Lindberg Flying Saucer - Re-Release Box Art 2

Alternative Re-Release Box Art

 

Lindberg Flying Saucer - Glencoe Box Art

Glencoe Re-Release Box Art

 

Lindberg Spaceships of the Future Box Art

"Space Ships of the Future" Collector's Set

 

Lindberg Past Present Future Box Art

"Past Present Future" Box Art

 

Atlantis Models Box Art

 

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