Toy space rocket "Holdrakéta"
| Year of Draft | 1960s |
|---|---|
| Production | Elzett Müvek, Lemezáru gyára Budapest |
Foto: Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum (K. Mewes)
© For viewing only, not for further use.
More information at: www.die-neue-sammlung.de/en/collection-online/
More information at: www.die-neue-sammlung.de/en/collection-online/
| Year of Draft | 1960s |
|---|---|
| Production | Elzett Müvek, Lemezáru gyára Budapest |
This Hungarian space rocket dates back to the Space Race of the 1960s and appears to be the flip side of the similar NASA toy rockets from the US. Made entirely of sheet metal, it changed color in the course of the decades, turning from white to silver and, in the 1980s, to gold.
If you push the rocket and the spring-like tip hits an obstacle, an ingenious mechanism is set in motion. The front wheel pivots down from the body of the rocket and the rocket itself slowly straightens up. Once it is vertical, the cabin door opens and a staircase unfolds, at the top of which a picture of a cosmonaut in a spacesuit appears.
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Foto: Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum (K. Mewes)© For viewing only, not for further use.
More information at: www.die-neue-sammlung.de/en/collection-online/
Details
| Year of Draft | 1960s |
|---|---|
| Production | Elzett Müvek, Lemezáru gyára Budapest |
| Place of production | Budapest, Hungary, Europe |
| Size | Length: 39.7 cm, width: 10.9 cm, height: 11.4 cm |
| Material / technique | Metal (sheet metal), multicoloured lithography; rubber, black |
| Colour | Multicoloured, black |
| Genre | Toys |
| Inventory no. | 631/2022 |