Toy space rocket "Holdrakéta"

Year of Draft 1960s
ProductionElzett Müvek, Lemezáru gyára Budapest
Year of Draft 1960s
ProductionElzett 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.

Details

Year of Draft 1960s
ProductionElzett Müvek, Lemezáru gyára Budapest
Place of productionBudapest, Hungary, Europe
SizeLength: 39.7 cm, width: 10.9 cm, height: 11.4 cm
Material / techniqueMetal (sheet metal), multicoloured lithography; rubber, black
ColourMulticoloured, black
GenreToys
Inventory no.631/2022

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