Okay, so this is baffling. When I was a kid, I received a toy for Christmas that was a scifi set with a spaceship that went around a fixed axis. Using an attached joystick, you could raise/lower the ship to dodge obstacles and pick up and drop off cargo.
With the earlier and more popular Mattel Vertibird as a starting point, I scoured the internet, finally landing on an old ebay auction for the Kenner Orbiter 6 Shuttle Command. (1/3)
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I'd found my toy, but here's the baffling part. Aside from ebay auctions and content scraped from ebay auctions, there is absolutely nothing online about this thing, save for this one mention of a commercial being shown at the 1980 Toy Fair:
http://theswca.com/images-speci/toyfair/80-commercial.html
[Help me, Internet! Does anyone have a copy of that commercial?]
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Nostalgic Gen X nerds love nothing more than to talk about the shit they played with as kids, and there are entire sites built around documenting every 70s and 80s toy that was made. How is this possible? Was the Kenner Orbiter 6 Shuttle Command that rare?
Anyway I just bought one. Once it gets here I’ll open that sucker up, take pictures, and put together a blog post. (3/3)
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This feels like the sort of thing @cabel would just know about off the top of his head.
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No luck in the 1980 Sears Christmas catalog, although they did have a different knockoff, and nothing in that genre at all in that year's Montgomery Ward.
JCPenney DID have it in their 1980 catalog for twenty-two bucks, right under the Star Trek: The Motion Picture action figures.
A year later it was gone, never to be seen again (well, at least in a successive catalog through 1982), replaced by the venerable Vertibird.
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@driph Weird, that's exactly the kind of thing I would've eaten up, I never saw it, and Kenner crap made like 50% of my toybox by volume. Maybe scour the 1980 Sears catalog?
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@mdhughes @driph Or the Christmas JC Penney catalog.
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@drwho @mdhughes Yes! This is how I’ve spent my afternoon. No luck with Sears, found a listing in the JCPenny catalog, going through M Wards now.
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@driph @mdhughes Maybe David Weiss?
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