So retro!

Superb!

That's awesome. Seems like I remember seeing something like that in a Disney special about space.

There is a reason for that. The model was originally part o series of kits based on the designs in the Disney shows. Originally produced by Strombecker, the kits have been reissued by various companies over thee years

Yes. Glenco is the current producer of the Strombecker kits. I also have the Lindbergh rocket that is a quasi-copy of the cargo booster stack form the series. I'm going to convert one into the original 1948/52 von Braun version and then another into the 1955 Disney version (minor differences, but enough to show the evolution) and possibly another into the Soviet N1 super heavy lift rocket if the body scales out to a useful size.

I've got the Glencoe Marsliner aka the TWA Moon Rocket in my stash of kits. It's good to hear they're still available. I want to improve the landing gear, and do it up in a bare metal finish

Just checked some dimensional data on the various rockets and found that the earlier von Braun rocket was a lot bigger, nearly twice the size of the later version. So that will need scratch-building. The 1955 version works well with the kit, only needing the upper section to be re-shaped a bit. The N1's general shape isn't far off, but just enough that it will need to be scratch-built as well.

Very neat that nose makes me think of the Buck Rogers fighters for some reason

I'm gonna have to use because there's no starry-eyed-in-joy-and-amazement emoticon here.

I seem to recall that the "Rocket Retriever" decals came with the original kit. Fits in pretty well with the theme of the website, eh? Anyhoo, did you add any "Gadgets" to the radar dish?

Other than some extra decals to dress things up, as well as the arms on the suit, it is all very much OOB.

Reach for the stars...

No worries, Ace! I've got the jets to spin it!

Now shown, NASA's latest attempt to return to space.

The Chinese are sitting back and laughing, Russia is confident that they will continue delivering US Astronauts for a fat profit. While Richard Branson says he can build the same craft for under $30.

I dig stuff like this.

I just saw the Disney "Tomorrowland" 1950's series on DVD (Man in Space, Man and the Moon, Mars and Beyond), in fact I just saw the last one the previous night, so as soon as I saw "bottle suit" in your description, I knew. These have been released as part of the Walt Disney Treasures collections. They are really amazing, and I got my copy on Ebay. My husband (Chuck Piper) is a rocket propellant engineer (solids) as well as a pioneering amateur high power rocket builder, and I recognized and loved the details of your V2 model.

I remember those! Where are the plastic houses? The self driving atomic cars? The weekly space flight to the space station? Weather modification?

Buzz Lightyear lived in a plastic house in the TV cartoon series.