Star Station Seven
Star Station
Seven was a bare bones version of Operation Moonbase.
It came with the really cool space vehicles, the moonbase
accessories including the tower and space station, but no aliens, and some very
drab Apollo astronauts.
I don’t like
the Astronauts because they all have the same droll face and very little
character. It would have been better to have left the faces out and just put a
round helmet front, I think. The poses don’t look natural. Mine were minted in
orange, and I painted the one with the flag like an Apollo astronaut.
This was my
last purchase from Marx, about 1978 at Toys by Roy inTown
East Mall in Dallas. Marx went out of business soon after and Toys by Roy was
not far behind.
Toys by Roy was where I bought all my Avalon Hill wargames and
Tamaya model kits. Here, too, was where I bought my
first D&D stuff that was just becoming popular in the late 70s.
This was a
disappointing purchase as the prime mover was missing a set of wheels, the
heliacal antenna was damaged on the right side, and my solar battery only had
the tripod stand. Looks like Marx quality control was slipping in its last
days. Dallas was too far to take it back, and I don’t think they had another
anyway, so I kept it.
In 2014 I bought
another off Ebay and was pleased with the contents.
Star Station
Seven, as I said, is a bare bones Moonbase type playset. The terrain was just the 18 x 24 inch blueish playmat. No mountains, no
craters, no rocks. The vinyl playmat is very tough,
however, and mine has lasted to this day. It resembles the one in the more
elaborate Galaxy Command, but is a smaller cut down version.
The only
surface structure is the space station tower and I guess that makes for a
simple moonbase. They tried using the space station
for a lunar lander by turning it upside down, but
that just did not work.
My tower is
holding up well, but the space station is becoming brittle.
It came with
two polyethylene rockets, molded in orange. I don’t remember a decal sheet of
any kind.
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