I remember seeing this reviewed in an old MRC. The line that stuck in my head was something about Dr X being the "first corpulent figure".
Part of me still wants one. I did by a couple of the lowmacs from Beatties leter when they were on sale for 50p each.
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I do remember that. I was a bit old for it when it came out.
But I really want the Wild West set http://www.airfixrailways.co.uk/ARSwildWestAdvSet.htm
Brilliant video, though it would be good to see how far the rocket goes!
I remember seeing both the Dr.X and the Wild West sets in the Airfix catalogue, though I never had either of them. I think the closest thing I had to an operating set was a Lima container terminal which I was a lot fun, though it had lorries loaded "kangaroo" style rather than containers as such.
I suppose in retrospect that the Airfix/GMR range was the vanguard of model railways from the far east. I certainly remember getting a 14XX and auto coach and thinking how much better it seemed than a lot of the Hornby stuff at the time.
The whole Dr.X/James Bond supervillain missile base thing surely must stem from the Nazi V2 project...there's even a real (though unfinished) rocket base you can visit called La Coupole which is near St. Omer in Northern France...and it had a rail link! I visited around 20 years ago, perhaps I need to pop over again while we still live near the Channel.
It also featured in a recent episode of the TV series "Abandoned Engineering".
Cheers,
Simon.
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