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.
I do remember that. I was a bit old for it when it came out.
ReplyDeleteBut 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!
ReplyDeleteI 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.