What I would’ve given/done for this in 1975

I know it’s mostly just cardboard but damn it’s so cool! The elevator alone would be enough to make me beg my parents for a week. As much as I love all the cool Star Wars vehicles made possible by shifting action figures to 3-4″ (due to Seventies inflation rates and OPEC’s embargoes); the bases and lairs for the MEGO super-heroes and GI Joe were incredible. This building based upon the Wayne Foundation blows away the “tiny” Batcave MEGO promoted a couple years earlier. Sigh! Now I’m lost in the fog of nostalgia, thinking about how often I’d repurpose this for the numerous space operas I’d create with this as an HQ or super battle bridge on a starship leading a mighty fleet of refugees a la Battlestar Galactica, Star Blazers or The Black Hole. Videogames are incredible and entertaining but I hope today’s kids still play with toys because nothing is more fun or imaginative than this stuff until you’re old enough for D&D.

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