The Matchbox Galactic Rover gives kids lunar and launch fever.
Matchbox is making rocketry cool for little kids with the Mega Rig Galactic Rover. For about $10 US (on sale), this toy can be a rover that roams the lunar surface collecting rocks and looking for helium 3, and then – with a stomp of the foot, launch a cargo rocket skyward. Now that’s very cool.
The rover has six wheels and the stomp rocket can carry a tiny payload inside. But what’s really cool is that the Galactiic Rover is completely motorized and can break down into smaller rovers as well as a mission shuttle, which presumably coasts high above (at least in our imagination). And the motor that runs the Rover also powers the shuttle configuration as well.
Perfect for ages 4-12, and when it comes to hooking kids on spaceflight, you gotta get em young.
Hat Tip – Toyology