hey everybody adam savage here in my cave with a show-and-tell that is also
an unboxing because i'm a fan of both of those kinds of videos and as you can see on the box
this is a bit of nasa kit this comes courtesy of the big bad toy store they sent this to us for
assessment because they know how much we love nasa and all things nasa
this is an apollo 11 and saturn v launch vehicle uh made by bandai which is really
that is a a positive thing their castings their their tool making is just amazing
and uh i'm really excited about cracking this open
and see what's inside and uh yeah we'll walk through all the little details
that's it
nice thank you for uh including the second tissue paper layer oh
yeah oh handy carrying handle
this is great if you want to commute to work with your saturn 5 launch vehicle and who doesn't
really honestly um i'm just going to because it's an unboxing i'm gonna look at the whole thing
it's lovely bandai is just awesome um big bad toy store this is
really exciting uh we've got detail shots on the back
uh really nice uh foil printing on both sides you know there's always a way in which i consider like
awesomely done box art and multiple textures on the packaging to be like it's the harbinger
that somebody cared and i always get very excited about that again all foil printing on
the on the interior box with a cool texture that i haven't really seen before there's actually if
you look up close there's almost like a um like a non-woven fabric uh texture to it fascinating
oh oh i see what they've done we have some sticker sheets here and a uh a little manual
plus some tiny little pieces of wire i see they've left the hardest parts for us
i'm kidding um there we go some little tiny flags and flag poles we have
these are look like maybe double stick strips for something that we'll have to deal with okay
nice bit of open cell foam we're gonna keep that that is useful later oh
okay my first impression just cracking it i want to say it's a little smaller than i thought it was
going to be but i'm actually glad for that because i was thinking if this thing is like three or four
feet long where the hell is it going to go in here secondly while it is a slightly smaller scale than
i thought it was there's no shortage of detail i can see right away just some beautiful crisp
castings ah absolutely gorgeous plus we've got a little bit of moon surface here
and the coolest thing about the moon surface is covered with footprints
that is that's really awesome let's put that there we have some astronauts they appear to be
um about 5 8 of an inch tall we have a the lunar module here's the lamb
oh my gosh wow oh wow here is oh my goodness beautiful a chrome one
sorry i'm getting the names of these things wrong i recognize i apologize but uh there's a okay i'm
gonna have to get this out of the way because there's a lot of parts oh beautiful brass label
all right we're just gonna start pulling these out okay
oh man wow oh beautiful there oh look at that
okay
again the castings are just stunning um they've made getting it out of the package really
really easy oh my goodness oh does that really do that no okay this is one very very happy
space enthusiast look at that yes the tank the tank this is a stunning model yeah this was the
detail that i caught first up looking down just saw that and then also i mean the decal work is
what do you call it it's retina work right it's smaller than i can discern crisp details
yes wow um this is really one of the loveliest models of the saturn v
i have yet seen okay this we're gonna bring up
and we've run out of room so i'm gonna move this that way here we go
ah wow okay
um what this is is a beautiful
plexi base with a mirror acrylic on it and the really nice thing about the mirror acrylic is
i believe this is here so that you can see the underside of the model i always love it when
display options give you that that specific option
it is never again going to be that pretty ever
okay now we take the tank
ah i see sorry this goes on here
and it's a bayonet lock nifty okay
yup so look at this gorgeous tank detail in the orange
very positive fit excellent fitment this
just the idea look okay here take a look
that's the first thing i saw when i cracked
the package that was the kind of detail i was talking about
it's again a nice positive fit
and i'm guessing a third bayonet mount and i would be right i'll turn you around
yes there we go okay
and then so many stages gorgeous
and then
this business up here and then all right okay so
this lives
here like that all right so you can look up right underneath and see everything then
these guys so they very carefully designed it so that you can actually put it on display
and it's not just this thing that's gonna sit there in danger of uh falling over the entire
time however right now it's in significant danger of falling over let me just get it
great and oh i already got a fingerprint on the mirror
now we've got oh right okay so the lunar module this is it for for shipping as as it were
right oh my god
oh wow these actually these actually fold are you kidding me these actually fold
that's ridiculous that guy lives right there yes and then
that closes up
that nice construction that's really
good
then this guy
with the command module
there it is that's the tap and then this goes on top of that that really
i'm going to pull that down so i can take a look at it aha okay there it is yes wow
and part of me wants to just note to myself there's a lot of moving parts to this and then i
think yeah welcome to the space program okay now that is the upright display of this but i have
some other options which is also cool i have these guys which are clearly for different sections oh
right okay yes there we go got that and then we've got if one so chooses one can display the sections
there we go and
get to that and
we can also we don't have to keep the lunar landing module in there we can pull it out
oh yes okay so there's that right it's totally amazing
then that guy lives like that and in addition
we have some things we have a couple of astronauts
one who is raising his arms in exultation and sorry just take a look at this
this is why i say bandai has amazing castings look at that that is like
half an inch tall well here you have it all the components of bandai's saturn v rocket it is a
a beautiful construction i mean and because it begs the question
we all as a culture have been building this model since the 60s this is the classic
nasa space model this is the classic rocket ship right uh so what is there left to do
give better and better display options and the fidelity of the castings and the detail
work this is look for any nasa nut job like myself this is a gorgeous gorgeous display
item rendered magnificently it really like when you when you are looking up close at something
like this it's been mass-produced and i have built this model and i've also used parts of this model
on countless industrial light magic models but looking up close at the detail and understanding
that they mass produced this and still achieved so much detail it's very inspiring and it is a
beautiful model and i mean this is one of the ways we learn we become obsessed with stuff and then
when we become obsessed i become obsessed i become a completist and i want all the things and then
slowly as i'm gathering the things i'm getting knowledge without even realizing it i'm learning
about the different tanks and the multiple stages of the apollo program and how we got to the moon
how we used these vehicles and reconfigured them along the journey all of that story is here in
these models and they've actually included a a helpful narrative here of the multiple stages of
what configuration it was in during the journey at what point in the journey
i was only two years old when we landed on the moon
but there is a way in which i believe that like a whole section of world culture became
armchair experts in how all this worked because no one had tried this before and it's helpful to
remind myself of how it must have felt back in the 60s to watch what nasa was doing and follow along
and become obsessed and learn about what humans can do when we band together to try the impossible
the way we got there was using this vehicle it is a great display and i really appreciate that
they've given multiple options for how to display it because that is one of the bug
bears especially for collectors like me thank you guys for joining me for this beautiful
and nasa-themed show-and-tell and unboxing i will see you guys next time