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
