Revell withdraws model Nazi flying saucer marketed as real

[RocketMan]

This has got to be some of the most RI/Philip K. Dick shit I've come across in maybe years...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rmany.html

A Nazi flying saucer toy has been taken off the shelves in Germany - amid claims it suggests Hitler's scientists successfully built a space ship.

The toy was presented as a Nazi-era war machine and described as 'the first object in the world capable of flying in space'.

But manufacturer Revell, based in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia, has announced it will no longer be produced amid 'absolutely justified' criticism from those who pointed out such a craft never existed.

[...]

A spokesman said Revell distances itself from glorification of wars and the Nazi era and is trying to work out how and why the toy was developed and made available for sale.

[Jerky]

Ha! Now see, as much as I despise Nazis and fascists, I still probably would have loved to put this thing together and paint it when I was in my model-building phase, ages 12 through 16. But why on Earth would they try to pretend like it was successful or used in the field, much less "the first vehicle capable of flying in space"?! It was a clunky, unwieldy white elephant of a thing, in hindsight universally recognized as a waste of time and effort.

As a fantasy/sci-fi/pop culture model, though? Top notch!

Jerky

[Hugo Farnsworth]

I must have taken a wrong turn on the quantum state escalator this morning.

[Grizzly]

http://www.culttvmanshop.com/Haunebu-II-German-Flying-Saucer-172-from-Squadron_p_3702.html

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?LH_CAds=&_ex_kw=&_fpos=&_fspt=1&_mPrRngCbx=1&_nkw=nazi%20flying%20saucer&_sacat=&_sadis=&_sop=12&_udhi=&_udlo=&rmvSB=true

[Asta]

This thread will probably make the eBay bids go up...