- Assembly Required Skill Level 2. Ages 12 and up.
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1-35 Scale. The Moebius Jupiter 2 is approximately 18-inches in diameter. Full first floor interior with careful attention to accuracy. Manually retracting landing gear makes this displayable in a flight mode, or on land as seen in many episodes.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Jupiter 2 has Finally Landed,
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My LOST IN SPACE Jupiter 2 model arrived yesterday. The level of detail is amazing. This is no simple slap-it-together modeling kit. I opened the box and laid the model part sections on the floor to get a better idea as to a strategy in assembling this work of art. The directions and accompanying information sheet are largely in color and provide exacting information as to how the assemblies should be painted. Included in the instructions is a hefty list of the recommended paints.
Looks like I will have to plan a stop at a hobby store. Producing this kit must have been a labor of love. The quality is such that the finished spacecraft will likely surpass any of the special effects models used during the filming of the original series. In all honesty if I had this kit when I was eight years old I would have completed it two hours after opening the box - though it would not have been painted and would likely have fingerprint glue smears all over. However, more than four decades later, I intend to take my time with this project. The top and bottom saucers are complete sections. In toying around with the kit I provisionally placed one on top of the other and instantly had the familiar Jupiter 2 shape. The kit includes materials to complete the interior flight deck level of the Jupiter 2 along with the landing gear. This is truly a quality kit. When LOST IN SPACE was still in first-run prime time I longed for a toy model of the Jupiter 2. Alas, there were none to be found. Our neighbors had a Lost in Space play set with two large white Styrofoam "woks" that together were supposed to be the Jupiter 2, but in reality looked nothing like the Irwin Allen spacecraft. I constructed various versions of the Jupiter 2 using stapled white paper plates and taped up construction paper. It would take a lot of imagination to believe that those attempts were anything close to the Jupiter ship. The television Jupiter 2 went through several modifications during the series' three year run. The Jupiter 2 was originally named Gemini 12 in the unaired pilot. The Gemini 12 did not have a second living quarters deck. As a result the original Jupiter 2 special effects footage - recycled throughout the series - displayed a thinner version of the ship than appeared in other clips. One wonders where the Robinsons found room to store the Chariot. In Season Three the Pod bay was also added, though it is likewise debatable if the spacial limitations of the Jupiter could accommodate a shuttle craft. Remember too Irwin Allen's VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA belatedly added a bay for the Flying Sub. Season Three of LOST IN SPACE also featured an episode where the Jupiter boasted yet a third reactor core deck. This one time third floor is not reflected in this modeling kit. This kit is representative of the Season Three Jupiter 2 complete with an impression of the Pod bay doors. I am sure this kit will take me some time to assemble, but it was worth the 40-year wait.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Jupiter II model by Moebius awesome hobby,
By Roger "Olivia nut" (League City, TX United States) - See all my reviews
= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars
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I have built many models over my lifetime including difficult scratch and buikld versions. This model kit is well molded, fantastic instructions with color pictures and illustrations to make it simple. While it has many parts and not for yonger children, it is great for older children and adults who enjoy spending time modeling. The attention to detail in this kits upper deck interior is fantastic and will take you back to the late 1960s popular TV series "Lost in Space." I highly recommend this model and for more realism, Paragraphix decals and photo etch panels as well as VoodDooFX lighting kits will make the results like a miniature movie set.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The best Jupiter 2 model ever, BUT...,
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I recently purchased the Moebius kit featured here, but have not yet assembled it. However, I've done enough internet research to feel I am fairly knowledgable in many of its details. And speaking of, this is the most detailed Jupiter 2 ever to be offered on the market. I've seen closeups of the interiors of finished kits, and you'd think you were standing on the set of the mock-up itself! No exageration. Admitedly, many builders went the extra mile by paying close attention to painting details, or installing cabin lighting, or fiber-optic blinking lights in the control panels, but the fact remains that they could not have achieved such spectacular results if the groundwork hadn't been layed out for them. A busy little aftermarket has already sprung up to assist these builders in their quest to build the definitive Jupiter 2 model.
To the uninitiated, the Jupiter 2 was the name of the spaceship that carried an Earth family into outer space on the old CBS TV series, Lost in Space. Its saucer shape contained two levels: An upper deck control room, and a lower deck living quarters. The Moebius model features only the upper deck. When asked why no lower deck, the designers replied that there wasn't enough room for one. REALLY? The Polar Lights kit(Also offered above),which preceeded the Moebius, features a complete detailed lower deck, even though the model itself had been built on a smaller scale. Moebius claims that so much space had been given over to the fully detailed landing gear bays, that the lower deck just got squeezed out. Perhaps. But then, all they would have had to do was to raise the floor of the upper deck up just under a quarter of an inch and that would have given them all the room they needed. I tried this on a Polar Lights kit I'm building and it worked out fine. One suspects the real reason is that they blew their whole wad on so many upper control room details, that no money was left for down below. Another problem I have with the Moebius model's floor layout, is that it just looks so compacted inside the vast space afforded by the kit's massive 18 inch diameter shell. Almost half the area is wasted! Builders use much of that area for batteries, and other behind-the-scenes intricacies that make the thing light up and blink like a Christmas tree. Please don't let the nitpickings of this one fussbutt talk you out of buying, what I said in the beginning, is unbdoubtedly the BEST Jupiter 2 model kit ever. If you want a lower deck, go ahead and raise the floor above and scratch-build one for yourself. Or drop a Johnny Lightning Space Pod in it like I did with my Polar Lights kit. Whatever. You'll have a ball!!!!!
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