Renwal Planet Jet Space Gun

[larry seven]

:rolleyes: Nice collection, dratomic! I bought an Atomic Robot Man from that Justin Pinchot. Isn't he a nice dealer! -larry seven

[dratomic]

Robotnut -- That's sad about Daisy. They make my absolute favorite metal ray gun, the Buck Rogers XZ-44 Liquid Helium gun (red and yellow version...). It's just a work of art, absolutely beautiful, and a wonderful representation of deco stylings. As are the other Buck guns, especially the XZ-38 Disintegrator and the U238 Atomic Disintegrator (nice picture, by the way). Do you know when they're taking the factory down? Michigan is pretty far from me -- too bad, I'd like to see the factory sometime. So much toy history...

[Robotnut]

It is a sad day, I just called my father in law who drove

by the plant last week. At that time all that was left was

the front facade and metal frame. He is quite sure the rest

is likely down by now. Dr Atomic, I'll be visiting in a couple

weeks, I'll report as to what's left. If possible, I'll try to

scavenge the site and get you a souvenir...

Here's a blurb from the local historical society and

the last published picture.

The Plymouth Iron Windmill Works was built in 1882, the

Markham Air Rifle Plant in 1886, and the Daisy Air Rifle

Plant in 1895. Plymouth was the air rifle capital of the

world from 1886 to 1958. During the 1930's and 40's Daisy

was famous for their incredibly popular futuristic Buck Rogers

ray guns...

P.S. I have no idea who the happy lady is in the picture...

[Robotnut]

Here's an update for Dr. Atomic...

Well the old Daisy air gun factory is gone,but

it will live on. I was there last night, but it was

too dark to take pictures. Everything is gone

except the facade which has been reinforced.

Apparently the Plymouth historical society won

a small victory. The facade will be used to front

a new condo developement that will be on the

site. Although I didn't get any pictures, I did get

Dr Atomic a souvenir. With stealth and under the

cover of darkness, I was able to get a brick from

original 110 year old part of the building. Atomic,

Email me with your address and I ship you the

brick... :blink:

[dratomic]

THANK YOU! That's wonderful. It's funny, I had thought about emailing you to ask if it'd be possible to snag a brick or something, but I didn't want to bug you with such a strange request. Guess it wasn't so strange after all... :)

Anyway, I really appreciate it. I'll email you shortly.

[dratomic]

Hey all. Just a mention -- I know a lot of people go directly to the Robot Talk page and skip the Alphadrom Table of Contents page. So I just wanted to let people know that I'm selling my Renwal Planet Jet -- if anyone's interested, you can see the ad there.

Thanks a lot. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

[Andyman]

I know this is an old post dratomic but I just had to tell you that I shared a similar experience with my "Cosmic Ray Gun" I bought in NY this past summer. I had just bought the thing and my family and I were getting ready to board the ferry to the Statue of Liberty. Going through the tedious security check I suddenly realised I had the gun in my bag and it was about to be x-rayed! I quickly told the guard that there was a "toy" ray gun in my bag and that he shouldn't freak out when he sees it's profile on the monitor. He then had me take it out of the bag. After I showed it to him he told me he should confiscate it. Alarmed, I asked why and he said, "because it's so cool looking!"