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Classic Storefront Rocket Ride Is No Longer Just A Nickel
OhGizmo! — ... If Antiques Roadshow has taught me anything, it’s that people will pay ridiculous amounts of money for the smallest bit of nostalgia, which is probably why something as big as this Classic Storefront Rocket Ride available from Hammacher Schlemmer comes with a $10,000 price tag. (Instead of the nickel it would have cost you to ride it back in the 1960’s.) In its defense though, the Rocket Ride is an authentic unit that has been completely refurbished to its original state including the tapered nose cone and retro space travel graphics. And thanks to ...

Rocket Ride for your Den
Fashionfunky.com — ... of space travel. Made of sturdy fiberglass, the rocket ride uses an electric motor to provide the same one-minute traveling motion that it provided nearly half a century ago, including gentle rising, diving, and banking left and right; the speed of motion is controlled by turning the handle bars. A built-in sound system produces rocket sound effects, including take-off procedures, countdown, lift-off, and flight. The coin bo x takes dimes; coins are easily retrieved. It costs USD 10,000 - so if you were planning on recouping those dimes - its going to take an awfully long ...