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X-71 Super Shuttle from "Armageddon" (1998)

By: Fantastic Plastic

Type: Scale Model

Product Line: Model Kits (1/144) (Fantastic Plastic)

37 pcs.

Last Stocked on 2/18/2024

Product Info

Title
X-71 Super Shuttle from "Armageddon" (1998)
Publisher
Sub-category
Publish Year
2011
Dimensions
13x9.75x2.5"
NKG Part #
2147960471
Type
Scale Model

Description

The X-71 is the top-secret military space shuttle featured in the 1998 mega-hit "Armageddon." In the film, two X-71s, Freedom and Independence, launch from Cape Canaveral to transport drilling teams to the "Texas-sized" asteroid that is on an intercept course with Earth. Larger and longer than conventional Space Shuttles, and carrying top-mounted solid-rocket boosters (SRBs), the X-71s are capable of flying beyond Earth's gravity well and into deep space.

Released in April 2011, the this was Fantastic Plastic Model's attempt to provide a kit far more "movie-accurate" than Revell's original 1998 X-71. Working off dozens of photos of both the SPFX miniature and the 1/2 orbiter mockup, pattern-maker Alfred Wong created a kit that far better captures the lines, dimensions and details of the "Armageddon" super shuttle. JBOT provided decals for both the "Independence" and "Freedom."


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