I have been specifically collecting starter sets from the 60/70s. I have recently turned up 7, including the first year Alpha set. If you need help here, please let me know. There are more I haven’t photographed yet. Dan.

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Thanks, those are great. Can you tell us the catalog number that goes with each pic (should be KS-2, KS-7 etc stamped on the side). Does the orange pad model have an orange controller? That is likely the set I got as a kid.

The Athena X Starter Set is new, and Estes started shipping it to hobby distributors recently. By the way, the stock number is 5304.

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Hi, yes I’ll be glad to. Please bear with me, might take a few days. While I’m disabled, my wife just beat cancer, but has some protocol radiation left to do. I’ll be back. Thanks…….

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I’m mostly familiar with old kits , so I’m not up to date on this one. I’ll check around if it will help you ?…….

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Using the Athena name/logo on this RTF blob-of-plastic thing is blasphemy in regards to the ultra-supreme ENERJET Athena.
What an ABSURD INSULT to that former great kit.

Kit names should not be rehashed unless applied to a BETTER kit, not some designed-for-profit alone beginner slag-heap contraption that should have been named TURDAQ.

Rockets included in this set should have the largest physically possible motors jammed in them, then fire-and-forget. A SU 24mm F32T should doo nicely in each.

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I’m curious, was this a special outfit to you ? I’m not finding it in Estes' part number search. What up with this outfit. The Xtreme looks cool. Again, please bear with me,, I’m a bit slower these days……

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It has copyright of 2017, so it’s been around 5 years at least…..

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I missed this question. These pics were already on my iPad. I haven’t dug them out yet. The Orange Porta pad one has the older oval, hand controller, the 60s type. It’s either black or red, I haven’t looked. But I do have the mid 70s Orange, square one sealed in a kit, too. The Yellow pad is the Early 70s one, which is much harder to find

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I'm fortunate to have my original yellow pad, in the original box, but sadly, don't have the black controller it came with.

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