K-B Toys Activity Book for Kids

Kennedy Space Center, FL: Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Very good. 8 pages counting covers. Format is 4.25 inches by 5.5 inches. Illustrations (some with color). Rare commercial ephemera connecting toys and astronauts. This has questions (with answers), outlines that can be colored in, a word search game, and store purchase coupon. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the visitor center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It features exhibits and displays, historic spacecraft and memorabilia, IMAX theaters, and a range of bus tours of the spaceport. "Space Shuttle Atlantis" is home to the real Space Shuttle Atlantis orbiter and the Shuttle Launch Experience, a simulated ride into space. Until recently, the center now provides astronaut training experiences, including a multi-axial chair and Mars Base simulator. The visitor complex also has daily presentations from a veteran NASA astronaut. A bus tour, included with admission, encompasses the separate Apollo/Saturn V Center. There were 1.7 million visitors to the visitor complex in 2016. K-B Toys (also known as Kay Bee Toys) was an American chain of mall-based retail toy stores in the United States owned by Bain Capital. Founded in 1922, it operated, at its height, 1,200 stores across all 50 states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and went out of business on February 9, 2009. In 1996, Kay-Bee had sales of $1.1 billion, and was sold that year to Consolidated Stores Corporation at a cost of $300 million. Company sales reached $1.6 billion in 1998, the same year that its merchandise website was launched. The store logo was also changed to "KB" that year. This item represents an unusual 'tie-in' between the retail toy giant and a major recreational and tourism enterprise.