Hi Guys. Recently discovered the WHALE I just bought off ebay has a different underbay door (where the sled shoots out from) than what I remember. I checked here on the site and the one pictured here has a small semicircular cut-out so you can pull it open. The one on mine is flat (no cut out) and its a pain to open it without something to wedge in there and pop it out.

I'm pretty sure mine as a kid was like that too. It's at my parents (what's left of it), I'll check it out when I get there.