Wouldn't a Snow Speeder make more sense?
That young Timmy wears a crash helmet makes me think this thing might be a tad dangerous.
I think getting the figures out at a price point that an fit an average kid's allowance back then probably dictated how detailed they ended up being.
To this day, I don't get why the Jawa got a cloth cape and everybody else got that goofy vinyl thing.
I did see a vinyl cape Jawa on the pegs once, but passed on it as the cloth one looked "right". If I only knew!
You usually had to wait for a birthday or Christmas to get one of the ships or a playset, but you could get a couple figures a month. Maybe more if there was a sale.
The sculpts did get a lot more detailed after Empire.
One the other end of the scale, the large size figures were incredibly detailed and hold up very well today. But they were more expensive, and the line faded away around the time Empire came out. Kenner probably only did a 12 inch Indiana Jones because they could reuse the Han Solo mold. Nevermind Indy's haircut looks nothing like Han's. ;)
Yeah, but you have the Rolls Royce of LD players. I'm envious. ;)
Wow! Lucky!
Don't you need a MUSE LD player to as well?
I was watching the Tom Baker era when I was around 11, and suffered no ill effects. What are people worrying about?
The real world gives me plenty of nightmares. My Whovian dreams are quite pleasant.
unamochilla2 said:
Oh yeah...
In some ways, this is almost cooler than the Kenner playset, and I loved that one.
My Kenner figures did occasionally visit a similarly constructed Moonbase Alpha once in a while, in spite of not being quite to scale for them. ;)
http://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/2013/01/collectible-of-week-space-1999.html
It's a shame Hasbro doesn't do playsets today. The last few Kenner did in the 90's were tiny and lame, which seems to justify Hasbro's stance that playsets don't sell.
Mielr said:
Electronic Laser Battle Game. Still works---just tested it out with my nephew a few months ago.
http://youtu.be/HJWCN7c9ZJ4
We were so easily entertained back then. ;)
I spent many hours playing this one.
And I still have it. There was a second one I found in a thrift store I used as prop in a couple of my video projects back in college.
One of the Rebel Assault games apparently used a sound sample from this.
Mielr said:
Leia clearly had some "force" powers when she heard Luke calling her, post-duel, under Cloud City. Maybe she wasn't Luke's sister at that point, but I think she was the "other" Yoda referred to and it wasn't much of a stretch then in ROTJ to reveal she had acquired her abilities due to being part of the Skywalker clan.
It can be interpreted both ways. Leia was the only one Luke could try to contact because of the strong feelings between them. He knew something had happened to Han. It might have been dicey to try calling Chewie, and he certainly didn't know Lando.
Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
When ESB was produced in 1980, Obi-Wan didn't even know Leia was Luke's sister. I don't even think George knew that.
When they had Obi-Wan deliver the twins to Ben's farm in ROTS, nobody at Lucasfilm stopped and said: "oops, loss of continuity, we can't do it that way".
He only delivered Luke to Owen's farm. ;)
I didn't see any pan and scan in that scene. The "tv" version was shot with Shatner and Alley closer together. We will be able to A/B with my old VHS capture soon enough.
Would be weird if this was yet another version.
Am I the only one who initially read that as Pope Frink? ;)
Would the MUSE LD have a different mix though?
Has anyone investigated the HD DVD that came out only in Europe?
I would think watching the evening news would be far more terrifying than anything on Who. ;)
Did it at least come with a cool toy? The best Subway could come up with for Guardians of The Galaxy were backpacks.
pittrek said:
OMG somebody REALLY thought that effect was acceptable? UFOs in Ed Wood movies look more realistic
That's because Ed Wood used physical models and real string. ;)
What did I just say!?
They were teaching us American kids the Metric system in the 70's, then it suddenly stopped being required, can't recall the exact year.
I presume some politicians decided that learning metrics would inevitably lead clean cut kids down the road to communism or something. ;)
Don't give them any ideas! ;)
MaximRecoil said:
That's awesome that they are building real props to represent ships. I've seen a lot of CGI airplanes and helicopters in Hollywood movies lately, and they are just ordinary, real world aircraft that they wouldn't have even had to build in order to film them for real.
It is the height of laziness when you have a big Hollywood budget and you CGI something (or more likely, just grab a pre-existing CGI model from a hard drive) that exists in the real world.
On relatively low budget TV shows from the '80s they filmed real aircraft (e.g., Airwolf, Magnum, P.I., and many others), yet certain big Hollywood productions today can't be bothered to rent or otherwise acquire an airplane or helicopter and point a camera at it?
Miniature remote controlled aircraft figured into many of those productions.
And Airwolf was hardly a low budget show, at least not until it's awful last season shot on the cheap in Canada. That copter was expensive to fly, and stock footage was run into the ground towards the end, along with some of the worst model shots outside an Ed Wood film.
It looks a bit like the dish on the Rebel Blockade Runner.
More set pics with a better view of the Falcon and it's "new" dish.
And a certain British secret agent has infiltrated the set at Pinewood.
Would be cool if they gave Roger a bit part or a cameo! He could walk by in his Moonraker outfit. ;)
Elvis shot a tv or two in his time. ;)
Excellent!
