Adult Swim ran a silent bump tonight, with a black and white still of Ray animating the snake dancer from The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Very tasteful and well done, especially for Adult Swim.
Not sure if it's a coincidence or not, but the Family Guy episode that aired on AS tonight had a Clash of the Titans reference.
Whoa.
Some people rag on the animation style, but it's no better or worse than anything else on Saturday morning at the time. Star Trek was still about ideas rather than big action scenes then. Even with limited animation, they were able to have aliens and vistas impossible to realize on the live action series.
Interestingly enough, Lost in Space was tried in animation around the same time. The end result barely resembled the series, (even with Jonathan Harris voicing Dr. Smith) and only a pilot episode was ever made. It aired just once as a tv special.
A couple fan productions have made TAS episodes using modern tech to replicate the look and feel of the original animation.
So, how do we know J.J. isn't George's clone? ;)
This is what happens when you use someone's ebay photos. ;)
The Animated Series is what really got the merchandise ball rolling in 1974. The AMT model kits were on the market while TOS was still on NBC, and the FX crew used the Enterprise kit to make the damaged USS Constellation for The Doomsday Machine.
I had nearly all the Mego stuff, except for that sweet Mission to Gamma IV playset. (Why the heck they didn't just call it Vaal, I'll never know!) Half of the Aliens subset of action figures were dead on likenesses, the other half made you wonder what someone at Mego was smoking. The company making the retro Mego Trek figures rectified that, as well as finally making Sulu and Chekov figures. I had to make Uhura and Scotty man the helm when I was 8.
Fans have it so good with the affordable prop replicas made today. Someone at Mego was really into that blue color scheme. ;)
Found an ebay seller with some items I haven't seen before.
There are several of these posters. Some like this one border on the abstract, and the text on the others suggest the film takes place in the far future. Are these rejected early poster concepts? Weird they never appeared in The Art of Star Wars book.
Sorry about that. It does look a little too much like an obit.
However, the passing of anyone prominently associated with the saga usually gets their own thread. It wouldn't normally be posted to this one. And may Sir Christopher be with us for many more years!
"The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" would make for the coolest movie title ever.
;)
Is that the early printing with creepy purple proto Yoda?
Hey, it's me. said:
Bingowings said:
Hilarious reading Osbourne trying to claim credit for this.
He takes away money from the sick and disabled but claims to give us back Star Wars primacy via tax cuts for the mega rich.
I seem to remember a number of Harry Potter films being made here without him being the the chancellor.
Osbourne's a weasly little shit. Quoted at the end of his tweet, 'may the force be with us' (sickbag) he's got one of them faces you'd just love to slap. A big DRY slap.
Your friendly neighborhood moderator kindly suggests: Let's keep politics out of this thread. Okay?
You guys ought to find this site interesting.
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/
I once had one of these.
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Entex/AV.html
Was totally floored to find out it was pretty rare. (I paid less than twenty bucks for it at a Sears Surplus store in the 80's.) Unfortunately, I had to sell it to pay some bills a decade ago.
Is this a belated April Fool's joke? Someone got paid an obscene amount of money to rip off an Asian restaurant chains logo?
JEDIT: Okay it's not going to be on any Fox movies. It's still lame. And they're still going to have to change the name in 87 years anyway. ;)
IIRC, Merlin has turned up in more than a couple low budget SF films as a prop. I have one that was bought for me in South America with Portuguese text on the buttons. There is a smaller modern update of Merlin I've seen in the past few years.
I still have this little beauty stashed away somewhere. Primitive by today's standards but pretty challenging to play. I think some of the sounds it made were used in one of the Rebel Assault games as an inside joke.
Whether you love or loathe Duke Count Dooku, Christopher Lee rocks.
Watching a bit of TWOK on Sci Fi today reminded me about an upcoming documentary recalling the most infamous Star Trek convention in history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wotq-0GCTJg
I read a lot about this near fiasco in the pages of Starlog back in the day.
Glad to hear it. So many of my favorite films were shot there.
It would be so cool if Abrams went all out, and had another life size Millennium Falcon built. Only this time, give it to a museum when it's no longer needed for the films.
Have you watched The Animated Series yet? It's essentially the fourth season of TOS in my book.
This could be fun. Post a picture of a now obscure gadget, or a forerunner to something that's commonplace now...
I picked up one of these at an electronics store that was closing in the mid 90's. It was unfortunately dead, so I never found a way to make the screen flash "Don't Panic!".
Is Elstree still an active studio these days? Does the Star Wars stage still exist? Would be nice to see the saga back where it all started.
Why would Mr. Nimoy do such a thing? Unless...
Fond memories of Atari arcade Star Wars here too. My best session ever with it in the late 80's at the arcade in Caesar's Palace was cut short, as they would selectively shut down machines to chase the customers out after midnight. Cheap bastards.
I need to find an arcade with the game to challenge it again someday, before age finally catches up with the reflexes. That crazy Atari flight yoke is murder on your trigger fingers.
I recall seeing a picture of George playing the game back in the day. Wonder how good he was at it?
Never spotted the ESB arcade game in the wild, and the ROTJ one was kind of a letdown not being vector graphics.
It might just be a simple electronic organizer. The 90's were littered with such gadgets that aped the look and feel of more expensive gadgets.
No clues inside the battery compartment?
Looks like an old Personal Digital Assistant to me.
Scary. Also reminds me of Marooned. (Which came out before the real life events of Apollo 13.) Interesting this is coming out after the shuttle was retired.