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Was wondering if anyone else remembered this little Tex Avery short from their childhood.

The fact these things still look impressive even on a 2D screen means they must look truly incredible in real life. View: https://youtu.be/GqDBWIu3k7E View: https://youtu.be/kA5uf2_9ixY View: https://youtu.be/j6OFS3DCmmA

https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/20/1558240/hard-science-fiction-master-greg-bear-dies-at-age-71 Rest In Peace. :(

A bit tired of the negativity towards modern TV and films, much of which I think is deserved, so instead lets have a topic about good TV shows and films you've seen. I really enjoyed or am currently enjoying these: The Peripheral (Amazon Prime) Adaptation of a William Gibson Sci-Fi novel I...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63612017 :( RIP.

yes i know total off topic but it art book about the Legend Ron Cobb The guy who design ALIEN, ALIENS, ABYSS, BACK TO FUTURE, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, DARK STAR, THE LAST STAR FIGHTER, STAR WARS... Book will be 208 page and be out for sale at 13 September 2022...

Tomy is crowdfunding a 20-pound lighted 1/350-scale die-cast replica of the starship Enterprise, NCC-1701. The goal is to get 5,000 backers at $599 each. That sounds like a lot, but when Quantum Mechanics did some 1/350 lighted ships a decade-ish ago, they were in the area of five or ten grand...

For those interested, the Angry Planet (formerly War College) podcast has an extensive interview with Steve Jackson about his legendary Ogre game. https://play.acast.com/s/warcollege/sponsored-the-mega-tank-of-the-future Today’s episode is brought to you by Auroch Digital, makers of many fine...

Sadly, Vangelis passed away yesterday in France: https://apnews.com/article/vangelis-dead-chariots-of-fire-b7a98666ff96ca049dbe7964da98d44d My guess is that a bit of all of us went with him. View: https://youtu.be/uPe27x0_W2M Rip in the new eden world.

Most TV and Film productions use real weapons or modify them like the Sterling SMGs in Star Wars. Now and again, however, a show decides to make its own props. In 1970 Gerry Anderson released his live action series "UFO" set in a fictional 1980 where a secret organisation called SHADO battled...

I hope that image is production art for the movie, not a final product. That white spraypaint "aging" looks freakin' low effort.

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/dune-part-2-sequel-1235094974/

You can find anything and everything while surfing the net.What I found was this:In 2015 a rich Chinese man is building his company's headquarters in the image of the star trek ship (160 million dollars) and I thought to myself that you should never let wealth unite with megalomania because from...

As the movie industry wheels out yet another Bond film I prefer to return to the world of the original, in the pages of Ian Fleming's novels. For those who do not know what Britain was like for most ordinary families in the 50s and 60s, the glamour of the world described by Fleming in his books...

One of the must have expensive toys of the mid 60s in the US and UK was the Johnny Seven One Man Army. Read what it was here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Seven_OMA Seems a bit far fetched, but at about the same time there was this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoner_63

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29985976 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09w8lz6 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/16/sir-clive-sinclair-inventor-early-pocket-calculator-transformed/...

Jamie Anderson will release new Technical Hand book about Moonbase Alpha feature new Data and allot stuff from Old Series over 250 illustration on 300 pages Pre Order start on 13th September 2021 on Official Anderson Shop webpage https://shop.gerryanderson.com Jamie Anderson on book...

One of my loves is the big early 60s US cruiser with massive Talos launchers. I was delighted when watching this old British comedy film to see it had scenes on the USN 6th Fleet flagship in 1962 at Villefranche. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Joined_the_Navy So what unlikely TV or Film do...

Although Cinema brings us a whole raft of apocalypse and disaster movies, these are often just an orgy of special effects and over the top acting. The novel however leaves much to your imagination, often curled up in bed after a long day in the real world. My candidate for the most chilling...

https://hushkit.net/2021/05/20/would-the-joe-90-angel-interceptor-have-worked-in-real-life-we-ask-an-expert/