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Picture of Harrison Ford in full Indie costume on the set of this film. View: https://mobile.twitter.com/IndianaJones_ch/status/1401984794259566594

MiG-19 Fake

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56412867 Once again, yet another great gone. Rest In Peace :( View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLkkPzJzMPY View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIbIiFRpL5Y View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpBIUb1AQG8 View...

This is very sad, RIP to a man who was immensely entertaining on SG-1. https://bleedingcool.com/tv/stargate-sg-1-veteran-tv-actor-cliff-simon-passes-away-age-58/

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxaJgxXavc Note that this video was made before the current Covid-19 related model making renaissance had really gotten underway.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBgCRQ2wIvw

A little bit of fun for these Winter nights, and I dont think we have done it in this form. My favourite film is The Italian Job original version from the 60s My favourite TV show is Top Cat (US original cartoon series from the 60s) Both always cheer me up and I have seen them many times...

2020:what a nefarious year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Prowse

Thought we already had a thread touching on this general subject, but could not find it for the life of me. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54904756

The artist Ron Cobb, known for his work for many science fiction movies and TV series, has passed away. :( Source : View: https://twitter.com/TheSpaceshipper/status/1308071692296740864?

Back in the 1960s a company called Palitoy introduced the American GI Joe figure to the UK market as a toy soldier called Action.Man. Generations of schoolboys have played with them and adults collect detailed versions made specially for enthusiasts. The British Toy industry still existed in...

The late designer and artist, Syd Mead, once reportedly said "I have been trying to ger rid of wheels since 1963". His beautiful floating cars (no ugly rotor fans or troublesome downblast) are as impossible nearly 60 years later, or are they? Probably yes, but if any of you know more?

http://futurewarstories.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-weapons-of-science-fiction-m590-exo.html

Dan Cooper is another fighter pilot comic caracter, in the kind of Buck Danny and Tanguy & Laverdure, but Canadian. Author was Albert Weinberg. Know it much less than the other two, but had a few albums as a kid. One album called "Programme F-18" is about the selection of the Hornet by RCAF...

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/20/05/04/0456220/this-may-the-4th-gets-unusual-celebrations-for-star-wars-day

Back in 1973 I purchased the boardgame "NATO operational combat in the 1970s" from Jim Dunnigan's SPI (Simulation Publications) gaming company. In a world before home computing this wargame of a future war as opposed to Waterloo or DDay was something new and daring. In this month of lockdown you...

As a kid in the 60s I remember being fascinated by the guest vehicle in the second THUNDERBIRDS episode Pit of Peril The walking US army vehicle also appeared in annuals and TV21 comic and a porcelain replica appeared a few years back. Watching the video again it would make David A furious but...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lawrence-paull-dead-oscar-nominated-production-designer-blade-runner-was-81-1254951 https://variety.com/2019/film/news/lawrence-paull-dead-dies-blade-runner-1203405487/ https://gizmodo.com/lawrence-g-paull-oscar-nominated-visionary-behind-bla-1839880954...

In the Gerry Anderson series Space 1999 nuclear weapons are stored on the moon along with other nuclear waste after a limited nuclear war/ terrorist act in Switzerland in the 80s. The Anderson derived comic had already created a World Government in 2028 following a limited nuclear war in Europe...