Somehow missed yet another great departing us last week:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/arts/john-amos-dead.html
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/entertainment/john-amos-dead/index.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/02/entertainment/john-amos-death-daughter/index.html...
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Yet again, another great actor passed away a few days ago, somehow I missed it at the time:
https://apnews.com/article/john-ashton-taggart-beverly-hills-cop-obit-7cf9cabad9d315a303fa01a0eecb2a94...
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The American actor James Earl Jones has passed away at the age of 93.:(
Sources:
View: https://x.com/MarkHamill/status/1833246565168803985?t=LueMXnGSz9YOgdYQm5MREw&s=19
View: https://x.com/NavalInstitute/status/1833252640303812795?t=JDH7l0xIMSO8egcIt5_x_g&s=19
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From https://rochesteravionicarchives.co.uk/organisations/space-models
Space Models Ltd was located in Feltham Greater London. The company was founded in 1964 and was recognized as one of the UK's two leading companies in the production of...
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...
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...
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/
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...
The Right Stuff is an upcoming American drama television series, which is based on the 1979 book of the same name by Tom Wolfe. It is set to premiere at the streaming service Disney+ on October 9th, 2020.
First trailer:
View: https://youtu.be/Og0htvEVqJQ
This series might be good.:)
But the...
I am too lazy to start a new thread but here are some phonecaptures from youtub of the Royal Navy in the 1997 Bond Film "Tomorrow Never Dies".
First up is HMS Chester. Using her Harpoon launcher to fire a Cruise Missile at some bad guys
Next we have HMS Devonshire, which gets sunk by the bad...
In the very first Thnunderbirds Episode "Trapped in the Sky" the London Airport building features the letters BAOC (based on the British Airways predecessor BOAC) as a rival to the Air Terrainean company who flew the Fireflash.
As a BOAC fan I always hoped to see the BAOC version. So 50 years...
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The Thunderbirds series from the 1960s featured in its first episode a wonderful airliner called Fireflash,
which was totally improbable but looked very cool.
In the series it crops up in a few episodes in the livery of "Air Terrainean", a sort of mixture of Pan American and BOAC.
However, in...
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G'day gents
I am looking for the name of a TV documentary series, which had historians and engineers look at and reconstruct ancient engineering wonders (including weapons).
I recall that some of engineering feats covered -
- Caesar's Rhine Bridges
- Water screws that lifted water to the...
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