Proton Pack Lights Script and Diagram
If you are ever interested in building a full size Proton Pack I highly recommend Ben of Kent Props. My proton pack is amazing and it all started with the parts produced by this excellent company. Also check them out on facebook in the most friendly group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/364457410396568 This might look like a bizarre post…
Back to the Ghostbusters
If you’ve read my previous post you’ll know that one of my all time favourite films was Ghostbusters. I’ve already posted about how I loved the movie and it’s associated merch, music and games. Click here if you haven’t and want to read about it. At that time I thought that the article would be…
Best Decade for Films – The 80s – What idiot dressed you in that outfit?! – Part III
With Marty stuck in 1955, again, he has to gain the help of 50s Doc to return to the Future. the film starts as the very first Back to the Future film finishes. The Delorean has gone back to 1985 and Doc has fainted, fade to black and we return to the mythical Brown mansion…
Best Decade for Films – The 80s – It’s your kids Marty! – Part II
When I saw Back to the Future I didn’t think anyone would be crazy enough to make a sequel, but they did. It took a relatively short number of years to take the sequel to the massive time travelling hit Back to the Future and to save money and time Back to the Future Part…
Best Decade for Films – The 80s – Great Scott! – Part I
So, we are in 1985 a date which is directly linked with one, if not the best time travel film of all time. Back to the Future. Around the middle of the 80s, denim was still a thing. After my fondness with my denim jacket and my fondness for the Six Million Dollar Man add…
Best Decade 80s – Indiana Who?
I’m afraid to say that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was the first Indy film I saw at the cinema. The shame, the shame. In the 80s I was working my way through my teens and I was gently easing out of my pure Sci-fi and space stuff, but obviously not cutting them…
Best Decade for Films Ever – The 80s – Don’t Feed them After Midnight!
With Ghostbusters being released in UK cinemas on the 7th December 1984. Gremlins, another fun 80’s film was released on the very same day. Christmas in 84 was a busy cinema time, especially for monsters and ghosts. In the UK this film caused a bit of a controversy. Gremlins was submitted to the BBFC in…
Best Decade for Films Ever – The 80s – Ghoststoppers!?
We were nearing the end of 1984, George Orwell’s Thought Police thankfully did not repress our individuality and our independent thought and we weren’t living in a dystopian present. Not quite yet. It was a big year for the hits of Madonna and her debut album. Dead Or Alive had first released You Spin Me…
Best Decade For Films Ever – The 80s – E.T. Phone Home
Who the heck is Steven Spielberg? I’d never heard of him before E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. I didn’t really pay to much attention to directors at that time. I’d seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind but it “wasn’t as good as Star Wars”, I’d not seen Jaws coz it was scary, and bizarrely I…
Best Decade for Films Ever – The 80s – Enter the Computer
Heading into a new decade, out of the Disco 70’s and into a decade filled with shell suits, the mighty Filofax, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Live Aid, the Space Shuttle, coal mine closures, various wars around the globe, genetic research, Ceefax and Teletext and the New Romantics. I’d spent most of my life in the…
Dalek Bruce’s Build Diary
This is a reproduction of my original build diary for Dalek Bruce published on the Project Dalek forum between September 6th 2009 and June 23rd 2010 when Dalek Bruce himself was completed. I will be updating and removing portions for clarity as some of the entries included replies to messages sent in the forum itself…
70’s UK TV – Part 3 – Watching Gerry and the Model Makers whilst eating Cigarettes
You couldn’t leave the 70’s Sci-fi behind without a final delve into the world of Gerry Anderson. A lot of my childhood was spent sat in front of various black and white and colour TV sets watching the various worlds created by Gerry Anderson both live action and Supermarionation. By the time I was old…
70’s UK TV – Part 2 – Star Trek and why I turned off Doctor Who
Star Trek boldly went where no man, woman, child had gone before. Well, actually it didn’t. Although way before my time, but now one of my favourite movies, Forbidden Planet from 1956 introduced the idea that travelling between the stars in a faster than light ship would be run like a modern day naval vessel,…
70’s UK TV- Part 1 – From Tarzan to Steve Austin N..N..N..N..
My life hasn’t always been Star Wars, so after Return of the Jedi came and went it was time to get back to some other fun TV and Films. I loved cinema and still do. I didn’t just wait for the next Star Wars film to come out to spend money at the flicks. I’ve…
Star Wars Changed My Life – VI – Return of the Jedi Sucks!! Puberty and Ewoks
Maybe not that much. Episode VI was just around the corner. I had bought as many action figures as I could up to that point and new figures were on the way. Prior to the release of the film we knew that there had to be that final sequel. Lando and Chewy were off to…
Star Wars Changed My Life – V – The Empire Strikes Bank
By the time 1980 came around I had just made it past the 12 year old post and I was ready for more Star Wars By late 1979, I had received my previously mentioned Boba Fett figure, which still didn’t fire rockets and thankfully I hadn’t seen the Star Wars Holiday Special by this point.…
Star Wars Changed My Life – IV – The Music of Star Wars and the Diddy Men
I loved records as a kid and as soon as I could carefully place the needle on the record I was hooked and if I wasn’t watching the black and white TV in the lounge, I’d be listening to my records. I remember always having a record player available through the 70s moving into the…
Star Wars Changed My Life – III – Toys and Games
You’ve seen that i love robots and toys. Star Wars toys became a big thing for me beginning 1978 when they became available. For the general public, the history of Star Wars toys started when the film came out in the USA in May 1977. Kids wanted to play with things from the film. With…
Star Wars Changed My Life – II – Seeing The Film and Scrapbooking
Yes, I was old enough to see it first time around. I remember, that we went to see it that first time at the Odeon cinema in Ashton Under Lyne. The titles, the droids, the bad guys, the good and the Force. This cinema where I went to see it, has quite a bit of…
The First Annual Star Wars Weekend
The internet can do alot to change the path of your life, or as according to Qui-gon, your destiny… anyway, originally the holiday to Florida was planned for September until one day and I was browsing the good old Official Star Wars website trying to find out who the latest Anakin was going to be,…
A Curious Kid
The world is a wonderful place and there is a lot out there to discover and learn. I’ve always been a curious kid, from taking my parents OO gauge tin trains apart with a screwdriver. Subsequently, losing the pieces and getting told off. I tell them they shouldn’t have given them to me in the…
Star Park – 20 Odd Years Later
Back in the mists of time… Quite a few blogs I’ve seen start like that when the writer is discussing stuff that they don’t do any more. Anyway, way back in 1997-98ish, South Park made it’s appearance on UK Sky TV. In the first season an episode appeared called “Pink Eye”. In that episode Kyle…
Micronauts – I gotta collect all of the things!!
In the middle of the 70s, I loved Sci-fi. But all a 7 and 8 year old had access to was Star Trek, Space 1999 and a bunch of other Gerry Anderson faire. I don’t really remember owning many Star Trek toys, except for a Star Trek Dinky Starship Enterprise and a toy projector, and…
Star Wars Changed My Life – I – The First Memories and Old Disney
Straight away some of you might scoff at any magic in or about Star Wars, but hear me out. It has literally changed my life. Without Star Wars, my life would be totally different, it’s the absolute truth. Listen… or read…. you get the idea. It started a long time ago in a little town…
The Splik 