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I don't know if this was previously released on DVD or Blu-Ray, or if it will be available via iPlayer/Disney + but one of the BBC channels is currently broadcasting "The Daleks" - the Hartnell era story that introduced the world to Skaros murderous pepper shakers - in glorious BBC-O-Colour! (and thats Colour" with a "U", by golly chaps! 😉).
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As is traditional, last night was the BBCs annual “Children in Need” charity event, which included a short sequence introducing the 14th Doctor (who looks very familiar… 😉). All I’m going to say is that the arguments over whether this “story” counts as canon are going to rage on for decades… 😅
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Gundam Figure Thread - Newtype GN-002
F-ZeroOne replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
The Mk.II, in Titans Blue, is one of my favourite Gundam designs and that release timing is going to... work out for me. 🙂 -
One final treasure...
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Part of the same clear out, look what I found...!
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Take this with a huge pinch of salt, as I read it in one of the lower-end British newspapers (kids, ask your... grandparents now?), but they ran a story stating that Disney were interested in a couple of "Who" spin-offs - one about UNIT, and the other starring Paul McGann. As the Eighth Doctor. Hmm. You may recall similar rumours swirled about when he made his re-appearance for the 50th anniversary.
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And whilst having a clear out of a relatives house, also found this (art looks familiar, where have I seen that before?😉)
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Seeing this reminded me I have a couple of related items lying around. First, a "Complete Vocal Collection Vol. 1" (not sure if I ever had "Vol. 2"):
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I think its reasonably well known that "Bubblegum Crisis" took inspiration from a whole slew of other works, though one of the lesser known ones may be "Streets of Fire", which I got to watch a couple months back. Made by the same guy that made "The Warriors", it wasn't very successful on release but was apparently very popular and influential in Japan. The opening sequence in particular might seem a bit familiar to "Crisis" fans (with not as many killer cyborgs, admittedly... this isn't the full opening, which if anything feels even more, er, "inspiring").
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That is such a bizarre combination of properties but also so right! 😃
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Christmas Specials are back and will mark the debut of Ncuti Gatwa: https://gizmodo.com/doctor-who-christmas-special-2023-date-streaming-disney-1850995557
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Well, the Doctor has already had a Mickey as a companion... 😉Just to be clear, currently things like "Tales of the TARDIS" are only available on the BBCs iPlayer. Its unclear whether or not they will be made available if or when the series comes to Disney + in other territories. Dalek "Walker Tanks" were one of those concepts that seemed to come up every time there was talk of a new "Who" show during its "hiatus". Various concept art would pop up from time to time.
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Oh, there have also been a couple programmes popping up on various BBC sub-channels relating to "Who". Theres footage of the 60th anniversary performance of various music from the show and "Talking TARDIS", hosted by David Tennant, which is mostly archive footage of various interviews with the Doctors from the classic series. If you have access to iPlayer and ever wanted to see the Third Doctor disassemble a caravan, Peter Davison and Patrick Troughton using each other as a cushion or a very bemused local watch the Fourth Doctor and a couple of Cybermen walk into a pub, nows your chance... the highlight is probably very rare footage of Sylvester McCoys audition for the role, which he pretty much nails from the moment he walks in.
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Wow, the "Tales of the TARDIS" are much longer than I thought they would be, even the shortest is about 90 minutes long! I haven't had a chance to watch more than a few minutes of each, and to be honest I'm not sure I'm going to able to fit them in for at least a good while (though much of the content is going to be made up from the "classic" episodes") but just the first few minutes of each are... thats not a tear, I'm allergic to... er... giant robot toys. Yes. That must be it. Also, its being speculated that after the November specials, the 15th Doctors run will represent a "soft" reboot of the series. Exactly what this means for continuity is unclear, though I personally have my doubts a fan as big as RTD is going to completely let go of everything that came before. Presumably Disney want something more "marketable" without a lot of "baggage". Hmm. That sounds like another Disney-owned property that has a similar issue, something about space wizards with... lazer swords? 😉 Maybe all the Mickey dollars might mean we'll finally see that long-held dream of SFX concept artists everywhere, walking Daleks...
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“One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back… “ Well, he never said which and for whom… (iPlayer only sadly, AFAIK): https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/welcome-to-the-whoniverse-and-tales-of-the-tardis
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Classic "Who" was often accused of having bargain basement production, but for that trailer it looks like they hired a real Mickey Mouse outfit to make it... 😉
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Okay, I knew a bit of the story but not the full thing. I do realise, of course, that Revells "Robotech" really only shares a name and some of the mecha designs (which clearly is because they're from the same source material) with the "Robotech" that came later. Though I do wonder if there was perhaps a little bit more potential for one of the "big" publishers as "Shogun Warriors" was supposedly pretty popular for Marvel a bit earlier on.
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Er... just regards Marvel or DC picking up the "Robotech" licence, didn't one of them actually release a "Robotech: Defenders" comic, from when Revell or someone was trying to market the model kits? Or am I getting mixed up with some other property? ("Mantech"?!).
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Er... oops. I was talking about a different "Thunderbirds", one made through the magic of international licencing deals that were only possible in the 80s and never, ever came back to haunt the people that signed them. 😉 (in Japan I believe this series was called "TechnoVoyager", and the happy coincidence that due to a language quirk the vehicles had "TB" on the side suggested an English-language title with some resonance... ).
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My view of "Robotech" and its effect is a bit skewed by being on the opposite side of the Atlantic; "impact" is a comparative term, it clearly was never as big a franchise as something like "He-Man" or "Transformers". Here, more people probably remember "Ulysses 31" or even "Thunderbirds 2086" than "Robotech", if they weren't introduced to it through the RPGs/comics.
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Whittaker is clearly a good actress, but I felt she had the same issue as Capaldi did at first - they didn't have a handle on her incarnation. Unlike him, though, I don't think they ever really resolved that issue until the very end of her run (its notable that I can choose "defining moments" for most of the Doctors but can't think of one immediately for Whittakers Doctor). Couple honourable mentions - John Hurt and Paul McGann, who only had a short go at it but really made an impression, and although I'm not the type of person that buys audio dramas and the like, by all accounts Colin Baker has absolutely redeemed the Sixth Doctor over the years through that medium.
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Yes, Eccleston was pretty... well, fantastic. 😅Possibly because he only got the one season maybe he tends to get a little overlooked. My favourite, if obvious, Eccleston:
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Thanks for the replies, all. In the UK, "Robotech" was never really a thing, at least as far as I'm aware (possibly the closest comparison would be "Star Fleet/X-Bomber", which was so popular in the UK and Europe the UK company that handled the property seriously considered trying to make a sequel, and were only prevented from doing so when a fire destroyed many of the props and it would have been too expensive to begin anew; as far as I know though "Star Fleet" was never a thing in the US). I knew it from the Palladium RPG and comic books. Every so often one would encounter a cheap compilation video branded "Robotech", and I think one of the early satellite broadcasters here may have ran it for a time, but to the best of my knowledge it never really made any impact unlike in the US. I guess there may have been a little bit of a crossover appeal with "Battletech" fans just because of the whole "Unseen" designs thing...
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I have to ask - there were a lot of these things. I know the comics market in the 90s was kind of its own universe for a bit, but there can't have been that many "Robotech" fans buying these? Was it just that people were so starved for anime related content (I mean, I know I picked up a few), a hardcore of dedicated fans, a "If we don't release something every couple months we lose the licence!" thing, or what?
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Like many I suspect, I tend to divide "my" Doctors into the "classics" and the "new"; Matt Smith is my favourite "new" Doctor (with Peter Capaldi a good second; I felt he was one of the best actors ever to land the gig but not as well served by the stories as Smith was). Of the classics - well, my memories of them are very hazy. I barely remember Tom Baker at the time - most of what I know of his run is from much later rebroadcasts; Peter Davidson was technically "my" classic Doctor but due to my age at the time the one I have the most coherent memories of is Sylvester McCoy. Again, though, despite not even being born during his run recent showings have given me an appreciation for Jon Pertwee (who in my childhood I mostly knew as sentient scarecrow "Worzel Gummidge", and now I think of it, maybe some cross-media memory from a past incarnation is the reason why the Tenth Doctor chose a certain punishment for one of the Family of Blood... 😅).
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