I've posted this TV21 shot before [Issue 196, 19th October 1968] but I likes it so much here it is again. Anyone know said John Kent?
OK, 2 things for you to do here Swordheads:
1. What would an older "John" be saying now d'ya reckon?
2. Name all the toys in the picture?
[I would welcome any more shots like this of JR21/SWORD toys and young fans from TV21/Tornado or anywhere really]
Go to the superb Gerry Anderson Complete Comic History site [in part the work of our very own Toad] for more info on Issue 196 of TV21 [did the above picture appear in the Dutch TV2000? Was there a Projecteren Zwaard in TV2000? Check out more Dutch memorabilia in Theo De Klerk's excellent series of linked SIG pages] or indeed any other Anderson comic including Project SWORD in SOLO and TV21 and Annual. F.A.B!
"projecteren" is the verb "to project" as in what a (film) projector does, Paul (thought you knew some German? Dutch is pretty similar in grammar and such :).
ReplyDeleteOther'n that you got it it right - it translates as Project Zwaard in Dutch, tho it'd be tricky to come up with suitable wording for Zwaard as an acronym.
Can't help you on the TV2000 question I'm afraid, I had (and have) a few annuals but never saw the mag...
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Paul
Ah, yes. Like the German ' Projektieren'. It all makes sense now. Sorry for being thick Paul. Yes the SWORD acronym would be completely different in other languages wouldn't it - I suppose in German it would be Weltraum Organization fuer Entwicklungsforschung - W.O.E, which doesn't mean anything in German, but Project WOE would be doomed from the start in English!
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