As a special Summer of Sword competition, professional modeller and blog contributor Barry Ford has provided this cryptic competition to win a signed copy of his new book - 'How To Build Better Dioramas'. Barry tells us the background to writing this fabulous tome here:
Now we dont like to make things too easy for you here at Mars Central, so while we await news on the rescue mission at Moonbase, see if you can answer this question set by Barry to try and win this excellent prize:
What 1970s film connects Thunderbirds, Star Wars and the Babylon 5 spin-off Crusade, and has toy collecting central to the film's plot ?
Its one answer per entrant please, send your answers direct to Wotan at ygdrassil@gmail.com closing date will be THURSDAY 15 JULY. Wotans decision is final!
Is nobody else going to enter? I don't have a clue but I'll guess 'Callan' just for luck? I'm sure he had a bit part as a helmeted storm-trooper! And the other two connections are as clear as....mud!
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I was thinking Asylum...can connect it with Thunderbirds and Starwars but I'll be damned if I can make a connection with Crusade.
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I think Maverick is right. The film version of Callan (was it 1974?) includes the actors Edward Woodward, David Prowse and David Graham.
ReplyDeleteEdward Woodward was in one episode of Crusade (where he played the father of his real-life son). David Prowse was Darth Vader in Star Wars. And David Graham was the voice artist for, among others, Brains in Thunderbirds.
So, well done, Maverick!
However, I take exception to the description of toy collecting as being central to the plot. It involved wargaming, and the figures are miniature military models, not toys. More over, if Toad remembers correctly (and Mitzi backs me up on this) Callan made his soldiers from scratch - he did not buy them. So I think ... oh, wait, Mitzi wants to tell me something ...
"What? You think so? Really? ... Well, O and K then, if that's what you think."
MItzi tells me they are still toy soldiers, so I ought to retract my pedantic objection. I guess she knows best.
Again, well done Maverick!
Whoh! We don't know I'm right yet? And it was a complete guess, it's one of only two Movies I know with toy soldiers in, the other involved lead paint linking the killer to the body...or was that Callan? Doh!
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Hey Your supposed to email me your answers, not debate them in public! Ha, ha
ReplyDeleteHey Your supposed to email me your answers, not debate them in public! Ha, ha
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