Keeping the 2001 thread going a while longer here's a couple of shots of the ultra-cool 2001 Space Odyssey trio of plastic spacecraft made in the 1960's by an unknown manufacturer to tie-in with the launch of Kubrick's movie opus. There's plenty for SWORD fans here I feel. We all know of the link made to Space Odyssey in the 1969 SWORD Annual. Then there's the promotion of SWORD toys during the opening season of the film at venues like Hatchett's night Club. For me though the most SWORDesque elements the totally futuristic look of the toys, the use of the same sort of bluey plastic as the SWORD Nuclear Ferry and Zero-X and last but not least the blister card art is the classic clipper-space station painting by the late great Robert McCall no less. You'll remember that he also painted two key SWORD box art origins, Roll-Out on the Cape Kennedy set and Earth-to-Moon Shuttle on the Nuclear Ferry. If ever there was another fleet worthy of the SWORD emblem it's this I reckon. What do you think?
Credits: This blog is sort of re-run of a bloglet by Wote in Summer 2009.
I've been obsessing on the movie 2001 to an unhealthy degree over the past month or so, and these lovely photos are not helping.
ReplyDelete(Have you seen the clipper model the builder fitted with a shuttle-like cargo bay instead of a passenger section?)
Nope, not seen that Richard. Have you got a picture or a link?
ReplyDeleteOops! That would have been helpful. Here's the one:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.scalemodelnews.com/2010/09/science-fiction-classic-movie-2001.html