Just been enjoying Close Encounters of the Third Kind on the telly. Its the Directors cut and I'm pretty sure I've never seen the sandstorm opening before.
For toy collectors the early scene of the boy's bedroom is a treasure trove of Seventies stuff. Besides the cymbal-clapping monkey I saw my old fave the Mod Monster Blushing Frankenstein, who drops his trousers at the sight of the alien presence! There are loads of tin cars whizzing round including a police car and a train too.
For the life of me I can't find any video footage of the scene to blog or even a screengrab of the toys. Can anyone help?
One other thing, where the alien ships ever released as toys?
The sandstorm scene was always there from the start, the main inclusions on the new cut come at the end, inside the alien ship. There was a really lacklustre rubber alien figure released and ive got a 45 single of thetheme music
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