We've spoken about Barbarella's pistols before.
One of her lesser ray guns - pictured above - appears to be the same one in the fabulous Gerry Anderson toy Star cruiser Mission Kit by Thomas Salter featured yesterday ( just had a thought, is this a water pistol?)
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The identity of Barb's ray gun has perplexed many a toy mind over the years.
Here's a great discussion from a way back on the superb Alphadrome, including many versions of the toy weapon.
Have you got ray guns like this?
Do you like Barbarella?
I would have loved that Star Cruiser Mission Kit for Christmas back in the day. You too?
I first saw the Barbarella movie at a sci fi con held at a Playboy resort as a teenager WITH MY PARENTS! She had guns? ;-)
ReplyDeletePlayboy resort? Parents? What's going on Baron?
Delete:-) I was fifteen and we lived just outside of New York City. I had started taking the bus to attend conventions: Star Trek, Science Fiction, Horror, that sort of thing. I saw a flier for a convention at the New Jersey Playboy club & resort, but I had no way to get there. My parents (who for some reason let a kid take a bus into the big bad city by himself) were willing to go with me to the Playboy club! I remember that my favorite, Grace Lee Whitney, was there, as well as Nichelle Nichols, Isaac Asimov, Stephan Fabian and Overton & Sullivan, who my dad and I had seen at a prior convention where I sold some things. 1976 was a good time to be a teen, and I got an eyeful of Playboy bunnies! I definitely remember seeing Barbarella for the first time there, with my parents. Not too bizarre, since my mother had taken me to see Leonard Nimoy in Equus on Broadway earlier in the month; it featured full female nudity, and we had front row seats. Ah, my formative years. I joined the ski club at my school and we went skiing up at the Playboy resort often. Life was good. https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Playboy_Science_Fiction_Convention
DeleteBarbarella is a fantastically imaginative film, although very un-pc by todays standards. It also has the dubious priveledge of spawning the 80s supergroups name 'Duran Duran'! I recall seeing it back in the day and being traumatised by the snapping dolls at the beginning and the weird Leathermen later on. Besides the UK group name, it also gave the name to the lava lamp company - as lava lamp FX feature heavily - of Mathmos, changed in 1992 from 'Astro Lamp'. https://mathmos.com/heritage/
ReplyDeleteThe film was released in 1968, but the Star Cruiser set is late 80's, so the gun in the set is clearly a re-issue of a sixties design. Bill
A stunning flick yep Bill. There are loads of different guns in it too.
DeleteI was once asked "Which woman, from popular culture, and on a purely physical basis, do I consider to be the most attractive ever ?"
ReplyDeleteMy reply, "Jane Fonda, as she looked in 'Barbarella' "
So YES, I do like Barbarella !
Me too Mish, she was an exceptionally attractive woman. Bill
DeleteMe too!
DeleteBarbarella pre-dates Starcruiser by a number of years so the gun must have been available pre-1967/8 in some form or other.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Mike. Alphadrome website have listed all the issues of the toy pistol.
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ReplyDeletehttps://alphadrome.net/data/displayimage.php?album=23&pid=4598#top_display_media
I have a question about this gun.
https://alphadrome.net/data/displayimage.php?album=23&pid=4370#top_display_media
Wasn’t there a much smaller Sea Devil type pistol version with the dish black and a clear emitter