Me again. Attached is an image of the packaged Straker Edai car.
The image appeared in the booklet that came with the Japanese laserdisc UFO boxset - there were several nice color photos of items produced for the Japanese market.
A b/w photo of the packaged toy is also in Dennis Nicholson’s Gerry Anderson Memorabilia Guide.
Here's something for the blog...I figured I'd point you in the direction of this music video my creative partner Dave Kerin and I did for the band zikzak (Todd Stadtman of diedangerdiediekill.blogspot.com as well as many many other talented ventures).
Todd, David and myself were (are) huge Gerry Anderson and all things 60s sci-fi fans and we did this circa 2000/2001. Dave and I shot the video based on my storyboard. He did the CGI and edited it all together.
I built the sets, shot still images, etc. The ceramic cats used in the video were a pair of banks that appeared on the cover of the first zikzak release (CD). My ex missus is Anna Li. I'm the giant cat.
Todd was based in Los Angeles at the time and David and I were in Pittsburgh, so Todd was unavailable to film any new footage, so we used a quick shot of him playing an acoustic gig and some talking head footage. With this in mind, we created what you see here.
I'm still proud of this thing over a decade later.
This video and email were received at Moonbase from Corey LeChat in the Summer of 2014. I haven't heard from Cory since so I really do hope he's OK. [words below in italics are mine]. This is for Corey.
Hey Woodsy
Here's something for the blog...I
figured I'd point you in the direction of this music video my creative
partner Dave Kerin and I did for the band zikzak (Todd Stadtman
of diedangerdiediekill.blogspot.com as well as many many other
talented ventures).
Todd, David and myself were (are)
huge Gerry Anderson and all things 60s sci-fi fans and we did this circa
2000/2001. Dave and I shot the video based on my storyboard. He did the
CGI and edited it all together. I built the sets, shot still images,
etc. The ceramic cats used in the video were a pair of banks that
appeared on the cover of the first zikzak release (CD).
It features Anna Li and I'm the giant cat. Todd was based in Los Angeles at the time
and David and I were in Pittsburgh, so Todd was unavailable to film any
new footage, so we used a quick shot of him playing an acoustic gig and
some talking head footage. With this in mind, we created what you see
here. I'm still proud of this thing over a decade later.
Here's a completely ridiculous (and very toy nerdy) video
breakdown:
1) opening zoom based on the Flash Gordon
movie
2) the cat's Tracy Island base of operations is the Lil
Playmates Space Station from 1984
3) plastic panels in secret
cat base are from the 1957 Kenner Girder and Panel Building Set
4) cat ship inspired combo of Space 1999 Hawk and Eagle
5) Anna Li's
moonbase was put together from the Hasbro 1969 Astrolite playset
6) the moonscape was made of composite shots of the lunar
landscape from 2 different 1960s Comansi Thunderbirds playsets
7) Frozen Todd (lead singer of zikzak) in tube was in fact a Fairylite Thunderbirds Brain figure with Todd's head photoshopped on it
8) and of
course - a classic 60s Ultraman-esque battle in front of poster mural of
the lunar surface
