OX ON THE ROCKS

My meagre OX efforts done on paint and all in one place.

Your OX art welcomed.

BLAST FROM THE PAST: FIRST BIRTHDAY CARDS SEPTEMBER 2009

 

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So Swordies, what are these two chaps saying?

HERO X

Like all SWORDies I have huge respect for the 'guest star' of the SWORD toy fleet, namely ZERO-X, which took centre stage in the 1966 THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO movie. It's no wonder that its the only SWORD toy that included a SUPREMO badge. Fellow vintage toy enthusiast Jim Lewis has made a fab video about Century 21's 1967 Zero X. Watch below courtesy of You Tube.

And here's some much older footage from 1967 itself, a TV advert from Japan for Imai's fantastic model kit licenced by Century 21, making the Imai model the same age as the Century 21 toy. Courtesy of Micky Bister via You Tube.

If anyone has the 1967 Imai Zero X and the Century 21 Zero X, I'd love a picture of them placed side by side!

 

 

Zero X pictures welcomed generally!

BLOG PARTY STARTS WITH RADIO CELTICA INTERVIEW

The blog's fourth Birthday celebrations kick off this Friday evening with a bang. WOTAN and myself will be having our second interview with DJ Bill Everatt on his show on CELTICA RADIO!

Be there or be square! This Friday 14th September for SWORD, monsters and spacemen on CELTICA RADIO this Friday evening at 20:00 BST / 19:00 GMT.

Click here to listen to CELTICA!

Beep! Beep! Central and Centrica!

HOUSTON, WE'VE GOT A HAIKU

The microbus leaves the gantry.

The rocket is hot and ready to

POP!

 

 

 

Your own space Haiku welcomed.

TAKE THE ZERO X TO THE BLOG PARTY

 

....ZERO X IS READIED FOR TAKE OFF TO MOON AND MARS BASES. CARGO: PARTY POPPERS, MOON PIES, MARS BARS, GALAXY CHOCOLATE, PREZZIES, GIFTS, ROCK ANTHEMS PARDY MIX AND A WHOLE LOTTA SPARKLING VINO. FOURTH BLOG BIRTHDAY STARTS MIDNIGHT 15TH SEPTEMBER. NORMAL TRANSMISSIONS WILL BE INTERRUPTED BY REVELLING AT ZERO G.......ENDS

It's a God-Awful Small Affair

Can we really be the only inhabited planet in the Universe? I really can't see it. It's almost inconceivable that out of billions of planets Earth is the only one capable of sustaining life. Rudimentary forms of life have been found in almost all extreme environments across the World so it's surely possible that nature has developed extra-terrestrially.

 

 

I'm not saying that we are part of some cosmic community of advanced civilisations bristling with Galaxy-class technology. If that was the case how come we haven't heard from any, a question lying at the heart of the Fermi Paradox. I personally would be quite happy with evidence of more modest fauna like Martian daphnia, Titanic algae  or Ioan plankton, although I'd think twice before bringing them back to Earth!

 

 

Isn't a yearning for some cosmic neighbours the very essence of Sci-Fi, a desire to refute the idea that we are alone in the Universe? What do other readers think?