Have you got any of these?
From You Tube is another video, showing the Imai Captain Scarlet Figure Series. A range of very simple kits, with a figure from the Captain Scarlet series, and a small vehicle. Each kit is moulded in the main uniform colour, a second colour (usually white, unless the uniform is white), and a rather yellowish 'flesh' for the head and hands, except in the case of the Angel.
1 Captain Scarlet with Spectrum Patrol Car
2 Colonel White with Cloudbase
3 Captain Blue with Passenger Jet
4 Captain Magenta with Maximum Security Vehicle
5 Captain Ochre with Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle
6 Angel with Angel Interceptor
At the end is a look at the built-up models. Very simple and toy-like, but they look like fun. According to the Scalemates site, the kits were originally released in 1968, but these models look to be later issues.
Imai Models Captain Scarlet Figure Kits Review - YouTube
Paul Adams from New Zealand
I was reading about the world's biggest magnet. Its humungous and weighs many hundreds of tonnes. Once in position in France it will assist in the proposed production of fusion energy at ITER, which has proved nigh on impossible to make effectively anywhere up to press.
What amazed me was the magnetic power of the magnet. It will produce a magnetic field 280 times larger than our own Earth!
Its the stuff of 1950's B-Movies and I can't help feeling a little terrified by such massive science just like I did when I saw those sci-fi movies back in the Sixties. There's something very DOOMWATCH and Gerry Anderson about it all.
What do you think of huge technological sites like the Hadron Collider and this colossal magnet reader?
I've long pondered how Century 21 Toys/ JR21 Toys made the Thunderbird 5 toy in the Sixties and often perused the web and books for hints as to what the parts were from.
I say parts because its been long conjectured by collectors that the C21/ JR21 TB5 toy was made up of other existing toys. In other words the main brown body and the engine were from existing toys.
Ten years ago I posed this same question and I established a link between the toy's clone by Soma and an obscure ice crusher! Whether this assisted in the search for the origin of the JR21 toy I don't know, but you can read it here https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-saucer-full-of-secrets-soma.html
Have you any idea what the original toy was readers? is it a toy you own? Do you like it?
What is a bit clearer is the way Derek Medding's team made the actual Thunderbird 5 model for the TV show as some research has already been done by long-time Andersonist Marc J .Frattasio back in 1996! Published on the SuperM site, Thunderbird 5's origin can be found at the end of the Thunderbirds vehicles page http://lester.demon.nl/superm/tech/sfx/tbirds/models0.html
Do you like Thunderbird 5 readers? Is it an effective model and design for the show?
I saw this flick on Netflix last night. A low budget sci-fi movie, I must say I rather enjoyed it. There are very few actors and largely one location. Essentially its about AI and how AI can go AWOL. Think HAL and you're in the right ballpark.
Its given me an appetite for other AI movies I haven't seen like Her.
Have you seen any AI flicks?
Here's one top 20 list I saw, although some of them I wouldn't say are AI, I'd say they were robotic.
