Is there a Better Movie Opening?

...... than Star Wars, A New Hope?

Happy Star Wars day readers!

May the Fourth be with you! 

Will's TV21, Lyons Maid and Smiths Crisps Thunderbirds Papers

 Courtesy of Will Osborne.

DIGBY: Aunt Anastasia Comes to Stay

 Courtesy of Terranova47

The Day of the Attic

Secret Sam took the call in his attic office.

The Moonbase toy collection had to be protected at all costs. Stop.

The mission is go! You're on your own Sam.

Over and out.

Mystery Badge

We've stopped off for a pizza lunch in the lovely Yorkshire market town of Malton.

Mooching the second-hand shops I saw a box of old badges at a pound each. Nothing I needed. There were Clarks Commandos, modern Thunderbirds and an unusual one with a sort of ECG blip on it. Bottom centre in the pic.

Anyone recognise it? 

Kelloggs Sugar Smacks: Space Mission Badges Ad

Courtesy of the British Film Institute:

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-kelloggs-sugar-smacks-space-mission-badges-1970-online 

Anyone got these badges?

TONY JAMES R.I.P.

 Sad to hear that Tony James, who created Comet Miniatures, and ran Timeless Hobbies online has passed away.

Tony was a familiar face at the many Smallspace events. He was certainly a popular guy with everyone, always bringing along a vast array of sci-fi kits.

I bought a fair number from him, myself.

Our sincere condolences to his family.

The Electric State

Over the last few years there's been a handful of futuristic series and films on streaming that have mixed tech, robotics and humans startlingly well in my opinion.

Fall Out was one such show, the story of underground human settlements surviving a nuclear winter. The standout character was the mutated sheriff in the badlands.

Then there was the film The Creator, which blew me away with it's ground-searching floodlights emitted from vast government flying craft. Amazing imagery all round.

Recently came The Electric State, which I enjoyed a lot. I know it's a polarising film but I liked the juxtaposition of old tech, ai tech, cyborgs and people. The abandoned amusement park-style zone where old bits dwelled was great. I particularly liked the big ball-headed giant bot in the last battle. At it's heart though was a desperate quest and a vein of sorrow.

This of course has been done before with the film AI many years ago, a film for personal reasons I find difficult to watch, although I think it's a terrific flick.

Last week came the Artifice Girl. Again, whispers of AI's David, together with his longevity as the AI girl outlives it's creator. I didn't see all of it. 

The sentiment that AI robots will outlive us all seems to run through all these films, a machined longevity which brings them nothing but loneliness.

What do you think readers?