Zigg's Birthday Card

Moonbase Anniversary Card from Paul A.

Woodsy

I just wanted to say Thank You, for 17 years of hard work and dedication. You have brought a lot of enjoyment to the world, and expanded our knowledge of toys, models, and all things space.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Happy Birthday from Looey

animation moon by David Urbinati

It's the Blog's 17th Birthday!

*** 17 ***

It's MoonBase Central's 17th Birthday!

Yep, it's another bloggiversary!

 Seventeen fab years already! Time flies by like a UFO Interceptor! 

I'd like like to thank my fellow writers Scoop and Wotan Bill for their continuing help, their support and fab articles and also everyone who has contributed to the blog content. It's very much appreciated.

But most of all I'd like to thank you the readers, the cosmic life-blood of MoonBase!

So, quick! Get over here! It's Party Time all day! 

Blast from a Birthday Past: Paul MCaffrey's Project SWORD Illustration

 Part of a previous birthday celebration, I've always loved Paul McCaffrey's artwork for the modern Project SWORD story in the special TV21 #243.

It's just class!

Here's the link to Paul's work:

https://www.coroflot.com/paul_mccaffrey/TV21-243-Project-SWORD

For this year's celebration then why not tune in tomorrow, in 2 short hours, for our 17th anniversary bash! 

There'll be jelly, cake and toys! Lots of toys!

For Your Eye Sockets Only

 What can I say about Alien Earth, the new TV series on Disney+?

Superlatives don't really cover it.

Think supremely fantastic and cringingly yucky in equal measure, maybe somewhere round the dripping joints between films like the Thing and Sputnik grafted onto a waiting open Alien.

Not for the faint-hearted and completely compulsive. 

For me the current icky award goes to one of the show's smaller varmints.

But before I reveal it, it's interesting to dawdle over some precedents ... But watch out!

This golden oldie sets the scene, a movie that terrified me as a kid and one I know as the Trollemburg Terror! Is it one you know?

This is the box art to a model kit.

Cuneo's painted slithering devils spring to mind as well, as introduced to us on MC by Wotan 17 years ago.

I just couldn't help jiggling this into a clip, but it's Cuneo's artistry.

Similarly Bill brought us his fondness for rubber uglies on MC and this oily eye-squid fits right in (a phrase which comes into its own on Alien Earth! 🐙 )

Once more I was compelled to meme it.

But none of these wrigglers can prepare you for the truly cringing orb that is Alien Earth's small and parasitic crawling eye!

You've been warned!

Yuk!