Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Pop Art: Space Clipper Orion Edition
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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John, the variety of artwork from model kit boxes is always fun to see. As a boy in the '70s, I purchased and built the Aurora Orion kit even though I did not see the '2001' film until five years later when it aired on NBC in 1979.
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Dude, you're gonna make my head explode! I loved this model. Sigh...
ReplyDeleteSo dig this: b/c of its flat bottom, the Orion was perfect to piggyback on both the Eagle model and the 2001 moonbus model--which I'm sure you're preparing to upload soon.
THANKS!
Actually, 2001 aired on NBC in 1977. Nevertheless, I always liked the Pan-Am Shuttleplane in the film.
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