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Musicman59 - 19 Mar 2010 17:51 GMT
A great, great movie.  Anyone recall if there were any garage kits,
etc. made of all the dune buggies, and whatever else they could come
up with for the car chase scenes?

Craig
The Old Man - 20 Mar 2010 01:17 GMT
> A great, great movie.  Anyone recall if there were any garage kits,
> etc. made of all the dune buggies, and whatever else they could come
> up with for the car chase scenes?
>
> Craig

I remember years ago seeing resin models to the pursuit and
interceptor cars of the first movie, but none of the stuff from the
other two.
I would have ~loved~ to have seen a kit for the goofy crop duster from
the second (?) movie.
Moramarth - 21 Mar 2010 20:49 GMT
> I would have ~loved~ to have seen a kit for the goofy crop duster from
> the second (?) movie.
The Third "Mad Max", but given "Mad Max 2" was "The Road Warrior" in
the U.S., I suppose that makes "Mad Max beyond the Thunderdome" "Road
Warrior 2"...
The beast was a Transavia PL-12 Airtruk, and the scary thing was there
was a proposed multipurpose (including COIN!!!), the M-300:
http://www.1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/McDonell/7857L.jpg
Yes, it can have camo (and, presumably, weapons), so someone will have
to kit it.  Now all we need is a kit of the PZL-Mielec-M-15-
Belphegor...

Regards,

Moramarth
The Old Man - 22 Mar 2010 01:22 GMT
> On 20 Mar, 00:17, The Old Man <Braung...@verizon.net> wrote:> I would have ~loved~ to have seen a kit for the goofy crop duster from
> > the second (?) movie.
>
> The Third "Mad Max", but given "Mad Max 2" was "The Road Warrior" in
> the U.S., I suppose that makes "Mad Max beyond the Thunderdome" "Road
> Warrior 2"...

It's been a while since I've seen these movies; I should break out the
VHS tapes soon and burn them to DVD.....

> The beast was a Transavia PL-12 Airtruk, and the scary thing was there
> was a proposed multipurpose (including COIN!!!), the M-300:http://www.1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/McDonell/7857L.jpg
> Yes, it can have camo (and, presumably, weapons), so someone will have
> to kit it.  Now all we need is a kit of the PZL-Mielec-M-15-Belphegor...
> Regards,

That's one of the few times I saw that type of aircraft. The pilot
showed up recently as the wizard in "Legand of the Seeker"; good to
see he still has a job.

> Moramarth
Moramarth - 22 Mar 2010 04:11 GMT
> It's been a while since I've seen these movies; I should break out the
> VHS tapes soon and burn them to DVD.....
I think I got Mad Max 2 on disc last time it was on TV, but I'm damned
if i can find it

> > The beast was a Transavia PL-12 Airtruk,
>
> That's one of the few times I saw that type of aircraft. The pilot
> showed up recently as the wizard in "Legand of the Seeker"; good to
> see he still has a job.
Bruce Spence - the same guy who was the Gyro Captain in " Mad Max 2".
Don't worry, he will get his Bus Pass this year...
I haven't seen the fantasy series you mention, but it has to be going
down market for him, given he was The Mouth of Sauron in the extended
version of "Return of the King", the movie against which all other
fantasy will be measured - and found lacking...

>Regards,
> > Moramarth
Mad Modeller - 22 Mar 2010 05:25 GMT
>  
>> It's been a while since I've seen these movies; I should break out the
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>
>  
You haven't missed a thing.  I was taping it for about 8 episodes and it
got boring.  I quit watching and converted the tapes to something else.  
I don't regret it.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
The Old Man - 22 Mar 2010 12:28 GMT
> >> It's been a while since I've seen these movies; I should break out the
> >> VHS tapes soon and burn them to DVD.....
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Yeah, it became Xena the Warrior Princess without the visual
stimulation.
someone@some.domain - 22 Mar 2010 20:23 GMT
>> >> It's been a while since I've seen these movies; I should break out the
>> >> VHS tapes soon and burn them to DVD.....
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>Yeah, it became Xena the Warrior Princess without the visual
>stimulation.

i once thought i would never see the lord of the rings as a real film and not
a cartoon. having it done by someone who really understood that world and how
it should look was even better. truly completed my life.
they've reissued the ralph bakshi cartoon and that's what it is, a cartoon.
bakshi was an amzing animated flim maker, but it just didn't work. perhaps a
collaboration with vaughn bode could have made it much better but the deal
fell through.
it was just carttony and not quite worth sitting through once.
all hail peter jackson!
The Old Man - 23 Mar 2010 12:09 GMT
On Mar 22, 4:22 pm, some...@some.domain (some...@some.domain) wrote:

> i once thought i would never see the lord of the rings as a real film and not
> a cartoon. having it done by someone who really understood that world and how
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> it was just carttony and not quite worth sitting through once.
> all hail peter jackson!- Hide quoted text -

You were actually able to sit through it? It gave me a splitting
headache. I liked the Rankin-Bass cartoons "The Hobbit" and "Return of
the King" better, but I've always enjoyed Glenn Yarbrough and his
music was featured in both.
Musicman59 - 23 Mar 2010 16:25 GMT
> On Mar 22, 4:22 pm, some...@some.domain (some...@some.domain) wrote:
>
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> the King" better, but I've always enjoyed Glenn Yarbrough and his
> music was featured in both.

Singing Orcs ???
The Old Man - 23 Mar 2010 18:28 GMT
> > On Mar 22, 4:22 pm, some...@some.domain (some...@some.domain) wrote:
>
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More like a singing narrator while the hobbits were walking around.....
Jack Bohn - 24 Mar 2010 10:57 GMT
>> On Mar 22, 4:22 pm, some...@some.domain (some...@some.domain) wrote:
>>
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>
>Singing Orcs ???

"Where there's a whip, there's a way."

Forget the words, something like...
"We have to march a hun'ret miles today, today
But
Where there's a whip, there's a way!"

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Russ Perry Jr. - 25 Mar 2010 02:45 GMT
>> Singing Orcs ???

> "Where there's a whip, there's a way."
>
> Forget the words, something like...

http://www.tolkien-music.com/songs/rankin17.html

I remember that song more than anything else in the show...

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someone@some.domain - 25 Mar 2010 05:05 GMT
>>> Singing Orcs ???
>
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>
>I remember that song more than anything else in the show...

springtime for hitler and chermany....lalalalal.
winter for poland and france......wheeeeeee!
someone@some.domain - 24 Mar 2010 00:43 GMT
>On Mar 22, 4:22=A0pm, some...@some.domain (some...@some.domain) wrote:
>
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>the King" better, but I've always enjoyed Glenn Yarbrough and his
>music was featured in both.

let's say i saw it in a really happy mood. you know, like how you go to 2001?
wow, man, the colors.....it was a very long time ago.
i really was a bakshi fan, so i felt the need to give it a chance. it just
didn't work from both a techie and literary view point. i was quite
dissapointed.
Stephen Bierce - 24 Mar 2010 02:23 GMT
Meanwhile:

http://www.madmaxmovies.com/cars/madmax2/index.html

Thing is, over the years there have been a load of 1970s muscle cars and
the like that could be good candidates for the more radical machines.  I
was in the middle of converting an AMT 1973 Mach 1 "Street Machines"
Mustang into Max's Interceptor when practicality (and the advent of
Aoshima's kit) changed my mind.  I'll still customize the Mustang; I'll
need parts for it someday.

All those short-track modified cars that had been AMT (and now are whatever
Racing Champions calls their model  division these days) would be nice
starting points for Road Warrior machines.  The lion's share of the stunt
cars are speedway Sportsmen beaters with extras added for style's sake.

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922
http://frustratedpilot.livejournal.com
tomcervo - 20 Mar 2010 02:14 GMT
> A great, great movie.  Anyone recall if there were any garage kits,
> etc. made of all the dune buggies, and whatever else they could come
> up with for the car chase scenes?
>
> Craig

George Miller proved himself a genius when he decided NOT to use movie
stunt drivers for the movies. Instead he recruited demolition derby
drivers--the result is on the screen.
frank - 20 Mar 2010 06:01 GMT
> A great, great movie.  Anyone recall if there were any garage kits,
> etc. made of all the dune buggies, and whatever else they could come
> up with for the car chase scenes?
>
> Craig

I seem to recall AMT made a stock dune buggy in the late 60s. You know
back in the days when there were VW bugs all over and VW vans were
cool....no doubt you could kit bash something.
Dave Ambrose - 20 Mar 2010 15:34 GMT
>> A great, great movie.  Anyone recall if there were any garage kits,
>> etc. made of all the dune buggies, and whatever else they could come
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> back in the days when there were VW bugs all over and VW vans were
> cool....no doubt you could kit bash something.

The Manx is getting (re)released sometime this year. It's totally on my
to-buy list. It would make a good starting point for a road warrioresque
vehicle.

Cheers,
Dave Ambrose
 
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