Something for the Weekend #14

Well hello there!

 

Here is the lovely Linda Lusardi from back in the day when she was a page 3 girl in The Sun newspaper.  This is a cropped version of the full image because we're meant to be admiring the equally lovely space-wear and saving the internet from its self, one pair of tits at a time.

 

Linda is sporting one of the space helmets from Superman II...

Which as we've previously established was originally made for Moon Zero Two over a decade earlier.

 

Now I've a fairly good idea where this one ended up, which is here....

http://www.davidsissonmodels.co.uk/Moon%20Zero%20Two%20Spacesuits.htm

...although if anyone knows where it went in between times, to pick up the repaint, I'd love to know.

I've always assumed than anyone that knows of my blog will already be aware of David Sisson's excellent site where the final happy chapter of that particular prop can be discovered along with lots of other wonderful things but if you don't then you need to jump on that link and get over there asap.

colour me jealous

Steve

Superman II and the Moon Zero 2 connection.

There it is.

It took me a moment to spot this and its not something that I've ever read documented anywhere else but that there space helmet from Superman II, as worn by the cosmonaut killed by Zod, appears to be one of the seven created a decade earlier for the Hammer sci-fi  movie Moon Zero 2.

As previous blogs have revealed, these helmets have had quite a career, often in the company of Gerry Anderson's UFO helmets, and though they had a lot of activity in the early 70's...

and one as yet unblogged appearance in 1975, the Superman guest-spot seems to be the latest thus far.  Don't you just know there's more out there waiting to be rediscovered.


Steve

Superman II (1980)

One of the things I like about doing this blog, apart from the fact that it's never ending, is that every now and then I'll surprise myself by finding something that's much more interesting than I remember it being.

Superman II is one of those examples.  Not the film it's self you understand, although it's the only one in the franchise that I've got any time for, but for the fact that the scene on the moon yielded much more Spaceman goodness than I initially thought it was going to.  And quite possibly something really special which I'm going to save for a separate post of it's own.

Anyway, three Kryptonian supervillians who are on their way to Earth to give Superman a bloody good kicking, stop off for a bit of a warm up murderous killing spree on the moon.  There they find three astronauts who they make very short work of.

There are a mixture of different suits designs used, primarily it seems to distinguish the Russian cosmonaut from the American astronauts but it all adds to making it visually more interesting.

And here's the rest of the pictures starting with Ursa and the American Spaceman.

   

And now Zod and the Russian

 

 

 

Fantastic stuff and we'll be back this way for a closer look at something you eagle-eyed blog followers may have already noticed in the pictures above

Steve