Get ready to embark on an extraordinary journey through time and space as BBC presents a thrilling special edition of Doctor Who: Unleashed to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the show's triumphant revival. This captivating celebration will take viewers on a nostalgic trip down memory lane, exploring the rich history and enduring legacy of one of the most beloved sci-fi franchises in television history. Hosted by the charismatic Steffan Powell, this hour-long extravaganza will feature exclusive interviews with an all-star lineup of cast members and creative minds who have shaped the Whoniverse over the past two decades. From the iconic Doctors themselves, including David Tennant, Jodie Whittaker, and the newest incarnation Ncuti Gatwa, to cherished companions like Billie Piper, Pearl Mackie, and Mandip Gill, fans will be treated to intimate conversations and behind-the-scenes revelations that showcase the passion and dedication that goes into bringing Doctor Who to life. The special will also delve into the visionary minds of showrunners past and present, including Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall, and the legendary Russell T Davies, who masterminded the show's triumphant return in 2005. As they share their insights and memories, viewers will gain a deeper appreciation for the creativity, innovation, and sheer love that has gone into crafting each thrilling adventure through time and space. But the celebration doesn't stop there – Doctor Who: Unleashed will also take fans behind the cameras, offering exclusive access to the tireless efforts of the production team who work their magic to create the show's iconic sets, costumes, and special effects. From the intricate design of the TARDIS to the creation of the fearsome Daleks, this special episode will showcase the artistry and technical wizardry that have made Doctor Who a visual marvel for generations. With its star-studded lineup, revelatory interviews, and stunning visuals, Doctor Who: Unleashed promises to be an unforgettable celebration of a show that has captured the hearts and imaginations of fans around the world for over half a century. So mark your calendars, Whovians – this is one journey through the time vortex you won't want to miss!The special hour-long episode of Doctor Who: Unleashed will land on Saturday, 7 June at 6am on BBC iPlayer, and air on BBC One Wales and BBC Three later that day, the week following Doctor Who’s epic season two finale The Reality War. Previous episodes of Doctor Who: Unleashed are available to watch now in the Whoniverse on BBC iPlayer.
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Doctor Who: Unleashed - 20 Years of Revival Celebration | BBC Television
Get ready to embark on an extraordinary journey through time and space as BBC presents a thrilling special edition of Doctor Who: Unleashed to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the show's triumphant revival. This captivating celebration will take viewers on a nostalgic trip down memory lane, exploring the rich history and enduring legacy of one of the most beloved sci-fi franchises in television history. Hosted by the charismatic Steffan Powell, this hour-long extravaganza will feature exclusive interviews with an all-star lineup of cast members and creative minds who have shaped the Whoniverse over the past two decades. From the iconic Doctors themselves, including David Tennant, Jodie Whittaker, and the newest incarnation Ncuti Gatwa, to cherished companions like Billie Piper, Pearl Mackie, and Mandip Gill, fans will be treated to intimate conversations and behind-the-scenes revelations that showcase the passion and dedication that goes into bringing Doctor Who to life. The special will also delve into the visionary minds of showrunners past and present, including Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall, and the legendary Russell T Davies, who masterminded the show's triumphant return in 2005. As they share their insights and memories, viewers will gain a deeper appreciation for the creativity, innovation, and sheer love that has gone into crafting each thrilling adventure through time and space. But the celebration doesn't stop there – Doctor Who: Unleashed will also take fans behind the cameras, offering exclusive access to the tireless efforts of the production team who work their magic to create the show's iconic sets, costumes, and special effects. From the intricate design of the TARDIS to the creation of the fearsome Daleks, this special episode will showcase the artistry and technical wizardry that have made Doctor Who a visual marvel for generations. With its star-studded lineup, revelatory interviews, and stunning visuals, Doctor Who: Unleashed promises to be an unforgettable celebration of a show that has captured the hearts and imaginations of fans around the world for over half a century. So mark your calendars, Whovians – this is one journey through the time vortex you won't want to miss!The special hour-long episode of Doctor Who: Unleashed will land on Saturday, 7 June at 6am on BBC iPlayer, and air on BBC One Wales and BBC Three later that day, the week following Doctor Who’s epic season two finale The Reality War. Previous episodes of Doctor Who: Unleashed are available to watch now in the Whoniverse on BBC iPlayer.
Doctor Who The Ninth Doctor #1 BAM! Variant Cover May 2016 Titan Comics
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The Ninth Doctor is BACK - and this time he's ONGOING! In Part 1 of 'DOCTORMANIA', the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack uncover a mysterious video. Tracking down its source could help Jack uncover why his mind was wiped - but the first step takes the Doctor to a planet where he is, inexplicably, a celebrity! 28 pages, full color.
Doctor Who: Countdown (Role-playing Gamebook) FASA Corporation 1985
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"The sudden appearance of a dangerous gravity bubble causes the TARDIS to dematerialise [sic] aboard a ship of the Earth Empire on an emergency mission to deliver vital serum to a plague-ridden world. Before the adventure is over, the Doctor and his Companions must contend not only with the death-dealing gravity bubble, but with the ship's paranoid computer, space pirates, and an attack by androids as well." (1985 - FASA 9203 - ISBN 0-931787-95-5)
Written by Ray Winninger. This adventure featured the Cybermen, but this was intended to be a surprise to the players, as they would initially only encounter androids of unknown origin, as in TV: Earthshock. The surprise, however, would be ruined if the players saw the cover of the publication, as it prominently featured a Cyberman. A likeness of the Fourth Doctor appeared on the cover. 48 pages B/W
Doctor Who: City Of Gold (Role-playing Gamebook) FASA Corporation 1986 - $29.99
Doctor Who: The Iytean Menace (Role-playing Gamebook) FASA Corporation 1985 - $24.99
Doctor Who: The Lords Of Destiny (Role-playing Gamebook) FASA Corporation 1985 - $24.99
The Four Faces Of Doctor Who
The Fourth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Tom Baker.
Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and space in his TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of life, the Doctor can regenerate his body; as a result, his physical appearance and personality change. Baker portrays the fourth such incarnation, a whimsical and sometimes brooding individual whose enormous personal warmth is at times tempered by his capacity for righteous anger.
His initial companion was intrepid journalist Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen), who had traveled alongside him in his previous incarnation, and she is later joined by surgeon Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter). His later companions included robotic dog K9, savage alien warrior Leela (Louise Jameson), Time Lady Romana (Mary Tamm and Lalla Ward), alien teenage aristocrat Nyssa (Sarah Sutton), teen genius Adric (Matthew Waterhouse), and Australian flight attendant Tegan (Janet Fielding).
Baker portrayed the character for seven consecutive seasons, which remains the longest tenure of any actor to portray the lead, counting both the classic and modern series. He is considered to be the most recognizable and iconic incarnation of the Doctor both in the United Kingdom and internationally.
What Makes This Issue Cool
Classic Doctor Who Cover !
The Spaceways Film Smash In ... Starcrash!
The ultimate Italian ripoff of Star Wars starring the super sexy Caroline Monroe is profiled with never seen photos.
The Cat Creeps ... Again
A look back at the 1922 horror The Cat and the Canary plus remakes and films it inspired.
The Four Faces Of Doctor Who
The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) gets profiled in an wonderful article that traces the history of the famed BBC series back to it's roots.
Doctor Who vs The Big Wide Movie Screen
A look back at the two Dalek movies (Doctor Who and The Daleks / Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.) starring Peter Cushing.
25th Century Hero Buck Rogers
A look at the sexy seventies re-imagining of the classic Buck Rogers character starring Gil Gerard.
The Secret Of The Asteroid Is ... Alien
An in depth article about the sci-fi / horror classic Alien.
Those Blood Curdling Beepix
Sometimes film makers didn't have a lot of money so they had to make due with sub par monsters, actors and scripts. Yet we still remember their work even today!
More rare photos from the Forry Ackerman collection in this one!
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Doctor Who: It Takes You Away
By Tim Knight (Heropress)
I was so excited by the possibilities when Jodie Whittaker was revealed as the Thirteenth Doctor and have really, really tried to embrace this new season, but it's simply not working for me.
Although It Takes You Away had some quirky ideas in it (particularly the whole Star Trek-like concept of a sentient parallel universe), this tale from former Skins writer Ed Hime took a shotgun approach to eccentricity, throwing in oddities just because he could.
The TARDIS delivers The Doctor and friends to contemporary Norway (Why? Because they could. It had zero bearing on the ensuing story) where they investigate an isolated, barricaded cottage that's home to a young blind girl, Hanne (Ellie Wallwork), who believes her father, Erik (Christian Rubeck) has been taken by a monstrous "thing" in the woods.
Of course, matters aren't that straight forward, and The Doctor soon discovers a portal in the house to an a strange non-space between realities, which is inhabited by an utterly redundant and derivative alien character called Ribbons (Kevin Eldon).
I've seen comments online saying Ribbons was a rip-off of Gollum (from Lord Of The Rings), but for me the most striking similarity - just lacking the charm - was to Zathras, from Babylon 5.
While it was nice to have the TARDIS landing on Earth somewhere other than the United Kingdom or America, just mentioning fjords a couple of times really didn't justify the use of the Norwegian setting... given that most of the action took part either inside the hut or in alternate worlds.
Much of what unravelled in the story totally failed to connect with me. Perhaps, as I've feared before, I've simply grown out of this new Doctor Who and am no longer capable of adjusting my mindset to see this as its target demographic.
However, on a positive note, there was the usual outstanding character work between the main players in Team TARDIS, particularly from Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien, who stole a number of scenes with his emotional performances.
Tosin Cole had his best chance since his introduction to shine as Ryan Sinclair in this story, even if it, at times, felt it was actually taking place earlier in the season's chronology.
One particularly lazy trait of Doctor Who since its return in 2005 has been The Doctor's over-reliance on the sonic screwdriver, which seems increasingly capable of solving any problem the characters find themselves in.
But it has reached new heights this season, with the device never out of Jodie Whittaker's hand, leading her to utter the cringe-worthy line: "Can I just say – I love me sonic."
Now, regardless of what I may say about the stories she's been saddled with, I love Jodie's performance as the still-not-settled-into-her-new-regeneration Doctor, but that line just felt such a clunker, a desperate attempt to heavy handedly gift fans with an instant meme quote.
To be honest, I just found so much of It Takes You Away a bit dull and pointless. There was so much crammed in that the superflurous material suffocated the meat of the story.
Yes, there was some nice weird science - which I always appreciate - and a talking frog (which was magnificent), but the story just lacked the necessary heart to make me really engage with it.
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Sc-Fi Magazine Round Up UFO's, King Kong and Doctor Who Oh My! Now At Atomic Robot
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1960s men's magazine with attractive, colorful flying saucer cover illustration. This issue: Off Beat by James W. Moseley; Visitors From Outer Space! by Vyacheslav Zaitsev; Key Clubs for Sex; Ye Merrie Olde Pleasure Faire; Should Abortions Be Legalized?; Inside the Central Intelligence Agency; more.
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King Kong (remake), Star Trek 2 (movie), Logan's Run, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, TV superheroes, Superman (movie), interview with Gerrit Graham (Demon Seed), and more. 8.5-in. x 11-in.; black and white; 40 newsprint pages. Cover price $2.00.
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Doctor Who Meets Scratchman - DWM unearths the legendary lost movie...written by Tom Baker himself. Plus: Teatime Terrors - Image of the Fendahl revisited; Runaway Success? The Christmas Special reviewed; New Series - the countdown begins; Daleks Invade Manhattan - Stateside secrets from new series writer Helen Raynor. Cover price $7.99.
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"Smash" 3 pages. Story by Roy Thomas. Pencils by Gene Colan. Inks by Frank Chiaramonte. Framing sequence for stories in anthology. "Paradise Found" 14 pages. Story by Bruce Jones. Art by Gray Morrow. Colonists on a far off world discover it may not really be a good idea to get too friendly with the natives. Interview with author Larry Niven. 6 pages. "All the Myriad Ways" 10 pages. Adapted from the story by Larry Niven. Script and art by Howard Chaykin. A policeman investigating suicides at a time travel company gets way too involved for his own good. Science fiction news column by Don and Maggie Thompson. 3 pages. "Addict" 9 pages. Story by Don Glut. Art by Virgilio Redondo. In the future, you can buy tapes of someone else's dreams. Too bad you can also become addicted to them. "Half Life" 10 pages. Story and art by John Allison. Even in outer space, evil men cannot escape the revenge of their bad karma.
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FILMFAX #127: This New Improved Filmfax printed on glossy paper stock features: An outspoken, interview with the ageless Mamie Van Doren (Part2); Interview with 100-year old Pauline Wagner (Faye Wray's double on King Kong); Super fan/collector Bob Burns' Legendary Halloween Shows (Part 3); John Zacherley and Cortland Hull on The Witch's Dungeon; Mike Henry on being Tarzan; Unpublished interview with legendary director Bud Boetticher; (Part 2); Extraordinary Creature from the Black Lagoon Collection; 3D Thor and More!
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Miniatures Are Cool!
Next month sees the release of a box set of miniatures, for the Doctor Who: Exterminate! skirmish game, focusing on the 11th Doctor and his companions (namely Amy, Rory, River, and Clara).
Although not yet available for pre-order from Warlord Games, painted examples of the miniatures can be seen below.
The box set will also include the necessary cards to use these characters in your tabletop battles.
Then, scheduled for April, comes a wonderfully retro box set, from the Second Doctor era, featuring two Dominators (Navigator Rago and Probationer Toba), three Quark robots and the relevant Exterminate! game cards.
See below for examples of the painted miniatures.
New Toy Tuesday: Godzilla, Star Trek, Star Wars, Daleks and Flying Gamera
Straight from his appearance in the classic 1962 film, Godzilla vs. King Kong comes this gigantic Godzilla! This massive figure stands about 19-inches tall and features a detailed sculpt and paintwork to accurately recreate his appearance from the classic film!
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This special set brings together four of the most compelling flagships in Eaglemoss's line Star Trek: The Official Ship Collection. Bundled together with a magazine that details the look of each Enterprise, as well as behind the scene info and astonishing vital facts, this set is good for any level of fandom. Expand your collection of die-cast ships with the Star Trek Enterprise Die-Cast Vehicle 4-Pack with Magazine #4. Each starship measures about 5-inches long.
This Star Trek Enterprise Die-Cast Vehicle 4-Pack with Magazine #4 include the following:
Enterprise NX-01
USS Enterprise NCC-1701
USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A
USS Enterprise NCC-1701-B
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Rogue One Tie Striker - Star Wars Vehicle - Hasbro - Rare
You won't find this one at Walmart, Target or Toys R Us!
Jedi Knights, Sith Lords, Stormtroopers, X-Wings, Star Destroyers, AT-AT Walkers, droids, Wookiees, Rebel heroes, and more! Discover the exciting stories of good versus evil in a galaxy far, far away with the TIE Striker from Star Wars: Rogue One! A streamlined variant of the classic TIE fighter design, the TIE striker is designed for atmospheric patrols over important Imperial ground-based installations. The versatile design can also soar in space, where it can accompany traditional TIE fighters in chasing down enemy starships. - With this TIE Striker vehicle, kids can imagine their favorite heroes speeding into intergalactic battles and firing down the opposition! Not for children under 3 years. - Ages 4 and up. - App available through June 30, 2018. Download required for app play. - Hasbro Star Wars Studio FX app works with select i - Phone, i - Pad, i - Pod touch, and select Android devices. Updates may affect compatibility.
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Exterminate! Collect all the villainous villains from Doctor Who in fun-tastic Pop! style. Star with this 3 3/4-inch tall Doctor Who Dalek Pop! Vinyl Figure, and get your order in before that timey-wimey thing happens! Other figures sold separately. Ages 14 and up.
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Godzilla's spiny nemesis lives again! Once one of Godzilla's most fearsome foes, the monster Anguirus became the mighty Godzilla's trusted ally. This Previews Exclusive Godzilla Anguirus 1968 Version 12-Inch Vinyl Figure sculpts Anguirus based on his appearance in 1968's Destroy All Monsters and measures 12-inches long, 24-inches long with his tail attached! Ages 15 and up.
Age: 15+
Size: 12-inches tall
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Vintage 1999 Flying Gamera Concept Design Type “01” Garage Kit
NM in box-non assembled. Out of production model. This figure is highly detailed and articulated.
Box is labeled as "Flying Gamera concept design type."
ORIGINAL ALPHA Resin kit of "GAMERA 1999" This is a pre-painted kit and comes in the original box with all paperwork. (This is a model kit that must be assembled.)
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Meet Your New Doctor: Jodie Whittaker
Broadchurch star Jodie Whittaker has just been revealed as the new Doctor.
She will make her debut on Doctor Who during this year's Christmas Special, when Peter Capaldi's 12th Doctor finally regenerates.
Read (a bit) more at the BBC News website.
Holiday Gift Ideas For The Geek In Your House
Guardians of the Galaxy Electronic Dancing Baby Groot Figure
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Dance, Groot, dance! Based on the now-classic scene from the closing credits of the blockbuster film Guardians of the Galaxy, this official replica of baby Groot in his white flower pot dances to an electronic instrumental version of the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" when switched on. Bring home baby Groot and start dancin'! Groot with flower pot Measures approximately 9-inches Tall. Requires 3x "AA" Batteries, Included.
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens 3 3/4-Inch Jungle and Space Captain Phasma Action Figure
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Out-of-this-world action figure from Star Wars: The Force Awakens!
The Star Wars The Force Awakens 3 3/4-Inch Jungle and Space Captain Phasma Action Figure includes an awesome blaster, a removable cape, and a buzz-saw weapon!
Each 3 3/4-inch action figure is articulated and includes accessories.
Control the galaxy with the Star Wars The Force Awakens 3 3/4-Inch Jungle and Space Captain Phasma Action Figure! This 3 3/4-inch scale action figure includes a pair of weapons and a removable cape. Her blaster pistol connects with her thigh for storage, while her spinning saw weapon is sure to tear a chunk out of Resistance forces. Action figure features 5 points of articulation. Ages 4 and up.
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Sizes 8 x 10 to 24 x 36
This is a reproduction photo print featuring an image of Homer Simpson as Darth Vader and Bart Simpson as Luke Skywalker. Looks like you have been trained well by Milhouse young Simpson ... D'Oh'! The print looks amazing matted and framed and will make a great addition to your Star Wars memorabilia collection. A must for all Simpson's fans!
The Watermark does NOT appear on the print!
The image is printed on professional studio grade matte paper by a professional photography studio not a home printer.
The item will be shipped in an acid free bag with a protective board to prevent folding or creasing.
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Sniper Wolf joins Kotobukiya's line of Bishoujo statues! Beautifully sculpted in 1:7 scale, Sniper wold sits back on a crate, cradling her sniper rifle while a wolf pup looks on from its spot in the broken crate. Crafted from plastic, the Metal Gear Solid Sniperwolf Bishoujo Statue measures approximately 7 1/2-inches tall and comes packaged in a window-flap box.
Sniper Wolf was one of the renegade members of Foxhound, who participated in the revolt on Shadow Moses Island, along with the Next-Generation Special Forces. She was a Kurdish sharpshooter who had a great love for wolves and dogs and was considered a highly skilled sharpshooter, capable of waiting for her targets for days, even weeks, without eating or moving.
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This is an original framed and matted (10x13) 8.5 x 11 print featuring an image of a Zombie Stormtrooper from the expanded Star Wars universe. The print looks amazing matted and framed and will make a great addition to your movie memorabilia collection. A must for Star Wars and Horror fans!
Note: Stand not included.
This image was created by renowned California artist Ken Hulsey.
The image is printed on professional studio grade matte paper by a professional photography studio not a home printer.
The item will be shipped in an acid free bag with a protective board to prevent folding or creasing.
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Bring home Worf's baddest battle blade!
This sword has been forged by the fires of the Klingon heart!
Soft foam construction reduces accidental High Council mishaps. Sword unable to actually defeat Duras in combat.
Add extra authenticity to your Star Trek costume with this soft foam replica of the most honorable weapon of all, the Klingon Bat'leth! Modeled on an actual prop used on screen in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the foam construction makes it perfectly safe - yet the detailed paint deco is so realistic you may mistake it for a lock of Kahless' own hair dipped in lava and twisted into a weapon to make empires tremble! Measures a massive 4-feet long!
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Was $60!!
This is a poster graphic print featuring the cover image from Marvel comics adaptation of Godzilla: King of the Monsters. The print looks amazing matted to 8 x 10 in a 10x15 frame and will make a great addition to your movie memorabilia collection. A must for all Godzilla fans!
This image was created by renowned California artist/photographer Ken Hulsey.
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From 1980s Crisis on Infinite Earths, it's the Flash! Barry Allen is ready to train with his Speed Force treadmill! The DC Icons Flash Action Figure measures approximately 6-inches tall.
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This is an original poster graphic print featuring an image of the iconic time machine from Doctor Who known as the TARDIS. The print looks amazing matted from 8 x 10 to 24 x 36 and framed and will make a great addition to your movie memorabilia collection. A must for all Doctor Who fans!
This image was reworked by renowned California photographer Ken Hulsey.
Each image is a limited edition that is signed by the artist and numbered (1-50).
The image is printed on professional studio grade glossy paper by a professional photography studio not a home printer.
The item will be shipped in an acid free bag with a protective board to prevent folding or creasing.
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Mazinger as a 12-inch action figure!
Made from vinyl, it features 21 points of articulation.
The super-robot from the classic manga series and anime TV show Mazinger Z.
Includes an Iron Cutter, a Reinforced Rocket Punch, and 2 sets of hands!
That's one imposing robot! Super poseable with 21 points of articulation, the Mazinger Z 12-Inch Vinyl Action Figure is an essential addition to the Super Robot Series from High Dream. This 12-inch tall action figure is made from vinyl and other plastics, and recreates the enormous super-robot from the classic manga series and anime TV show Mazinger Z in imposing form! The Mazinger Z 12-Inch Vinyl Action Figure features ratchet articulation and ball-jointed feet, head, legs, and shoulders. It comes with an Iron Cutter, a Reinforced Rocket Punch, and 2 sets of hands (fist and flat palm) in blister packaging in a window box. Ages 3 and up.
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This is an original poster graphic print featuring an image from Forbidden Planet. The print looks amazing matted to 8 x 10 to 24 x 36 and framed and will make a great addition to your movie memorabilia collection. A must for all Science Fiction movie fans!
Each image is a limited edition that is signed by the artist and numbered (1-100).
The image is printed on professional studio grade glossy paper by a professional photography studio not a home printer.
The item will be shipped in an acid free bag with a protective board to prevent folding or creasing.
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From Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens comes Kylo Ren as a bobble head! A dark warrior strong with the Force, Kylo Ren commands First Order missions with a temper as fiery as his unconventional lightsaber. This Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens Unhooded Kylo Ren Bobble Head features Kylo without his hood, measures 7-inches tall, and comes with a decorative Star Wars stand.
The 100 Greatest Monsters From Movies And Television #21 - #30
Since her first film, Mothra has been depicted in various stages of the lepidopteran life cycle: Mothra's mammoth egg is decoratively colored in blue and yellow waves. The egg hatches into her larva, a massive brown, segmented caterpillar (resembling a silkworm) with glowing blue—red when angry—eyes. In rare circumstances, twins may emerge from the egg. The caterpillar eventually spins a silken cocoon around itself (the pupa stage), and from this cocoon the imago (adult) Mothra emerges, a gigantic moth-like creature with brightly-colored wings. Mothra's life cycle—particularly the tendency of an imago's death to coincide with its larvae hatching—echoes that of the Phoenix, resembling resurrection and suggesting divinity. Despite having wrought destruction worthy of any Toho daikaiju, she is almost always portrayed as a kind and benevolent creature, causing destruction only when acting as protector to her worshipers on Infant Island or to her egg, or as collateral damage while protecting Earth from a greater threat. She has also fertilized her own eggs.
Mothra has proven a formidable adversary in combat: in larval form she may use her silken spray to wrap and immobilize an opponent, and has a knack for biting and clinging to foes' tails. In imago form her powers vary widely from film to film, including very animalistic scratching and dragging, incorporating several bolt and beam weapons in the Heisei era, and often concluding with a poisonous yellow powder (or "scales") —her last defense.
Mothra is one of the most powerful psychics in the Toho universe. She has had the ability to use this power benevolently, to communicate with humans, or aggressively, to destroy her enemies. As suggested earlier, Mothra is assumed to be divine and draws many parallels to the Phoenix, which makes her one of the more powerful kaiju of the Toho universe.
Mothra has become one of Godzilla's more challenging opponents, having achieved the greatest success rate in battle save Godzilla himself[4]: She has once rid of Godzilla in imago form, and twice Godzilla has fought her to the death only later to be bested by her newborn larvae. It should be mentioned that Mothra has never beaten Godzilla alone (in her Imago Form). The only close to draw by an insect(s), but still won by Godzilla were the Mothra twin-larvae in Godzilla vs. Mothra in the Showa Era, Imago Mothra and Imago Battra in Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth in the Heisei series, and the twin-larvae and Kiryu (MechaGodzilla) in the Millennium Series.
Mothra is the only kaiju other than Godzilla, Junior, and Mecha-King Ghidorah to appear in more than one Heisei Godzilla movie as she appears in Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla when she sends her Cosmos and Fairy Mothras to help out Miki.
In the Heisei Era (1984–1995), Mothra gained her own series of films dubbed in America as the Rebirth of Mothra series (Rebirth of Mothra, Rebirth of Mothra II, and Rebirth of Mothra III). In Japan, the series is simply called the "Mothra Series"(Mothra, Mothra 2: Adventure Under the Sea, and Mothra 3: Attack of Grand King Ghidorah). These series are not connected to the Showa, Heisei or Millennium Godzilla movies and are standalone films aiming towards children. The movies start off as the last Mothra puts the last of her energy into a new egg. From this egg hatches Mothra Leo.
Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, an alleged ape-like creature purportedly inhabiting forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, has had a demonstrable impact as a popular culture phenomenon. It has "become entrenched in American popular culture and it is as viable an icon as Michael Jordan" with more than forty five years having passed since reported sightings in California, and neither an animal nor "a satisfying explanation as to why folks see giant hairy men that don't exist."
Examples of Bigfoot in Films:
The Legend of Boggy Creek is a 1972 horror docudrama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been seen in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s. The film mixes staged interviews with some local residents who claim to have encountered the creature, along with fictitious reenactments of said encounters. Charles B. Pierce, an advertising salesman from Texarkana on the Arkansas/Texas border, borrowed over $100,000 from a local trucking company, used an old movie camera and hired locals (mainly high school students) to help make the 90-minute film. It has generated approximately $20 million in revenue and can be found on DVD.
Snowbeast is a made-for-television horror film that was first broadcast in 1977 in The United States of America. The movie details the attacks of a ravenous sasquatch on a Colorado ski resort. The teleplay was written by Joseph Stefano, who wrote the script for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1960 thriller Psycho. Stefano reportedly used a book by Roger Patterson (who claimed to have encountered a bigfoot in 1967) as his primary inspiration, though no credit is given.
Curse of Bigfoot is a 1978 American film directed by Dave Flocker.
The film is an expanded version of the 1958 film Teenagers Battle the Thing. The two stars from the original appear as adults in the opening scene of the 1978 film. The rest of Curse of Bigfoot consists of the entire 1958 film seen as a flashback.
A college Biology class receives a visitor, who is a good friend of their teacher. He tells them of an encounter that he and their teacher had 20 years before while searching for Indian artifacts in the nearby mountains. They find a mummified corpse in a cave that resembles a rough-hewn statue. The mummy is brought back to their lodge and breaks out of its wrappings. It goes on a short rampage in what appears to be an orchard. The humans gather together to stop the creature before it can kill any one.
Bride of Frankenstein (advertised as The Bride of Frankenstein) is a 1935 American horror film, the first sequel to the influential Frankenstein (1931). Bride of Frankenstein was directed by James Whale and stars Boris Karloff as The Monster, Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of his mate and Mary Shelley, Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein and Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Septimus Pretorius.
The film follows on immediately from the events of the first film, and is rooted in a subplot of the original novel, Frankenstein (1818). In the film, a chastened Henry Frankenstein abandons his plans to create life, only to be tempted and finally coerced by the Monster, encouraged by Henry's old mentor Dr. Pretorius, into constructing a mate for him.
On a stormy night, Percy Bysshe Shelley (Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon) praise Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester) for her story of Frankenstein and his Monster. Reminding them that her intention was to impart a moral lesson, Mary says she has more of the story to tell. The scene shifts to the end of the 1931 Frankenstein.
Villagers gathered around the burning windmill cheer the apparent death of the Monster (Boris Karloff, credited as "Karloff"). Their joy is tempered by the realization that Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) is also apparently dead. Hans (Reginald Barlow), father of the girl the creature drowned in the previous film, wants to see the Monster's bones. He falls into a pit underneath the mill, where the Monster strangles him. Hauling himself from the pit, the Monster casts Hans' wife (Mary Gordon) into it to her death. He next encounters Minnie (Una O'Connor), who flees in terror.
Henry's body is returned to his fiancée Elizabeth (Valerie Hobson) at his ancestral castle home. Minnie arrives to sound the alarm about the Monster but her warning goes unheeded. Elizabeth, seeing Henry move, realizes he is still alive. Nursed back to health by Elizabeth, Henry has renounced his creation but still believes he may be destined to unlock the secret of life and immortality. A hysterical Elizabeth cries that she sees death coming, foreshadowing the arrival of Henry's former mentor, Doctor Septimus Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger). In his rooms, Pretorius shows Henry several homunculi he has created, including a miniature queen, king, archbishop, devil, ballerina and mermaid. Pretorius wishes to work with Henry to create a mate for the Monster and offers a toast to their venture: "To a new world of gods and monsters!"
The Monster saves a young shepherdess (Anne Darling) from drowning; her screams upon seeing him alert two hunters, who shoot and injure the creature. The hunters raise a mob that sets out in pursuit. Captured and trussed to a pole, the Monster is hauled to a dungeon and chained. Left alone, he breaks his chains and escapes.
That night the Monster encounters a gypsy family and burns his hand in their campfire. Following the sound of a violin playing "Ave Maria", the Monster encounters an old, blind hermit (O. P. Heggie), who thanks God for sending him a friend. He teaches the monster words like "friend" and "good" and shares a meal with him. Two lost hunters stumble upon the cottage and recognize the Monster. He attacks them and accidentally burns down the cottage as the hunters lead the hermit away.
Taking refuge from another angry mob in an underground crypt, the Monster spies Pretorius and his cronies Karl (Dwight Frye) and Ludwig (Ted Billings) breaking open a grave. The henchmen depart; Pretorius stays to enjoy a light supper. The Monster approaches Pretorius, and learns that Pretorius plans to create a mate for him.
Henry and Elizabeth, now married, are visited by Pretorius; he is ready for Henry to do his part in their "grand collaboration". Henry refuses and Pretorius calls in the Monster, who demands Henry's help. Henry again refuses and Pretorius orders the Monster out, signaling him to kidnap Elizabeth. Pretorius guarantees her safe return upon Henry's participation. Henry returns to his tower laboratory where, in spite of himself, he grows excited over his work. After being assured of Elizabeth's safety, Henry completes the Bride's body.
A storm rages as final preparations are made to bring the Bride to life. Her bandage-wrapped body is raised through the roof. Lightning strikes a kite, sending electricity through the Bride. Henry and Pretorius lower her and realize their success. "She's alive! Alive!" Henry cries. They remove her bandages and help her to stand. "The bride of Frankenstein!" Doctor Pretorius declares.
The excited Monster sees his mate (Elsa Lanchester) and reaches out to her. "Friend?" he asks. The Bride, screaming, rejects him. "She hate me! Like others," the Monster dejectedly says. As Elizabeth races to Henry's side, the Monster rampages through the laboratory. "Go! You live!" he tells Henry and Elizabeth. To Pretorius and the Bride, he says "You stay. We belong dead." While Henry and Elizabeth flee, the Monster, shedding a tear as the Bride hisses at him, pulls a lever to trigger the destruction of the laboratory and tower.
Gort is a fictional humanoid robot in the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still and its 2008 remake.
In the original short story "Farewell to the Master", on which the two films are based, the character was called Gnut.
The eight-foot metal robot accompanies Klaatu, a visitor to Earth from a distant planet, aboard a flying saucer. He does not speak, but uses a beam weapon projected from beneath a visor to vaporize weapons and obstacles. Klaatu describes him as being part of an interstellar police force. He announces that the people of the universe constructed numerous robots like Gort and gave them irrevocable powers to respond to violent actions in order to "preserve the peace." He goes on to say that "There's no limit to what [Gort] could do. He could destroy the Earth."[1]
The character was based loosely on Gnut, a large green robot from outer space in "Farewell to the Master", a 1940 short story by Harry Bates which was used as the basis for Edmund H. North's screenplay. In the story, Gnut is believed to be the servant of his humanoid companion, but reveals himself, at the end, to have been the master.
On screen Gort is a large "seamless" robot that appears to be constructed from a single piece of "flexible metal". He was portrayed by 7'-7" (231 cm)-tall actor Lock Martin wearing a thick foam-rubber suit designed and built by Addison Hehr. Two suits were created, fastened alternately from the front or back so that the robot could appear seamless depending on the camera angle. Another fiberglass statue of Gort was used for close-ups of him firing his beam weapon or when the scene did not call for him to move. In order to maximize the height of the robot, the costume was made with lifts in the boots and was designed so that the figure's helmet stands nearly a foot above the top of Martin's head. Prisms were employed so that Martin could see through the costume's visor and air holes were provided under the robot's chin.
During most of the film, Gort remains motionless in front of the saucer, which rests on the National Mall in central Washington D. C. while scientists and military researchers examine him. At one point Klaatu communicates with him using signals from a flashlight. He also responds to spoken commands, including the famous line "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!", spoken by Patricia Neal's character at the film's climax.
Vampire films have been a staple since the silent days, so much so that the depiction of vampires in popular culture is strongly based upon their depiction in movies throughout the years. The most popular cinematic adaptation of vampire fiction has been from Bram Stoker's Dracula, with over 170 versions to date. Running a distant second are adaptations of Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. The legend of Elizabeth Báthory, the "Blood Countess" has also been an influence. By 2005, Dracula had been the subject of more films than any other fictional character.
Early cinematic vampires in such films as The Vampire (1913), directed by Robert G. Vignola, were not undead bloodsucking fiends but 'vamps'. Such femme fatales were inspired by a poem by Rudyard Kipling called "The Vampire", composed in 1897. This poem was written as kind of commentary on a painting of a female vampire by Philip Burne-Jones exhibited in the same year. Lyrics from Kipling's poem: A fool there was . . . , describing a seduced man, were used as the title of the film A Fool There Was (1915) starring Theda Bara as the 'vamp' in question and the poem was used in the publicity for the film.
An authentic supernatural vampire features in the landmark Nosferatu (1922 Germany, directed by F. W. Murnau) starring Max Schreck as the hideous Count Orlok. This was an unlicensed version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, based so closely on the novel that the estate sued and won, with all copies ordered to be destroyed. It would be painstakingly restored in 1994 by a team of European scholars from the five surviving prints that had escaped destruction. The destruction of the vampire, in the closing sequence of the film, by sunlight rather than the traditional stake through the heart proved very influential on later films and became an accepted part of vampire lore.
The next classic treatment of the vampire legend was in Universal's Dracula (1931) starring Béla Lugosi as Count Dracula. Five years after the release of the film, Universal released Dracula's Daughter (1936), a direct sequel that starts immediately after the end of the first film. A second sequel, Son of Dracula, starring Lon Chaney, Jr. followed in 1943. Despite his apparent death in the 1931 film, the Count returned to life in three more Universal films of the mid-1940s: House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945) both starring John Carradine and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). While Lugosi had played a vampire in two other movies during the 1930s and 1940s, it was only in this final film that he played Count Dracula on-screen for the second (and last) time.
A transition between the Universal tradition and the later Hammer style is exemplified by the 1957 Mexican movie El Vampiro that actually showed the vampire fangs (Universal did not).
Dracula was reincarnated for a new generation in the celebrated Hammer Films series, starring Christopher Lee as the Count. In the first of these films Dracula (1958) the spectacular death of the title character through being exposed to the sun, reinforced this part vampire lore, first established in Nosferatu, and made it virtually axiomatic in succeeding films.[2] Lee returned as Dracula in all but two of the seven sequels. A more faithful adaptation of Stoker's novel appeared as Dracula (1992) directed by Francis Ford Coppola though also identifying Count Dracula with the notorious medieval Balkan ruler Vlad the Impaler.
A distinct sub-genre of vampire films, ultimately inspired by Le Fanu's Carmilla explored the topic of the lesbian vampire. Although implied in Daughter of Dracula, the first openly lesbian vampire was in Blood and Roses (1960) by Roger Vadim. More explicit lesbian content was provided in Hammer's Karnstein Trilogy. The first of these, The Vampire Lovers, (1970), starring Ingrid Pitt and Madeline Smith, was a relatively straightforward re-telling of LeFanu's novella, but with more overt violence and sexuality. Later films in this sub-genre such as Vampyres (1974) became even more explicit in their depiction of sex, nudity and violence.
Beginning with Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) the vampire has often been the subject of comedy. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) by Roman Polanski was a notable parody of the genre. Other comedic treatments, of variable quality, include Vampira (1974) featuring David Niven as a lovelorn Dracula, Love at First Bite (1979) featuring George Hamilton and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), directed by Mel Brooks) with Leslie Nielsen.
Another development in some vampire films has been a change from supernatural horror to science fictional explanations of vampirism. The Last Man on Earth (1964, directed by Ubaldo Ragona), The Omega Man (1971 USA, directed by Boris Sagal)and two other films were all based on Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend. They explain the condition as having a natural cause. Vampirism is explained as a kind of virus in David Cronenberg's Rabid (1976) and Red-Blooded American Girl (1990) directed by David Blyth.
Race has been another theme, as exemplified by the blaxploitation picture Blacula (1972) and several sequels.
Since the time of Béla Lugosi's Dracula (1931) the vampire, male or female, has usually been portrayed as an alluring sex symbol. Christopher Lee, Delphine Seyrig, Frank Langella, and Lauren Hutton are just a few examples of actors who brought great sex-appeal into their portrayal of the vampire. Latterly the implicit sexual themes of vampire film have become much more overt, culminating in such films as Gayracula (1983) and The Vampire of Budapest, (1995), two pornographic all-male vampire movies, and Lust for Dracula (2005), a pornographic all-lesbian adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic.
There is, however, a very small sub-genre, pioneered in Murnau's seminal Nosferatu (1922) in which the portrayal of the vampire is similar to the hideous creature of European folklore. Max Schrek's disturbing portrayal of this role in Murnau's film was copied by Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's remake Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979). In Shadow of the Vampire (2000). directed by E. Elias Merhige, Willem Dafoe plays Max Schrek, himself, though portrayed here as an actual vampire. Dafoe's character is the ugly, disgusting creature of the original Nosferatu. Stephen King's Salem's Lot (1979), notably depicts vampires as terrifying, simple-minded creatures, without erotism, and with the only desire to feed on the blood of others. This type of vampire is also featured in the film 30 Days of Night.
A major character in most vampire films is the vampire hunter, of which Stoker's Abraham Van Helsing is a prototype. However, killing vampires has changed. Where Van Helsing relied on a stake through the heart, in Vampires 1998, directed by John Carpenter, Jack Crow (James Woods) has a heavily-armed squad of vampire hunters, and in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992 , directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui), writer Joss Whedon (who created TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and spin-off Angel) attached The Slayer, Buffy Summers (Kristy Swanson in the film, Sarah Michelle Gellar in the TV series), to a network of Watchers and mystically endowed her with superhuman powers.
The Daleks (pronounced /ˈdɑːlɛks/ ( listen)) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of genetically manipulated mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals. They are mutated Kaleds integrated within a tank-like or robot-like mechanical casing. The resulting creatures are a powerful race bent on universal conquest and domination, utterly without pity, compassion or remorse. Various storylines portray them as having had every emotion removed except hate, leaving them with a desire to purge the Universe of all non-Dalek life. Occasionally they are shown as experiencing other emotions, primarily fear, although such occurrences are rare. Collectively they are the greatest enemies of the series' protagonist, the Time Lord known as the Doctor. Their famous catchphrase is "Exterminate!", with each syllable individually synthesised in a frantic electronic voice.
The Daleks were created by writer Terry Nation and designed by BBC designer Raymond Cusick. They were introduced in December 1963 in the second Doctor Who serial, colloquially known as The Daleks. They became an immediate and huge hit with viewers, featuring in many subsequent serials and two 1960s motion pictures. They have become as synonymous with Doctor Who as the title character, and their behaviour and catchphrases are now part of British popular culture. "Hiding behind the sofa whenever the Daleks appear" has been cited as an element of British cultural identity; and a 2008 survey indicated that 9 out of 10 British children were able to identify a Dalek correctly. In 1999 a Dalek appeared on a postage stamp celebrating British popular culture, photographed by Lord Snowdon. In 2010, readers of science fiction magazine SFX voted the Dalek as the all-time greatest monster, beating out competition including Japanese movie monster Godzilla and J. R. R. Tolkien's Gollum, of The Lord of the Rings.
The word "Dalek" has entered major dictionaries, including the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines it somewhat imprecisely as "a type of robot appearing in ‘Dr. Who‘, a B.B.C. Television science-fiction programme; hence used allusively." The term is sometimes used metaphorically to describe people, usually figures of authority, who act like robots unable to break from their programming; for example, John Birt, the Director-General of the BBC from 1992 to 2000, was publicly called a "croak-voiced Dalek" by playwright Dennis Potter in the MacTaggart Lecture at the 1993 Edinburgh Television Festival.
Gamera (ガメラ) is a giant, flying turtle from a popular series of kaiju (Japanese giant monster) films produced by Daiei Motion Picture Company in Japan. Created in 1965 to rival the success of Toho Studios' Godzilla during the monster boom of the mid-to-late 1960s, Gamera has gained fame and notoriety as a Japanese icon in his own right.
In the United States, Gamera attained prominence during the 1970s due to the burgeoning popularity of UHF television stations featuring Saturday afternoon matinee showcases like Creature Double Feature and later in the 1990s when several Gamera films were featured on the television program Mystery Science Theater 3000.
In the Shōwa era series, Gamera was a titanic, fire-breathing prehistoric species of tortoise who fed on flames, reawakened by an accidental atomic blast in the Arctic during an aerial assault by US fighters on Soviet bombers caught crossing into North American airspace. The narrative points out that Gamera had appeared in the past, revealed in an ancient stone etching. Gamera was already capable of flight and breathing fire (rather than atomic rays like Godzilla) when he was reawakened.
In the Heisei era series, however, the origin of Gamera was tweaked to make the theme much more directly heroic: a bio-engineered Guardian of the Universe created by Atlantis with the purpose of defeating Gyaos, another ancient creation capable of killing all human life. The giant turtle is found floating adrift in the Pacific, encased in rock and mistaken for an atoll. Within the rock, investigators discover a large monolith explaining Gamera's purpose, as well as dozens of magatama, which allow a psychic link between Gamera and humans. In the third film of the series, an undersea graveyard is found with many other Gamera fossils, suggesting Gamera was not the only member of his kind created. One character in the film refers to these fossils as "beta versions" of Gamera, possible failures in Atlantis' attempts to create the final version. Another scene provides Gamera with a link to Asian folklore, with a character relating a story in which a giant tortoise is considered the Guardian of the North, with separate, rival creatures defending the East, West and South.
Gamera's continuity was rebooted again in the only film of the Millennium era. The film begins with the original Gamera sacrificing himself to destroy several Gyaos in 1973. 33 years later, a young boy finds a strange, glowing red rock near his home, with a small egg lying on top of it. A fairly normal looking baby tortoise soon hatches from the egg, but begins to grow at an alarming rate. The turtle, now named "Toto" by his preadolescent owner, quickly develops Gamera's classic abilities to breathe fire and fly, and attempts to ward off another attacking monster, Zedus, but is too weak to succeed. Only after eating the glowing rock found with his egg does the new Gamera achieve his full power, defeating Zedus and flying off into the sky.
Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and based on the novel La planète des singes by Pierre Boulle, released in 1963. The film stars Charlton Heston and features Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly and Linda Harrison. It was released by 20th Century Fox.
The film tells the story of an astronaut crew who crash land on a strange planet in the distant future. Although the planet appears desolate at first, the surviving crew members stumble upon a society in which apes have evolved into creatures with human-like intelligence and speech. The apes have assumed the role of the dominant species and humans have been subjugated into slavery.
Astronauts Taylor (Heston), Landon (Robert Gunner), Stewart (Dianne Stanley), and Dodge (Jeff Burton) are in deep hibernation when their spaceship crash-lands in a lake on an unknown planet in the year 3978 A.D. after a 2006-year voyage at near-light speed (during which the crew ages only 18 months due to time dilation). The planet has no moon and the clouds at night are luminous. The astronauts awaken to find Stewart's decomposed body, and that their ship is sinking. They use an inflatable raft to reach shore. Once there, Dodge performs a soil test and pronounces the soil incapable of sustaining life. Taylor suggests they are on a planet in the constellation of Orion some 320 light years from Earth but admits he is not sure.
The three astronauts set off through the desert, finding first a single plant and then others. They find an oasis at the edge of the desert where they decide to go swimming, ignoring strange 'scarecrows'. While they are swimming, their clothes are stolen. Pursuing the thieves, the astronauts find their clothes in shreds and the perpetrators — a group of mute, primitive humans — contentedly raiding a cornfield. Suddenly, gorillas on horseback charge through the cornfield, brandishing firearms, snares, and nets, which they use to capture whatever humans they can and kill those they cannot. While fleeing, Dodge is killed, Landon is bashed in the head and knocked unconscious, and Taylor is shot in the throat. The gorillas take Taylor to "Ape City," where his life is saved by two chimpanzee scientists,"animal" psychologist Zira (Hunter) and surgeon Galen. Upon awakening, Taylor—now housed in a cage with a girl whom he later calls Nova (Harrison), who was captured on the same hunt—discovers that his throat wound has rendered him temporarily mute.
Taylor discovers that the apes, who can talk, are in control and are divided into a strict class system: the gorillas as police, military, and hunters; the orangutans as administrators, politicians, and lawyers; and the chimpanzees as intellectuals and scientists. Humans, who cannot talk, are considered feral vermin and are hunted and either killed outright, enslaved for manual labor, or used for scientific experimentation.
Zira and her fiancé, Cornelius, an archaeologist, take an interest in Taylor after he tries to communicate by mouthing words. While Cornelius and Zira are talking to their boss, an orangutan named Dr. Zaius (Evans), Taylor writes in the dirt and attempts to call Cornelius and Zira's attention to it. Nova runs her hands over it, to which Taylor pulls her away, but when a primitive man ruins it as well Taylor kicks him away. This angers the man, and he attacks Taylor. A gorilla comes in with a torch and burns Taylor, but only Zaius sees Taylor's writing. Realizing that Taylor is intelligent, he destroys the writing with his cane. Eventually, Taylor steals paper from Zira when she comes close to his cage and uses it to write messages to her. Zira and Cornelius are convinced that Taylor is intelligent; upon learning of this, Zaius orders that Taylor be castrated.
Taylor manages to escape before the procedure can be carried out and flees through Ape City, which he discovers to be an architecturally primitive version of 20th Century Earth. During his flight, he finds himself in a museum, where Dodge's corpse has been taxidermied and put on display. Shortly thereafter, Taylor is recaptured by gorillas; finding that his throat has healed, he angrily addresses them, shouting, in what has become one of the most memorable film lines, "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"
When back in his cell, Nova is then transferred to a cell across from Taylor's cell as the warden Julius (Buck Kartalian) sprays Taylor with water. The shocked apes hold a tribunal to determine Taylor's origins (in a parody of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial) run by the President of the Assembly (James Whitmore), Dr. Zaius, and Dr. Maximus (Woodrow Parfrey) with Dr. Honorious (James Daly) as the prosecution. Taylor tells of his two comrades and explains that one was killed and the other lost. At this point the court produces Landon, who has been subjected to a primitive lobotomy that has rendered him catatonic.
After the tribunal, Dr. Zaius holds a private meeting with Taylor, where he threatens to lobotomise him if he doesn't lie about where he came from. With help from Zira's socially-rebellious nephew Lucius (Lou Wagner), Zira and Cornelius intervene early the next morning and "kidnap" Taylor and Nova, taking them to "The Forbidden Zone," a region outside of Ape City. Cornelius explains that no one knows why it is called The Forbidden Zone; it is merely an ancient taboo and has remained quarantined for centuries. Some years earlier, Cornelius had been digging near the zone and found artifacts of a previous generation that were not simian, thereby postulating his theory. Upon arriving, the party travels down a river that flows into a nearby sea, but they are intercepted by Dr. Zaius and his men. Taylor threatens to shoot him, but Zaius complies and the party goes inside the cave. Cornelius shows them the remnants of a technologically advanced human society buried in the cliff by the sea, which he discovered a year earlier while on his archaeological expedition. The tell-tale artifact turns out to be a human doll, which Nova begins playing with, but all of a sudden, the doll "cries," much to the shock of everyone. Taylor angrily confronts Zaius, imploring why an ape would make a human doll that talks. The truth is revealed that the apes' world was, at one time, controlled by humans, but at some point in history, apes developed sentience and the roles of apes and humans were inverted, with apes becoming the dominant species and man becoming the apes' household pets, and later becoming animals living in the wild, incapable of speech.
Dr. Zaius soon admits that he has always known about man and the fact that human civilization existed long before apes ruled the planet. He explains that The Forbidden Zone was once "a paradise," but man's destructive tendencies caused it to be annihilated thousands of years earlier. Zaius agrees to exile Taylor and Nova. Taylor can't help but question why it is called "the Forbidden Zone." It then becomes apparent that there is one discovery to be made, as Zaius implies that somewhere within the zone lies something that completely reveals the truth (that human civilization reigned before). To protect the dignity and identity of the ape civilization, this area was considered "forbidden" so that no one would discover what lay in it. Zaius advises Taylor not to look for it because he will not like what he finds. When asked by Zira, "What will he find out there, Doctor?", Zaius replies: "his destiny." Once Taylor and Nova have ridden away on horseback, Dr. Zaius has the gorillas lay explosives and destroy the evidence of the human society. It is implied that Dr. Zaius doesn't go after Taylor because Taylor had spared his life when he could have easily killed Zaius, or that Dr. Zaius figured out that since Taylor didn't come from a jungle on the other side of the Forbidden Zone, he would die in the desert anyway.
After an unspecified time spent following the shoreline, Taylor and Nova finally do discover the truth that Dr. Zaius warned them about; Taylor stops the horse and dismounts, staring up in disbelief at an object not quite clear to the viewer yet. He begins approaching the object before descending into a fit of rage and screaming: "We finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you. God damn you all to hell!" The picture zooms out to reveal the charred remnants of the Statue of Liberty, half-submerged in the shoreline, revealing that the planet he was on was actually Earth the whole time, and that the paradise that became The Forbidden Zone was once New York City.
Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The film centers on the fictional Isla Nublar (Incorrect spanish meant for "Cloudy Island", it would be "Isla Nublada" properly), in Costa Rica, where billionaire philanthropist John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) and a team of genetic scientists from his company have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs.
The wealthy billionaire and dinosaur enthusiast John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), CEO of InGen has recently created Jurassic Park; a futuristic theme park populated with dinosaurs cloned from DNA taken from fossilized mosquitoes preserved in amber. The park is situated on Isla Nublar, an island 87 miles north-west of Costa Rica; for security purposes, the island is surrounded by fifty miles of electric fence, and the dinosaurs have had their chromosomes altered to make them all female to prevent reproduction.
After an incident in the park, where a worker is fatally savaged by a Velociraptor, Hammond is advised by his lawyer Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero) to have two experts sign off on the island for the benefit of health and safety. To that end, Hammond invites paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) along with Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), a chaotician, and Hammond's grandchildren—Timothy "Tim" Murphy (Joseph Mazzello) and Alexis "Lex" Murphy (Ariana Richards)—to Jurassic Park, in order to convince his lawyers the park is safe. The group is sent into the park as part of a safari experience to observe most of the animals. Hammond, meanwhile, observes his guests along with Head Technician Ray Arnold (Samuel L. Jackson) and his Head of Security, Robert Muldoon (Bob Peck).
However, it transpires that one of the computer programmers, Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight), is in the employ of BioSyn, a corporate rival of InGen, and has been paid a substantial price to steal fertilized dinosaur embryos. To allow the theft, Nedry infects the park's security measures with a computer virus to allow him access to the embryo storage, inadvertently deactivating the electrified fences containing the dinosaurs. The rest of the group, who have been stranded in the park due to the system shutdown, are attacked by the Tyrannosaurus escaping from its paddock; Gennaro is killed and Malcolm is badly injured. Grant survives and escapes with the children into the park. Nedry flees with his prize, but his jeep gets stuck, and while trying to winch it out Nedry is blinded and eventually killed by an escaped Dilophosaurus. The embryos are lost.
With the virus affecting the entire park's systems, Hammond recommends a total shutdown of the park's systems. He, along with Sattler, Arnold, Muldoon and Malcolm, shuts down the park's system and retreats to the emergency bunker, from where Arnold heads to the maintenance compound to reboot the system. When he doesn't return, Muldoon and Sattler head for the compound; on the way, they pass the raptor paddock, and discover the raptors (whose fence wasn't shut off by Nedry but was affected by the park-wide shut-down) have escaped. At the same time, Grant and the children discover a nest full of hatched eggs; the dinosaurs are breeding. Grant theorizes this is due to using frog DNA to fill in gaps in the dinosaur gene sequence, as some frogs are able to change gender in a single-sex environment.
As Muldoon and Sattler proceed to the maintenance compound, Muldoon realizes they are being hunted by Velociraptors. The pair split up; Muldoon goes after the raptors, while Sattler heads for the maintenance shed. She manages to reactivate the park's systems (narrowly escaping a Velociraptor hiding inside the shed, which has killed Arnold) inadvertently at the same time, Tim, Lex and Grant climb the electrified fence out of the park's animal zone and Tim is nearly killed upon the reactivation of the electricity; meanwhile, Muldoon is ambushed and killed by the Velociraptors. Grant and the kids head for the visitor's centre; he leaves the kids alone in the kitchen while he reunites with Sattler and the others. The kids find that two Velociraptors have entered the visitor centre, but they are able to evade the dinosaurs, reunite with Grant and Sattler and get the park's security systems working from the control room. Grant contacts Hammond and tells him to call the mainland for rescue, but the two raptors find the group and attack.
The group flees, only to be cornered in the entrance hall by the Velociraptors, who get ready to pounce. As all seems lost, the Tyrannosaurus breaks into the hall and seizes one of the raptors in its jaws, killing it. The second raptor charges the T-Rex as Sattler, Grant and the kids run for safety as the two dinosaurs fight; they are rescued by Malcolm and Hammond, who have fled the emergency bunker in a Jeep, where Grant tells Hammond he will not endorse Jurassic Park, a decision with which Hammond agrees. As they drive away, the Tyrannosaurus finishes off the Velociraptor and roars in triumph.
The group reaches the helipad, where they are evacuated from the island. As their helicopter flies across the ocean back to the mainland, Grant sees a flock of pelicans flying past, reminders of the connection between birds and dinosaurs.
The Velociraptor is portrayed as the film's antagonist. The animal's depiction was not based on the actual dinosaur genus in question (which itself was significantly smaller), rather the related (and larger) genus Deinonychus, which had been synonymised with Velociraptor by Gregory S. Paul in 1988. Crichton's writing followed this, but by the time production of the film took place, the idea had been dropped by the scientific community. Coincidentally, before Jurassic Park's theatre release, the similar Utahraptor was discovered, though was proved bigger in appearance than the film's raptors; this prompted Stan Winston to joke, "We made it, then they discovered it." For the attack on character Robert Muldoon, the raptors were played by men in suits. Dolphin screams, walruses bellowing, geese hissing, an African crane's mating call, and human rasps were mixed to formulate various raptor sounds.Following discoveries made after the film's release, most paleontologists theorized that dromaeosaurs like Velociraptor and Deinonychus had feathers.
Klingons (Klingon: tlhIngan, pronounced [ˈt͡ɬɪŋɑn]) are a fictional warrior race in the Star Trek universe. They are recurring villains in the 1960s television show Star Trek: The Original Series, and have appeared in all five spin-off series and eight feature films. Initially intended to be antagonists for the crew of the USS Enterprise, the Klingons ended up a close ally of humanity and the United Federation of Planets in later television series.
As originally developed by screenwriter Gene L. Coon, Klingons were darkly colored humanoids with little honor, intended as an allegory to the then-current Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, though Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry did not aspire to any political parallels. With a greatly expanded budget for makeup and effects, the Klingons were completely redesigned in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), gaining ridged foreheads that created a continuity error not explained by canon until 2005. In later films and the spin-off series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the militaristic traits of the Klingons were bolstered by an increased sense of honor and strict warrior code.
Among the elements created for the revised Klingons was a complete language, developed by Marc Okrand off gibberish suggested by actor James Doohan. Klingon has entered popular culture; the works of William Shakespeare and even parts of the Bible have been translated into the guttural language. A dictionary, a book of sayings, and a cultural guide to the language have been published. In addition, according to Guinness World Records, Klingon is the most popular fictional language by number of speakers.
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