Lock Onto Them, Artoo
Friday, January 20. 2017
The Eta-2 Light Interceptor from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was never my favorite design, but it did show a nice transition from the earlier Episode I and II crafts to the later TIE fighters. It also was a small enough craft that a major manufacturer was actually able to release it in very near 1/24 scale, making it a shoo-in for my collection.
I'm Doing the Mashed Potatoes All Over It, and I Got a Broken Arm!
Friday, January 13. 2017
Most people are probably familiar with The Trollenberg Terror (released in the US as The Crawling Eye) thanks to its appearance on Mystery Science Theater 3000. My own first encounter with the title, though, was in the pages of Stephen King's It, where the Eye was one of the shapes taken by the titular antagonist. It was just as bad as the text (and its appearance on MST3K) would have you believe, which meant it was right up my alley. There wasn't much in the way of vehicular action, but thanks to the time when and location where it was filmed, The Trollenberg Terror does include a rare on-screen appearance of a classic Citroën Traction Avant.
Gonna have to rename this the "Buttmobile"
Friday, January 6. 2017
I got the LEGO Batman Movie Batmobile as a Christmas present last week, and since I've pretty well established that LEGO vehicles (particularly Batmobiles) fit with the rest of my model collection, this was the perfect way to kick off the New Year
2016 Year in Review
Monday, January 2. 2017
Not gonna lie, 2016 had a lot of rough patches. So I'm going to do things a little different this time, and instead of another written recap of the good, the bad, and the ugly from this past year, I'm going to decompress for a couple of minutes with a reminder of some accomplishments from the last 12 months as inspiration to do even better in 2017: