G2 Racer - Battle of the Planets - 1978 (Gatchaman 1972 - Japan)
1978 saw the release in the United States, Australia and other English-speaking nations of 'Battle of the Planets' - an animated show for children with five space-adventuring super-hero orphans.
Chief foe was Zoltar, from the planet Spectra. Spectra would send waves of giant mecha and other disasters toward Earth or other Earth-like planets.
The five team members (of the 1978 English-speaking series) were Mark, Jason, Princess, Keyop and Tiny. Each had a vehicle which which they are identified: Mark a plane, Jason a car, Princess a motorcycle, Keyop a weird buggy-capsule, and Tiny, the flying mothership know as the 'Phoenix'.
For this Lego model here, I have built the racer-type vehicle for 2nd in command Jason. Given that the series was originally created anime from 1972, the vehicle is not dissimilar to Formula One racers of the period, minus their high-mounted rear wings. The car was identified with a 'G2' on the nosecone. I have slightly updated the form with a bubble-type canopy (mounting the driver closer to the front of the vehicle), and slightly more modern interpretations of the aerodynamics.
Part of the story line was that each character, along with their bird-themed costumer super-character, had a civilian character, wearing normal (if somewhat hipster-ish) clothes, and a civilian interpretation of their craft. Jason's civilian car looking somewhat like a 1967 Chevrolet Camaro.
This miniland-scale model has been created for Flickr LUGNuts 68th Build Challenge - 'A Baker's Dozen', to theme #5 - 'Any vehicle from childhood cartoons...MASK, G.I. Joe, etc.' - celebrating is near violence-free, transgenderless, profanity-free fun.
If you want to see what it would have been like without this content edited out, checkout 'Science Ninja Team - Gatchaman' or 'Gatchaman' for short on youtube. You also don't get a silly placating Robot (7-Zark-7) assuring you every two minutes that everything is 'ok', and that no-one has been injured or killed when their city was destroyed. All good Japanese-anime fun.
G2 Racer - Battle of the Planets - 1978 (Gatchaman 1972 - Japan)
1978 saw the release in the United States, Australia and other English-speaking nations of 'Battle of the Planets' - an animated show for children with five space-adventuring super-hero orphans.
Chief foe was Zoltar, from the planet Spectra. Spectra would send waves of giant mecha and other disasters toward Earth or other Earth-like planets.
The five team members (of the 1978 English-speaking series) were Mark, Jason, Princess, Keyop and Tiny. Each had a vehicle which which they are identified: Mark a plane, Jason a car, Princess a motorcycle, Keyop a weird buggy-capsule, and Tiny, the flying mothership know as the 'Phoenix'.
For this Lego model here, I have built the racer-type vehicle for 2nd in command Jason. Given that the series was originally created anime from 1972, the vehicle is not dissimilar to Formula One racers of the period, minus their high-mounted rear wings. The car was identified with a 'G2' on the nosecone. I have slightly updated the form with a bubble-type canopy (mounting the driver closer to the front of the vehicle), and slightly more modern interpretations of the aerodynamics.
Part of the story line was that each character, along with their bird-themed costumer super-character, had a civilian character, wearing normal (if somewhat hipster-ish) clothes, and a civilian interpretation of their craft. Jason's civilian car looking somewhat like a 1967 Chevrolet Camaro.
This miniland-scale model has been created for Flickr LUGNuts 68th Build Challenge - 'A Baker's Dozen', to theme #5 - 'Any vehicle from childhood cartoons...MASK, G.I. Joe, etc.' - celebrating is near violence-free, transgenderless, profanity-free fun.
If you want to see what it would have been like without this content edited out, checkout 'Science Ninja Team - Gatchaman' or 'Gatchaman' for short on youtube. You also don't get a silly placating Robot (7-Zark-7) assuring you every two minutes that everything is 'ok', and that no-one has been injured or killed when their city was destroyed. All good Japanese-anime fun.