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#146/365 Before Voltron and GI-Joe there was G-Force (aka Battle of the Planets). I remember watching this cartoon everyday after school...oh the memories. I debated whether to use these figures or something more well known ones like (legos or star wars) but in the end the bird customs & nostalgia won out. Happy Strobist Toy Tuesdays!
Strobist: I decided to post a setup shot ala Dustin Diaz style. Basic strobist setup then processed it with more of a retro tone. Click here for the setup
reminded me of G-Force a cartoon from the early `80`s .. a phoenix on fire in the sky...apparently it`s a rare form of cloud and light display..a nice start to the day.
Painted with a mixture of Chromacolour animation paints and system three acrylics on cardboard.
I'll take a non iphone photo and upload so you can see the detail a bit better.
Strobist setup for this shot
Initially I had one of the rear strobes as a kicker but that created a foward shadow which I did not like
crunch!!
Soryu: Ungh!!
thunk!
Princess Jun: OoooHH!!
Rock 'n Roll: Yntalaskfahl... safrumbuind out if I have to beat it out of ya!!!
So this is Princess, one of the five fearless young orphans of G-Force "DEDICATED! INSEPARABLE! INVINCIBLE!" who are vigilantly "PROTECTING EARTH'S ENTIRE GALAXY!"...Welcome to 1978 and BATTLE OF THE PLANETS. Imagine if you will that her awesome motorcycle is upgraded now to a speeder bike which like G-Force's ship, the Fiery Phoenix ("TRANSMUTE!") has the ability to become a super-powered vehicle of flaming energy in times of dire trouble.
Damn those trans oranges are tough to build with and photograph. My entry for the CMF category for this year's LSB contest. About 14x7x8 studs.
Battle Of The Planets intro sequence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=acOnskcyrtA
Snow White: (calling) The Queen summons Defender Unit Raptor!
Princess Jun: Unit Commander Jun present, Vice Regent White! Presenting Defenders BioHunter Silver! Pilot Anne Yuri! Condor Joe! Casshern Nomika!
Rock 'n Roll: Ngtakln blunflgkoy!?
Soryu: Hello! Be patient and your language will assimilate to Paprihaven momentarily.
Rock 'n Roll: CSHTANKRITLFL!!!
Princess Jun: Let me help you up, sir.
Soryu: Careful... he looks agitated...
Princess Jun: My Queen, it is an honor to go forth under your banner once more.
Alice: Oh, thank you Jun. You will, in fact, be deployed first. Yours will be the first action of our forces in this war.
Princess Jun: Thank you, my Queen!
Alice: Snow will deliver the details of your target.
Princess Jun: Of course, we will await your order Vice Regent. May I ask our prejudice?
Snow White: Extreme, if necessary. The target will be defended so it could escalate quickly. But we would very much like the target intact here for information.
Princess Jun: Then that is our goal, Vice Regent.
Not too bad a selection... much better than the Merivale HMV or even the Bayshore HMV, though the Anime Stop store in Nepean obviously has a much better selection of anime than any HMV store in the Ottawa area.
Shoujo fans might notice a title called Lady Oscar... that's the anime, otherwise known as Rose of Versailles, about a female who dresses up as a male to become a soldier in revolutionary era France. It's never been licensed for the English-speaking North American market, but, if you can read French subtitles, that DVD is Region 1 and contains the original Japanese dialogue.
And, incredibly, from the Queen's Castle in Paprihaven, across time, space and even dimensions, Soryu ably guides the lure into the underground cavern of the Joes and latches on to Rock 'n Roll!!
Alien: AIIISSSSS!!!!
zzzzrrrrrmmmmmmmmmm-
Rock 'n Roll: That's it! Step on up and get you some of this too--
--ooooOOOOOOOOOOWWHOOOOAAAAAA!!!
MMMMRRRRRMMMM
Soryu: Got him! It's a person! Yay!
Rock 'n Roll: What the blUURRRRFFF!!!!
Princess Jun: WOW!!!
Soryu: Time and dimensional travel works on affinities. If one falls out of the stream they will ride in the slipstream until an affinity hooks them back in.
Princess Jun: And the affinity is something they are drawn to?
Soryu: Mmm... yes, but more clearly something that they are attached to. It may not be something they've seen or experienced before but it would be something they affected or that they were affected by.
Bio Hunter Silver: Your calibrations are set, Commander Asuka.
Soryu: Thank you Defender Silva. Silva here specializes in tracking life forms and so he is invaluable in getting the settings for the lure right.
Princess Jun: That device, the 'lure', tracks an affinity?
So this is Princess, one of the five fearless young orphans of G-Force "DEDICATED! INSEPARABLE! INVINCIBLE!" who are vigilantly "PROTECTING EARTH'S ENTIRE GALAXY!"...Welcome to 1978 and BATTLE OF THE PLANETS. Imagine if you will that her awesome motorcycle is upgraded now to a speeder bike which like G-Force's ship, the Fiery Phoenix ("TRANSMUTE!") has the ability to become a super-powered vehicle of flaming energy in times of dire trouble.
Damn those trans oranges are tough to build with and photograph. My entry for the CMF category for this year's LSB contest. About 14x7x8 studs.
Battle Of The Planets intro sequence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=acOnskcyrtA
Been meaning to put together a group shoot like this for a while, and finally got around to doing it. This is the static, portrait shot. From left to right:
- Hot Toys Rey from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" (2015)
- Phicen/Executive Replicas Caroline Munro as Stella Star from "Starcrash" (1978)
- (standing) Takara/Blue Box Toys Jun/Princess from "Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets," depending on which side of the Pacific you watched this show (1972)
- (kneeling) Phicen/Executive Replicas/Go Hero Wilma Deering from "Buck Rogers" (1928)
- Hot Toys Princess Leia from "Star Wars: A New Hope" (1977)
- Takara/Blue Box Toys Deunan Knute from "Appleseed: Ex Machina" (2007)
OMG! the pure neemo flexion XS Natural is just too perfect for every Licca doll if you want her poseable and full of action! Plus the Gachaman collaboration costume = Uber coolness!I just love how the wings spread out!
She is Princess from Battle of the Planets or Jun from Gatchaman. Either way, she is the coolest gal on my Christmas tree and she was a gift from my good flickr friend, Thomas.
I desperately want a helmet designer to make me her swan helmet.
So later today and tomorrow we are expecting a blizzard to hit this area. I hope we don't lose the power. It's bitterly cold outside right now and the thought of being subjected to that type of chill would really harsh my mellow, man.
via Instagram ift.tt/1jjE5Sa #battleoftheplanets #keshi still in the baggie. #gatchaman #minifigures #RagingNerdgasm #TomKhayos #ToyGameScroogeMcDuck #vintage #80s #toyfinds #toyhunting #toyhustle #toyhorder #toytrades #toysagram also the filter makes my hand look hella gross. ift.tt/1jjE5Sa
What I am working on isn't ready to upload yet.
So here's a little something I made as part of LUGNuts 68th Build Challenge - relating to childhood cartoons.
'Battle of the Planets', commonly know as 'G-Force' was a 1978 English-language adaptation of a Japanese Anime 'Gatchaman', minus the blood, violence, swearing and transgenderism.
Not that you new what you were missing at the time.
Anyway, the show was about five young orphans with superpowers, who dressed in bird-themed costumes and flew in a spaceship/plane thing called the phoenix.
Cool music, lots of action (and evil robots), made this a must for all us late 70's/early 80's kidliwinks.
Apparently there may be a movie based on the TV anime some time soon.
Can't wait!
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.
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A somewhat experimental shot of Princess' Lego Speeder Bike. You can see what's solid colour and trans. Shot placed on a light table with a lamp very close under the glass.
Battle of the Planets / Heft-Reihe
copyright: Sandy Frank Film Syndication, Inc. / 1979
Verlag: Harmi-Press
(Athen / Griechenland; 1981)
ex libris MTP
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.