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Schylling tinplate wind-up Atomic Robot Man joins in the Monster MAYhem fun!
Uhmmm... yes, for the purposes of mayhem, robots count as monsters. As long as they are scary robots. Which is pretty much all robots.
Did'ja ever read the novel, "Before Tomorrowland," by Jeff Jensen and Brad Bird (and several other co-authors)? That's okay, nobody else has, either, other than myself and Syd. Anyway, I pictured the robot (oh, sorry, spoiler alert, there's a robot in the story) as looking more or less like this one.
Catalog #: 10_0016026
Title: Atomic Bomb Test
Date: 1946
Additional Information: Bikini Island
Tags: Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini Island, 1946
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Catalog #: 10_0016019
Title: Atomic Bomb Test
Date: 1946
Additional Information: Bikini Island
Tags: Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini Island, 1946
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
La Tamarissière - 04/11
Thanks in advance for comments and favs ;)
My book "Suspensions" is avalaible:
the scottish punk band oi polloi says the right thing! we turned the protest song into a grafic.... get in toutch:
Pripyat is an abandoned city in the zone of alienation in northern Ukraine, Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus.
The city was founded in 1970 to house the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers, and was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. Its population had been around 50,000 prior to the accident.
After the disaster of reactor no. 4, the city of Prypiat was evacuated in two days.
Only after radiation levels set off alarms at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden did the Soviet Union admit that an accident had occurred, but authorities attempted to conceal the scale of the disaster. To evacuate the city of Pripyat, the following warning message was reported on local radio: "An accident has occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. One of the atomic reactors has been damaged. Aid will be given to those affected and a committee of government inquiry has been set up." This message gave the false impression that any damage and radiation was localized.
The government committee formed to investigate the accident, led by Valeri Legasov, arrived at Chernobyl in the evening of 26 April. By that time two people were dead and 52 were in hospital. During the night of 26 April / 27 April—more than 24 hours after the explosion—the committee, faced with ample evidence of extremely high levels of radiation and a number of cases of radiation exposure, had to acknowledge the destruction of the reactor and order the evacuation of the nearby city of Pripyat.
The evacuation began at 14:00, 27 April. To reduce baggage, the residents were told the evacuation would be temporary, lasting approximately three days. As a result, Pripyat still contains personal belongings. An exclusion zone of 30 km/19 mi remains in place today.
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Sometimes, well damn...I just miss you. It'd be nice if I could tell you so, but I can't and so you'll never know; I wonder how to let you go.
Operated by: Atomic Recycling, Minneapolis, MN
Unit Number: 57
Body: ?
Chassis: Mack Granite
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Seen with a custom box used for concrete mixer clean-out waste.
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Here it is, the origin of Mike Power!
Even though as a kid I owned a few Adventure Team toys ( Land Adventurer, Intruder Warrior, Combat Jeep, and Air Adventurer) I got all of them ( save the Air Adventurer, which I bought at a flea market at my elementary school when I was in 3rd grade) when I was scarcely more than a toddler. So for the longest time I had no knowledge of the backstory (such as it is) of the 12 inch GI Joe figures. All I knew was that Joe was some sort of a soldier and he fought against the Intruder, which was an alien invader ( I didn't even know there was more than one Intruder).
When I was about 8 or 9 years old, I came across this ad in an old comic book that was part of my cousin Jimmy's comic book collection that he kept at my Grandmother's house. This was the first time I'd ever heard of Mike Power or the "Adventure Team" . By this time, the smaller, "Real American Hero" Joes were out and I was a big fan of them. I was forever trying to figure out the connection, if any, between the big 12 inch Joes from my very early childhood and their smaller brethren. It was quite a surprise for me to find out that there had been some sort of an earlier incarnation of the GI Joe Team.
Mike's origin raises all sorts of intriguing questions for unrepentant geeks such as myself who spend far too much time analyzing things like this.
For one thing, I 've always felt that while it was probably meant to be inspirational (man overcomes handicaps, becomes super human), that Mike's origin is actually sort of insulting to disabled people in a way, and also raises all sorts of red flags about Mike's sanity. Let me explain: Mike refuses to "settle" for his disabled body parts and becomes obsessed with creating artificial limbs to replace them. To me this has always implied that other disabled people are (compared to Mike) wimps who just gave up and accepted their disability. However, in the real world, accepting your disability, adapting to your new reality and moving on with your life is actually the psychologically healthy thing to do when faced with a handicap. If anything, Mike's reaction, to "dedicate his entire life to creating fantastic new atomic parts " for his body is more like the actions of a dangerous and obsessed mad scientist type of character like Dr. Frankenstein, than a true hero.
Even more disturbing is the implication that Mike may've amputated a perfectly good arm (and scooped out one of his eyes) in his quest to obtain his ideal of physical perfection. In the comic, we see him welding and doing intricate work on electronics with the very same arm he later replaces with an atomic one. So that limb must've had some high degree of functionality to begin with. And he never says anything about there being anything wrong with his eyes ( he doesn't even wear glasses!). To me, all of this implies that Mike might be some sort of a nut case who is obsessed with perfection and strength. For all we know, maybe there was nothing really wrong with his body to begin with, other than it wasn't perfect or powerful enough to make him happy and the story he tells Joe is a bunch of B.S. ! The one test Joe forgets to give Mike may be the most important one of all - a thorough psychological examination!
Another disturbing idea is that he somehow managed to amputate his own limbs! Who did the operation to install his atomic parts? Logically, you would think that maybe he had some assistants - certainly in the real world this sort of research would be done by a whole team of scientists funded by grants. But Mike is portrayed as a lone genius, who somehow manages to not only fund his (probably very expensive) research, but he also gets a hold of radioactive materials to power his limbs (even Doc Brown had trouble doing that!) and to top it all off, he either magically does surgery on himself or convinces someone else to saw off his leg and remove an eye and arm that may've had nothing wrong with them to begin with. Can you spell "medical ethics" kids?
What I also want to know is how thoroughly he tested his cybernetic skills before going under the knife himself? Are there a whole bunch of atomic lab mice out there somewhere? An atomic chimp? Teenage Atomic Ninja Turtles?
If there are, i demand toys of them! NOW!!
Interestingly, from what I've read online, the new Adventure Team Chronicles comics show a perfectly healthy Mike Power being recruited into the AT, contradicting this account. The story recounted here may've been a cover story that was given to the public to mask whatever Mike's true origin turns out to be. It seems that the AT routinely gives out disinformation about itself to maintain a shroud of secrecy around their activities and team members.
Personally, I'd like to see it revealed that Mike Power is the same "Mike" that monitored Joe's missions from AT HQ in the old Peter Pan book and record sets www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLMZh7mf464. That he has some sort of a terrible accident and they have to cyborg him up to save his life.
Don't even get me started on the fact that Mike would rip his arm out of the socket ( atomic powered or not) if he tried to lift 10,000 pounds with one arm! Or that while I can accept that one leg may be able to run 200 MPH, the other one would not be able to keep up. What of the effect of all these atomic powered parts on his remaining organic bits ?Is it really a good idea to have an atomic powered eye so close to your brain? I hope the atomic fuel cells are REALLY well shielded or he's going to be "Mike Power, the Cancer Man" in a few years!
Oh well, Mike Power is still a fun toy and this stuff was meant to be read in two seconds by children and then mainly forgotten, so of course I'm not being very fair. But where's the fun in being fair?
Catalog #: 10_0016037
Title: Atomic Bomb Test
Date: 1946
Additional Information: Bikini Island
Tags: Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini Island, 1946
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Powered by an atomic energy ball and built with a diamond/titanium hybrid alloy, this small bot can lift incredible weight and sustain massive forces, which makes it ideal for a number of tasks such as car throwing, wall smashing, and taking things apart really fast....just don't ask him to put it back together. Impulsive, irrational, and indestructable this bot has a set of characteristics that end up getting him into trouble.
The flow of bots never cease, I really should build something else, but new head ideas just keep popping up - and you really should have a body to go with them. Some ideas here taking from my previous bots, so not really a whole lot of new stuff going on.