The Things That I See (continued)

In no particular order, here are some random things I've encountered in the last few months.  

First up, from Ebay, was a 1996 catalog by "Hollywood Archives" that included a few storyboards.  In the middle of them was this gem, complete with their description:

Umm...I don't remember this scene.  Or even seeing this storyboard anywhere before.  Also, I am not sure that is even what's going on here.  Moving on...

While we are on the subject of Star Wars, I've been re-reading the newspaper strips, which have been very nicely reprinted over the last year, and here is a panel from volume 2:

Poor Dengar can't catch a break.  Here's another oddity from Ebay:

Unfortunately, auctions like this one that involve deformed potato chips or particularly-burned toast have become all-too-common in today's world.  Also, it did not sell.

Here's a FAIL from Wikipedia that cracked me up.  Note the photo's caption!

This seems as good a place as any to put this photo.  My collection of Chinese "BootLego" characters continues to grow slowly.  As you can see, some are real winners (that Lego needs to make), but some just aren't.  The large Lizard was a particular disappointment, and needs to be repainted.  

Lastly, I was admiring the U.S. poster for GHIDRAH THE THREE HEADED MONSTER....did you ever notice how the artist sort of phoned in Rodan? And how he looks like a Bat-a-rang? 

Scientifically-enhanced close-up photo provided by handheld lithium-powered
telecommunication device(TM)

So, therefore, insert one time-wasting Photoshop here:

GODZILLA vs. THE BIONIC MONSTER Handbill/Flyer (1977)

Here is an amazing find--a flyer (or possibly handbill, although technically small for that) for GODZILLA vs. THE BIONIC MONSTER, before the name was changed to "COSMIC."  It measures 8.5 x 5.5 inches.  There can't be too many of these still around!

The Kaiju DVD Shelves at The Sphinx

Recently, I was re-working my DVD shelves, and adding in all of the wonderful reconstructions done by Red Menace (you really should look these up--if you don't like torrents, you can download them hassle-free at archive.org, for instance).  I figured it was a good time to take a few photos.  

It's still a pity that the second season of the Hanna-Barbera GODZILLA never got an official release. That would be a good Blu-Ray reconstruction-style project for somebody.

I just had enough room to squeeze in some American contenders.  Bonus points if you know that UNKNOWN ISLAND is a super-early example of "suitmation!"

Maybe someday I will go back and get whatever DVD's I'm missing (there's a GoodTimes KOTM, for instance), but I'm too consumed with VHS at the moment.  I'm down to the single-digits for Godzilla VHS: only 9 remaining that I know of!