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[Bud Brewster]

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Today it's all about nostalgia. A movie that stunned the world, a TV series that imitated it to some degree, and full-sized rocket replicas that toured the nation and dazzled the kids!





Yep, All Sci-Fi is your science fiction time machine!
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Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

Here's a stroll down Memory Lane that will take you back several light years to that magical time when you were captivated by Star Wars in 1977 . . . and then again when you took your kids to see the re-released trilogy in 1997.

The first video is a labor of love by a devoted fan who truly "trusts the Force".

Enjoy! (And smoke 'em if ya got 'em . . . )__

STAR WARS ORIGINAL TV SPOTS PLUS RECREATIONS 1977 - 1985


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__________ Star Wars 1997 Re Issue Trailer HD


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Battlestar Galactica (1978 - 1979)

IMDB has 68 trivia items for this series. Two of them caught my attention, shown in the blue text.
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~ Respected fantasy artist Frank Frazetta was commissioned to produce four promotional paintings for the series, all of which appeared in TV Guide and various other magazines. One of the paintings (originally used for "Saga of a Star World") appeared on the cover of the Berkley novelization "Battlestar Galactica 2: The Cylon Death Machine" by Glen A. Larson and Robert Thurston, published in early 1979.

Note from me: Yes indeed, the great Frank Frazetta certainly did a fine job with these.







~ In tribute to the series, U.S. Air Force pilots commenced to refer to the F-16 Fighting Falcon as the Viper when it entered service in 1980, there were similarities with the real-life F-16 and the Colonial Viper, where the name stuck. The Viper, however, was not based on any real-world fighter aircraft.

Note from me: Ummm . . . nope, I just don't see the resemblance.




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The Amazing "Touring Rockets" of the 1950s!

Commander Green's post in Contact All Sci-Fi has challenged us by posing a list of threads he thinks would be prime candidates for new replies, just because they interesting subjects and popular threads.

FORBIDDEN PLANET
THIS ISLAND EARTH
SPACE PATROL
STAR WARS
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
TOURING ROCKETS OF THE 50'S

By God, he's right! I had fun this afternoon finding new things to post on each of those subjets, and this thread is the last (and most challenging) on his list!

I knew it was highly unlikely that I'd find a new touring rocket from the 1950s, so I focused on finding something we missed during our discussions on this 8 page thread. Something small, something interesting, some little mysterious detail.

And I found one. I examined by photos of the Ralston Rocket . . . and noticed this.


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What the heck is that gizmo on the bulkhead of Ricky Walker's rocket? We know it didn't have any control panel in the cockpit of the rocket — in fact, what it DID have was a nice little table for the kids to sit at while eating snacks or playing games.


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So, what's that strange apparatus as the edge of this picture. Here's a cropped close up.





I think I know what it is, based on the clues in the photo above on the far right, and in this one as well.


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Mystery solved! Right?
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)