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**Captain Sci-Fi** · 02-07-2012, 01:05 PM

**TerraForm1** · 02-07-2012, 01:25 PM

Thanks Capt.
Love the rear screen projection behind Johnny Swoonara to create the illusion his parade car is passing in front of Marineville tower. As much as I like all the Supermarionation series, the earlier ones with more caricatured characters were able to take risks and push the boundaries of the medium. A setup like that in Capt. Scarlet would have been jarring, but here it simply works and looks right...

tibbington · 04-08-2012, 09:27 PM

the music star guy that marina and atlanta like is a little ugly always thought that his face had been computer animated over troys face

Cool Caveman · 05-08-2012, 01:21 AM

Johnny Swoonara? He's actually a remashed Steve Zodiac...

SteveDix · 05-08-2012, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by tibbington

the music star guy that marina and atlanta like is a little ugly always thought that his face had been computer animated over troys face

They would have had a bit of a problem with that, Tib. The average computer in 1963 filled a house, and had about 1kbyte memory held on unwieldy ferrite core matrices as big as your fist...if you were lucky. Valves were still very much the order of the day as transistor technology was still unreliable and prone to meltdown due to heat-related bias problems.

The average modern phone would have been considered a supercomputer then.

02-07-2012, 01:05 PM	#1
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TerraForm1 Astrophysics Technician Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: ONT. Canada Posts: 337	Thanks Capt. Love the rear screen projection behind Johnny Swoonara to create the illusion his parade car is passing in front of Marineville tower. As much as I like all the Supermarionation series, the earlier ones with more caricatured characters were able to take risks and push the boundaries of the medium. A setup like that in Capt. Scarlet would have been jarring, but here it simply works and looks right... __________________ Replica Parts: Mattel EAGLE, MPC & Quercetti Fireball XL5, Lincoln International STINGRAY C21 Mac's Car, Rosenthal Thunderbirds. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

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04-08-2012, 09:27 PM	#3
tibbington Medical Technician Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wellington New Zealand Posts: 152	the music star guy that marina and atlanta like is a little ugly always thought that his face had been computer animated over troys face

05-08-2012, 01:21 AM	#4
Cool Caveman Travel Tube Technician Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Tokyo, Japan Posts: 61	Johnny Swoonara? He's actually a remashed Steve Zodiac...