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Martian Influence
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Author:  Loz [ Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:52 pm ]
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I thought it vwould be good on this forum if we could use this post to highlight all the other works, such as books, films, cartoons, adverts, comics, etc, that elements from War of the Worlds have ended up in. Obvious lifts from the book.<br /><br />Justice League (Cartoon) Pilot Episode. Has tripod war machines, heat ray, and falling star type landing, and invasion of course.<br /><br />League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - has a behind the scenes look at the invasion, very faithful on the surface. They still die of bugs but only thanks to a superbug created by Doctor Moreau, which is fired into London, killing the martians and all human survivors. "The Martians Died of bugs, the people died of Martians." Lies M.<br /><br />Superman/War of the Worlds. Resets the story in 50's America and has Man of Steel, who can't actually fly take them on. Martians still get ill but try and fight it off with Luthors aid.<br /><br />Tripods TV Series. Blatant rip off, a sort of, what if they succeeded in their invasion, and what they get up to after.<br /><br />Half-Life 2 Computer game has Tripod war machines.<br /><br />The Mini advert from a few years back. had tripods.<br /><br />Attack of the Clones - Tripod fighting machines.

Update. Seeing as no ones bothered with this one! :roll:

War of the worlds Dispatches - Book with several short stories of other perspectives of invasion. Silly though because they are set in other counties and the Martians only get as far as securing London and its surrounds.
Author:  Xuxa the White [ Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:09 am ]
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David Cian's Mega War of the Worlds takes place 100 years after H.G. Wells' invasion in 1901. Earth Forces have gigantic robots manned by men and women dedicated to defending Earth. However the Martians have serious updates on their tech...and this time, no mere germ is going to stop them!
Author:  oever532 [ Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:19 pm ]
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But what will stop them? Man, Earth has hard times. I saw on a Star Trek site that a race called the Xindi used a superweapon that annihilated Earth in 2154. :a010: :a009: :a103: :a013: :alien2: :cry: That was, fortunately, in an alternate timeline. :) And in an other timeline, Earth gets entirely assimilated by the Borg :a103: , but the Enterprise - E changed things back to normal. Why are some hostile aliens picking on Earth? I know and understand the Martian reason, but I find the reasons for the other aliens totally irrelevant! :a091: :a093:
Author:  Loz [ Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:54 pm ]
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They are jealous of our little blue globe because it is the place where that great film Director, Hines was born. :a112:
Author:  oever532 [ Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:59 pm ]
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Then why don't we send him to somewhere else so they can leave Earth alone? :-k

I'm sick and tired of seeing pics on the net where Earth gets destroyed by that Xindi Superweapon from the Star Trek: Enterprise episode Twilight! :a091:
Author:  Loz [ Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:03 pm ]
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oever532 wrote:
Then why don't we send him to somewhere else so they can leave Earth alone? :-k



This is a fabulous idea. We could put him in a rocket and fire him into the void.
Author:  oever532 [ Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:05 pm ]
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Then the Martians for example would have a good subject to experiment with... :lol:
Author:  Loz [ Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:12 pm ]
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I think we best shoot him past Mars and out of the solar system altogether. :mrgreen:
Author:  oever532 [ Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:15 pm ]
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And what if it entered the Klingon Neutral Zone *giggles* :lol:
Author:  Xuxa the White [ Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:56 pm ]
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Xuxa the White wrote:
David Cian's Mega War of the Worlds takes place 100 years after H.G. Wells' invasion in 1901. Earth Forces have gigantic robots manned by men and women dedicated to defending Earth. However the Martians have serious updates on their tech...and this time, no mere germ is going to stop them!


Bad news! Mega War of the Worlds will not be out until november/december of this year! I found out some time ago! :(
Author:  oever532 [ Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:27 pm ]
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That's bad news indeed...
Author:  Alland [ Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:39 am ]
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Final bad news: "Mega War of the Worlds" was cancelled for some asinine reason right before the publication date. Now we'll never know...
Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Sat Feb 18, 2006 12:14 am ]
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:shock: I've not seen this thread before, I don't know how I missed it.
Here are some illustrations from the 1930's by Frank R. Paul as you can see he was heavily influenced by Wells' Tripods. Loz is using one of his WotW pieces as an Avatar.
Author:  Loz [ Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:05 pm ]
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Hey that's all great stuff Lonesome.

Do you still have that model? Love to see it. :a028:

I used to collect lampshades when i was a kid with the intention of using one as the main body of a FM. However I didn't have your ability to see it through. Still don't.
Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:34 pm ]
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No not any more, plus it wasn't very good. I remember it was make from the bottom cut out of a KP snack pot container and one of my mum's hand cream pots. it looked the part but it wasn't very robust :a009:
Author:  Loz [ Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:26 pm ]
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:lol: sounds great.
Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:33 am ]
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They don't make hand cream pots like that anymore :a009: :lol:
Author:  Gone for a BURTON [ Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:37 am ]
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Is it just me or does the victim in that last picture look like a young Father Christmas?

:wink:
Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:52 pm ]
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I thought the one belting the machine in the brain looked like Rodney Trotter :lol:
Author:  Loz [ Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:08 pm ]
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Gone for a BURTON wrote:
Is it just me or does the victim in that last picture look like a young Father Christmas?

:wink:


Young Missus Christmas more like!
Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Wed May 17, 2006 7:18 pm ]
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I thought this was the best place to post this one.

It's 'The Salvation Army building in Queen Victoria Street, City of London, on 10 May 1941 the worst night of the Blitz. does it look familiar to any one? where have we seen it before? :-k :lol:
Author:  Loz [ Mon May 22, 2006 10:10 pm ]
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The route of civilization picture from the booklet with the musical version that's where!
Nice discovery. 8)
Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Wed May 24, 2006 1:37 am ]
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Loz wrote:
The route of civilization picture from the booklet with the musical version that's where!
Nice discovery. 8)

Give the boy a coconut =D> =D>
Author:  Loz [ Wed May 24, 2006 1:28 pm ]
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Did you know that the artist used it as source material already?
Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Wed May 24, 2006 7:26 pm ]
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Yes, I saw it as a short clip of film footage many years ago and recognised it, then I found it on the net the other day.
I don't know if it's because I dabble with paints or what it is but I do have the knack of recognising artists source material when it pops up.
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