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Author:  Loz [ Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:52 pm ]
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Which Fighting Machines do you prefer and why?

1) Pendragon

2) Parramount 2005

3) Parramount 1953

4) Asylum

5) Jeff Wayne Animation.

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:16 am ]
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It's got to be 2) Paramount 2005 The FMs are so masive.
I like 5) Jeff Wayne's but I still have a problem with the legs.
4) Asylum they are not tripods so I can't count them.
3) Parramount 1953 once again not tripods but they will do as the flying machines.
1) Pendragon :? :( :cry: :evil: :twisted: :a013: :a093: :a091: :a009: :a010: :-# :help:

Author:  oever532 [ Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:00 am ]
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I like the Fighting Machines from the 1953 movie and Jeff's animation. \:D/ They're simply the best to me. :twisted:

As far as I'm concerned I find Pendragon rubbish, I've got no opinion on the Asylum version and Spielberg version is ok.

Author:  gypsywlf [ Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fighting Machines

Loz wrote:
Which Fighting Machines do you prefer and why?

1) Pendragon

2) Parramount 2005

3) Parramount 1953

4) Asylum

5) Jeff Wayne Animation.


First: Paramount '05 -- Tripods closest to book. Good sense of size and unstoppability.
Second: Asylum -- More than three legs, but appropriately 'mean' looking.
Third: Paramount '53 -- Always liked the droop-winged 'swans'. The zapping 'eye' creeped me out as a kid.
Fourth: Jeff Wayne -- not as familiar with these, but felt the legs were too thin, the bodies too spherical. Reminded me more of a daddy-long-legs spider.
Last: -- Hines/Pendragon -- head/hood too puny to seem intimidating. Apparent fnish too akin to a cheap chrome-plated plastic knick-knack.

Author:  Loz [ Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:44 pm ]
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Mine are
Parramount 05 - almost perfect.
Jeff wayne - although they seem rigid. But those hoods are soooo spooky
Parramount 53 - shame about the legs but beautiful and menacing.
Don't like the other two but will go with Pendragon just to look at over Asylum.

Author:  Jon T [ Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:30 am ]
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mine used to be jeff waynes, i loved them, but after seeing paramount 2005 those are now by far my favourite.

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Tue Jul 26, 2005 12:42 am ]
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Jon T wrote:
mine used to be jeff waynes, i loved them, but after seeing paramount 2005 those are now by far my favourite.

The paramount 2005 FMs are great but their legs are too rubbery :? I prefer a more mechanical, jointed leg.

Author:  oever532 [ Tue Jul 26, 2005 8:22 am ]
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Thus you mean the legs used by Jeff's FMs?

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Tue Jul 26, 2005 8:19 pm ]
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oever532 wrote:
Thus you mean the legs used by Jeff's FMs?

Yes and no, I like the angular appearance of Jeff's/Michael Trim's FM. But I don't like the way the legs radiate out around the body.
In nature animals have their legs fixed under the body to bare the bodys weight. except reptiles who have their legs fixed at 90 degrees to the body, this means for them to walk or run they have to throw their weight from side to side just to lift a foot of the ground, if a FM had to do this the Martian inside would look like a milkshake in no time. :D

Author:  oever532 [ Tue Jul 26, 2005 8:43 pm ]
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I see... thanks for that explanation, my friend. :)

Author:  Alland [ Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:55 pm ]
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Actually, only warm-blooded animals have their legs directly under their bodies. Cold-blooded ones spend most of their time lying on their bellies instead of actually standing or walking. It's not just reptiles: amphibians do it, too, as well as all those invertebrates (mainly the arthropods) that have legs at all. All of them have legs jutting out at the side.

Author:  oever532 [ Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:00 am ]
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That's true, cold-blooded animals need to warm up or cool down.

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:55 pm ]
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Dinosaurs had their legs under their bodys but we are still not sure whether they were warm or cold blooded, it's undecided. :-k

Author:  McTodd [ Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:01 pm ]
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Be that as it may...

...I would just like to point out that Pendragon's Fighting Machines were utter s**te. :a019:

I thang you.

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:20 pm ]
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:lol: That goes without saying :lol:

Author:  Loz [ Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:54 am ]
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I like the rubbery legs of the Parramount FM's. They remind me of me after a night on the town.

Author:  oever532 [ Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:40 am ]
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So you have rubbery legs then? :wink: :-s

Author:  Loz [ Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:37 pm ]
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:wink:

Author:  oever532 [ Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:41 pm ]
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That's what I thought.

Author:  Alland [ Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:44 am ]
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Actually, the Pendragon machines weren't that bad in design. The thing that spoiled them was the clumsy animation (sometimes you see the entire machine slide forward instead of walking on its legs). Aside from them, I've only seen the machines in the two Paramount films. (I ordered the Asylum version from Amazon, but they're taking their own sweet time delivering the thing, and after reading the spoilers in the Asylum section, I am beginning to expect the worst.) The machines from the '53 flick didn't follow the book, but they were creepy enough. In the later Paramount film, the machines were both tripods and scary, particularly at night or in cloudy weather.

Author:  oever532 [ Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:53 am ]
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So, what is in your opinion the best adaptation to the book, according to the movies? :-s

Author:  Alland [ Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:13 pm ]
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Best ADAPTATION TO THE BOOK (as opposed to technical details like skill in animation) has to be the Pendragon machines. What really topped them over the latest Paramount version is the fact that they were still armed with the Heat-Ray, as opposed to that stupid "create empty clothes" ray Spielberg came up with.

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:57 am ]
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Whereas the Pendragon heat ray had the ability to make Big Ben's clock tower float almost undamaged to the river thames =D> atleast Spielberg's didn't make me laugh :a103:

Author:  oever532 [ Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:10 am ]
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The Martian Victory/Human Defeat Sequence in the PC game is awesome. In that sequence the Big Ben gets destroyed, but in a more credible way.

Author:  exodus2310 [ Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:19 am ]
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05 because I like the design more than the others, it seems more alien than the preview designs and more daunting and intimidating!

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