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Loz
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:06 pm |
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One thing that always bugged me about the Fighting Machines in the booklet that came with the album, was the fact that none of the fighting machines appeard to have prehensile tenticals or indeed, even a portal for them to protude from.<br />We know that they have them, because the artillary man describes Men being picked up and bashed against trees.<br /><br />I hope that Jeff will add this feature to his awsome titans in the CGI film.<br /><br />
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Horsell_Common
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:40 pm |
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Loz wrote: One thing that always bugged me about the Fighting Machines in the booklet that came with the album, was the fact that none of the fighting machines appeard to have prehensile tenticals or indeed, even a portal for them to protude from. We know that they have them, because the artillary man describes Men being picked up and bashed against trees. I hope that Jeff will add this feature to his awsome titans in the CGI film.
Actually, if you take a closer look at the album cover by Michael Trim, the under carraige of the machine that houses the Heat Ray tube, you will see 3 ariels, 2 side ariels and 1 central ariel towards the back. Between the Heat Ray tube and the cental ariel you will see the tenticle protruding from the hatchway.
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Loz
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 4:11 pm |
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Yes I have seen that before and assumed it was a tentical. But it doesn't quite fit the bill does it?
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Horsell_Common
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 4:18 pm |
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Loz wrote: Yes I have seen that before and assumed it was a tentical. But it doesn't quite fit the bill does it?
Im hoping that Jeff incorporates that 'line' into the film. I mean, just how menacing would that look to see one of those beast's pick someone up and 'bash' across tree stumps - scary thought really.
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Loz
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 4:27 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
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Oh God yes, I love the fighting machines from the album art, they are like no others, and to think it was nearly the Dean ones. The clips in the PC game were great but the machines seemed rigid. It will be great to see Jeff's fighting Machines moving along at great speed with fluidity and vwrenching people on horse back and the such off the ground and bashing them into tress, splintering them. They also uproot trees in the book and smash things with them, and I'd like to see that too. I hope that they have several tenticals.<br />The fact that they don't even bother with the heatray on the common and just let rip with their prehensiles is horrifying.<br /><br />
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Lonesome Crow
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:29 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
Joined: Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:31 pm Posts: 3365 Location: N.Humberside.UK
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Loz wrote: Oh God yes, I love the fighting machines from the album art, they are like no others, and to think it was nearly the Dean ones. The clips in the PC game were great but the machines seemed rigid. It will be great to see Jeff's fighting Machines moving along at great speed with fluidity and vwrenching people on horse back and the such off the ground and bashing them into tress, splintering them. They also uproot trees in the book and smash things with them, and I'd like to see that too. I hope that they have several tenticals.
The fact that they don't even bother with the heatray on the common and just let rip with their prehensiles is horrifying.
Blood thirsty little ghoul aint' he
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Loz
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:07 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
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I like my Martians to be extremely violent.<br /><br />
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:54 pm |
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ENOUGH.. I've already got a big enough puddle of drool at the thought of the whole project as it is..
"did i miss a meeting" ... bill hicks
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Gone for a BURTON
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:57 am |
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gavv8 wrote: ENOUGH.. I've already got a big enough puddle of drool at the thought of the whole project as it is..
Me too. I can't effing wait
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Loz
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:34 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
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If the tripods get made into robust action toys, I hope that they have sound. Obviously all the different sounding Ullas from the album, especially the one just before the end of side two and the dieing ones, and the more melodius one in the spirit of man section. Also some heatray sounds. and just to ice the cake so to speak, how about some of the classic sound track bits that help depict the Martians hammering and working, oh and the bass line when the cylander opens. This would be the best toy ever, even better than my silver remote controle Dalek.
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Jon T
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 7:22 pm |
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now that would be a cool toy!
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Lonesome Crow
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:52 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
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Loz
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:23 am |
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Martian War Lord |
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Alland
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:00 am |
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You're all forgetting the tentacles' most important use, at least in the original novel. In Wells' book, the fighting machines used their tentacles to carry and fire the cannons (apparently as large in proportion to a fighting machine as a bazooka is to a man) that launched the canisters full of Black Smoke, and it was the poisonous smoke more than the Heat-Ray that finally routed British resistance on the ground.
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Loz
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:39 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
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I aint forgetting nothing tough guy. We have discussed the black smoke many times in other posts.
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Lonesome Crow
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:33 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
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Alland
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Post subject: Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 2:02 am |
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I didn't say it WAS a bazooka, just that from the description in Wells' book, it sounds more like one in appearance than anything else. A large, bulky, rocket-launcher: that's a bazooka in the modern world. Guess we can chalk up another sci fi prediction come true for old H.G.
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Lonesome Crow
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Post subject: Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 11:10 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
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Alland wrote: Guess we can chalk up another sci fi prediction come true for old H.G.
Well, he was a man ahead of his time. I reckon he had a Time Machine, popped forward in time, about 50 years or so and bought a complete volume of encyclopedia and probably got the bookcase as an introductory offer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DldFBFJgWmw&feature=player_embedded
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Klaatu
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:55 am |
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I'm with you Loz, I prefer my Martians to be Blodthirst Bast**ds. (literally)
None of your cute ET stuff.
Bring on the HORROR!!!! AAGGHHH!!
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Loz
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:25 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
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BRINGT IT ON!
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