Friday, January 30, 2009

Starbuck...before Starbucks




Sorry for the neglect, but I finally had a chance to get back to this blog.

I will begin 2009 with this item from my childhood that continued to nourish my love of villains in film and TV. The Cylon Raider from TV's Battlestar Galactica had retractable sides to ready it for battle. Due to a child's death as a result of swallowing one of the ship's red torpedoes, later versions of the toy had torpedoes that did not fire. I was lucky enough to have one that spring fired and smart enough to know it wasn't a Tic-Tac.

2 comments:

Byron and Amee said...

wow. you're a wealth of knowledge, i guess that's why the transformers toys didn't have missiles that shot out. here i thought it was because it would take someone's eye out.

misterzer0 said...

which would then truly be more than meets the...EYE. badump bump, crash.