Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Farewell 007

Roger Suave
So I'm just doing this spur of the moment posting on what is now mostly an in active blog site. Only heard the sad news about an hour ago about Roger Moore passing away at 89 from cancer. Right on the heels of Sound Garden's front man Chris Cornell no less but in his case his death was in some ways even more tragic given that he was only in his 50s. I figured I better throw something on the internet especially with all this russia/trump investigation and terror attack in Manchester drowning out all other news stories including this one. Again, what seemed to be one of those timeless celebrity icons from my child hood has left us. There's really not much of anything I can say that you don't know or haven't heard already if you know anything about Roger Moore's career so let me pivot a bit to some of the 007 toys I used to have when I was a kid.


Ya know I still see the 007 submarine car (Corgi) from time to time at comic and toy conventions, usually going for a pretty hefty price tag. Especially for the ones that are in better condition part of that being if the 007 logo sticker is still present and not too tattered and faded.


I also used to have both the large scale and smaller Moon Raker shuttle craft toys (also from Corgi). Both featured retractable landing gears and cargo bay doors that open. But the bigger shuttle also had a removable satellite which had extending solar panels where as the smaller shuttle just had a fixed molded piece in it but I loved both em just the same. I see the smaller shuttle once in a while at a con but have yet to come across the bigger one. I wonder if all these 007 toys will bump up in value now?

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Here, I'll add this to the posting even though you no commenting ingrates don't really deserve to see any new fan art. Found this on deviant art a few weeks ago and played around with it in photoshop just for fun I never had any intention of posting it. If you have a keen eye for detail you may catch the differences from the original http://www.deviantart.com/art/Marvel-Cosmic-for-Blastoff-Comics-WIP-467835104

9 comments:

  1. I have to say for the time, those toys looks pretty solid, and that Submarine car in a true beaut. Shit yeah the asking price for them, and probably all Bond-related merch is taking a temporary bump with Sir Roger's death. Oh the glories of Capitalism.

    Sweet deviant art that I wish Marvel would officially put out more of retro-ish looking stuff like this. You can't tell me there isn't a market for that shit.

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  2. May he rest in peace.
    The toys look amazing,they don't make them as good nowadays.

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  3. i'm still disappointed with the lack of media coverage about Moore. the latest thing now is some politician running for office in Montana got pissed at a journalist during an interview and attacked him physically. apparently he straight up body slammed him WWF style. so right now between the ongoing investigation with that idiot trump and the russians along with the Manchester terror attack and now this, there just seems to be hardly any time left to cover the life and death of one of the longest standing James Bond actors in the history of the character. very unfortunate.

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  4. One of the best James Bond and actor..
    Watch James Bond online

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  5. Not ungrateful, just NOT on as much with work. Still keep checking in and still getting the NuRom but not really improved yet.

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    1. Well I was just kinda sorta kidding about the "no commenting ingrates" remark....more or less. Probably more less then more more kidding however. Anyways, as far as idw goes I actually read The Idw Revolution trade paper back since I happened to come across it at the library. I may do a review posting for it but for now all I can say is what a forgettable mess it was. Despite bringing all those 80s properties together it just fell flat and hardly evoked any sense of nostalgia for me.

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  6. Comixology has made Hulk 296 available digitally with no editing, so Rom is there in all his glory.
    Alex V

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    1. Sadly the same can't be said for the Hulk Regression trade paper back. They completely corn holed issue 296 it really pissed me off.

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  7. I remember Roger Moor. Another childhood icon, gone. Sucks getting older. May he rest in peace.

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