Return To Return To Oz.

A few weeks back, I picked up several Movie pamphlets including one for Return to Oz. Needless to say, this was the highlight of the bunch. (Posting this today in honour of the birthday of the Wonderful Blog of Oz blogger, Eric.) Great movie, can't say I've seen it since its release 30 years ago! But leafing through this pamphlet sure brought back some memories. Without further ado, here are some highlights from it!

The cast including the awesome Faizura Balk.

 The production...

And finally the Milk drink. (Not sure what it is but I guess you mix it with milk and it has vitamins and minerals in it.)

I'm going to have to track this movie down and rewatch it. Here's a taste of it.



ps. Eric, I'm keeping this pamphlet for myself. If I ever come across another one, I'll send it your way.

These Are The Voyagers.

Do you recognize this vessel?

It's the USS Voyager that I've rescued from a box of Star Trek ships, soon to be displayed in all their glory, once I get around to it. 

Yesterday just happens to be the 20th Anniversary of that show's debut and I'm going to regale you of a tale of its cast.

This tale was going to include pictures of a Toronto Comic Convention, with Cos-players aplenty, TV stars and video of me talking to 7 of 11 erm 7 of 9. Alas much to my chagrin, all of those photos were lost in the great Computer Crash in the summer of 2012. So you'll just have to take my word for it.

When BigBob and I went to the convention (like 50 bucks or something to enter!), we did so on a lark without knowing who the guests would be. I turns out that one of the guests was Jeri Ryan. Me, being me, had several Star Wars Bearbricks on hand and I gave them out to random cos-players whom I thought were particularly cool. Then I espied Jeri Ryan and as luck would have it, there was no line-up for an autograph signing. Her security guard saw me approach her but didn't stop me from handing her a C-3P0 Bearbrick that she said she'd give to her daughter. We chatted for a bit and then I left. (I think I also gave a character to tipsy-looking Dean Stockwell but I'm not sure of that.)

Here is Jeri Ryan at that very convention. Unfortunately there is no clip of me asking her about her relationship with Kate Mulgrew. I didn't realize there was bad blood between them and she just made a very diplomatic answer. Such as, "She's wonderful, a truly great actress." And then pretty much changed the subject.



So that is my brush with the Borg, I managed to escape unassimilated.

Zoryani Viyny

Zoryani Viyny is a transliteration and Зо́ряні ві́йни is the actual Ukrainian spelling of Star Wars.

Why am I bringing this up? Because one of my ex-co-workers-and-Facebook-friends (too many hyphens there) responded to my "Let's Fill Facebook with Images of Star Wars" with the following pictures. They are TOO incredible to keep to FB alone, so I'm sharing them on the interwebs for the world at large.

The colour and detail on this are amazing and I'm not sure what all the little symbols strewn throughout are symbolic of but they certainly add to the pictures.

This is some info on Lego Darth for those of you who understand the language.



The person that started this all off for me challenged me to a Boba Fett and so I snapped a photo of the nearest item I had at hand, and Surprise-Surprise, it's a bottle cap.

This was her initial picture that got the ball rolling for me.

Some other photos that have crept into my feed follow:

Here are 30 Star Wars characters as chosen by Empire Magazine. I can't argue with the picks, maybe just quibble with the order of them.

Lastly, this little item was picked up in a Mandai grab-bag yesterday. I seem to recall buying a few of these in 2005 and may have them stuffed in a box somewhere, or I gave them away. Anyway, handy little knickknack, it's an R2-D2 Snack Clip to hold ones potato chip bag closed so they don't go stale. (Never mind that I rarely leave an opened bag of chips unfinished.)

Going Batty.

Over last few weeks, I've been tidying up my place (sloooowly tidying) in order to begin displaying my massive collection of crap. The last time I had items up for display was in early 2011 and all of those fell down during the massive earthquake in April of that year. So I hereby apologize in advance, for once I do have my goods showcased, inevitably there will be another earthquake. You can blame me for it.

Digging back into the collection, I discovered two freezer bags full of Batman-related characters. Since yesterday was the anniversary of the Batman TV series way back in '66, I thought that would be a good chance for me to show you some of what I have.

Obviously these aren't from the 60s series due to the presence of Bane and Batwoman. Here is a list of most of the Batman cast, who would make a good Bane? Ted Cassidy? That big bald guy who always fought Charles Bronson, Robert Tessier?  No need to cast Batwoman, when you had the delightful Batgirl, Yvonne Craig.

Harley Quinn would have been cool in the 60s. I say Teri Garr would have been perfect.

Of the above, this last one is my favourite. We could really use a live-action version of Man-Bat. Who'd we get for the 60s? I dunno, how about Darrin McGavin? I implore you to tell me your dream casting for the above.

I'm waiting for the DVD/ Blu Ray set to drop in price ... Unless someone would like to get it for me.