Road Warrior Vehicles ?

I remember years ago seeing resin models to the pursuit and interceptor cars of the first movie, but none of the stuff from the other two. I would have ~loved~ to have seen a kit for the goofy crop duster from the second (?) movie.

George Miller proved himself a genius when he decided NOT to use movie stunt drivers for the movies. Instead he recruited demolition derby drivers--the result is on the screen.

I seem to recall AMT made a stock dune buggy in the late 60s. You know back in the days when there were VW bugs all over and VW vans were cool....no doubt you could kit bash something.

The Manx is getting (re)released sometime this year. It's totally on my to-buy list. It would make a good starting point for a road warrioresque vehicle.

Cheers, Dave Ambrose

The Third "Mad Max", but given "Mad Max 2" was "The Road Warrior" in the U.S., I suppose that makes "Mad Max beyond the Thunderdome" "Road Warrior 2"... The beast was a Transavia PL-12 Airtruk, and the scary thing was there was a proposed multipurpose (including COIN!!!), the M-300:

it can have camo (and, presumably, weapons), so someone will have to kit it. Now all we need is a kit of the PZL-Mielec-M-15- Belphegor...

Regards,

Moramarth

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It's been a while since I've seen these movies; I should break out the VHS tapes soon and burn them to DVD.....

That's one of the few times I saw that type of aircraft. The pilot showed up recently as the wizard in "Legand of the Seeker"; good to see he still has a job.

I think I got Mad Max 2 on disc last time it was on TV, but I'm damned if i can find it

Bruce Spence - the same guy who was the Gyro Captain in " Mad Max 2". Don't worry, he will get his Bus Pass this year... I haven't seen the fantasy series you mention, but it has to be going down market for him, given he was The Mouth of Sauron in the extended version of "Return of the King", the movie against which all other fantasy will be measured - and found lacking...

You haven't missed a thing. I was taping it for about 8 episodes and it got boring. I quit watching and converted the tapes to something else. I don't regret it.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Yeah, it became Xena the Warrior Princess without the visual stimulation.

i once thought i would never see the lord of the rings as a real film and not a cartoon. having it done by someone who really understood that world and how it should look was even better. truly completed my life. they've reissued the ralph bakshi cartoon and that's what it is, a cartoon. bakshi was an amzing animated flim maker, but it just didn't work. perhaps a collaboration with vaughn bode could have made it much better but the deal fell through. it was just carttony and not quite worth sitting through once. all hail peter jackson!

You were actually able to sit through it? It gave me a splitting headache. I liked the Rankin-Bass cartoons "The Hobbit" and "Return of the King" better, but I've always enjoyed Glenn Yarbrough and his music was featured in both.

Singing Orcs ???

More like a singing narrator while the hobbits were walking around.....

let's say i saw it in a really happy mood. you know, like how you go to 2001? wow, man, the colors.....it was a very long time ago. i really was a bakshi fan, so i felt the need to give it a chance. it just didn't work from both a techie and literary view point. i was quite dissapointed.

Meanwhile:

Thing is, over the years there have been a load of 1970s muscle cars and the like that could be good candidates for the more radical machines. I was in the middle of converting an AMT 1973 Mach 1 "Street Machines" Mustang into Max's Interceptor when practicality (and the advent of Aoshima's kit) changed my mind. I'll still customize the Mustang; I'll need parts for it someday.

All those short-track modified cars that had been AMT (and now are whatever Racing Champions calls their model division these days) would be nice starting points for Road Warrior machines. The lion's share of the stunt cars are speedway Sportsmen beaters with extras added for style's sake.

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922

"Where there's a whip, there's a way."

Forget the words, something like... "We have to march a hun'ret miles today, today But Where there's a whip, there's a way!"

I remember that song more than anything else in the show...