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EastIsRed		#181	[-]
Jun 16 11 7:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Regarding the bubble machine: As a child, I hypothesized that perhaps the Ro-Man had originally come from a bubble planet and was feeling a little homesick.
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TServo4		#182	[-]
Jun 9 12 4:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For those of you who have never had a chance to see any of the film in 3D, or have only seen the Rhino VHS (which was not done very well), enjoy this clip from the 3D Film Archive, complete with an intro by Mssrs. Bob Furmanek and Bob Burns! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpz2JERo3AY J. Theakston Capitol Theatre, Rome, NY
Crow T Robot		#183	[-]
Jun 9 12 6:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Very nice. Thanks for posting the link.
The Mighty Bongo		#184	[-]
Jun 9 12 11:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks for the link T ! How cool is that !
bipolarber		#185	[-]
Jun 10 12 3:00 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Love that second t-shirt's design, the monochromatic one, slightly brownish? Who put that one out? Is it still available? "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
The Mighty Bongo		#186	[-]
Jun 10 12 5:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	bipolarber wrote: Love that second t-shirt's design, the monochromatic one, slightly brownish? Who put that one out? Is it still available? Here ya go !http://www.amazon.com/B-M...nd-T-Shirt/dp/B004KAF4BG Chris Want to hang out with the ultimate party animals ? Come see us at; http://www.hollywoodgorillamen.com/
TheLizard		#187	[-]
Jun 13 12 1:34 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ro Man is what I think you could call "accidental brilliance". Ro Man is completely unforgettable, and totally genius. But not in any way probably intended. I mean you REALLY COULDN'T make a monster that original but so completely stupid if you tried. As a side note, has anyone seen Lobster Man From Mars? It's been years since I saw it, but I think it was a Troma film, and the title character had a servant or something that was basically Ro Man, I'm sure as an homage. A very silly movie, as I recall.
bipolarber		#188	[-]
Jun 18 12 3:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Typical... I take a 3X, and they only sell up to XXL... Do these tshirt manufacturers ever actually look at the American public? Everytime I go to a con, a good percentage of the attendees are bigger than I am! Who do they THINK their demographic is? "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
Edkkakumon		#189	[-]
Jun 18 12 3:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I looked at the trailer for Lobster Man, and you do see very Ro-Man looking alien in the background. Qoute of the month " Turn left at the fork in the road." " Oh, Kermittttt."- The Muppet Movie
TomWeaver999		#190	[-]
Jun 20 12 9:27 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	<< Everytime I go to a con, a good percentage of the attendees are bigger than I am! Who do they THINK their demographic is? << At a monstuh movie convention, Anne Francis once said to me that she wanted to make and sell, at her convention appearances, a FORBIDDEN PLANET T-shirt, and asked me what sizes she should make 'em in. I pointed at myself, and waved my hand at the people passing in the aisles, and said, "No 'SMALLs,' that's for sure!"
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Rakshasa		#191	[-]
Jun 20 12 9:33 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TomWeaver999 wrote: "No 'SMALLs,' that's for sure!" XXL is the new SMALL! Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
TheLizard		#192	[-]
Jun 28 12 8:15 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yeah, anybody printing up some shirts would benefit saleswise in the U.S. of A by including larger sizes. When I got the first run of shirts for my band a few years back, I made sure that there were XXLs in there. And I sold every one of them. It turned out what I needed the most of was XXLs and smalls. The world of punk rock is one of extreme weight factions, I guess.
horrorfilmx		#193	[-]
Jun 28 12 8:18 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	bipolarber wrote: Typical... I take a 3X, and they only sell up to XXL... Do these tshirt manufacturers ever actually look at the American public? Everytime I go to a con, a good percentage of the attendees are bigger than I am! Who do they THINK their demographic is? I'm guessing by big you mean fat.
BijouBob8mm		#194	[-]
Jun 28 12 2:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Actually, FWIW, the helmet wasn't a diver's helmet, it was a paper mache helmet made for another space picture (DESTINATION MOON, I think). Doesn't look like the DESTINATION MOON helmets (didn't some of the DM costumes end up in FLIGHT TO MARS?)...thought I'd read somewhere ROBOT MONSTER's helmet had been used in PHANTOM FROM SPACE.
DonM435		#195	[-]
Jun 28 12 11:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm guessing by big you mean fat. Yeah, but you can't use that word! There was a sketch on Saturday Night Live many years ago. (I paraphrase, but it was close to this.) Bill Russell was the guest, and he was playing the proprietopr of a "Big and Tall Men's" shop. These young ladies come in and one of them (I think it wasz Jane Curtin) asks "Can I buy a belt for a really FAT man?" Russell quickly assures her that "We carry a complete line of fashionable clothing for the big and tall man." "Yeah," she says, but my dad isn't really tall, or big, he's just . . . FAT." (She really spits out the word and makes it resonate.) "Yeah," assures her companion. "Boy is Mr. Brown really, really FAT." (Same deal: "FFFFAT!") It goes on and on, with the store staff, visibly aghast, trying to cope with the gals' nonstop use of that other dreaded f-word.
horrorfilmx		#196	[-]
Jun 30 12 8:23 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That's pretty funny. I remember seeing Oprah on a talk show talking about some celebrity who was described as "heavy" and explaining "When they say heavy they mean big". And I thought "Sure, Oprah, but what do they say when they mean FAT?"
The Mighty Bongo		#197	[-]
Jul 1 12 10:57 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	BijouBob8mm wrote: Actually, FWIW, the helmet wasn't a diver's helmet, it was a paper mache helmet made for another space picture (DESTINATION MOON, I think). Doesn't look like the DESTINATION MOON helmets (didn't some of the DM costumes end up in FLIGHT TO MARS?)...thought I'd read somewhere ROBOT MONSTER's helmet had been used in PHANTOM FROM SPACE. Your right Bob, I did a post on my gorilla men blog about Robot Monster, and included photos of the helmet from R.M. and Phantom from space. http://www.hollywoodgorillamen.com/2011/10/robot-monster.html The big difference is that the helmet faced opposit directions in each of the films. In one , the little air tanks were in front, in the other, they were on the back. The respective eye holes were cut in and the hole in the back, ( from the previous eye hole) was filled. Chris Want to hang out with the ultimate party animals ? Come see us at; http://www.hollywoodgorillamen.com/ Last Edited By: The Mighty Bongo Jul 1 12 11:01 AM. Edited 1 times.
kcor.tylerandjacksmo...		#198	[-]
Jul 1 12 12:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	horrorfilmx wrote: That's pretty funny. I remember seeing Oprah on a talk show talking about some celebrity who was described as "heavy" and explaining "When they say heavy they mean big". And I thought "Sure, Oprah, but what do they say when they mean FAT?" "Oprah"?
bipolarber		#199	[-]
Jul 1 12 1:17 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	horrorfilmx wrote: bipolarber wrote: Typical... I take a 3X, and they only sell up to XXL... Do these tshirt manufacturers ever actually look at the American public? Everytime I go to a con, a good percentage of the attendees are bigger than I am! Who do they THINK their demographic is? I'm guessing by big you mean fat. In my case, both... I'm 6'3", and 270 pounds, although most people guess me to be around 240 to 250... But yeah, America is a nation that is being victimized by it's own success. "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
Bob Furmanek		#200	[-]
Jul 1 12 1:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If you're in the Rochester, NY area, here's a rare opportunity to see ROBOT MONSTER in the original Polaroid 3-D version: http://dryden.eastmanhous...ms-in-the-3rd-dimension/ Bob Furmanek 3-D Film Archive www.3dfilmarchive.com
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