Full Port Rudder wrote:
MonsterGuy95 wrote:
I heard somewhere that Ray did an interview in the late 50's in which he brought along the Ymir from "20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH". Does anyone know if this interview exists? I would love to see the actual model - shame that it doesn't exist now, just as a plaster copy.



I don't know if it's likely that that was the actual model, it was dismantled for its armature for the second cyclops (not the one pictured in your avatar), it had to be a bit smaller scale for the fight with the dragon. Ray might have brought the plaster copy with him on the show, it depends on when it aired. If it was after 1957, most likely it was the plaster one.

The interview was shown during the  first run of 20 Million Miles to Earth in the summer of 1957.  It was a daytime show  in the afternoon.
which I would not have seen during the school year.  As far as I remember  Ray did move the puppet so it must have been the
armatured one.  The program opened with a tight close-up of the Ymir on Whittinghill's  desk.