Holy Belldandy! I didn't make the connection until the first exterior shot, then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I *had* one of those when I was about 6,
and it's stunning how vivid the memories still are considering that I haven't even thought about it in a good two decades.
Wow... but... they didn't do the come-apart-and-reconfigure thing! The ball turret is supposed to turn into a lifepod, and the bow section comes off and
attaches to the core engine which pulls out of the main hull, and the winglets detatch to become small space fighters... or was that last one just me? I made
so *many* ships out of that thing (probably inspired by exposure to whatever version of Gatchaman was on US Sat-AM TV in the mid-70s). Excuse me, I have to go
check EBay now....
....sigh. None. Not that I could have justified spending what one would probably sell for, now.
....although... if this guy's 3D model is good enough, and someone had a decent export engine... maybe it's time to invest in one of the
desktopfactory.com units after all....
and it's stunning how vivid the memories still are considering that I haven't even thought about it in a good two decades.
Wow... but... they didn't do the come-apart-and-reconfigure thing! The ball turret is supposed to turn into a lifepod, and the bow section comes off and
attaches to the core engine which pulls out of the main hull, and the winglets detatch to become small space fighters... or was that last one just me? I made
so *many* ships out of that thing (probably inspired by exposure to whatever version of Gatchaman was on US Sat-AM TV in the mid-70s). Excuse me, I have to go
check EBay now....
....sigh. None. Not that I could have justified spending what one would probably sell for, now.
....although... if this guy's 3D model is good enough, and someone had a decent export engine... maybe it's time to invest in one of the
desktopfactory.com units after all....