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Action Man in Dr Who - Does somebody have it?
Posted: 20 Apr 2010 15:26
by DAMartin
Somewhere (I seem to recall tvtropes.org) I read that the old Dr Who episode "Robot" included an scene where the titular robot attacked the army, composed of Action Man figures (I guess to show the robot as huge). Since Dr Who+Action man sounded perfect to commente here, I went to YouTube searching for the scene, but I just found trailers for the episode. Does anybody have the scene?
Re: Action Man in Dr Who - Does somebody have it?
Posted: 20 Apr 2010 15:38
by Red Baron
Not sure about the story Robot, but I was watching The Deadly Assassin recently with a friend and two Action Men were used at different points for people shrunk by the skeletal Master. My friend, who's a big fan of Doctor Who, wasn't impressed when I shouted "That's an Action Man" and smiled!
Re: Action Man in Dr Who - Does somebody have it?
Posted: 20 Apr 2010 16:37
by DAMartin
That would also be good to watch!
With Action Men appearing in the army, and as victims of the Master, while the Doctor once met Death's Head from Transformers, would that mean Dr Who as part of the Hasbroverse is plausible? Maybe not, but it's still fun to think
Re: Action Man in Dr Who - Does somebody have it?
Posted: 20 Apr 2010 18:21
by The Kraken Wakes
I thought it was an AM tank or something that the robot destroyed or that attacked it? Didnt think there were action men too but will try and hunt my disc out and have a look.
Re: Action Man in Dr Who - Does somebody have it?
Posted: 20 Apr 2010 18:31
by Thundershot
An episode of Dr Who was inspired by one of the writers playing Actionman with his children...War-games I think...but I may of got that wrong.
Actionmen were used in the James Bond movie Moonraker, for the big climatic space battle...if you check out the Mego Museum they have a cool photo.
http://www.megomuseum.com/moonraker/moonraker.html
Re: Action Man in Dr Who - Does somebody have it?
Posted: 20 Apr 2010 20:36
by Red Baron
Thundershot wrote:An episode of Dr Who was inspired by one of the writers playing Actionman with his children...War-games I think...but I may of got that wrong.
Actionmen were used in the James Bond movie Moonraker, for the big climatic space battle...if you check out the Mego Museum they have a cool photo.
http://www.megomuseum.com/moonraker/moonraker.html
Well that is very interesting . . . I'd love to get one of the prop Actionmen for my Bond collection (which I again tried to photgraph at the weekend, but just can't get any really good shots at the moment . . . it will be worth the wait though!)
Re: Action Man in Dr Who - Does somebody have it?
Posted: 20 Apr 2010 21:55
by Sundance
the Tom Baker debut story "Robot" uses a toy tank as a prop for the eponymous robot to destroy in place of a real tank in a rather dodgy VFX scene.