Shangri-La

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Within the category of things that are awesome this ranks among the most, well, awesome.

Captain Kordon’s ship in the Thundarr ep “Treasure of the Moks” is represented thus:

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Turns out the US carrier numbered 38 was this ship:

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Yep that’s right, the USS Shangri-La. The only American warship named for an imaginary locale from a work of fiction.

Read the whole page. She was a badass who brought it for decades. What’s  really cool about her and Thundarr is she was in mothballs for the ten years (give-or-take) bookending the show before being scrapped. It makes perfect sense for the program’s creators to posit her deck and tower being around thousands of years later, given things like the Statue of Liberty and St. Louis Arch also still exist.

 

No time for talk!

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These three are about to set out on their adventures across the ruined Earth:

The Psychic Princess:

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The Wasteland Warrior and the Apeman:

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All sculpted by the talented Mr. Paul Muller.

Into the Badlands

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Green Team form a stack before breaching the notorious brothel The Honeypot Hideout.

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Skelias advances ahead of Gundalf while Heston covers the rear.

Skelias is from this range (top right on that page). He looks undead but isn’t. His flesh, blood and organs are transparent. Walks around naked all the time; he digs it. (Edit: Skelias could be a Nehwon Ghoul or an Encounter Critical! or Carcosa Bone Man. But he’s not saying.)

Gundalf.

Heston “Anaconda” Jones. I love this fig; he even has a spare mag in his “helmet” band!

Dredd. Judge Dredd.

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One of my favourite pastimes is watching two or more films simultaneously.

Here’s a pair I feared might be like nuts and gum together that turned out rather like chocolate and peanut butter:

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Try it.