View Full Version : Breaking news from Moebius!


Steve CultTVman Iverson
04-01-2009, 01:08 PM
Check out the latest model news from Moebius, Wondefest updates, plus a new article on "Who needs instruction sheets." It's all in the newest online edition of the Retro Roquets newsletter (http://www.culttvman2.com/dnn/Home/RetroRoquets2009/tabid/1037/Default.aspx)

Lloyd Collins
04-01-2009, 01:16 PM
WoW, I can't wait to see these at Wal-Mart!

SFCOM1
04-01-2009, 02:06 PM
LOL!

I just love Retro Roquets. Just a great time of year! ;)

LGFugate
04-01-2009, 02:17 PM
Oh, Steve! That was great! I think I literally laughed my a$$ off! My co-workers are looking for it now....

:thumbsup::):thumbsup::):thumbsup::):thumbsup::):t humbsup:

steve123
04-01-2009, 04:04 PM
Thanks! happy April fool's day!

Steve

RogueJ
04-01-2009, 05:24 PM
Jokes on us. That's not an incredibly large Enterprise D kit, but an carefully crafted scale model of Dave Metzner.

Boy were we fooled.

Rogue :)

hedorah59
04-01-2009, 05:26 PM
What - April Fool's day?

Dang, I wanted that Gilligan Minnow kit...

JohnGuard
04-01-2009, 05:45 PM
No Way Man, No Way!! You Have To Make Those Models Come True Man!! I Want An Ss Minnow Model, Man!!! You Cant Put That Stuff Up And Then Claim It's A Joke, Man!! Thats Just Wrong , Man!!!!!!
Thats False Advertising, Man!!!!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!

ChrisW
04-01-2009, 08:16 PM
Ah, Spring is in the air! And I look forward to the latest installment of Retro Roquets the same as those other harbingers of Spring - sinus headaches, scratchy throat, clogged sinus passages and post-nasel (or should I say nacelle?) drip!

Great job as usual, Steve, Jim, George!

Lloyd Collins
04-01-2009, 08:35 PM
It was a joke! I'm sueing!

mcdougall
04-01-2009, 09:50 PM
LMFAO...:p:p:p
Mcdee

John P
04-02-2009, 09:51 AM
I so want that Minnow model!

Ravenauthor
04-02-2009, 10:17 AM
yeah, I know it's a joke, but I'd love to have a wrecked S. S. Minnow diorama model. Theoretically, if you didn't mention Gilligan's Island whatsoever anywhere in the kit or on the box, include a decal sheet listing the names of all kinds of fish, and a separate decal sheet with the S. S. on it, could it be produced without any licensing fees? Or would the design of the ship preclude that also?

Capt. Krik
04-02-2009, 12:32 PM
Great job as usual, Steve, Jim, George!


Thank you, Chris. Though truthfully the credit really goes to Jim and Steve. I only supplied the instruction sheet. Though I thank them for giving me a credit on this year's version of their annual April Fools prank.

Now then, when will Moebius have their Marlo Thomas kits ready. I know Jim would never make a joke about something like that. ;)

ChrisW
04-02-2009, 01:05 PM
Now then, when will Moebius have their Marlo Thomas kits ready. I know Jim would never make a joke about something like that. ;)


Hmmm...Marlo Thomas....Elizabeth Montgomery....Mary Tyler Moore... Sally Fields...I think I see a series of kits!!!!

beck
04-02-2009, 03:29 PM
whoa whoa , let's not get this thread locked just yet :p( but i would like to see that Minnow dio as a real kit too ) .
man that is some really funny stuff Guys . very well done :thumbsup:.
hb

Capt. Krik
04-02-2009, 04:21 PM
Hmmm...Marlo Thomas....Elizabeth Montgomery....Mary Tyler Moore... Sally Fields...I think I see a series of kits!!!!


You know, Chris, that's excutive level thinking there. You'll go far in this business. :p

PM Moderator
04-02-2009, 04:49 PM
Why not?
I haven't locked a thread in at least three or four days now...
Chances of an SS Minnow kit are about as good as a Sally Fields kit........Just Not gonna happen..... trust me on this one!
Dave

scotpens
04-02-2009, 05:03 PM
Which kits do you think would have greater sales potential:

Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petrie or Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards?

Sally Field as Gidget or Sally Field as the Flying Nun?

http://www.tvparty.com/spotpix16/living.gif[/IMG-LEFT]


And I'm still waiting for Julie Newmar as Rhoda the Robot in [I]My Living Doll.





OK, NOW you can lock 'er down.

trekman
04-02-2009, 09:32 PM
Hang on, don't close the dungeon door yet! I still need 1/6 scale Barbra Eden and Yahvonne Craig( Batgirl). Ok slam the door shut, and leave my 4 ft. Enterprise D in with me! HA!

ChrisW
04-02-2009, 10:52 PM
Which kits do you think would have greater sales potential:

Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petrie or Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards?



mmmm...definitely Laura...in the capri pants...

Zombie_61
04-03-2009, 01:44 AM
So, Hoss and Little Joe Cartwright won't be at Wonderfest then? :confused:



:lol:

John P
04-03-2009, 07:31 AM
Hmmm...Marlo Thomas....Elizabeth Montgomery....Mary Tyler Moore... Sally Fields...I think I see a series of kits!!!!

Have you seen Sally's latest film, "Gidget Goes to the Bone Doctor"?

PM Moderator
04-03-2009, 09:38 AM
Hmmmmmm Julie Newmar as Stupefyin' Jones ! Now go google that one!!!

Dave

Kitzillastein58
04-03-2009, 02:18 PM
Hmmmmmm Julie Newmar as Stupefyin' Jones ! Now go google that one!!!

Dave

Oh yeah, now you're talkin'! :p

Kitz' :wave:

scotpens
04-03-2009, 05:39 PM
Have you seen Sally's latest film, "Gidget Goes to the Bone Doctor"?
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Sounds like something from an old Johnny Carson routine.

julz
04-03-2009, 06:54 PM
Hysterical!!!

scotpens
04-03-2009, 08:59 PM
[IMG-LEFT]http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/attachment.php?attachmentid=80172&stc=1&d=1238806698[/IMG-LEFT]

Hysterical!!!

And I'm WET . . .
and I'm in PAIN!!

ChrisW
04-03-2009, 09:40 PM
Have you seen Sally's latest film, "Gidget Goes to the Bone Doctor"?

That's not as bad as "Mary Richards goes to the Plastic Surgeon"! God bless her, she LOOKS like she's made out of styrene...and it's not a very good likeness...

Dave, funny, I just saw L'il Abner a few weeks ago!!! Stupifyin' is right!

starmanmm
04-03-2009, 11:46 PM
PM Moderator wrote
Chances of an SS Minnow kit are about as good as a Sally Fields kit........Just Not gonna happen..... trust me on this one!


I don't know... would have loved to read the threads regarding the size and location of the holes in ship! :rolleyes:

PM Moderator
04-04-2009, 11:33 AM
I think Julie Newmar was about 18 years old when she was in Lil Abneron Broadway (1956)!

ChrisW
04-05-2009, 08:16 PM
I think Julie Newmar was about 18 years old when she was in Lil Abneron Broadway (1956)!

Thanks for making me feel like a dirty old man! Of course, in 1956 I wasn't even born yet...

SteveR
04-05-2009, 10:01 PM
Don't forget Barbara Eden.

PM Moderator
04-05-2009, 10:40 PM
In 1956 I was about 9 years old.........Probably too young to understand Lil Abner in the Sunday comic pages!

steve123
04-05-2009, 11:09 PM
How hard would it be to take the Revell "sportfisherman" boat and do a little work?....

I've got one...wanna trade?

Steve

scotpens
04-06-2009, 01:20 AM
How hard would it be to take the Revell "sportfisherman" boat and do a little work?....Well, I guess it depends on which version of the Minnow you want to model. At least four boats were used in the show, including one non-floating mockup, and none of them look much like Revell's 42-foot Chris-Craft.

http://www.gilligansisle.com/minnow.html

Auroranut
04-06-2009, 06:57 AM
Aurora would've done it....:drunk:

Chris.

mcdougall
04-06-2009, 07:07 AM
I'd like to do Mary-Ann and Ginger, if they were made into kits...hmm that didn't come out right... but you know what I mean, yeah Chris Aurora probably might of done it...wonder why they didn't ?
Mcdee:wave:

Auroranut
04-06-2009, 07:26 AM
I dunno Denis, but maybe the timing wasn't right or something. Also it might have been difficult to include all the figures AND the Minnow. Just the Minnow would have been cool! Imean- they did Dr Doolittles ship the "Flounder".....
Maybe we could get:beatdeadhorse:to do it......

Chris.

Jokerman
04-06-2009, 07:28 AM
http://www.culttvman.com/kyle_clark_s_gilligan_s_island.html

mcdougall
04-06-2009, 07:33 AM
You're right Chris...if anyone ever does this kit it will be :beatdeadhorse:...so just let me set my calendar to 'two thousand and never' :p
Mcdee

Duck Fink
04-08-2009, 03:59 AM
ahahahahaha..I am 7 days late for this joke and it is STILL hillarious! Walter Cronkite and That Girl LMFAO!

LGFugate
04-08-2009, 01:05 PM
See Ms. Newmar in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf1WlLITjzM

Larry

PM Moderator
04-08-2009, 04:47 PM
Stupefyin'
BTW the goofy looking character she stupefies in the first clip is "Itchy Mc Rabbit" - played by Jerry Lewis!