Collectible Martian Oddities

[mctoddridesagain]

Some weeks ago, whilst browsing, I came upon this odd little image of the Martians, from a Portugese site (which, with typical thoroughness, I neither bookmarked nor documented, and which I now can't find):



Utterly obscure, it's the only time I've seen it.

Until just now, when I found an image of a little model on a Japanese site, here:



It's available here, under 'Space Black Series' about two-thirds of the way down the page - bizarrely, there's a purple version available too!

www.clawmarktoys.com/mini-index.html

I recommend a good browse, there's some barmy stuff there...!

[JonT]

lol now they are freaky, i like the look of them but if they werent standing upright on their tentacles i think they would look a lot like the Wellsian Martian

[Thunder Child]

I think they are wellsian martians, standing upright on the surface of Mars. I once saw a book about Wells with a martian on the front wich looked EXACTLY like these ones.

I think they are pretty good.

Johan

[JonT]

yeah i think you're right. i forgot the earth's atmosphere wasnt totally suitable for the martians, it made them sluggish, so they were probably able to do this on mars.

[BiG_ReD]

[glow=red,2,300]Uh, if you ask me, they, uh, kind of look pretty freaky standing upright too.

*gulp*

I thought the only thing stopping me from freezing up (when seeing one of these buggers for real) would be the fact that I was taller than it. Remember that Burton said "A huge, rounded bulk, larger than a bear," I hope it's only a canadian black bear or something! I'd hate to have that thing looking down on me!

ahem. But, yes. Cool looking. I don't think I've ever seen someone portraying the Martians 'standing up' on Mars before. Curious. Here are the purple ones:



Hey, aren't these the mini-toys that they sell from vending machines in Japan? (you know they also sell pets from those things!)[/glow]

[Gnorn]

McToddRidesAgain said:

Some weeks ago, whilst browsing, I came upon this odd little image of the Martians, from a Portugese site (which, with typical thoroughness, I neither bookmarked nor documented, and which I now can't find):

You still got it saved on your HD? Maybe if you look at the properties of the file, it gives you the URL ? (at least it works this way with a Mac)

-Gnorn

[mctoddridesagain]

Ta for the suggestion Gnorn, but sadly I have a scummy laptop of the evil Gatesian Windows variety, so no luck there...

[Gnorn]

To bad...

But if you have the original file on your HD, maybe try Google to search for the file name? I know it's a long shot, but who knows?

-Gnorn

[mctoddridesagain]

Problem is, so many image files that I save have file names that only mean anything to their creator that I often rename them, as I did with this one. I've tried searching again, using the Portuguese for War of the Worlds among other things, but to no avail so far... Ah well.

[BrutalDeluxe]

If you ask me they look very much like the martians from Metal Slug that Big Red has for his avatar. I think they look great.

[Luperis]

They look like evil jellyfish

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]If I recall the range that they come from also has the planet Mars (on a very different scale of course) which would look nice sitting behind them on a shelf.
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[kurt]

I WANT THAT ONE!!

[theredweed]

They look not good, I like the drawing but not keen on them

[Refugee]

I like that word, oddity, it's a funny little word. Those martian models are scarier looking than the spielberg ones were. I've been on the website of the makers, I have seen the star trek models before but was impressed by the planets with the satelites on them.