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Post by Rob on May 30, 2003 8:55:43 GMT
Thought it would be nice if people introduced themselves to each other. We have a set of board regulars and I would love to know more about you all. I'll go first. Well as you've all guess my name is Rob Kinder. I'm 20 years old, I live in Manchester, England. I am a University student, I study Design and Art Direction, at the Metropolitan University. It's basically Graphic Design and other communication arts, but is alot of fun. I live with 3 friends in the City Centre, and I set up War of the Worlds Online about a year ago as soon as I heard about the Pendragon Pictures film. I've loved WOTW since I was a 5 year old, my dad first put the musical version on in the car when we were driving to France and I spent the entire holiday listening to it on my Walkman. After that I was hooked, and I started to watch the 1953 film version, the first time I watched it I was so scared of the scene with the Martian that it took me until I was 15 years old before I could watch it with having to look away from the screen I now collect War of the Worlds merchandise from all over the world in every form. I wanna use this opportunity to thank everyone who has posted, I know that War of the Worlds Online can only grow to be a hot bed of appreciation for the story, in all its guisses.
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Post by AukonDK on May 30, 2003 20:16:14 GMT
Okey-Dokey... here goes... I'm AukonDK... known to most mortals as Steve Ward, mild-mannered Stationary Administrator in the head office of a bank in Bristol, UK. I'm also twenty, but sadly only scraped one pass at A-Level so my dreams of being a parasite on society (a uni student) were scuppered... j/k I really got into WOTW thru the Jeff Wayne musical, and of course thru my love of british sci-fi... Dr Who being my all time fave (a quick look around my room reveals about 27 Daleks in various forms, and the walls are a wonderful police-box blue) I've got the musical on both LP and CD (even found a german language version on the net the other week... not the songs unfortuatly ) plus i have the remix album... i've got both the games (PC and playstation)... i've read the book several times (my copy is from the same print as one seen being read by The Master in an episode of Dr Who... yes i know...) and i have a CD of the Welles radioplay... however have yet to get the George Pal movie on DVD... mainly cos i'm hoping for a super remastered release *fingers crossed* sometime soon. It's nice to be at the birth of a community such as this... i hope we'll witness a lot of good discussions and hopefully everyone will be mature enough to refrain from trolling and flaming as some forums tend to...
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Post by Charles on May 31, 2003 5:05:46 GMT
My name is Charles Keller. I am the founder and current director of the American chapter of the H.G. Wells Society, and am Webmaster for both the U.S. and U.K. based H.G. Wells societies. "The War of the Worlds" is my personal touchstone H.G. Wells story - although obviously my positions in the Wells societies require I be well versed in as many of the others as I can, ha ha ha! I tend to be a purist when it comes to interpreting the original "War of the Worlds" text, but I do enjoy hearing how other people have interpreted the story - and all its aspects. Discussing it with other fans is always fun. I am very fond of Orson Welles' famous 1938 radio program. A record album of it was what launched me into the wonderful world of Wells (via Welles) in the mid or late '70s (I can't remember which now). I also enjoy Jeff Wayne's musical version of 'The War of the Worlds' very much (Phil Lynott's Thin Lizzy were about the greatest!). The 1953 Pal film was wonderful - even if it 'missed the point' in ways that would have made Wells quite ill. I did not like "Independence Day" (much too gratuitous and clumsy), but I adored "Mars Attacks" for its utterly brilliant campy approach to what was obviously a Wells-inspired Martian invasion story. I work for Manion's International Auction House www.manions.com where I supervise the department which authenticates, appraises and writes catalog descriptions for the historical artifacts we auction to private collectors and museums the world over. So, let the discussions continue!
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Post by Necronmaniac on Jun 1, 2003 12:53:50 GMT
Typical of me!
I jump straight in to posting and havent even posted here yet! OK here goes:
I am Necronmaniac, AKA (and more commonly known as thankfully) Ian Inman. I live in Manchester in the UK and up until recently studied marketing management at the metropolitan university, i got fed up with the course and tutors and various other things and decided instead to persue a career in music, thus i am in a band and am going to music college next year. I first got into war of the worlds via the Jeff wayne musical which my dad owned and i think its a fantastic story. For a long time i have thought a new film needed to be made (my some what controversial view withing this community that the first film sucked being the reason why).
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Post by Thunder Child on Jun 2, 2003 22:23:43 GMT
Okay here I go: My name is Johan Groenewold, I’m 22 years old and I live in Oude Pekela, a little town in the North-eastern part of The Netherlands. The upcoming school year I’m starting on the rather long way to become a biology teacher. The first time I came in contact with TWOTW was when I was about 6 years old. My uncle had a single of The Eve of The War from the Jeff Wayne musical version and I remember that I was staring vividly at that weird robot thing attacking a war-ship. And I loved the song. In the years after that I sometimes heard The Eve of the War on the radio and I bought a synthesizer CD with the track. A friend of mine then showed me a CD that he had found in the Library with The Eve of the War on it. It was of course the Jeff Wayne’s musical version and the cover looked all to familiar to me. I immediately fell in love with the album, often playing it a couple of times a day. In 1993 I started to write my own version of The War of the Worlds, set in my hometown, based on the Jeff Wayne version. I read the original novel about one year after that and to be honest, I was a bit disappointed with the Fighting Machines in it, because they are totally different than the ones in the Jeff Wayne version to which I had come accustomed to. But after a very short while, I closed the novel and the Fighting Machines in my heart, never to be released from it again. First TWOTW was only a good SF book to me. Later, when I was about 16 years old, I became interested in politics and began to see the underlying political/social message in The War of the Worlds. I’m currently working on my own Dutch website on H.G. Wells and The War of the Worlds. I’m still in the collecting phase, collecting all the info and images on the subject I can get my hands on. Often I send Dr.Z (http://drzeus.best.vwh.net/wotw/) some pictures or book-covers when I come across them. Soon I will begin to work on the basic site design and I will inform you guys when it’s on-line. It is in Dutch so I don’t know if it will make any sense to you ;D Anyway, this forum is the place to be for all The War of the Worlds fans and I’m very delighted I can finally share my views and ideas with other The War of the Worlds fans around the world! Greetings, Johan
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Post by Curate on Jun 3, 2003 23:06:18 GMT
Hi, my name is Sean and I work as an assistant librarian in Dublin, Ireland. My earliest memories of WOTW are of being scared stiff of the Jeff Wayne musical My Dad bought it in the late 70s and he must have came close to wearing it out through overplay. I used to run upstairs and stick my fingers in my ears until it was over... I suppose it was these fears which led to a deep fascination with the subject matter. I remember becoming brave enough to look at the pictures in the LP booklet, staring at the artwork for a long time. For some odd reason, it was the image of the town square covered in red weed which disturbed me the most. I love that picture... despite the lack of martians it somehow suggests a world under their heel. There's a lot of detail in it and it was a long while before I noticed the dead body. I saw the George Pal movie when I was about 7 ( and loved it - I was a huge sci-fi fan, big into Star Wars & Doctor Who ). It was a lot different from the story on the album, but I liked it all the same. I did feel that the hovering fighting machines looked far less threatening than striding tripods though. I finally read the original novel when I was 11. It remains to this day my favourite piece of literature and I've re-read it about 5 times since. It's a wonderful piece of work, and one which has haunted my dreams for many years. I personally regard the section set in the ruined house as being the finest piece of written science fiction ever. Strangely, the library where I work lacks a copy! I really have to rectify that
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Post by Curate on Jun 8, 2003 21:25:06 GMT
I've still got the magazine, though it's well thumbed now. It folds out into a large poster of a Handling Machine capturing people and placing them into the basket upon its back. ________________________________
I don't think I've ever seen that picture. Is it available online anywhere? ( I guess it's too big to fit in a scanner? )
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Post by Bayne on Jun 10, 2003 9:39:46 GMT
Firstly, regarding the handling machine picture, is that the one in the war of the worlds PC game? It's in the music section of the game. I ignored that bit at first, being able to play the music in my cd player, untill I realised that there was a different pic for each track (mostly the ones from the album). Myself, I'm more interested in the blueprints.
Now as for introducing myself, I'm Bayne MacGregor. I'm 27 and live in the rural university city of Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. I've been a student, I had aimed to work in graphic design, but many years of illness put paid to that.
There were two versions of WOTW in my early childhood. One was the Wayne version, the other was a spoken word record. On the one side WOTW, the other the time machine. I recieved it for my birthday (4th I think, maybe my third). My younger brother got a record of Verne, from the earth to the moon and 20,000 leagues. Then around 10 or 11 I got a copy of WOTW and the invisible man in one volume as a gift from my grandmother. After devouring that I swiftly laid my hands on the time machine as well. They were some of my favourite books, but WOTW caught my imagination so much that I've read it almost once every year since.
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Post by Omega2064 on Jun 22, 2003 21:02:47 GMT
Omega2064: AKA John W. AKA Omega (due to a peculiar proliferation of people named John in the area. chuckle)
RPG book Designer, Writer and Illustrator, and the occasional computer game tinkering. Currently located in sunny Siberia... er Michigan... heh-heh.
Originally found War of the Worlds back in the mid-70s and was the first novel I ever read from start to finish and set me on the road to reading many many many more. Particularly science fiction and the like and most anything penned by H.G. Wells.
It is interesting to see the myriad forms the book has taken. The approaches illustraters have used (or not,) in interpeting Well's depictions of the Martians and the Tripods.
In a current Pulp style RPG I am working on there may appear in cameo or more openly reffrences to the Martians and the Tripods. Though looks like a few other publishers have beat me out on that. heh! It is good though to see a revival of interest in the books.
Omega2064
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Post by Earthrise on Jun 24, 2003 3:26:32 GMT
G'day all, Paul Sharpe here, Adelaide, Australia. I am heartened to see so many hardcore fans of this great story, I thought I was clinically obsessed Like most of you, my first contact with WOTW was Jeff Wayne's musical. As an eight-year-old in 1979, I was an avid library mouse and found the album in the Spoken Word section. I only heard the first record before I had to go home and the images of the Fighting Machine "picking up men and bashing them against trees" is still with me. I read the book the following week and got the album for my tenth birthday. I have read the book so many times I lost count after twenty. I used to get into a WOTW frenzy; read the book, listen to the album all week until I started to get nightmares then quit for a few months. I am not a big fan of the American pulp film versions (both Pal's and Independence Day) and I am cautiously anticipating a new attempt in the original time setting. I had spent two years writing a screenplay close to the original but became disheartened when Pendragon and Paramount took up the cause (they both have a copy of mine). I'll post the synopsis here in the future. Very good to meet you all and I look forward to discussing this amazing piece of technoprophesy into the future. "Maybe one day we'll capture a Fighting Machine eh? Learn how to make them ourselves and then WALLOP, our turn to do some wiping out. WOOSH with our heat rays. WHOOSH and them running and dying, beaten at their own game, MAN ON TOP AGAIN!" Paul Sharpe (Earthrise)
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Post by Rob on Jun 24, 2003 16:50:48 GMT
I walk down the street with a hair dryer as my imaginary heat ray. I've been locked up for my obsession several time
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Post by Omega2064 on Jun 26, 2003 9:58:54 GMT
>> 'I walk down the street with a hair dryer as my imaginary heat ray.'Really? Burned anyone interesting to ashes recently? How about wanting to have your own water tower because it happens to look suspiciously like a Martian war machine? Or better yet, wanting to refit one to REALLY look like a Tripod. heh-heh. Omega2064
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Post by Rob on Jun 26, 2003 16:56:05 GMT
No but I nearly got a job as a hairdresser. Just need to increase the power of the hairdryer so it instantly melts steal and I'm sorted
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Post by Bayne on Jun 27, 2003 19:48:43 GMT
I've been joking aboutmaking a 8-12 foot high tripod in my backyard for years. You could hook up some lights a hose and a motion detector for anti-burglary protection, to scare of the ginger tom that beats up my tabby and for some serious summer fun I once saw an article online where someone made a huge cubbyhouse based on the battletech Madcat robot.... if I ever have kids......
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Post by Bayne on Jun 28, 2003 23:07:06 GMT
Wow Cool! what was it made from?
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Post by David Faltskog on Jul 8, 2003 19:52:08 GMT
Greetings fellow Droogies.
'Ere's a few exciting facts about me David Williams aka Brit-Brat.
Age...42
Nationalty...British.
Fave piece of Fluff...Felicity Kendal.
Fave Movies...A L I E N.War of the Worlds.
Fave TV Shows...The Good Life.Monty Python.
Fave Music...ABBA*.The Beatles.The Fall.
Fave Books...War of the Worlds.1984.A Clockwork Orange.
Defining moment in my life,seeing the 53 wotw movie on tv when i was a whole lot younger,it scared the nuts outta me but at the same time awoke in me my lifelong passion for Sci-fi and Horror Movies and books.
Really looking forwards(and sideways) to seeing the new WOTW movie and reading any new twists on the original classic.
Excellent site for the worlds greatest novel. *Stop that Laughing!.
B-B.
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Post by Bayne on Aug 30, 2003 23:52:30 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]I've noticed we still have a steady stream of new members, many of whowm we've not yet heard from. No pressure, feel free to lurk, but if you want, post up and say hi! We're all nice people here, and wont bite your head off also, feel free to join in on the chain story everyone, it's not just for the aspiring authors here, it's for everyone. Anyways, welcome aboard ![/glow]
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Post by Rob on Sept 1, 2003 14:00:23 GMT
I invited some guys (I assume) who have joined from another War of the Worlds board they had started, don't think they realised that WOTWO had a community, nothing posted by them yet.
Don't be shy, like bayne said, we're all very nice.
Sorry I've been quiet for a bit, been obcessed with "24"
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Post by Ladymecha on Sept 16, 2003 21:42:33 GMT
Might as introduce myself... I am Tara Ikeda, also known as Ladymecha. I been a H.G Wells, Sonic the hedgehog and Mobile suit Gundam fan for a very long time. I am a author, scientist and timelord. I am 21 years old and I am a big anime and Docotor who fan, I have been on a net for a bit and I do lots of things. anyway greetings. check out my webiste: www.ladymecha.com you will find me VERY diverse see you space cowboy.
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Post by TempestTripod on Sept 17, 2003 0:04:14 GMT
Hi, I'm Mitch Williamson, AKA Tempest Tripod (from the PC game) from Perth, West Aussie - a Sandgroper! I have been a H.G WELLS fan since I first read the book over 30 years ago.
Thanks, Rob, for the marvelous website.
Best Wishes Mitch
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