Oh, man, you had a toy Fireball XL-5? Man, am I jealous. We had to make it out of American Bricks (before my dad discovered Lego).
Fireball was the only one of his shows that permeated into southwestern Michigan--I only know the others by reputation. I was a preschooler at the time, and honestly all I remember about the show was that cool launch sequence and the theme song. I don't think I was even old enough to follow the stories yet. But that spaceship made an impression!
I know I had the XL5, and I think I had a Thunderbirds set as well. Yeah, those ships -- and the launch sequences and songs and solidity -- made huge impressions on me, too.
I am not the only one that remembers... "It's the Hot Fudge show comin' on. It's the Hot Fudge show comin' on. We got a lot of little numbers to lay on you..."
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Well, that makes three...
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Fireball was the only one of his shows that permeated into southwestern Michigan--I only know the others by reputation. I was a preschooler at the time, and honestly all I remember about the show was that cool launch sequence and the theme song. I don't think I was even old enough to follow the stories yet. But that spaceship made an impression!
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"It's the Hot Fudge show comin' on.
It's the Hot Fudge show comin' on.
We got a lot of little numbers to lay on you..."
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HOT FUDGE, RIGHT ON!
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Clever use of rocket cycles, wheelchairs, supercars, etc - so we never see the marionettes bobbing around doing that Howdy Doody walk.
Very impressed by the realistic marionettes he did for Space: 1999, they almost had human facial expressions. (Oh, wait.)
"Pinocchio is dead. His strings have been cut." -- Cdr Riker, The Measure of a Man
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