Model kits - The Man from UNCLE

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Now to get my hands on these gems (excluding Illya - I've already gotten and made him). I am hopeful for re-releases when the movie comes out.

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[pronker]

May it be so!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Fingers crossed. I just saw the car model up as a general model for $29. That beats the heck out of the $450 on Ebay (of course that's for an original, never been opened model). I want to build it, though, so I'm content with a copy.

[pronker]

Good luck to you! Model building is fun. And I wonder where that original, unopened box came from.

Illya from 1965's episode of MFU played a prominent role in a little girl's life from s.4 of Mad Men, which I am crawling through this summer. Really, it was interesting to see his effect on a 10 yr. old.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I love model building and have done it most of my life. There are folks who stockpiled that sort of thing even back the. I had a friend who found an entire shelf of MFU dolls (Napoleon and Illya). She bought them for $5 a pop and I resold them for $100(Napoleon and $250 (Illya) and split it with her. We made a killing!

He still has that effect on me, Happy sigh!

[pronker]

I liked it as a girl, and built a P-51 Mustang, British Spitfire, ME-109, the Starship Enterprise, and the Creature From The Black Lagoon, ha! One by one, the models got knocked into the floor or broken somehow, until the Enterprise was the last one. I was actually 24 when, lying in bed before getting up to go to work, I spied the Enterprise on its string from the ceiling rotating lazily in the early morn. Then snap! the line broke, and it crashed onto the hardwood floor of my room. Darn, it broke to pieces and all I have are happy memories of 10 yrs. or so of enjoyment.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I moved out of the house when I was 17 and headed west to go to college. There I met the Big Guy and never looked back. We went back for a visit, all the models had mysteriously vanished. Hmm, I wonder what happened to them... Mum... I wasn't until recently that I started pandering to my love of assembly.

Build the Addams family house and the one from Psycho, then moved on MFU and some other bits and bobs. As a kid, the hardest part was waiting for the glue to dry.

Ha-ha, I remember those creature models - I think some of them glowed, didn't they?

[pronker]

Lucky you to have at least had the chance to visit with Big Guy to the parental home -- it must have been gratifying. And yeah, a little sad that the models disappeared. Hmm, the Addams family house would be hard to part with!

I think some glowed. My Creature didn't, but got extra gore on his claws with red fingernail polish apart from the kit. I think I was bloodthirsty!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

It was just once before they moved into an Active Senior center. I think he was sort of surprised at how... um... frugally they lived. Da and I re-built the house, but we sort of ran out of steam in some areas... like wall covering for the back rooms and what not.

The Addams Family one might still be in the shed somewhere, but the Psycho one has since departed its moral coils (or whatever sort of coils it had). Cats and models don't mix.

Red fingernail polish! I thought it was just me.

[pronker]

Oh they had the chance to live in an Active Senior center, that's great! It was a dream for my mom and step-dad that didn't happen.

Ha, I embellished those claws terrifically. It was my favorite monster of all the Saturday morning movie monsters.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's sad. My mum was too young, but since she was married to Da and he was way over the age requirement, they let them in. It was such a load off our minds.

Mine was always The Mummy. What he lacked in claws, he made up for in hootspa! Did you know Creature from the Black Lagoon was Clint Eastwood's first talkie?

[pronker]

I did not know that!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I only happened to find out... maybe it was Revenge of the Creature, though, now that I'm thinking about it. He had like three lines and was a lab assistant.

And I still think Steve McQueen's premier in "The Blob" is one my favorite movies of his.

[heather mccrillis (from livejournal.com)]

So Illya's a made man?

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Oh, he is in my world... happy sigh.

[ale-irenear.livejournal.com]

will there be a movie? I'm overly curious of this series.. haha

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

The newest trailer is here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638355?ref_=vi_tt_t_hm_hp

It's due out next month.

[ale-irenear.livejournal.com]

OMGGGGG !!! Looks soo good :O hahaha and the actors aswell xD

Does it look true to the original series???

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Not as much as we fans would like. We are hoping for a few nods ("Open Channel D," would be nice or even a snippet of the original theme music would send many of us soaring). We will have to see. I am hopeful.

[tommy50702.livejournal.com]

2015 the year of spy movies. Kingsman, Spy, UNCLE and Spectre.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

That's true and I can't wait for the new MFU one. Hopefully it will live up to its ads.