Johnny Apollo Video

From my Retro Rocket series on YouTube.

A Moon Buggy

The Moon Buggy and John and Jane Apollo I won on eBay. The three bottom pictures I still have and open bid on. Glad to add the Moon Buggy to my collection.

June 20th update, I won the Johnny Apollo in the bottom pictures.

Johnny Apollo with red helmet

Didn't have a space helmet with the used action figure so I added a Planet of the Apes Leo helmet that I had painted red. Will add the visor later. I have a helmet for Jane with visor as well.

No way I can scale these figures down to match my Matt Mason collection.

Johnny Apollo and Jane Apollo

The top two photos are ebay bids I won. After losing a lot of bids I finally (or almost ) have a Johnny and Jane Apollo for my Moon Base and mission to Mars. I will be down scaling both Johnny and Jane to work with my Matt Mason toys.

All the toys in this Wards 68 booklet will be recreated in a all toy bashing free for all. My wonderful Daughter-In-Law Amanda bought a Captain Laser and his cousin Commander (?) from BSG. I plan to turn them both into strange aliens.

Capsule in You Tube video

Here is the Orion like capsule in a You Tube response to Epic Future Space. 

I'm using Black Screen in this video and the black light lighting helped when I combined the shots.

Major Matt Mason, Toy Bashing #3

I haven't done one of these MMM toy bashing vids in a while. This isn't really about toy bashing as much is it is about creating a capsule to scale for the MMM toy line. In this case a Orion size capsule. Other toy collectors have created Mercury capsules but I wanted to make a webcam movie about what is going on in the here and now, with 60's space toys. 

The two clips at the end of the movie were done with Photo Booth effects. The mirror effect clip has lighting only from the screen of my computer in front of my studios black velvet back drop. The second clip has lighting from a black light and footage from NASA in the background.

A Million for Mars

The raw version of the Million for Mars video.