http://www.interstellartransmissions.com/f...dave/dave98.php
So two weeks ago, I find out we're working on Mysterious TV Pilot at DragonCon, and get ready to fly out on Friday, coming back late Saturday. Then we scramble to get ready for the hurricane. We catch one of the last flights out of town. So far so good...
When we get up there, we met with our director and the tech crew for The Pilot. Turns out they're award winning pornographers. Yay! The interviews and such for The Pilot went well, including a guy dressed as Electro who built a stun gun into his glove for real electrical arcing. After we finished filming, I finally got to go through the "Exhibit Hall". The Exhibit Hall was the good dealer's room, whereas the "Dealer's Room" was fairly ghetto. Like the difference between the rooms at Megacon and Vulkon.
One of the first dealers I investigate had bootleg videos like you wouldn't belive. It was clearly somebody getting out of geekery. For $2 a tape, I got complete (or almost complete) runs for:
Zyuranger
Dairanger
Someotherranger
Johnny Socko and His Flying Robot
The Korean(!
Street Fighter II live action TV series Space Giants
Then there were the individual movies
Lion Maru
Fantasy Mission Force
Astroboy
What? You've never heard of the live action Astroboy movie? Neither has anybody else. IMDB doesn't have a listing for it, and there's hardly any mention of it online. It looks like it was made about mid-sixties. The FX are similar to the American series "The Adventures of Superman", the George Reeves one. It really isn't too bad. The kid who plays Astro is under about fifty pounds of prosthetics for his costume. It really is far better than I expected. I might translate it, actually. The Japanese is simple enough I can get most of it, definitly as good a job as Arctic ever could. And the video quality is quite good. So maybe somewhere down the line you'll see a digisub by me, once I learn those Dark Arts.
