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Subatomic Tourism | This picayune world, my own private Lilliput.
“The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world.”
Posted in Science Fiction.
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Tagged 60s TV, alien invasion, Aliens, die cast car, die cast photography, flying saucer, Matchbox cars, miniature figures, miniature photography, Quinn Martin, science fiction TV, spacecraft, The Invaders, truck
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In search of things that will go bump in the night.
Posted in Science Fiction.
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Tagged cemetry, die cast car, die cast photography, Fortean, gravestones, kirkyard, Landrover, miniature figures, miniature photography, paranormal, parapsychology, Phenomenology, phenomenonogists
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Villains abroard.
Posted in The Real World.
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Tagged bank job, Costa Del Crime, die cast car, die cast photography, gangland, Lotus Europa, Matchbox cars, miniature figures, miniature photography, Spain, villains
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A great ape species unknown to science.
Posted in The Real World.
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Tagged anthropologists, anthropology, caravan, chimpanzee, die cast car, die cast photography, Dinky Toys, field trip, great apes, hominids, miniature figures, miniature photography, toy photography, vintage die cast
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“Because this island is full of inimical phenomena.”
Posted in Science Fiction.
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Tagged die cast car, die cast photography, evolution, experiments, HG Wells, Land Rover, miniature figures, miniature photography, mutations, quarantine, research, science fiction novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau
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Warping the tracks.
When triffids hybridise with edelweiss.
Posted in Science Fiction.
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Tagged botanists, botany, edelweiss, flora, hybrids, John Wyndham, miniature figures, miniature photography, mountains, mutations, triffids
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“The tracks point north…”
Posted in The Real World.
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Tagged die cast car, die cast photography, industrial archaeology, Land Rover, Mallorca, Matchbox cars, miniature figures, miniature photography, railway tracks, sand, signal, telegraph poles
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Galloping home.
Posted in The Real World.
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Tagged 70s TV, Black Beauty, die cast photography, die cast vehicles, foal, horses, Matchbox cars, miniature figures, miniature photography, tractor, TV series
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“Enterprise! Emergency transport, these co-ordinates!”
Posted in Science Fiction.
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Tagged away team, emergency transport, Klingons, landing party, miniature figures, miniature photography, redshirts, Star Trek, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: the Original Series, Starfleet officers
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