One of the things I like about doing this blog, apart from the fact that it's never ending, is that every now and then I'll surprise myself by finding something that's much more interesting than I remember it being.
Superman II is one of those examples. Not the film it's self you understand, although it's the only one in the franchise that I've got any time for, but for the fact that the scene on the moon yielded much more Spaceman goodness than I initially thought it was going to. And quite possibly something really special which I'm going to save for a separate post of it's own.
Anyway, three Kryptonian supervillians who are on their way to Earth to give Superman a bloody good kicking, stop off for a bit of a warm up murderous killing spree on the moon. There they find three astronauts who they make very short work of.
There are a mixture of different suits designs used, primarily it seems to distinguish the Russian cosmonaut from the American astronauts but it all adds to making it visually more interesting.
And here's the rest of the pictures starting with Ursa and the American Spaceman.
And now Zod and the Russian
Fantastic stuff and we'll be back this way for a closer look at something you eagle-eyed blog followers may have already noticed in the pictures above
Steve
One of the Russian Helmets appears to be a Gerry Anderson/UFO one?
ReplyDeleteMy ability to comment on the comments seems to be working again, Trav28. The blog which revealed all has now been posted as I'm sure you've seen but many thanks for the comments and feedback as ever. And 9 out of 10 because the UFO and Moon Zero Two helmets are so interlinked as to be one and the same in the memory's eye
DeleteThe American astronauts helmets,and possibly the suits,were reused in the 1981 british show Astronauts which was created by former Goodies Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie who happen to have used the ufo shado spacesuits in a Goodies episode,its a small world isnt it
Deletehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/spacesuit_girls/8365877233/in/photostream/
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Evidently the americans just as they did with red dwarf produced their own copy of this show starring MASH`s McLean Stevenson and just like their red dwarf copy it did not get past the pilot,it would be nice to see what suits they used in that
Cheers for that one Tim. Astronauts is sitting in the pending file waiting for some good images. (got one now) I covered the Goodies in the ufo suits back in the early days of this blog
DeleteHeres an interesting pic I found,its of one of the us spacesuits along with helmet on show at the superman museum in metropolis Illinois
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I also found a nice large shot of one of the astronauts helmets,the more I look at it the more I wonder if it isnt made from a crash helmet
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1wOH9iwkBxk/maxresdefault.jpg
Cheers Tim. You could be right. If they extended the back down and then hid the join line. If memory serves I think the Space 1999 helmets are constructed in this way
DeleteI just finished watching The Man of Steel,not a bad film,it also has a spacesuit in it but unfortunately I could only find two small pics of it
ReplyDeletehttp://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/2/4/7/279247_v1.jpg
http://imageserver.moviepilot.com/batman-v-superman-world-s-finest-the-crossover-movie-that-should-have-been-part-2-ab7d5769-f70d-4b72-a034-dbba86f90941.jpeg?width=570&height=301
Good find as I probably wouldn't ever watch this film. I'll be on the look-out for some good images and do a post just as soon as.
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