Fandom way, way back...
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That's a good way to put it. When I first saw it (S1) I was like - it ain't as good as TOS
But after a while, and with quite a few gems in there, it may not be TOS but at least it was TOS lite - what followed - especially AFTER S3 was definitely further removed from TOS, and not very good mostly
After TNG it was slowly down hill
Now...this isn't me...I just found it somewhere and kept it for the sheer quantity of AWESOMENESS on so many levels that it contains.
And now I share it with you all...
Is that beautiful or what?
-Rabittooth
Are those pants cordoroy?
Of course they are. That photo is just teeming over with period-specific geektastic details.
I wish we could see the footwear.-Rabittooth
Of course they are. That photo is just teeming over with period-specific geektastic details.
Side-zip black leather boots.
Or cork-soled clogs.
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Even THAT guy found himself a wife (as evidenced by the wedding ring). Although this photo could have been taken in his mother's basement, where he and his bride lived until he got that promotion to Assistant Manager at McDonalds.
...But I shouldn't make fun of that guy, since it could have easily have been me -- although I would have been in my mid to late teens during the early 1980s (at least I'm assuming that is the timeframe, because of the TMP Enterprise poster, the Macramé plant holder, the tape recorder/tricorder, and the dude's bracelet and hairstyle).
...But I shouldn't make fun of that guy, since it could have easily have been me -- although I would have been in my mid to late teens during the early 1980s (at least I'm assuming that is the timeframe, because of the TMP Enterprise poster, the Macramé plant holder, the tape recorder/tricorder, and the dude's bracelet and hairstyle).
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I am puzzled by his rank. What rank is two gold stripes and a gold chain?
Man, I wanted that Mego tricorder BAD when I was a kid. I remember seeing it at Toys 'R' Us for $29.95.
Wow that brought back so many memories
I too grew up in Mississauga and toronto trek 76 was the first con I ever attended. I followed GLW around like a puppy dog for days, I was in an elevator with George Takei and he couldn't find his floor, Walter Koenig was being hounded by a gaggle of girls one night-fun times.
I too grew up in Mississauga and toronto trek 76 was the first con I ever attended. I followed GLW around like a puppy dog for days, I was in an elevator with George Takei and he couldn't find his floor, Walter Koenig was being hounded by a gaggle of girls one night-fun times.
That's a great pic.Wow that brought back so many memories
I too grew up in Mississauga and toronto trek 76 was the first con I ever attended. I followed GLW around like a puppy dog for days, I was in an elevator with George Takei and he couldn't find his floor, Walter Koenig was being hounded by a gaggle of girls one night-fun times.
Gotta love that AMT Exploration Set...
All I can remember was the lifesize Spock & Kirk posters, & the disc guns.
http://spandexjustice.com/2006/01/26/68
http://spandexjustice.com/2006/01/26/68
I'm rather irritated that I can't find my fifth grade school picture, with me in my blue Star Trek jacket (the one available via that offer in all the AMT models). It was missing the sciences insignia by that point, but still had the two white stripes on the sleeves, and I had the cockiest expression on my face.
I'm gonna have do some digging for that picture...
I'm gonna have do some digging for that picture...
I need to do some digging myself...for a pic of me in a homemade TOS costume I put together for halloween one year. I had some generic spock ears, with some makeup on my eyebrows to make them look slanted, a blue sweatshirt with a starfleet insignia I made out of cardboard and aluminum foil, some black pants and boots. I was pretty awesome.
Or, indeed, a cardboard phaser from the "Star Trek Punch Out And Make It Toy Book", and metallic gold ric-rac braid covering the moth holes in the sleeve of an old red velour jumper:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/330738910_2e60d78d2b_o.jpg
My first Trek memory was in '66, or '67 in the 2nd grade (during the first season). I wanted to make my eyebrows like Spock's, so I took my father's razor and began cutting. There wasn't much left when I was caught, so I never finished. I don't remember how I explained what happened when I went back to school, but I did get a lot of stares.
I was born in '77 so my I don't go back quite that far, but my mom was a big fan of Star Trek, so I really don't remember a time that I wasn't exposed to it. We had a poster of Kirk and Spock from TMP hanging in the basement(which we had set up like a den. That's where we kept the tv.). I think she still has it somewhere. Note to self, search parents' house for awesome poster!
I remember there wasn't much to buy back in the late 60's and early 70's. The original Star Trek Concordance was a fan production printed in one color by Bjo Trimble, three hole punched, and held together with brass clasps.
Oh, there was plenty to buy, just none of it commercial (and yes, I have Bjo's original fanzine Concordance...and the third season supplement). At the door memberships for the 1973 NY Trekcon were $5 (less in advance). That was my first convention.
Amazingly, by 1975 I was running a convention. But that's another story.
Amazingly, by 1975 I was running a convention. But that's another story.
I guess that's what I meant to say, not much commercially. I too had the Trimble Concordance. I also went to a 70's convention. 1975 if I remember correctly, in New York. And I do believe it was something like $5.00 at the door. Of course there was plenty of dealer tables there.
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