Shag, I hear you on the surround sound setup. Unfortunately, in my experience, unless you get a professional setup, you end up just fiddling around with it constantly, and that's more frustrating than anything else. best I ever managed was a 2.0 system in a dorm room! I got my Grails in the mail yesterday! I ended up getting, in addition to Prophecies of Nostradamus and Half Human, another Toho tokusatsu, The Human Vapor. I also picked up for my brother a DVD with both of the pilot/proof-of-concept episodes of Rod Serling's 1970s docu-drama "In Search Of." All of the DVDs look great! I put them on last night to make sure they played correctly, and I ended up being sucked into a scene from PON where a Concorde explodes in flight, damaging the ozone layer and sending unfiltered UV rays down on the surface of the Earth, roasting anything and anyone who is touched by them. YIKES! Not sure when I will have a chance to sit down with these but I am champing at the bit.
On Friday, November 15, 2013 10:52:50 AM UTC-5, Shag wrote: > I can't really think of a Holy Grail collectible. I'm sure there are a > few Doctor Who or Super Powers items I'd love to have, but nothing I can > actively think of. > > So I'll put this Holy Grail out there. Something I've wanted for years, > have seriously considered buying, but hesitated due to either the expense > or effort involved. I desperately want a really good surround sound system. > The kind that rattles the junk in the attic!! I want to watch Star Wars and > feel the TIE Fighters shooting at me from behind. I want to feel the > acceleration of Marty McFly's Delorian!! I know my wife would hate it and > I'm not technically inclined to install it myself. > > Maybe in the next house ... > > Shag > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 15, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Jason Service <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I am trying to think of a 'Holy Grail' item for me...I suppose the > closest thing was maybe the show, "Tales of the Gold Monkey" which aired on > ABC half a million years ago. Shag and i found a bootleg of it at > Dragon*Con a few years ago and we tag teamed the vendor and worked him down > on the price. So i acquired it and the bootleg was awesome, at the end of > the episode, over the end credits they had original 1980-sometime promos > for the 'next days' Good Morning America guest with David Hartman. That was > awesome! > > I think maybe 2 years later the official DVD was released with this show > in its entirety. I have it as well of course...but no Good Morning America > promos, however, the tracking never fails! > > Or maybe the Playboy issue with Drew Barrymore. Again got that at D*C. > Yeah, i have a thing for Drew...what of it. > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Edward Crosby <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I actually found The Five Deadly Venoms on DVD about 7 years ago at a >> convention, The Big Apple Comic Con, in New York. >> My "Holy Grail" has been Rick Deckard's blaster replica from Blade >> Runner. I've seen the kit at conventions and even online but it's always >> been out of reach for me. I found the kit once with assembly required for, >> like, $50 but I don't have the skills to put something like that together >> and make it look good. An assembled kit is around $250. Something I really >> haven't been able to afford. >> >> ---------------------------------------- >> Have a Better One, >> Edward Crosby >> http://about.me/edwardcrosby<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fabout.me%2Fedwardcrosby&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHiXc7EwH-Z1hRZyfkQzeiBsDmoKA> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Cary Preston >> <[email protected]<javascript:> >> > wrote: >> >>> I’ve found mine- one was an animated movie called Rock and Rule; came >>> out shortly after Heavy Metal but wasn’t nearly as well received (but the >>> story and production were much better). It came out long before DVD, and >>> they only copies for sale were old VHS (and I don’t have a DVD player, much >>> less a tape player). Finally found it on a torrent and have kept it in my >>> movie archives. The others were old kung fu flicks called Shaolin >>> Executioner and The Five Deadly Venoms. They summed up everything I loved >>> about cheesy martial arts flicks. Found both of them streaming online. >>> >>> On Nov 14, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Luke Jaconetti >>> <[email protected]<javascript:>> >>> wrote: >>> >>> This post was inspired by the location of a reliable source for two of >>> my "Holy Grail" movies, Prophecies of Nostradamus, and Half-Human, both of >>> which I have been trying to find for nearly two decades. >>> >>> So my question to the group: What are YOUR "Holy Grail" movies, games, >>> books, comics, toys, or whatnot? What is that rare piece you have been >>> looking for for years on end with no luck, or have seen but cannot afford? >>> >>> Last year I acquired one of my toy "Grails," the Rock Lords "Fossil >>> Lords" combiner team. I spent a pretty penny on it, but still got it for >>> about half the going rate so that was something! (For reference I got the >>> Japanese boxed set, with the complete packaging and all inserts, very sharp >>> display piece all told!) >>> >>> http://www.ikp.uni-koeln.de/~scholl/rock/rock/fossilosaurus.html<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ikp.uni-koeln.de%2F~scholl%2Frock%2Frock%2Ffossilosaurus.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNF1fLbrGgDWYpIRgWHYFOMAW_U2JQ> >>> >>> So, what about YOU? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "The Unique Geek" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >>> . >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "The Unique Geek" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >>> . >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Unique Geek" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. 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