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Thunderfighter from "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979-81) |
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Coming in August 2010 |
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Retail Price: TBD |
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For More Information Contact: FantasticPlast@aol.com |
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1979's light-hearted "Buck
Rogers in the 25th Century" was producer Glen A. Larson's less
capital-intensive follow-up to his previous year's sci-fi epic "Battlestar
Galactica." Based on the popular 1930s-era comic strip and
movie serial, the updated series re-cast Anthony "Buck" Rogers as a NASA
astronaut accidentally "frozen" during a deep space mission, only to
return to Earth 500 years hence to find the remnants of a war-ravaged
humanity now battling extraterrestrial threats. The Earth Defense Directorate's main weapon was the "Thunderfighter," a single-seat air/space fighter with two rocket engines and a pair of underslung tails that also acted as landing legs. The design was purportedly one of those created, and then rejected, for the "Galactica" Vipers. The Thunderfighter was released in a kinda 1:48 scale by Monogram in the late 1970s, and Alliance Models did a better detailed, similarly scaled kit 25 years later. This will be the first 1:72 model of this iconic spacecraft. |
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Pattern by Dave Guertin |
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