Tag: television

Up-Inspired Floating House

National Geographic was inspired by Disney’s Up, as reported by Eugene at My Modern Met:

Yesterday morning, March 5 at dawn, National Geographic Channel and a team of scientists, engineers, and two world-class balloon pilots successfully launched a 16′ X 16′ house 18′ tall with 300 8′ colored weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles, and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted. The entire experimental aircraft was more than 10 stories high, reached an altitude of over 10,000 feet, and flew for approximately one hour.

The filming of the event, from a private airstrip, will be part of a new National Geographic Channel series called How Hard Can it Be?, which will premiere in fall 2011.

Thirteen more photos at My Modern Met!

I’m Pretty Sure This Heralded The End Of American Fitness & Coordination

With the FlipIt, kids just threw stuff down on the ground, ending games of catch.

Ad found inside The New Krofft Supershow comic #2 (1978).

That 70s Sailor Moon Dress

OK, so you’ll have to imagine the round eyes on the girl on the front of this retro sailor dress by Harvey Graham — but then maybe you have the contacts to do that for yourself. Image from JeTaimeVintage.

The New Krofft Supershow Comic #2

Fan of The New Krofft Supershow? Here’s the Whitman comic, #2. Front cover with photos is copyrighted 1977; but the title page is dated May 1978.

Inside, the comic stories feature Magic Mongo, Kaptain Kool & The Kongs, Bigfoot & Wildboy, and Wonderbug. Tons of retro ads.

If you live in the US or Canada, you can buy it from me for $9.99 (plus shipping) — or take your chances at eBay


“The Electric Company Gang Jokes Around To Make Reading More Fun”

If not a little, err, sexually uncomfortable.

Two-page illustrated joke from The Electric Company Joke Book, edited by Byron Preiss, Jack Rickard drew the pictures. (A Golden Book, published by Western Publishing Company; copyright 1973, The Children’s Television Workshop).

I do love me the Easy Reader logo (lower right corner of the cover).

Masters Of The Retro Airwaves

Spotted at an auction at Villiard’s this weekend, a MOTU transistor radio with He-Man on one side…

Skeletor on the other.

I don’t know how much it sold for; not only was it in a box with several other retro transistors, but there were multiple auction rings going on and I missed seeing it actually sell.