Re: Ship minis.... from old movies and TV

At 11:44 AM 3/23/99 -0500, Tom (but which? ^_- ) wrote:
>Speaking of ships.... 
>
>Recall, if you will, Battle Beyond the Stars...
>
>Anyone remember the mercenary cruiser used by Geld? Or the hauler 
>used by Cowboy? Or the funny ship the Hero (John Boy Walton) flew 
>around in? All fitting fare for minis. 

As long as we're on the topic... as loose as it is... I always recall,
vaguely, some movie involving 1) a young boy, heir(?) or only son of
some
really rich person/people being either 2) kidnapped or running off with
3)
the semi-typical smuggler/pirate group with a heart of gold and then 4)
the
evil technocrat (female, of course, which was in vogue for a while)
sending
5) a big bad robot ship after them as a test.  Don't really remember the
ending, alas, though I imagine it involved the robot ship getting blown
to
pieces.  Oh!  Something about the head smuggler giving the boy one of
his
(many) rings.  Something like that.

Anyone else remember this?  I mean, this was probably on the order of 10
years ago on TV... not sure if that's what Tom's talking about or not.
<shrug>  Anyway, there were (IIRC) a good number of different ships in
that
movie....

>Or some (reasonable scale) not-Viper and not-Raiders which
>cleary are not from Battlestar Galactica... (grin). 

<grin> Those, and the Gunstar, I would love to see!  Though the
non-Niall
could likely serve as Vipers....

Later,

					Aaron Teske
					ateske@HICom.net
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