Stunning New Release!!!! (1 Viewer)

[Rob]

I won't believe it until Rob sees one.

Terry

Thank you Terry,I think!

Rob

 

[PolarBear]

Here is the 1930s poster showing one of the action sequences

 

[glossman]

Here is the 1930s poster showing one of the action sequences

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Thanks very much for the poster.

You are right on target.

Kind Regards, Raymond.

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[jazzeum]

You were not there and he did

So without an appropriate press release, announcement on the Forum or even before he gets to the biggest event of the year (where he might like to do his shock and awe), he's going to announce a major range, yeah, sure............

 

[The Templar]

You won´t se me spending money on this, that´s for certain!

Shirley Temple?- No, no - But an Early Templar! Yes, yes!

 

[Combat]

Revealed last night at the dinner with Andy will be the release of a series of figures based on the movie "Wee Willie Winkie" . Yes that is right folks. Andy has been a fan of the golden ringletted tyke since childhood. What a better way to presage the new series of the Northen Frontier! Quess you all should have been there

I think this is a spoof. Not to offend any members of the Shirley Temple fan club, but if this is true, it is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard.

 

[Rob]

I think this is a spoof. Not to offend any members of the Shirley Temple fan club, but if this is true, it is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard.

Doug,how many members of that fan club on here do you reckon?

Rob

 

[Phantom Warrior]

Doug,how many members of that fan club on here do you reckon?

Rob

Since the event was during the day, It's possible KV got too much sunlight and hallucinated the whole thing

Terry

 

[lenswerks]

It’s just a ruse to get the frenzy going.
I expect we’ll all be pleased by the end of the week.

Rob, it appears there are 2 members that seem to be in some sort of trance.

Donnie

 

[Rob]

Since the event was during the day, It's possible KV got too much sunlight and hallucinated the whole thing

Terry

It kind of puts my Tank riders thing in the shade!

Rob

 

[bromhead]

Wee willie not being on the playlist lately,but it was the name of an unfortunate B17 over Berlin

 

[Louis Badolato]

I think this is a spoof. Not to offend any members of the Shirley Temple fan club, but if this is true, it is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard.

Have you not seen the movie? This is so far from "one of the worst ideas" you couldn't see it with a telescope. First of all, its actually a great movie. Second of all, it features Highlanders fighting Afghans on the Northwest Frontier (i.e. the subject of the first 6 years of K&C production from 1984-1990). Nobody in this hobby has done the Northwest Frontier in realistic matt production, despite the fact that, after the Zulu War, it is probably the second most popular subject in glossy production. The history covers everthing from the disasterous retreat from Kabul (under the senile octogenarian General Elphinstone), to the heroic trek from Kabul to Kandahar to lift the siege (under Frederick Sleigh "Little Bobs" Roberts).

Now I doubt, if KV is not pulling our collective legs, that Andy really meant he would do a figure of Shirley Temple in a Highlanders kit. However, I would kill for a figure of Victor McLaglen as the Highland Color Sergeant from the movie. Although, if Andy did want to do a Northwest Frontier series based on Hollywood's interpretation of Kipling, I would think Gunga Din or The Man Who Would Be King would be more likely subjects.

 

[Combat]

Doug,how many members of that fan club on here do you reckon?

Rob

To paraphrase the immortal words of Mama Boucher from The Waterboy: "Shirley Temple is the devil."

 

[lenswerks]

To paraphrase the immortal words of Mama Boucher from The Waterboy: "Shirley Temple is the devil."

You know Andy will do it right…

ST01 Shirley Standing Firing
ST02 Shirley Kneeling Firing
ST03 Shirley Pouting
ST04 Shirley Loading
ST05 Shirley Pouting #2
ST06 Shirley Crying #1

 

[Sans Culotte]

And will the good ship "Lollipop" be transporting these proposed figures to the Near East?

 

[PolarBear]

I think you have to view this in the same way as Andy's version of the Sand Pebbles and thus there will not likely be any figures of the movie stars but certainly Highlanders and Afghans. Andy has mentioned time and again that Hollywood fees are too expensive for him to buy the rights so he will probably go with a generic version as he has done with SP.

 

[Rob]

And to quote from the classic film 'Airplane'

'Surely you can't be serious'
'I'm perfectly serious,and don't call me Shirley'

Rob

 

[jazzeum]

No disrespect intended to anyone but I have a hard time believing that Andy would announce a major new line at a small gathering of collectors, albeit at the offices of a major dealer, without some major fanfare and what better fanfare than to do so at Chicago, one the largest events (together with London) in the hobby. For example, Sand Pebbles was disclosed in Chicago and when the Australian Light Horse was announced, I believe it was done either in Australia or through a press release. It could be a spoof (or a misdrection) or just a hint. I assume we'll find out in due course.

 

[Rob]

Yes with Chicago just days away you'd think K&C would wait for a higher profile release wouldn't you.I hope K&C have some goodies for us at the weekend.

Rob

 

[kilted vampire]

Have you not seen the movie? This is so far from "one of the worst ideas" you couldn't see it with a telescope. First of all, its actually a great movie. Second of all, it features Highlanders fighting Afghans on the Northwest Frontier (i.e. the subject of the first 6 years of K&C production from 1984-1990). Nobody in this hobby has done the Northwest Frontier in realistic matt production, despite the fact that, after the Zulu War, it is probably the second most popular subject in glossy production. The history covers everthing from the disasterous retreat from Kabul (under the senile octogenarian General Elphinstone), to the heroic trek from Kabul to Kandahar to lift the siege (under Frederick Sleigh "Little Bobs" Roberts).

Now I doubt, if KV is not pulling our collective legs, that Andy really meant he would do a figure of Shirley Temple in a Highlanders kit. However, I would kill for a figure of Victor McLaglen as the Highland Color Sergeant from the movie. Although, if Andy did want to do a Northwest Frontier series based on Hollywood's interpretation of Kipling, I would think Gunga Din or The Man Who Would Be King would be more likely subjects.

Well said Louis

You know Andy will do it right…

ST01 Shirley Standing Firing
ST02 Shirley Kneeling Firing
ST03 Shirley Pouting
ST04 Shirley Loading
ST05 Shirley Pouting #2
ST06 Shirley Crying #1

LOL

And will the good ship "Lollipop" be transporting these proposed figures to the Near East?

That would make a lovely addition to the jetty.