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Post by GUYx1 on Apr 21, 2006 17:53:57 GMT -5
I'll start by posting the UK origin from the Cyborg Box... Hopefully others will continue the story with the other box artwork...  |
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Post by hypnotator on Apr 22, 2006 8:11:40 GMT -5
I wish I owned the boxes. I do have some good photos I robbed off the net of Muton's and Android's, but for some reason they won't post. I'm grateful for the Cyborg scan, though, Guy, as it's far bigger than the one I have.
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Post by cyborgbushcricket on Apr 22, 2006 8:36:52 GMT -5
I notice with interest that the reissue walder doukuro box has almost identical wording on the box front as in the comic strip :
'no force in the galaxy can withstand this cosmic corruption! Puny earth will be his final conquest.'
I'm assuming that the original king walder/cyborg boxes/booklets ha this wording too and thats where denys fisher got it from.
CBC.
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Post by GUYx1 on Apr 22, 2006 12:27:18 GMT -5
You would think it was that easy a transaltion, but it is a little more complicated than that...
While the British certainly borrowed a lot from the Japanese, the Japanese went crazy taking back elements of the Denys Fisher style and used them in all the reissue packaging.
Take for example:
1) Denys Fisher Fonts used on the Ruminaborg & Retro Action Enemies
2) Denys Fisher Artwork used on the Machroid and the back of the clear Retro Action Enemies.
3) Denys Fisher Torg Artwork used on the VxFxCx Microman Dokuroking box. (Not to mention the term SUBFORM, which came right from Denysfisher)
The verbage from Denys Fisher seems to be copied in spirit on the MEdicom boxes as well...
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Post by xyborg7 on Apr 23, 2006 8:56:12 GMT -5
thanks for posting, guy. my son has been asking there story and i hadnt had anything translated for him yet. i thought it strange that they were cyborgs as i couldnt find any human bits at all. i shoulda known that only the human heart and mind could defeat the evils of the nefarious muton!!!
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Post by GUYx1 on Apr 28, 2006 18:11:19 GMT -5
I have more Artwork to post. Does anyone remember these backdrops?       In the mid 1970s Weetabix breakfast cereal offered these cool backdrops as well as Cut out Dr WHo figures & gameboards. It is my understanding that these paintings were created by artist Gordon Archer for Weetabix in 1975. The Artwork is very Similar to the Denys Fisher Dr WHO & Cyborg package artwork. I think it would be fun to blow up these paintings, laminate them and use them as backdrops in the display cases... |
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Post by GUYx1 on Apr 28, 2006 18:15:06 GMT -5
You can compare the comic art used in the cyborg booklets as well (PS: Thanks Hypno)   |
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Post by johnnyhaggis on Apr 28, 2006 18:43:12 GMT -5
Those backdrops look like the walder home world.
Now I see where Hypno's amphibious guy comes from! One of the three british subform costumes...
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Post by hypnotator on Apr 29, 2006 5:05:21 GMT -5
The weetabix itself would have made an interesting backdrop too.
Does anyone have the leaflet with Android and the Cybo-Invader? Or the card for the Annihilators? I would love a scan or legible photo. I remember that there are detailed descriptions of the Annihilators. The Radoscope head (Robot A's flat one) has the power to melt diamond, but all is not lost for Cyborg because the antennae are quite vulnerable. The Hypnotator head (the square one that started out as Robot A's chest engine) is a computer sapping data storage device. I would love to have the actual wording of these to use below my avatar.
Anyone who wants pictures of the strips on Muton's and Android's boxes PM me. I have tried to post them again but I think they have been blocked.
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Post by GUYx1 on Apr 29, 2006 16:00:57 GMT -5
  Here are a couple more installments to keep you busy for now... - Guy |
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