I’ve posted this picture before, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to showcase the contrast between Art Adams’ original pen-and-ink and the colored version.
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Basil Gogos - Metaluna Mutant
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Super 7 is adding a glow-in-the-dark Metaluna Mutant to its Ultimates action figure line. Due out in April 2024, it's available to pre-order for $54.99.
Standing 7" tall, the This Island Earth alien comes with two interchangeable heads and four interchangeable hands. It’s packaged in a slipcase-style collector’s box.
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This Island Earth (1955)
Universal-International
Dir. Joseph M. Newman
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In running Strange Aeons (just finished the first book monday night!) and one of my players is playing a Flame Shaman so of COURSE I tied him to Cthugha though backstory. I also created some alien servitors of Cthugha based on Magmar of all things just in case I wanna pull that out of my back pocket.
That is such a smart idea! I have been occasionally thinking about statting up more Pokemon, and I really liked the human shaped elemental trio when I was a little kid. Electabuzz, Jynx, Magmar. I played through Pokemon Red like three times, and always used at least one of those on my team. So linking magmars to Cthugha is fun.
Have you seen The Phantom Planet? It's not very good, kind of a sci fi version of Gulliver's Travels. But that's where Magmar comes from. There's a group of enemy aliens called the Solarites? And they're a mashup of the Zagons and Metaluna Mutants from This Island Earth, being lumpy monsters with clawed feet and a bulbous head who use meteors as weapons. Both movies, This Island Earth and The Phantom Planet, were on Mystery Science Theater. Although This Island Earth is too good to be a "cheesy movie"
Anyway, Magmar is a 15% less anthropomorphic version of the Solarite design.
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The Metaluna Mutant is out for love
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Mad About Mutant by James Groman
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A Metaluna mutant from This Island Earth (1955), as designed by Dave Cockrum for a proposed model from Aurora. The company was looking to expand its monster models line, which was popular in the 1960s.
Unfortunately, abysmal sales company-wide led Aurora to cancel the line before this, or any of Cockrum’s other designs, ever saw the light of day.
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(via The Grim Gallery: Exhibit 4065)
The Metaluna Mutant in This Island Earth (1955)
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