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Speaking in a friendly way, I was asking people to find an example of a bipedal dinosaur with four toes. Under nature’s mantra of “if you don’t use it, you lose it” these creature’s fourth toe became residual. If there a missing link that science would like to find, it must surely be a ground...

I have no fear of looking ignorant, as I don’t come from an academic background. I don’t fully understand the ins and outs of cosmology. Right now, I’m counting toes on dinosaurs. If I live long enough, I will get on to the cosmologists. In the meantime, I becoming continually tired of the lack...

I won’t be taking issue with the theory that a meteorite caused massed extinctions. There is not a single reptile living today that is descended from dinosaurs, so scientists had to come up with a reason why. Modern day reptiles resemble the ones that scientists say came before and lived...

Don’t worry, I’m not a believer in the hollow Earth but you need to understand the mind set of conspiracy theory. Stating what you’ve been taught at school is not going to cut the mustard. According to conspiracy theorists, what we’ve all been presented with is inaccurate or is a deliberate...

I have settled on the opinion that UFO sightings were simply top secret experimental military x-planes (and continue to be so today). http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/09/16/the-truth-behind-ufo-sightings-and-the-us-air-force In the 1960s Western governments actually set out to help...

This is an old thread but it is a subject which is right up my street, considering that I have delved deeper into the worlds of alternative history and conspiracy theory than most people (although I have barely scratched the surface of many issues). I am sympathetic towards to theories...

It's a nice idea in principle but I’m not sure creating costumes and accessories for twelve inch figures from scratch is all that viable, unless someone has the skills and a great deal of time on their hands. The modern Kenner and Hasbro toy lines have ready-made items to use and the figures...

It’s not often that I get really fired up about my Star Wars but recently I came across some photos on Facebook in the Vintage Custom Figures group of vintage twelve inch Star Wars figures dressed in the clothing from the modern Kenner and Hasbro range. I discovered that they had been posted by...

I really need to archive my cuttings properly. A lot of items got separated into different boxes and folders when I moved home recently. If I come across that cutting, I'll post it here.

Its funny how people didn't like General Madine. He was the first ROTJ character that saw and I bought it instantly. He was on a Kenner card and was the only figure left in the newsagent. My mind was bubbling over what role he would play in the film. I'm surprised to hear that you saw a double...

Those old clippings are fantastic and are the kind of thing that you can unearth at local libraries and the British Library. Glasgow was among the group of towns and cities that first received Star Wars when it went national on the 29th January 1978. The quote from Cecil Wilson "Crash, bang...

I am under the maximum amount of messages now, as I have been all day today. How many do I need to delete? This is very serious. I'm guilty of keeping hold of old messages but many are very useful, as they contain links, etc.

All of these pictures a brilliant. Talk about a snapshot in time. Darth Vader really does seem to have visited some small places, not just the big stores.

I'm assembling the photos for my book and I'd like to include one of Darth Vader on tour in 1983. If anyone has a photo of Darth that they own, I'd be very interested. Photos of shop interiors with Star Wars, cinemas showing the film, carnival floats and people dressing up are also top of my...

Cool! Mine would be Kiddie City in Romford.

The Millennium Falcon was the only large item I ever got - I'm pretty sure that it was £30 plus, which was a lot of Money back then for my parents to shell out. It was the toy that I got the most use out of though in my entire childhood. I was also collecting Micronauts toys, which were...

For my book, I’d be interested in hearing about people’s memories of saving and sending off the names from the Star Wars card backs. As I child I opened the bubbles of my Star Wars figures very carefully with a pair of scissors. Even the packaging was like gold-dust to me. I still have some...

Thanks for the memories! Ask Aspel with a recorded segment featuring Mark Hamill was broadcast on May 20th, the day of the London premiere. I don’t have a date for Blue Peter with Mark and Carrie but I’m still digging. The Odeon Glasgow opened on June 15th, and I’m not aware of any special...