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I drew this picture seven years ago after I bought myself my first Ironman comic titled "The return of Iron Man". I immediately became a iron man fan.This is a picture of the comic legend himself (well not entirely). This is a picture of the iron man remote unit (a remote controlled robot) in which Tony Stark is controlling telepathically from his sick bed (recovered from a life threatening illness involving his already injured heart).
Since the new movie is relased this year, I thought I would release this my fan picture as a personal tribute to the comic legend.
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Actually if that's the suit I remember it to be Tony Stark was just getting over a case of being dead. His heart was fine by that point but his nervous system was shot.
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You're correct!
This is the remote unit Tony Stark used when he was still in bed after the nervous surgery!
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The NTU-01 I believe is its model number....All the sleekness of Iron Man and all the Firepower of War Machine, all remotely controlled from the confront of your bed...the only thing that has really come close is the uber Stark/Iron Man post "upgrade" controlling all those past suit(copies I believe) all th while he's sitting cross legged on a rooftop partially without armor sitting there in a Zen like state saying stuff like "..unit 25 punch, unit 42 block..., etc". Either that or the NTU's spiritual successor the so called Tony 2.0 suit that looked like a strange fusion of War Machine and a stockpile of weapons(drawn by DA's own Adam Warren).
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You certainly know your Iron Man models AlphaRaptor2k6 (cool name by the way). You are right about the details of the NTU unit though, but this version is slightly modified unit working together with Tony Starks newly developed nervous system. In this issue Tony stark had just replaced his nervous system with fibre optic cables after his "so called death". Not may people knew he was still alive including his best friend Rhodes (war machine). With his electronic nervous system tony stark was endowed with the ability control (telepathically) not only the NTU, he controls the automated factory that makes his armour and this is where he built this unit (the picture I drew) in case trouble brews
An evil corporation sent a group of battle droids to capture Rhodes (at the time of Stark's false death, he was the beneficiary of Stark Enterprises) in order to gain control of Stark's corporate empire. When the droids invaded Stark Enterprises, Stark sends the NTU unit to intercept and destroy them. Here is where the differences come to play with the outer NTU units. Whenever damage is inflicted on the unit, it sends feedback to Stark himself giving him intense pain. After defeating the droids the NTU scanned the droids directives. Tony then realises that his friend was in danger so he sent the severly damage NTU with the war machine gear to Rhodes himself, who was at the time defenseless at his home (wheew). The unit found Rhodes and gave him the war machine armour. Once again war machine in his full glory defeated the remaining battle droid and carried the damaged NTU back to Stark.
I forgot to tell you that at time Stark & Rhode's relationship were at crossroads because Stark decieved him of his false death (for good reasons) which to the reader was a bit of a misunderstanding.
I hope it would be easier for you to identify the unit, perhaps it may be really the NTU sussessor you mentioned towards the end of the letter.
Hope to hear from you soon.
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Yeah knew that.... Just stating that I saw that model on a cover with it's "War Machine like" shoulder guns out, back to back with War Machine... I didn't actually read that comic, way before I really was into Iron Man. I started with an early "Hero's Return" book that had Stark(wounded) and Warbird battling an "Evil" War Machine dopperganger attacking a company Stark was consulting for...and after maybe 10 years I finally got the final issue to that storyline in which the Uber War Machine copycat, is taken down by his own employer and leaves his extra parts while he gets away with the core suit.
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The issue (Ironman/WarMachine machine back to back with guns blazing) that u just mentioned was "part two" of the story I mentioned to you in my previous letter, when the damaged Iron Man NTU unit brought the War Machine suit to Rhodes. I'm amazed at how u tracked that down so quickly.
I've just submitted a Robocop pic to my page. I made it today on Microsoft Paint and decided to post it for your enjoyment. I'm also a big Robocop fan. Did u know that robocop was inspired by ironman?
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I saw the pict on an Iron Man fansite, long before this disscussion. Also Robocop also inspired a Japan "Super Sentia" adapation, not direct mind you it had dective get hurt(cue, frankenstein scenes) and was rebuilt into a robocop like form, he even had the same leg holster as robo(!), though he could transform back into his "human" form as well. I beileve that was nodded to in Robocop 2. As in the first half(pre Cain-"Chop Shop") of the movie he was the same color as his japan counterpart(that strange blue-ish hue his armor was), after he was rebuilt(again) his armor of course revered back to his basic grey.
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Hu so desu!! (Oh Yeah!!) I noticed that too in the movie (the armour colour switch).
I may have watched an anime similar to your description of "Super Sentia" (perhaps it had a different title) in my teens in japan back in the 90s. Although the cartoon was entirely in Japanese (I watched it on a local tv channel at 1 AM) I somehow could understand what was going on in the plot. Like all typical action animes there was lots of violence and gore. Although I do not remember most of it, but I do remember the frakenstein scene and the leg holster thing you mentioned. I remember because I personally protested "Robocop rip-off!!, Robocop rip-off!!"
You certainly did make me travel back in memory lane (those were the best years in my life). And yes, that is ample enough for me.
Hope to hear from u soon.
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Also look to VR Troopers, and their source Sentia.
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I have looked up super sentia under VR Troopers. This whole power rangers thing ain't really my cup of tea nowadays. What I still like about those shows were the way the monsters died in which they explode like the 4th of July. Hilarious.
However I have one question though. Did super sentia somehow inspire the super hero character shown on television in ROBOCOP 1. Can you recall the scene in the movie of Alex J. Murphy's pixie dust flashbacks? When his son was watching a morning television telvision show with a character very similar to VR Trooper (TJ something something). The character's gun holster trick also inspired Murphy to do the same just to impress his son (thus his son saying "I'm going to be just like u when I grow up").
Did VR Troopers also inspired the movie title "Starship Troopers"? (The movie was made by the same guys who made ROBOCOP)
If you have the answers, holla back if you can.
Hope to hear from you soon.
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Yeah those monsters seem to be filled to the brim with roman candles and pryo/explosive stuff always. They change it up in a few of the newer series(one has the rangers shooting their team BFG, only it shoots out a big weight 1ton(?) and then they raise to squish the monster with it(P-R:Ninja Storm)). On your first question, I believe Robo's look came from the Japanese superhero series "UchΓ» keiji Gyaban" [link] (1982) (the first of Toei's "Metal Hero" series) and the story was from another series called 8th Man [link] . The TJ show would be The TV show Murphy's son is watching, "TJ Lazer", is an obvious spoof of the hit 1980's cop show "T.J. Hooker" (1982). And I can't total(y) recall which scene it was, I think it was when he was in his old house and was remembering who he was.
VR Troopers, inspired nothing as far as I know. Considering that the guy who played "Ivan Ooze"(Paul Freeman) has said at during that film that he hadn't even heard of the show(Power Rangers that is). If want to see him "un-oozed" look at Dr. Rene Belloq(Thats him in 1981 anyways) from "Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark", I was surprised to find this out... Back to topic, Starship Troopers was based on a Novel "that Director Paul Verhoeven admits to never finishing, claiming he read through the first few chapters and became both bored and depressed". If want a more true version of the book look to "Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles" [link] a CGI cartoon series that was better as some have said than the movie Paul Verhoeven made. I watched it on USA network in the mornings and liked it, you have all the powersuits and mecha from the book and less "cannon fodder" in some cases than the movie.
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Very interesting findings. I used to watch the Starship trooper chronicles too and hell yeah it was better than the movie. I was kind of nice to see the Roughnecks fighting and survive each and every ordeal the face. I like Michael Ironside's character in the movie, where he plays the amputee teacher who happen to be a hard wearing generral who ruled literally with an iron fist. I was very disapointed when his character dies towards the middle of the movie.
Speaking of disappointment, I've just watch the new Knight Rider Movie and it was terrible. The plot was too rushed and it was more like a chick flick (that's how most tv series are thesee days, especially remakes) since the plot centres around a brilliant scientists daughter whose life was in immediate danger.
The biggest disapointment was the car itself, a modified Ford Mustang GT 500 with questionable aerodynamics!! How does that powerful engine supposed to breath when K.I.T.T's signature red scanner light takes pride on the hood where the air intake supposed to be. The car is built like a barn house yet it goes faster than a Buggatti Veyron. When the series was originally aired in 1982. The pontiac trans am was a revolutionary design to the world. It's futuristic design made the show a runaway success and won the hearts of many fans including myself (I had a lot of toy Trans ams whe was a kid). The Trans am's super pursuit mode (the spouting of wings and aerofoils to make the car go faster) made a lot of sense and some of its key features are adopted by today's super cars (e.g. Lamborghini Murcielago-the wing-like air intakes and the Mercedes SLR the rear airbrake). The mustang GT looks like well........ a Mustang GT 500. Why couldn't it be the new Chevrolette camaro, at least it looks more futuristc than the mustang and it looked damn impressive in transformers. The glamour that once made the series a success is gone....... all gone (sob)
Why would David Hasselhoff do such a thing to his greatest fan (me). He (actually it was the trans am) was my childhood hero.
Sorry about that AlphaRaptor2k6. I wanted to vent my anger and sorrow at this new movie. I fell a little better now.
Hope to hear from you soon.
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Yeah the new K.I.T.T is questionable on a lot of things, like the double spoiler in it's "pursuit/super" mode. I even think they screwed the guy who bought replicas of each mode on Barrett Jackson auctions, the "Super" mode car was the same black color as the "normal" mode cart the only difference, the questionable "double decker" spoiler I mentioned earlier.
For a TV movie that usually have higher budgets than series, that was sort of a let down, almost as much as the way the creator left important data just "laying around"/having running computer models on a car thats already finished. I mean he is smart enough to have a stand-in, in the house but not to keep the data locked up elsewhere? Come on here people...
Note: I throught is was somewhat OK, but was weak in all areas(TKR(Team-Knight-Rider) had better scripts!).
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That's right! Team Knight Rider did have better scripts. Well when the television series kicks off I am not going to watch it. It might turn out to be couple of short chick flicks. Don't call me a sexist or anything, I'm beginning to notice that tv shows as of late tend to be more appealing to female audiences.
I've come up with a theory. Perhaps the tv executives have done some research and found out that the female audiences tend to stay at home at certain times. The audience may consist of boring housewives who have nothing to do after cleaning up their houses. Perhaps that's what makes tv shows such as "Sarah Conner Chronicles", the new "Bionic Woman" (I'm prefer the 70s version) "Desperate Housewives" (to name a few) such big successes.
If thats how things are going to be then we are facing the end of the golden age of tv. Perhaps I'm getting old-fashioned myself. Maybe these new tv shows appeal to a younger generation audience. They have to be. Otherwise the tv companies will lose a lot of revenue.
Note: Boston Legal (William Shatner's a damn good comedian) and CSI Newyork/Miami/Las Vegas are the only new generation TV shows I like to watch these days and nothing else.
Hope to hear from you soon.
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And to think the blockbuster: TRANSFORMERS, was the so called "catalysis" for this new Series. The only thing it inspired was the choice of car K.I.T.T. was I can see... Some studios learn from bad shows, and learn to sift out bad parts and include good parts into a good show. Most Studio's seem that connecting random things and throwing money at them works fine, or reviving shows that were "cool"/successful "back in their day" for modern viewers, only to shuffle all the good out and fill it in with either crap or cheap filler that really just leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth after watching.
Sarah Conner Chronicles" and the new "Bionic Woman" I tried to watch(I watched more of the the "Bionic Woman") and really didn't connect with the shows. Her "bionics's" seem overly organic one minute then "solid state" the next. I mean in the original run they had shoestring budgets and little if no special effects that could convey what they wanted and yet they did, very well even by some of todays standards. Even the later TV movies conveyed a better state of bionic technology than that show ever did. Jake 2.0 would have a better show to resurrect(Lee Majors even appeared on the show(not as his Bionic self, but as an "enhanced" agent)).
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Oh and by they way these concepts seem to have been "at face value"(if that) been resurrected this year, Jake 2.0=Bionic Woman and Dead Like Me=Reapers. Most Network heads and or Movie execs seem to love two things, One: to retread "completed" films with bad remakes(Herbie: Fully Loaded(with crap!)), and putting the axe on shows that don't produce a "hit" or seemingly are hit with a dart on a dartboard at their office with the show's name on it, somehow this is Standard practice it would seem. That and letting cheap "reality" shows move in and keep producing seasons saping away more(, and more) money than their "cheap" billing that would go to good shows either still on or future shows that never get a "second chance".
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I agree with you AlphaRaptor2k6 . It is a sad reality. (excuse the pun).
I have never bothered to watch Herbie:Fully Loaded, although I was a fan when I was a kid.When I saw that the VW Beetle had a "face" in the trailers I was completely turned off. My poor soul you actually watched that movie! Thank you for telling me that the movie is crap. I will never watch it as long as I live on this rock.
It seems that the movie/tv industry is running out of ideas. As you mentioned in the second letter you sent me, the execs are retreading "completed" movies. Think about this, moviemaking has existed for more than 90 years. All those stories and ideas have been written and put on film for such a long time. They should be should have been exhausted by. Now we are seeing those stories/ideas being recycled for the new century. For example, that Mark Wahlberg movie "shooter" has the same plot as the Keenan Wayans movie "Most wanted". The plot: A former military sniper framed by what he thought was a government agency aimed to protect the national interests of the american people. Only to discover they are involved in a shadow conspiracy of great proportions. The sense of patriotism displayed by the villians is hilarious to watch especially by Danny Glover's character in "shooter".
I've just got the new "iron man" movie today and my god!! It's a terrible copy. I didn't want to watch the movie cause it will ruin the fun watching it on a better copy. I guess Il have to wait a little while longer for a good one.
Hope to hear form you soon.
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Do you mean the Animated Iron Man movie? It was vague and really jumped around way too much for my tastes, and the ending while a twist was still weak for a weak movie. The "Ultimate" Iron Man character had a better background and development in both of the Animated Ultimates movies[a superior set of movies bar-none].
I can't wait personally for the live action Iron Man movie on DVD, especially the commentary track[s].
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I meant the live action movie itself. However it was a very bad copy though. I going to get the better quality copy sometime this week from a friend.
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The Live Action Movie was great, it wasn't overly CG, it had a lead actor who knew/lived one side of Tony's life, and they held fast to the K.I.S.S. principal in that they didn't go off on a wild director/studio/actor tangent[which "might" have happened if some of the actors guning for the role might have used their "star power"{read: demand} be added to the film/character]. Think of what Tom Cruise might have wanted Tony to be like given Tom's 'faith' and EGO... Robert Downey really fought
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I can imagine how the movie would have turned out to be if Tom Cruise acted the part. You saw what had happened to the "Mission Impossible" Franchise as of late. Tom's faith and ego would have had disastrous implications on the movie possibly even the franchise itself. Have you watched South Park's "In the closet" episode?
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No I don't really like "South Park", but I do watch shows like "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", "Harvey Birdman", and one of the originals(of the Genre) Ren & Stimpy(back in the day). But back on topic, I have heard about that "Episode".
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Hey I watch those too!! Paticullary Robot Chicken, Harvey Birdman, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. They are my favorite shows. Shake is hilarious in "Aqua Teen Hunger Force". In harvey Birdman, X the eliminator (in my opinion) is my favorite character. I kinda miss Ren & Stimpy though. It was kinda weird when they put a put the show on Nickolodeon when the show was intended for an older audience teenagers in particular. Most of the times I don't follow whats going on on Space Ghost Coast to Coast but there were funny moments though.
I haven't watched the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie yet. Was it good?
You don't like South Park? Oh well everybody's entitled to their own opinion. I respect that.
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Oh I forgot to tell you about that South Park Episode. Apparently the Scientology practices were sort of exposed to the the public and critisised in other words they spoofed it The religion was spoofed together with R Kelly with references to his "in the closet" music videos. In this episode Stan Marsh (one of the show's main character) was "discovered" to be the incarnation of the the founder of Scientology, in which its practices were revealed later in the episode. Many Scientologists, including celebrity flocked to Stan's house to see their so called reborn prophet (stan himself). The first to see him was Tom Cruise himself. Stan told Cruise that he did not like his movies, as a result Tom bawled like a baby and locked himself in the closet. Cruise refused to come out of the closet and this turned into a scenery similar to hostage crises in which a fleet of police, fire and ambulance units surround Stans House (as well as the press). R Kelly arrived at the scene to diffuse the situation. Instead of talking to people like any other person he was sing his lines from his "in the closet" songs in which at the end of each verse pulls out his pistol sending people into frenzy and panic.
Issac Hayes (musician/producer/actor) the guy who voiced the south park character "chef" happened to be a Scientologist and quit the show soon after it was aired.
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I'll do just that. Thank you AlphaRaptor2k6.
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The issue (Ironman/WarMachine machine back to back with guns blazing) that u just mentioned was "part two" of the story I mentioned to you in my previous letter, when the damaged Iron Man NTU unit brought the War Machine suit to Rhodes. I'm amazed at how u tracked that down so quickly.
I've just submitted a Robocop pic to my page. I made it today on Microsoft Paint and decided to post it for your enjoyment. I'm also a big Robocop fan. Did u know that robocop was inspired by ironman?
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