#solarite

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Richard Kiel as The Solarite - The Phantom Planet (1961)

[jacobchabot]

You know, Captain, every year of my life I grow more and more convinced that the wisest and the best is to fix our attention on the good and the beautiful. If you just take the time to look at it.

[thecreaturecodex]

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.

[spockvarietyhour]

The Phantom Planet (1961)

[gurumog]

The Phantom Planet (1961) American International Pictures Dir. William Marshall

Richard Kiel as The Solarite

This was actor Richard Kiel's first credited film role. Kiel, who stood a lofty 7ft 2in tall, is best remembered for playing Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

[rakostep]

Karax no

[jacobchabot]

You know, every year of my life, I grow more and more convinced that the wisest and best is to fix our attention on the good and the beautiful. If you just take the time to look at it.