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At last, the center and ruler of my life! The TV. Arranged on top are a number of Muppets figures. I got some from con dealers who were happy to sell them at a discount than carry them home, and others from Toys-R-Us on sale. L to R are the Pigs in Space ship, Link Hearththrob, Gonzo's canon, a TV camera, Gonzo, Scooter's skateboard, Kermit, Ms. Piggy's dressing table and various clutter, Ms. Pigger herself, hardly any smaller, Scooter, and Fozzy Bear.
On the wall are a number of toy and model firearms -- none real. Some have remarkably real working parts, though, and one or two might actually ber able to set off a round if I were stupid enough to try it. Those I could, I adapted to hold empy but real brass cartidges.
Fire engines from another file are visible to the far right.
On the wall are a number of toy and model firearms -- none real. Some have remarkably real working parts, though, and one or two might actually ber able to set off a round if I were stupid enough to try it. Those I could, I adapted to hold empy but real brass cartidges.
Fire engines from another file are visible to the far right.
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Yes you do. It seems a bit small, judging by the movie, but comparing it to the root gun, it's about right. The actual gun is a Baretta 92, a R or S maybe. Oversize grips have been added, a barrel extension, and a heat disappating weigh that also helps dampen recoil. So the Robocop gun could in fact exist.
What it couldn't do is fire on fully automatic, as it did in the movie. No doubt somebody could tinker with it so that it did, but all you'd do is spray the bullets all over the place, and be just as likely to hit your own foot as any target you were aiming for. The clip would be empty in about three seconds too. Even the extended magazine isn't likely to hold much more than 18 rounds. None of that sustained fire power as in Robocop, where the pistol is flaring like Vulcan mini-canon for several seconds at a time.
That sort of wish fulfillment is what phasers are for.
What it couldn't do is fire on fully automatic, as it did in the movie. No doubt somebody could tinker with it so that it did, but all you'd do is spray the bullets all over the place, and be just as likely to hit your own foot as any target you were aiming for. The clip would be empty in about three seconds too. Even the extended magazine isn't likely to hold much more than 18 rounds. None of that sustained fire power as in Robocop, where the pistol is flaring like Vulcan mini-canon for several seconds at a time.
That sort of wish fulfillment is what phasers are for.
I know, I know. I'm not calling *you* stupid, heaven forbit. I just meant that it seems stupid that such a device exists. Aren't guns "fun" enough without turning them into toys completely? What next? One of those chips that make a dozen different blaster sound effects? A whistle for the end of the barrel so that combustion gasses play Dixie?
The real deal that the Robocop 'hero gun' was built around: a Beretta M93R firing three-round burst mode. As you can see it's quite controllable. The three-round burst goes off before recoil has much time to displace the barrel axis and is a featuer found on quite a few modern firearms, including numerous H&K variations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X5NQGUcCeg
Hollywood has a number of trick 'flash enhancer' systems for movies, most of which are modified muzzle brakes (focus on redirecting vented gas rather than suppressing flash or muzzle bark). In some cases they load extremely hot blank rounds because audiences expect to see muzzle flash and associate it with powerful firearms even though quite a few powerful firearms do not have particularly noticeable flash signatures.
Your toy collection is entirely awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X5NQGUcCeg
Hollywood has a number of trick 'flash enhancer' systems for movies, most of which are modified muzzle brakes (focus on redirecting vented gas rather than suppressing flash or muzzle bark). In some cases they load extremely hot blank rounds because audiences expect to see muzzle flash and associate it with powerful firearms even though quite a few powerful firearms do not have particularly noticeable flash signatures.
Your toy collection is entirely awesome.
Stembridge had a piece on their website regarding the gun, gone now. The impressive pyrotechnics were just a result of the internally blanked barrel and the completely useless side porting. The base gun was a M93r lower receiver, with a newly fabricated upper and that bizarre flat barrel extension.
Pistols with long barrels are for range. I suppose you might go hunting with them -- some people enjoy it as a sport. But most practical hunters will do better still with a rifle. Long barrels can also be used in target shooting.
As a weapon though, you're not apt to have to put somebody's eye out at a 100 yards, and a long barrel is more difficult to handle. A barrel in the neightborhood of 6 or 8 inches is about all anyone needs, and 4 inche barrels are handier still (for in close fighting or a quick draw).
I did once speculate that a highly trained force of commandoes could operate with long barreled pistols alone. But I guess they have enough training to get through, without having to learn to be perfect shots.
As a weapon though, you're not apt to have to put somebody's eye out at a 100 yards, and a long barrel is more difficult to handle. A barrel in the neightborhood of 6 or 8 inches is about all anyone needs, and 4 inche barrels are handier still (for in close fighting or a quick draw).
I did once speculate that a highly trained force of commandoes could operate with long barreled pistols alone. But I guess they have enough training to get through, without having to learn to be perfect shots.
Long barral are common for horse riders. A lot of trail riders carry long barrle saddle pistals as to there easer to draw fast the a rifle, and accercy is higher the a short barral. I myself carry a Mini30 range rifle, While my Wife carries a Taurus Model 66 .357, She can handle it nicely one handed if needed and still take out amountain lion.
The advantage of a long barrel on a pistol is partly velocity, but mostly it's just a longer sight radius. The farther apart the front and rear sights are, the more easily your eye centers the front sight in the rear sight. This equates to being able to make smaller movements to make adjustments.
The longest-barreled pistol in my collection is an 8-3/8" barreled .44 magnum single action. It's pretty much set up for a specific kind of 100 - 200 yard .target shooting, although it'd be adequate for hunting. In a real fight, it would mostly be useful as a club.
The longest-barreled pistol in my collection is an 8-3/8" barreled .44 magnum single action. It's pretty much set up for a specific kind of 100 - 200 yard .target shooting, although it'd be adequate for hunting. In a real fight, it would mostly be useful as a club.
It's part of a broomhandle Mauser. The pistol detaches from the wooden stock, which doubles as a carrying case. It's hollow, and the butt swings open to house the Mauser.
I published a fanzine in the 1970's that used a Sigma on white paper as the cover. It also had some smaller figures top and bottom, dx and dy I think, but this sure took me back...
I published a fanzine in the 1970's that used a Sigma on white paper as the cover. It also had some smaller figures top and bottom, dx and dy I think, but this sure took me back...
I can't see any good reason. It was fine as it was. Nothing primative about the special effects that I remember. Maybe enough people didn't get killed. Maybe they want to blow up Chicago as a special effect. Maybe it's just an excuse to hire some hack like Keano Reeves for $8,000,000... He certainly has acting mechanically down pat.
Or maybe they just won't do it. We can always hope.
Or maybe they just won't do it. We can always hope.
The Miss Piggy figure I'd like to have is the one where she is in her Pigs in Space uniform, because that one has long hair. (Ever notice that Miss Piggy actually did get prettier as the show went on?) But the PiS figure only comes in an elaborate playset that costs about $60, if you can even find it.
I used to have cable, and though I bitched a lot about the state of TV, I didn't know when I was well off.
Now I use a satillite dish and a black box to decypher US stations. It would be illegal in the US, but I'm not *in* the US, so its a grey area. Its free, but the drawback is that I don't get Canadian TV! For one thing, I miss hearing about what's happening in my own country. US news treats Canada as though it were as remote and as uninvolved in anything important as Togoland, or Nepal. We generally only get mentioned when some rabid buffoon on Fox isn't happy with us.
Worse, American TV is incredibly stupid! And paranoid. All the shows are about shooting people, making money, or becomming a celebrity. All the advertising is about making your penis bigger, investing in the stock market (boy what timing!), or buying insurance because you're going to die someday, and you have the right to have nobody look after you. Even then, after selling you some noxious potion to grow hair or give you a hard on, there's a two minute list of side effects to look out for. I can see why you need insurance, buddy, if people can sell stuff like that over the TV!
I'm gradually finding stations I can watch without vomiting, but I sure do miss the CBC.
Now I use a satillite dish and a black box to decypher US stations. It would be illegal in the US, but I'm not *in* the US, so its a grey area. Its free, but the drawback is that I don't get Canadian TV! For one thing, I miss hearing about what's happening in my own country. US news treats Canada as though it were as remote and as uninvolved in anything important as Togoland, or Nepal. We generally only get mentioned when some rabid buffoon on Fox isn't happy with us.
Worse, American TV is incredibly stupid! And paranoid. All the shows are about shooting people, making money, or becomming a celebrity. All the advertising is about making your penis bigger, investing in the stock market (boy what timing!), or buying insurance because you're going to die someday, and you have the right to have nobody look after you. Even then, after selling you some noxious potion to grow hair or give you a hard on, there's a two minute list of side effects to look out for. I can see why you need insurance, buddy, if people can sell stuff like that over the TV!
I'm gradually finding stations I can watch without vomiting, but I sure do miss the CBC.
Impressive collection.. and TV? Yeah... Living outside Buffalo, NY, I'm lucky to get some Canadian chnls.. CTV and CBC - both Toronto... and I LIKE CBC! They way they do kids' shows in the AM / Sat's is great! And The Red Green Show and This Hour Has 22 minutes... CLASSICS!
When I was a kid, it was the American stations from Buffalo that were "sexy". We only had a CBC affiliate in Toronto, and a station we could get from Hamilton that were "local". A bit later, an actual Toronto station was added to the list. But ABC, NBC, and CBS all came from Buffalo, and that was the place to be. What did we have to pit agains "Leave it to Beaver", "Naked City", "Ben Casey", "Perry Mason", The Rifleman", "The Honeymooners", and all those 50's classics? A few shows about fishermen on the BC coast, or boy scouts in northern Ontario, mainly. The only "classic" was "Hockey Night in Canada".
Not only were all the hot programs coming from the States then, but all the advertised products seemed much more appealing. We had CCM bikes, which were well made and sturdy, but you had "Schwinn" -- which was so much better because it had a couple of stylish sheets of metal welded onto the frame to look more like a motorcycle. We just had butter from the local dairy, but you had "Land O' Lakes" butter! We had bread from a baker, you had "Wonder Bread". You had "Bosco" and Burma Shave and talking beer steins and all sorts of neat stuff (when you're eight). We had Howard the Turtle.
But gradually Toronto grew and came of age. We have a ton of Canadian stations now, and most American products have penetrated the Canadian market. Land O' Lakes butter, it seems, is no different than any other kind. I can't imagine what I would have thought, at age ten, if I was told that someday Buffalo stations would advertise themselves as part of the Greater Metropolitan Toronto Viewing Area.
Not only were all the hot programs coming from the States then, but all the advertised products seemed much more appealing. We had CCM bikes, which were well made and sturdy, but you had "Schwinn" -- which was so much better because it had a couple of stylish sheets of metal welded onto the frame to look more like a motorcycle. We just had butter from the local dairy, but you had "Land O' Lakes" butter! We had bread from a baker, you had "Wonder Bread". You had "Bosco" and Burma Shave and talking beer steins and all sorts of neat stuff (when you're eight). We had Howard the Turtle.
But gradually Toronto grew and came of age. We have a ton of Canadian stations now, and most American products have penetrated the Canadian market. Land O' Lakes butter, it seems, is no different than any other kind. I can't imagine what I would have thought, at age ten, if I was told that someday Buffalo stations would advertise themselves as part of the Greater Metropolitan Toronto Viewing Area.
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