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Hugh Thompson Scott
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From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012

posted October 01, 2012 07:32 AM

Am I alone in thinking that "MARS ATTACKS" would have made
a good release on the bootlace, sadly not to be.

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Pasquale DAlessio
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From: Bristol,RI, USA
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posted October 01, 2012 08:09 AM

Hugh

You are not alone. I would have loved a feature or at least a condensed version. Although so much of that film was good it would be hard to condense it. Those martians were hilarious!

PatD

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted October 01, 2012 01:40 PM

... just to have that scene where the martian's ship keeps adjusting the fall of something on a crowd of people (as the crowd of people wisely try to keep from being squashed)

... and finally achieve it, to thier glee. I thought that was funnier than hell! They weren't just here to conquer ... they were here to humiliate!!

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Adrian Winchester
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From: Croydon, London, UK
Registered: Aug 2004

posted October 01, 2012 07:16 PM

It never now seems to come up for sale but the trailer did appear on Super 8, on a reel that also included full and teaser trailes to 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'. Very nice print.

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Hugh Thompson Scott
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From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012

posted October 02, 2012 01:38 PM

It sure did Adrian, and a great trailer reel it was, released by
Indy 8 as a Value For Money trailer reel along with a slew of other
titles that Barry put out.One of my favourite scenes in that film
is when the saucer hovers, and a huge arm appears and rolls
an equally huge bowling ball at the Easter Island effigy's.
I well remember when these bubble gum cards were available
and collecting them as a school lad, it's a shame that the giant
insects were left out, but that might have made it too horrific.
A pity that some Distributors didn't pick it up for an 8mm release as I think it would have appealed to young and old alike.

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