I’ve always been fascinated that the iconic 1966 Batmobile was actually pieced together in a hurry, assembled out of a decade-old concept car known as the Lincoln Futura. Much of the design (the fins, the double-bubble top, the unusual recessed headlights) are part of the initial design of the vehicle, with some important tweaks to bat the whole thing up. The idea that the Bat-car we all know and love was repurposed from a junked vehicle on George Barris’ back lot is kind of amazing, leading to today’s terribly familiar query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) was surprised recently to find that Robot B-9, from ‘Lost In Space’, was later painted blue to appear in a Hanna Barbera Saturday morning show in the 70s, asking: What’s the best bit of recycled pop culture?
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Star Wars weapons & equipment. I recognize at least dozen objects and parts because they were in my grandpa’s tool box or closet.
Some American adaptations of Japanese series that simply take the anime or live-action series or toyline, chop it up and reassemble it in a completely different story from the original are actually pretty good. Like Transformers starting life as a couple of different franchises with very different concepts (the vehicles were driven/piloted rather than being sentient), or Power Rangers (MMPR is one of the few adaptations I actually prefer over the original Super Sentai source material).
To be fair, most are pretty bad, but every once in a while you get a gem.