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The Xander Zone

As I was building this and posting updates, I heard from several people that it was the worst kit in AMT's stable thanks to it being an old tooling with a long history of being modified for different releases. I don't know if it was the worst—the Beverly Hillbillies truck and Vampire Van certainly had their share of problems—but Xander Cage's '67 GTO was definitely a challenging build.


Worlds Apart

Another one of The Asylum's mockbuster tie-in movies was 2005's War of the Worlds, released to coincide with the Tom Cruise movie. Both were modern takes on H.G. Wells' story, but they did have one big difference: only the one from The Asylum got a sequel.

Richard Kiel

Richard Kiel
Richard Kiel
September 13, 1939 - September 10, 2014


A Scene from The French Connection

The World Trade Center as seen in The French Connection

The French Connection is considered by many to involve one of the greatest car chase sequences in movie history. But somewhat earlier in the movie, it has one other notable scene: just after Henri Devereaux's Lincoln Continental is offloaded from the boat used to transport it to the United States (the car used in the smuggling operation), it is observed by smuggler Alain Charnier and his henchman Pierre Nicoli. In the background of the shot of Charnier and Nicoli, the two towers of the World Trade Center are shown under construction. During the time of filming, 1 WTC had reached its full height but 2 WTC was still incomplete. It was the first Hollywood production to show the towers, during a time when they were still a highly controversial addition to the Manhattan skyline.
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Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers
June 8, 1933 - September 4, 2014