Friday, November 21, 2014
Star Trek: Passage to Moauv
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4 comments:
Are the interiors redrawn to match the movie as well? I suspect the two I have with TMP covers (Robot Masters and Dinosaur Planet) may have had the uniforms redrawn and colored to match the drab TMP uniforms, since Kirk has straight hair, Scotty has no mustache, etc.
The only thing that vexes me, is that, to the best of my knowledge, I don't think PR issued those two before. Maybe they were created in classic series style but never published?
Chris
The only version of PTM I have ever seen is the one from the mid 70s, with the classic uniforms. I could be wrong, but I can't imagine Power Records would spring for the expense of re-doing all the artwork just so the uniforms match.
It seems like Dinosaur Planet and Robot Masters were done just for the movie tie-in campaign, hence the "appropriate" looks of the characters.
Someone should have told them Shatner had his perm, and Scotty had a mustache...but then again, these were the guys who made Uhura white...
Chris
The artwork for the early PR Star Trek releases is soooooo beautiful with such great likenesses and such a high degree of fidelity to the original series set designs and so forth (ignoring the weirdness of Black Sulu and White Uhura). Conversely, the artwork on the later ones - Dinosaur Planet and the robot one - are really awful and all over the place: inconsistent likenesses, movie uniforms, badly drawn TV Enterprise, and the Enterprise technology is on a rocketship and ray gun level. Crazy.
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