Gerry Anderson’s Son Is Reviving Firestorm…in ULTRAMARIONATION!
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Real explosions.
That’s one of the major takeaways from Jamie Anderson’s Kickstarter pitch video – he will build puppets and sets, and he will blow them up for your enjoyment.
It worked – Firestorm has only been on Kickstarter a couple of days, and it’s already fully funded. Originally conceived as a puppet show but sold as the anime series Storm Force in 2003, this Firestorm will be returning to its roots and terrifying a new generation of kids with those weird marionettes that always creeped me the hell out. I mean, people talk about “uncanny valley” in CG, but marionettes had dead eyes from day one.
I’m down to see some get blown up.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist