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Loneanimator In reply to Myuutsuu85 [2016-12-29 08:30:44 +0000 UTC]

He's my favorite too! A really simple hand puppet, as special effects go, but with tons of details and character.

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Loneanimator In reply to single-leg [2015-08-24 16:06:56 +0000 UTC]

See if you can get "The Doug McClure Fantasy Adventure Triple Pack", with this film paired with "The Land Tht Time Forgot" and "At the Earth's Core". High entertainment!  

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single-leg In reply to Loneanimator [2015-08-24 16:15:48 +0000 UTC]

THats right, Mclure was in that film too..he was the number one lost world monster fighter!

Thanks, mate!

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Loneanimator In reply to single-leg [2015-08-24 19:14:22 +0000 UTC]

Don't know if you're familliar with this guy but..
Roger Dicken is one of my creative heroes, and he did the prehistoric monsters for "The Land That Time Forgot" and "Warlords of Atlantis" (among many other things). Here's a very good blog post about his work:
blackholereviews.blogspot.se/2…

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single-leg In reply to Loneanimator [2015-08-24 23:38:52 +0000 UTC]

I have never heard of this guy yet he produced some of the highest quality creature FX I have seen!!! Scars of Dracula! The Land that time forgot!
THunderbirds! Alien! THe Blood Beast Terror and THe Creeping Flesh, two of the best designed monsters in British horror cinema!!

THanks for this, I will check out all these films again. THis man deserves his name to be mentioned with the other greats..it was a crime for me to not know of him.

Thanks again!

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Loneanimator In reply to single-leg [2015-08-25 18:37:40 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure Dicken also worked with Jim Danforth, building the dinos and miniatures for "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth", and Danforth had nothing but the highest praise for Dicken's craft.
He's still around, and apparently he wrote a book a while ago about British Rock N Roll history. So "versatile" is probably a correct word to use about this guy.

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Loneanimator In reply to Kooshmeister [2015-04-04 19:15:52 +0000 UTC]

Yep, my favourite as well. And it's "just" a hand puppet, but brought to very vivid life.

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Kooshmeister In reply to Loneanimator [2015-04-05 16:08:58 +0000 UTC]

Heh. I saw it on TV years ago and the Mogdaan always remained firmly in my memory. As far as the Guardians go (the Atlantean warrior caste), they're apparently modified humans. I think. I don't have the novelization anymore. I do know, though, that during one fight scene, Grogan can be heard saying, "Go for the gills!"

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Loneanimator In reply to Kooshmeister [2015-04-05 22:39:24 +0000 UTC]

I think it's more effective not showing the faces of the warriors. Then it's up to us to imagine how scary-looking they actually are. I'm a big fan of Roger Dicken, who built and operated the monsters. He always did excellent work with tiny budgets.

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Kooshmeister In reply to Loneanimator [2015-04-05 23:40:02 +0000 UTC]

Fair enough, I was merely imparting what I remembered from the book.

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Loneanimator In reply to Chaosfive-55 [2014-05-25 15:27:29 +0000 UTC]

Well, I can't hope for a better reaction!

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Chaosfive-55 In reply to Loneanimator [2014-05-25 15:29:46 +0000 UTC]

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Loneanimator In reply to earthbaragon [2014-05-25 06:31:23 +0000 UTC]

This film is one of my guilty pleasures  There are lots of monsters in this one, but the "mogdaan" is my favourite. It's basically just a hand puppet created and operated(?) by Roger Dicken. The helmeted guys passing the mosnter are the mermen of Atlantis; amphibic warriors protecting the last of the sunken civilization's cities. In the film their faces are never shown, implying that they look too horrible to be seen.

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