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That did move on the original Bazookoids. Wonder why they didn’t have that here. Issue with 3d printing maybe?

The Mk3 bazookoid was made by Mike Tucker and co, and there’s pictures of it being built, its the back end of the VII Mk2 with PVC pipes replacing the snub nosed barrel, but they’re fixed so it just doesn’t actuate in any way unlike the original ones that were probably designed with the dismantler gag in mind, so the cocking was likely a happy side effect of the need to have the barrel be less securely attached.

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Rimmer 100% is clean but obnoxious, doused in Space Brut from his 5L duty free supply.

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Moonlight’s posts reminded me of the Starbug I made when I was about 9 years old. I seem to remember filming it whilst flying past on a bit of string.

Sadly no video of that exists, as far as I’m aware, however I do still have the Starbug…. this is what it looks like now (the sellotape was transparent back in 93!)

There’s something weirdly organic about this. Like its a Starbug moth that died half out of it’s cocoon.

Nice detail on the windscreen.

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I’m in the fabric camp too, for me it makes him seem more like a mass produced robot, because it’d be the cheap and simple option in universe vs the solid sleeves, because they’d be more likely to foul each other and harder to repair etc. 

They need to bring it back if they ever make anymore too, because out of universe, it’d be a lot more comfortable and flattering for an elder gent than half inch thick foam and fibreglass around your entire body.

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I’m interested in that book but that publisher really needs a better cover designer. 

It has “cover of a VHS tape of steam trains going through a train station in the Midlands that you had to order from a man called Neville with a geocities website” vibes.

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I could see the thickness being because he plans on being a particularly exuberant lover, sort of the safe sex version of the black and decker gag, because he’s still The Cat in there somewhere even if he’s a dork now, or the low self confidence tiny nob gag, but I think it’s just continuing the ridiculously overprepared gag from his list of items personally (and it just sounds funny, in a “two pound black ribbed nobbler” way)

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Still think it’s a huge missed opportunity for a fantastically scaled model shoot if GNP bought it and did it up a little bit.

Of course they’d have to go back to the original (and frankly, better) Starbug but it’d be worth it for a 1:5 or so scale model to launch off an escarpment or something, would also look great for a water stunt if they lobbed it in the sea.

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Why does he care enough to comment about modern cars at all? Elon Musk and Nigel Farage could design a car called the Bulldog Woke Destroyer and he still wouldn’t like it, because it’d still be a modern car.

He likes shit that looks like it carried a despot around with a giant V12 aeroplane derived engine in it. Nothing a car company could do today would be to his satisfaction.

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I’ve hurt my brain now.

It’s a bit chicken and egg. When did the first Lister appear and from where? The one that started the time loop had to come from somewhere. 

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Unless I’m missing something, I’m not sure how Craig Charles can’t produce a Jake Abraham, while Lister is his own Dad, he had family above himself in the family tree before the holding pattern business right? Jake Abraham could look like his Granddad on either his paternal or maternal side, or take more traits from Kochanski’s side.

Granddad Grandma

Scifi bollocks 

Lister Kochanski

Lister Kochanski

Lister Kochanski

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Naff location perhaps, but some great coordination to get the studio sets made up with the same colour palette and exposed scaffold motif. 

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I actually think the theme music is quite good, it’s not amazing but I like how unusual it is, although it does also have a hint of ITV nightscreen. I did know it was Todd Rundgren, what with the credit, but always thought it was weird that it was done by him, a bit like the 90s Spider-man cartoon theme being done by Joe Perry (though I think he was just the performer in that case).

Good find.

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Lister licking his dusty fingers in Waiting for God is way more disgusting than him making out with a housefly or his pus-filled head exploding or any other gross-out moment on the show. Discuss.

Lister eating irradiated space detritus isn’t great but Fuller’s earth has a wide range of health benefits apparently, so I bet Craig Charles felt like a million bucks after that scene.

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Especially Red Dwarf, when the information is so easily accessed and concise. Just watch the DVDs and visit Dirty Feed and you’re pretty much covered it.

Ouch, the burn.

There’s no talking my way out of that oversight so I’ll just apologise.

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Continues to blow my mind that people do specialist podcasts about things they don’t really know enough about, when the intended audience is going to be majority people that do.
Especially Red Dwarf, when the information is so easily accessed and concise. Just watch the DVDs and visit Dirty Feed and you’re pretty much covered it.

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The book covers 1988 – 1993, and they’ve used a Series X publicity photo for the cover. I’m good, ta.

Taking inspiration from the Blurays…

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What’s the green one? A casting? 

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Some of Robert Lewellyn’s one man shows/ mild stand up/ Ted Talks are solid.

A bit ‘of their time’ in places but you know his heart is in the right place.

The Reconstructed Heart was on All4 a while back and I enjoyed it, a glowing review, he can have that.

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This Alien corridor pic always reminds me so much of Series IV/V, which means I have some imagination at least.

Montague had a bit of it too, you can see a bit of Series II in that shot, the big pipes, plastic pallets, shapes, just light it a lot more and you’d see the similarities clearly imo.

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You can see the inspiration most clearly here, and the bunkroom off white rounded rectangles give similar Nostromo vibes.

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I bet softlight holograms smell like an incandescent lightbulb that’s got dust on it, the projection might be a bit warm, cooking whatever detritus it touches.

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What’s really annoying about all this is that every official Red Dwarf social media account and website has gone.

If TORDFC wound down but we still had TOS and TOS twitter, it’d be sad but a volunteer run thing with a tight budget, it wouldn’t be surprising (although it sort of would because of the extreme lean Red Dwarf times TORDFC survived and thrived in), as it is though, Doug is the official site and he seems to be having an uncharacteristically quiet period too.

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Sorry to piss on people’s chips but I have doubts over that Starbug. I’m 99.999999% certain it’s the one that’s always on Propstore and The Model Unit confirmed that one isn’t screen used (the fault of Propstore for their listing, not Bromyard, who should be getting some cash back if they’ve paid over the odds).

Still, I’d have it on my shelf though.

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They should’ve poorly bluescreened a castle on the horizon.

What could have been…

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There’s an actual theme park about 20 minutes away too, maybe the budget couldn’t stretch or they wouldn’t let them film.

I suppose people going “oh that’s Thorpe Park” isn’t really better than the random path round the back of some council allotments look.

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I think it’s just a pick and place machine, with plumbing and nozzles for liquids. 
The nozzles are above the platform in each unit, and the back wall is the access to the pick and place system. Each floor’s vending machines would be lined up vertically so that they all share one shaft and items just get sent up or down from centralised sorting zones so that you’re not on floor 139 waiting for 20 minutes for a cup to arrive from floor 16.
It’d make sense that way as anything in the ships stores can be sent up, so long as they fit in the opening, so you’ve got one system for everything. Uniform, food, buckets, small bits of equipment…

I think it’s made clear that Red Dwarf physically has things in the hold. Although, they must have stasis tinning methods because otherwise the first time Lister had something to eat after being revived, he’d have shat himself inside out.

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I hope GNP aren’t feeling litigious. 

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I like/ have no issue with Epideme’s voice. I think the fact its a bit unhinged makes sense considering it’s a nicotine patch that went wrong and started to kill people and then reanimate their corpses.

If you’d have gone for a cold, menacing, Alan Rickman esque thing I think it’d have been too much for an already quite dark plot, even though VII is dramedy not a pure sitcom.

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My tuppence, a) I think if you’re going to do a podcast about something and it’s not very clearly stated you’re coming in fresh, then why open yourself up to being regularly wrong with an audience that is comprised of a lot of people who know you’re regularly wrong? And b) I really don’t think it’s hard to acquire a fair amount of knowledge about Red Dwarf. Maybe there’s an advantage to growing up with it and having the knowledge go in when your brain is maleable and receptive, but we are blessed with behind the scenes content that is entertaining and enlightening, the cast and crew have been pretty consistent over the entire run, there’s not that much of it anyway, and there’s an active community discussing and archiving stuff, so if you’re starting a podcast, get the DVDs out, visit a few websites, and read a couple of books/ articles and you’re going to hit all the major stuff. And c) some of the castings are absolutely batshit.

That said, I agree with the above. It’s good to have an ongoing anything about Red Dwarf that gets some attention on social media, especially with twitter being a wasteland.

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As it happens they just announced that LittleBigPlanet 3’s PS4 servers will remain offline indefinitely after they were put into “maintenance” in January. So that’s over 10 million player created levels just gone forever. Thanks Sony!

They must have used the same people as TOS. 

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Mel Bibby’s special skill was making a vacform/injection mould from a boring source look space age.

I think it was probably irl meant to have something slot into it, hence the cut out, and hold it steady. Sort of like those pub umbrella holders but side loading, maybe a marquee. It’s pretty big, I’d say easy 40cm, almost as wide as the cupboard doors so I think that’d work. 

In universe, extractor fan, open bit is the duct to get air.

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I agree with Flapjack.
The only sort of bad series tbh was series 6, but it wasn’t unwatchable, but Liza Tarbuck did a lot of heavy lifting, but I’d put a lot of the 10 episode series’ above the first few series. 
The prize tasks are shocking though sometimes. I feel like they need to introduce negative points for the truly shit ones. 
It’s been really clear that some prize task prizes have been a product of a 10 minute phone conversation with the contestant and a producer rather than something concocted and sourced by the contestant. 

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I’ve said it before, being a Red Dwarf fan is like being a football supporter. There was a time where Red Dwarf was in Europe and had world class players, but that was the best part of 30 years ago and now we’ve been yo-yoing between League One and League Two for a few seasons and we’ve just been knocked out of the cup by Cleethorpes Town. You still turn up on a Saturday afternoon though. 

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Am I the only one who’s never noticed the Inquisitor only has three fangs on his helmet?

Because I save any Red Dwarf picture that’s interesting due to the internet being shite and forums, message boards, and even official sites disappearing, I have this picture of the intact Inquisitor mask.

I don’t know who the people are or where I found it, but I assume they’re in the workshop at BBC VFX.

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For some reason I forgot to type “or topless with just the waistcoat” but yeah.

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Seen a few people on twitter not getting Ncuti not wearing any trousers which is making me think they should have either put Tennant in a Rab C. Nesbitt string vest to make it clearer that they got half of an outfit each.

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I actually like that, but only in the context of the Toymaker affected universe.

A universe altering shitshow occurring at the time, then go for it. A special treat.

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Fourteen will just disappear and become Fifteen in the past when he eventually regenerates properly.

Bi-nowpaylatergeneration.

But yeah, that’d be a nice way to tie it all up.

He lives, gets old with Donna and Family and when he’s had about 40, 50 years of the healing Ncuti mentioned, he gets all glowy.

I thought it was great overall. Ncuti is going to be fantastic, such fun.

As for RTD saying every regeneration makes a new Doctor, now, I’m not a whovian, so there may be an in universe explanation already but couldn’t that explain how in the multi Doctor stories every Doctor has aged considerably from the point they regenerated? Split off and run parallel with Doctor Prime, just without regeneration, when they go they just reunite with Doctor Prime at the point of regeneration, because time doesn’t matter and its scifi.

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It was indeed like going back in time, it felt exactly like RTD Mk1 Tennant Who to me, but HD, which is good because I actually liked that.
I enjoyed the effects, they were again, like the late 2000s episodes but with a high fidelity sheen, didn’t feel too flashy or Hollywood, had some charm about them, and carried on the scifi tradition of lanky people in bug eyed rubber alien costumes.

Story was engrossing enough, nice mix of high stakes drama and fun, and I enjoyed the cast, returning and otherwise.

They’ve got me back, and I’m hopeful.

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It derives from the Greek “Minos” which I think technically is pronounced more like the standard American approach to be fair.

Mine-otaur still sounds better to me though!

In English doesn’t a vowel following a vowel in a word change the sound/extend the previous vowel or something. 

I feel like I was taught that at some point.

Prune is prooooon, water is woorter, mine is miiiiine etc

Could be a load of bollocks tbf, it’s been 16 years since I had an English lesson.

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I think it was a mass cremation.

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My head canon is they swept them all up and then deposited them in neat piles where they died for cataloguing/ CSI reasons.

I suppose you could say “well why didn’t they stop Lister before he ate them” but Holly was in the middle of informing him, probably should have got the “they’re those white powder mounds” in faily quickly after telling him they’d died though.

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There’s also an episode of the Inspector Gadget cartoon where Dr Claw wants to put his logo on the moon, that predates Red Dwarf too.

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Mundane observation: 
Living Rimmer in The End has a digital watch, looks like a Casio G Shock one, possibly a DW-5600C, which is what Keanu Reeves wears in Speed, might be an earlier model but the shape seems the same.
Hologram Rimmer wears an analogue watch with a green face. 

I always thought it was an orange/green hologram sticker like you used to get, like what his H is made out of later. To look more hologram-y and sci-fi.

I think it’s a luminous watch face a bit like this:

But it does seem to flare orange, which could be the horrendous BBC Manchester cameras from the late 1960s or it is some kind of metallic colour shift swatch watch.

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Mundane observation: 

Living Rimmer in The End has a digital watch, looks like a Casio G Shock one, possibly a DW-5600C, which is what Keanu Reeves wears in Speed, might be an earlier model but the shape seems the same.

Hologram Rimmer wears an analogue watch with a green face. 

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How about a wholesome thread called “Craig Charles has updated his funk stack” where we just chronicle his favourite records from his radio show.

Would be a pleasant change of pace from the three flavours of radged Barrie, Llewellyn, and Grant are serving up.

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You could explain the watch away as it being a Holly/ ships computer watch, though you’d imagine they’re both on the same network (Backwards with Holly appearing on his monitor would imply that too), so again, he shouldn’t really need it to communicate.

Maybe he’s just a watch collector. He’s got hobbies.

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