{"id":3589,"date":"2009-04-04T13:42:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T13:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2017-09-22T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T21:07:00","slug":"cool-new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2009\/04\/04\/cool-new-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool New Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly I collect knights and medieval miniatures, sure, but I&#8217;m a science fiction fan and writer too, and every so often I see a space toy I can&#8217;t resist.<\/p>\n<p>If any of you are fans of the old 1953 George Pal version of WAR OF THE WORLDS, Pegasus has just released a marvelous model of the Martian war machines, available in both kit and finished form.  I picked up two of the finished models from Michigan Toy Soldier, and they&#8217;re really seriously stunning, boys and girls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/0003ta0c\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x24072\" width=\"320\" height=\"239\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know, Pal&#8217;s floating manta rays are not as accurate to H.G. Wells as Stephen Spielberg&#8217;s tripods.  And damn, they just look so cool and menacing&#8230; and of course, they&#8217;re an icon of my childhood &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Besides, the Pal movie was better than the Spielberg version anyway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly I collect knights and medieval miniatures, sure, but I&#8217;m a science fiction fan and writer too, and every so often I see a space toy I can&#8217;t resist. If any of you are fans of the old 1953 George Pal version of WAR OF THE WORLDS, Pegasus has just released a marvelous model of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3590,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions\/3590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}