A-hem. My birthday is coming up next week. JUST in time for the auctioning of props from 'Lost.' From the press release from the auctioneer:
Profiles in History, the world's largest auctioneer of Hollywood memorabilia, in partnership with ABC Studios, will be auctioning the props, costumes and set pieces from the hit ABC television series, LOST August 21-22 live from Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, CA. WORLDWIDE bidding begins at 1pm PDT both days. Bids can be placed in person, via mail, phone, fax or live on the Internet by visiting www.profilesinhistory.com or www.liveauctioneers.com.
Included in this auction will be the Swan Station Computer, which is an Apple-II Plus system running an Apple-III monitor, with a Disk II floppy drive, each featuring DHARMA logo.
Here is the complete catalog description of the computer:
This configuration is an Apple-II Plus system running an Apple-III monitor, with a Disk II floppy drive, each featuring DHARMA logo. This prop computer was used at the Swan station and by Desmond, Locke and other cast members to enter "The Numbers" every 108 minutes. It is the destruction of the Swan station computer that prevented "The Numbers" from being entered, leading Desmond to trigger the fail safe mechanism, causing the Swan station to implode. (Of trivial interest is a 1980s film, entitled "The Self," employed in some psychology classes today, which features an Apple-III computer monitor that is used to test the effect of positive personalities. Incidentally, the numbers 4, 8, 16, and 23 appear frequently in these tests.) The monitor currently exhibits the DHARMA Tempest station logo, indicating its subsequent use in the Season Four episode, "The Other Woman."
For more information and to download the free LOST: The Official Show Auction catalog, please visit www.profilesinhistory.com/lost-the-auction.html
Highlights include Hurley's Camaro, a DHARMA van and Jeep, a large section of Oceanic Flight 815 wreckage, Dogen's hour glass from the Temple, Sawyer's improvised reading glasses from Season One, polar bear collar with DHARMA Hydra station insignia, Pearl station printer with "System Failure" printout, Swan station turntable, Man in Black's ancient dagger, two crates with six Virgin Mary statues, Ben's orders to commute Juliet's execution, dial mechanism and mirror array from the Lighthouse, a row of Oceanic Airlines plane seats, Desmond's fail-safe key with "Joe Inman" dog tag, Jin's wedding ring, Swan station Hatch door, Eko's signature staff with Bible scripture carvings, Daniel Faraday's journal with extensive handwritten notes from his time travel experiments, nuclear bomb core detonated in Season Five finale, Hurley's winning Mega Lotto Jackpot ticket, and Sawyer's letter to the man who murdered his parents.
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I was cleaning up some old bookmarks, when lo and behold, my favorite LOST blog has been re-invented into comic geek heaven!
I haven't given a passing thought to Prince Namor in 40 years. Does he still have wings on his ankles or am I thinking of somebody else? I seem to recall that he had a crush on Sue Storm, but that never worked out. Guess she didn't like fish.
Why yes, he does in fact have lil' wings on his ankles. How else could he fly?
Ahhhhhhh. Like a tail rotor on a helicopter. Wait ... wouldn't that mean he would have to flap his arms to balance that out? No wonder Sue didn't fall for him - he was always banging his head on the Baxter Building.
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