{"id":332,"date":"2008-03-18T21:18:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T11:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/18\/vintage-robots-part-five\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T21:22:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T11:22:11","slug":"vintage-robots-part-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/18\/vintage-robots-part-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Robots, Part Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Blamire, the writer and director of 1950s-style scifi spoof, <em>The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra<\/em> (2001), has a long-gestating project that sounds too good not to happen eventually. It&#8217;s one that he says has been with him since the 1980s, one that he keeps coming back to. He&#8217;d like to get the appropriate level of funding to be able to put it into production &#8212; and from the potential evident in his conceptual drawings, I&#8217;d love him to get the funds to do it, too.<\/p>\n<p>The project is called <strong>Steam Wars<\/strong>, and it features gigantic steam-driven robots battling for sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Check out these concept drawings &#8212; and go ring that entrepreneurial financier you know, at once &#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/kansasattacks_reduc.jpg\" title=\"Steam Wars 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/kansasattacks_reduc.jpg\" alt=\"Steam Wars 1\" height=\"706\" width=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/steam_wars_key.jpg\" title=\"Steam Wars 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/steam_wars_key.jpg\" alt=\"Steam Wars 2\" height=\"356\" width=\"532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/steamwarssmall.jpg\" title=\"Steam wars 3\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/steamwarssmall.jpg\" alt=\"Steam wars 3\" height=\"719\" width=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/juggernaut_assault_reduc.jpg\" title=\"Steam Wars sketch\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/juggernaut_assault_reduc.jpg\" alt=\"Steam Wars sketch\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And finally a &#8220;mock&#8221; cover for a Steam Wars magazine from the 1920s:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/steam_and_thunder_coverbig.jpg\" title=\"Steam wars magazine\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/steam_and_thunder_coverbig.jpg\" alt=\"Steam wars magazine\" height=\"680\" width=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">You can find out more from the <strong>Steam Wars<\/strong> website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steamwars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Blamire, the writer and director of 1950s-style scifi spoof, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001), has a long-gestating project that sounds too good not to happen eventually. It&#8217;s one that he says has been with him since the 1980s, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/18\/vintage-robots-part-five\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,56,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}