topps' nod to montauk

[FuSoYa]

 

[xfer]

that was always my favourite Dinosaurs Attacks! card because it was so unbelievably disturbing. i would always be like "mom can they cut him out? or if they did would he permanently have dinosaur guts attached to him? is he just wrapped in dinosaur flesh or is it PART of him?" and she'd be like I DON'T KNOW!

 

[FuSoYa]

well what do you think about it now? I'm pretty sure their MOLECULES are fused together.

 

[FrostGiant]

I think the dinisoraus grew around the dude, but did not actually fuse with him. I would think you could cut him out and he'd be relatively ok.

 

[goatschool]

Montauk, or the Philadelphia naval yard?

 

[FuSoYa]

nick, which is the one where the ship returned and crew members were fused with the metal? I'm sure you know better than I.

If I mis-cited, oops. :<

 

[xfer]

no, i still think he is FUSED to the dinosaur, like you could cut out a man-shaped chunk of flesh from the dino, but it would still have upper arms made of dinosaur fleshish stuff, for example.

 

[FrostGiant]

No way dude! I'm thinkin' since the name is Entombed rather than something like Infused, that the dino skin is just growing around him.

 

[FuSoYa]

well ENTOMBED implies that he's going to die no matter what, so it definitely does mean MOLECULARLY INFUSED.

 

[xfer]

best one, btw:

 

[xfer]

i think the back of that card implied something about molecular fusion--i don't recall. it's been like fifteen years!

 

[FrostGiant]

What are these things anyway? I've never seen them before.

 

[goatschool]

nick, which is the one where the ship returned and crew members were fused with the metal?

yeah, the philadelphia experiment/U.S.S. Eldridge

Montauk is the nuke plant in L.I. that had all sorts of UFO stuff going on.

those cards were brutal and really neat. if you look at the cards from the early 50s (which i think may have started out as giveaways with a loaf of bread rather than bubblegum), there were all sorts of terribly violent depictions. i think there was a civil war series that was notorious, and definitely a WW2 stack.

 

[FuSoYa]

there was also an ALIENS ATTACK one, which is what DINOSAURS ATTACK tried to replicate.

I thought the philadelphia experiement was related to montauk. Are they not?

 

[FuSoYa]

here is another awesome site with all that shit on it.

www.horrorcards.com

 

[goatschool]

yes, you are right. john hutchinson and whatnot.

 

[chupe666]

I think the dinisoraus grew around the dude, but did not actually fuse with him.

sort of like a ChiaSaurMan.

 

[xfer]

i think it was MARS ATTACKS, toby, which is what the movie was based on, right?

 

[Yasser Arafat]

When I was a boy, we had JEWS ATTACK! cards that came in packets of wheat. My very favorite was the USS Liberty one!

 

[FuSoYa]

OK that is the first funny arafat post ever!