Irwin Allen’s Flight 612

A nice addition to our collection this Christmas, was this great German program from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.  It appears to have been a hand-out at the theatre back when the movie preimered.

We found it interesting to note how Walter Pigeon and Joan Fontaine are depicted on the cover..  Miss Fontaine is leaning on Walter Pigeon’s shoulder, suggesting some romance maybe? However, anyone familiar with the movie knows there’s nothing going on bettween the two of them, in fact Joan Fontaine is the villian!

Great graphics, and images we have never seen before, it’s also interesting to note how the women on the Seaview are very present in the layout.

Its quite amazing how bright, clean, and futuristic this science fiction classic looks after 47 years, Irwin really was ahead of his time, what a visionary!

This was a great collectible find ( or I should say present ) from this Irwin Allen classic!

The many incarnations of the Irwin Allen ships have continued to appeal to modelers for over 40 years. Aurora plastics were the first model company to release model kits based on the Irwin Allen shows, these kits have remained sought after all these years.

I think a lot of the appeal is the designs….they were truly timeless shapes, if fact they almost seem more real than the real thing in some ways, take for instance the Seaview, what a cool design ! if you look at a modern sub, it almost doesn’t seem as real ! I do like the shapes of WW II submarines though, they seemed to have more shape and form.

In the 80’s Lunar Models filled the void left by Aurora and Monogram and released almost everything from all the Irwin Allen shows, including accesorie sets, figures and more, I got every kit as it was released back then, and still couldn’t get enough !

Polar Lights revieved the Aurora craze by reissuing many of the classic early kits, and some originals such as the Jupiter 2 ( a beautiful rendition w/ full interior ) and a Dr.Smith with the robot also very cool!

Now Moebius Models has taken the torch, and is releasing a 49inch Seaview ! complete with interior, Flying Sub and more ! they have also anounced a Lost in Space Chariot, and Space Pod in 1/24 scale…A great scale, not too big or too small . www.moebiusmodels.com

A tip of the hat must go to Irwin’s art directors Jack Martin Smith, Bill Creber, and the great Paul Zastupnivich , to name a few, for being true visual geniuses, good design never gets dated.

You may remember us from many years ago when we ran Over Land Sea Space and Time. Through that fanzine we met hundreds of really great Irwin fans. Since then times have changed (thank heavens) and we no longer have to run off Xerox copies of a paste up to spread the good word. Now we have websites and blogging.

So, long over due, but we’re finally going to put up our Irwin site dedicated to the man, the myth and all the cool collectibles we’re finding thanks to eBay! (Again, technology rules.)

Stay tuned, we’re working on it as fast as we can (and we don’t have a Time Tunnel to speed up the process.)

Cynthia and Lars