Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness: I Remember This Movie And It Was Called KILLDOZER

Monday, June 11, 2012

I Remember This Movie And It Was Called KILLDOZER

In the wake of the box office disappointment of Battleship, the toy company-turned-studio has announced plans to develop its long-running line of Tonka truck toys into "a family friendly motion picture that brings the TONKA experience to life" in ways a construction guy actually using a real-life bulldozer apparently have not.

5 comments:

Erik Johnson Illustrator said...: When you spend enough time online looking at illustrations like you or I do, and you catch a number of "Hey that looks familars moments" like this. I've written posts about similarities between certain paintings by Rockwell and Leyendecker or Frazetta and Pyle that are likely just fun little tributes, but I've also seen plenty of cheap rip offs too.; June 11, 2012 at 8:13 PM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: That Killdozer cover is amoung my most reposted images. I have written about this movie many times and how it revolves around my first kiss. Then I saw the idea for a TONKA TOY movie and it all came back to me.; June 11, 2012 at 8:23 PM
M. D. Jackson said...: I had a chance to buy a complete ten volume collection of Ted Sturgeon's work. One of the volumes had that killdozer cover. I passed on it, though, to my endless regret.

I'd heard about the movie Killdozer for years before finally catching it on an afternoon matinee on our local station. It was just as awesome as everyon e had said it was, or so I though at ten years old.

I met Ted Sturgeon years later and there was not a more charming, likeable and genuinely nice guy in the whole world. Spending time with him was one of the high point of my life.; June 11, 2012 at 8:32 PM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: That is a cool story. Thanks for telling me that.; June 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM
DrGoat said...: Wow, very cool. I would have loved to meet him. He and Jack Vance are a couple of my favorite authors from my growing up time.; June 12, 2012 at 8:28 AM