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  • Confessional
    Maker & Whatnot
    • Aug 8, 2012
    • 3410

    50 Years of Apes… Let's Celebrate!

    First official celebratory event of the year that I'm aware of: http://cinema.usc.edu/events/event.cfm?id=20437
  • Mikey
    Verbose Member
    • Aug 9, 2001
    • 47242

    #2
    That's neat

    I wonder if Jessica is going to attend - in costume ?

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    • apes3978
      Permanent Member
      • Nov 19, 2005
      • 4901

      #3
      Pretty cool that they're doing that... Nothing like that even remotely close to where I live.

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      • apes3978
        Permanent Member
        • Nov 19, 2005
        • 4901

        #4
        FOX's official APES website:

        Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future...

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        • Klosterheim
          Persistent Member
          • Mar 23, 2013
          • 1121

          #5
          Excellent. Very cool.

          Happy 50 Years of Planet of the Apes!

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          • apes3978
            Permanent Member
            • Nov 19, 2005
            • 4901

            #6
            They're going to do a graphic novel based upon Rod Serling's script (which is not the script they ultimately used for the '68 film):

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            • apes3978
              Permanent Member
              • Nov 19, 2005
              • 4901

              #7
              When the original “Planet of the Apes” opened 50 years ago, audience watched the sci-fi adventure with shock and awe.

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              • Godzilla
                Permanent Member
                • Nov 3, 2002
                • 3008

                #8
                Wow, I'd love to be able to see that exhibit.
                Mortui Vivos Docent
                The Dead Teach the Living

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                • Confessional
                  Maker & Whatnot
                  • Aug 8, 2012
                  • 3410

                  #9
                  Ran across this interesting 50th article: http://thedigitalbits.com/columns/hi...-the-apes-50th

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                  • Obibob
                    Museum Super Collector
                    • Jul 27, 2007
                    • 222

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Confessional
                    Ran across this interesting 50th article: http://thedigitalbits.com/columns/hi...-the-apes-50th
                    Great article - thanks for posting the link!

                    I did find it amusing reading about the one guy who waxed nostalgically about seeing the movie when it first came out with his Aunt and then stopping at a store on the way home from seeing it to pick up some of the (Topps) trading cards...pretty impressive feat given that the movie was released in early 1968 and Topps didn't release their card set until the middle of 1969...just saying

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                    • apes3978
                      Permanent Member
                      • Nov 19, 2005
                      • 4901

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Obibob
                      I did find it amusing reading about the one guy who waxed nostalgically about seeing the movie when it first came out with his Aunt and then stopping at a store on the way home from seeing it to pick up some of the (Topps) trading cards...pretty impressive feat given that the movie was released in early 1968 and Topps didn't release their card set until the middle of 1969...just saying

                      I wish I could get a definitive answer as to when the movie cards were released... As you mentioned, 1969 is the date most often cited (and it's the release year mentioned in the book "Planet of the Apes-The Original Topps Trading Card Series"). But, there's a guy on an egroup I'm a member of who has stated several times they were released in '68, and the last time he mentioned it, he said he remembers having the entire set by the time he seen "Planet" for, IIRC, the second or third time in 1968.

                      I'd tend to go with the 1969 date, as that seems to be the date cited most often in books and other media... Fifty years on, I can see where someone might have some foggy memories.

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                      • apes3978
                        Permanent Member
                        • Nov 19, 2005
                        • 4901

                        #12



                        2017 fair photo: http://www.figures..com/wordpress/wp...2/DSCN3304.jpg

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                        • Iron Mego
                          Wake Up Heavy
                          • Jan 31, 2010
                          • 3532

                          #13
                          You got an extra period in your link:

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                          • Obibob
                            Museum Super Collector
                            • Jul 27, 2007
                            • 222

                            #14
                            Originally posted by apes3978
                            I wish I could get a definitive answer as to when the movie cards were released... As you mentioned, 1969 is the date most often cited (and it's the release year mentioned in the book "Planet of the Apes-The Original Topps Trading Card Series"). But, there's a guy on an egroup I'm a member of who has stated several times they were released in '68, and the last time he mentioned it, he said he remembers having the entire set by the time he seen "Planet" for, IIRC, the second or third time in 1968.

                            I'd tend to go with the 1969 date, as that seems to be the date cited most often in books and other media... Fifty years on, I can see where someone might have some foggy memories.
                            Yeah, I've heard that before. It's strange in that the cards themselves sport an APJAC Productions 1967 (c) date, the movie came out in 1968, and the cards were released (supposedly) in 1969. The general consensus is 1969 since that's the date Topps says they were released. There was some thought a few years ago that perhaps there might have been a 1968 "test release" but nothing has ever shown up to support that theory.

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                            • apes3978
                              Permanent Member
                              • Nov 19, 2005
                              • 4901

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Iron Mego
                              You got an extra period in your link:

                              http://www.figures.com/wordpress/wp-...2/DSCN3304.jpg
                              Yeah, I see that now... Thanks for fixing it...

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