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In lugnet.starwars, Sean Forbes writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Timothy Gould writes:
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> > I'm wondering if 'Tales of the Golden Monkey' is known as 'The City of Gold' • in
> > Aus. That show had a golden plane that looked quite a lot like your neat • model.
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> > Tim
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> Thanks!
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> Tales of the Gold Monkey was a live-action show that was a 80's TV attempt at
> ripping off Indiana Jones. There was an American pilot on some small island • in
> the South Pacific. There were Nazis (I think) an English femme fatale spy
> type. The title came from a "local legend" about a solid gold statue of a
> monkey that was the focus of the first episode. However, his plane wasn't
> gold. Check out this site for more info.
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> www.goldmonkey.com
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I loved TGM! I'd never seen a Grumman Goose before that show and fell in love
with the plane instantly. (Needless to say I have the Island Hopper since it's
the closest Lego will come. Someday I'm gonna modify it to make it
look 'correct' in my mind!)
The bad guys were actually Japanese soldiers, being as this was set in the
South Pacific just before WWII (1938).
*kinda off topic rambling ahead*
That page, as you said an excellent place for info on TGM and the
links page has a lot of great references to the Grumman Goose from which the
Island Hopper is at least partly derived.
I went on a huge TGM web search kick about a year ago and found a lot of stuff
from those links.
Good ol' Jake Cutter and Cutter's Goose.
Some real-life tidbits of info that I can recall which were kind of cool (to
me) -
While on vacation in 1991, we were in Kissimee, FL (more or less Orlando) and
stopped at what was then a small air mueseum that was trying to start up and
restore WWII aircraft. In the office there was a photo of Cutter's Goose
flying over the city. It turns out the plane's owner at the time flew it
to/from the Bahama's on a regular basis. Sadly, it wasn't at the airport when
we were there.
I also found that the plane, more recently, was sold and as of what I found
about a year ago allegedly resides in my home town of Seattle, Washington and
is used as a charter plane that I believe is based out of Lake Union north of
downtown. Sadly, if I remember correctly the web page said that the Goose was
repainted to be the colors of the charter service.
The irony in it all is that I was living in Seattle in '91 and was in Florida
where it was kept and it wasn't there. In '95 I moved to Ohio and now the
plane is in Seattle and no longer 'the plane' without the paint scheme so
similar to the Island Hopper..hmm... <G>
curse my luck!
*end off topic ramblings!*
And to get back to your first post, that is a really nifty little varient.
Joel
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