Talk:Laserblast

message: This page previously had an unsourced trivia list section, which is discouraged by WP:TRIVIA. While expanding this article, I found sources for most of them and worked them into the actual prose of the article itself. However, below were a few I was unable to find sources for, so I removed them. I've listed them below so that, in case anyone digs up a source for them, they can be readded:
*  The "East Coast, Southern California" town depicted in the final scene is actually a left over 1920's Chicago set. Note the "S.M.C. Cartage Co." building in the background after Billy gets vapour actioned to death. The infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in the S.M.C. Cartage Company garage, Chicago.
* An early promotional article on the film misspelled the title "Laser Blast", whereas the film's official title is spelled as one word.
* Steve Neill, who was makeup artist on the film, also designed and created the alien ray gun and the pendant.
* The design for the Alien creatures was based on drawings of prehistoric turtles that Dave Allen had seen as a boy in the Field Museum.
* The Alien language was created by a playing a recording of a presidential speech backwards and twice the normal speed.
Thanks! — Hunter Kahn 05:54, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced trivia section

message: How does a detailed overview of the format of MST3K together with specific jokes from an MST3K episode illuminate the reader as to the topic of the article exactly?  I mean I'm still missing how knowing there was a show in the 90's about a guy and two robots in a satellite helps me understand a 70's movie.  Ekwos (talk) 00:03, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: MST3K

message: I came across a forum post with ad for Laserblast II that was published in Variety .  I don't know the date but the IMDb trivia page for Laserblast says "early nineties" .  It's not uncommon for films to be advertised before they are made, as Friday the 13th was advertised in Variety before a script was even finished (see Friday the 13th (1980 film)#Development).  The Friday the 13th ad lists the producer/director and says "currently in production".  The Laserblast II ad lists almost the entire film crew (writer, director of photography, special effects personnel, etc.), although does not list a director or cast.  The listed writer, Robert Amante, redirects to Charles Band when typed in at the IMDb.
So this brings up a lot of questions:
*Why does the Laserblast II writer's name redirect to Charles Band at the IMDb?  Was this a pseudonym of Band's?
*Why does the poster list an entire crew but no director?  Or cast?
*Was this ad released after Band's "remake" of Laserblast—Deadly Weapons (1988)? (assuming this ad was from the early 90s)
*Is it possible that the film was made, then just never released after no one would fund it?
*Did the film's production happen but halt before it was finished?
*Or was the film really never made after all?
The Laserblast article says that it was scrapped, but since it's not cited directly, it's most likely just an assumption.  I want to try and find out the issue of Variety in which this ad came from.  Maybe that will lead me to some answers.  Unfortunately, I cannot link to the forum page because the site is on MetaWiki's spam blacklist. I would really like to find an answer to these questions and solve this mystery. –Dream out loud (talk) 06:06, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: To answer the first question—yes, Robert Amante is a pseudonym of Band's.  I guess I could have just read his IMDb page to find this out.  He also produced the 1985 film Savage Island under this band.  –Dream out loud (talk) 23:08, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was ''Laserblast II'' actually made? 

message: I've recently removed information from this article about the film's connection to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, specifically that a company J.A.R. Sales had filed a lawsuit against MCA-Universal claiming the E.T. alien image was intellectual property infringement against J.A.R. Sales' rights they owned in Laserblast. This info was added in good faith and, in fact, the press release source that was used did state this was the case. However, I just had the chance to read the case on Lexis Nexis, and that press release source was incorrect. In fact, Laserblast isn't mentioned in that case at all. In the actual case, it was MCA-Universal that brought suit against J.A.R. Sales (not the other way around) because J.A.R. Sales was manufacturing E.T. merchandise even though MCA-Universal owned the rights. (The court found in MCA-Universal's favor.) The lawsuit was misrepresented in the press release, so I've removed it from here. — Hunter Kahn 14:37, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
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