Gotta
have your very own model machine? Monsters
In Motion will build, paint and ship you a finished Lunar model --
similar to the one above left -- for $675.00 (Scroll down the left side
of their page to find The Time Machine).
But
you'd do far better to order up a 'Lunar Build-up' from
Ed Turner... just check out the
illustrations below! I've seen plenty of Lunar kits given the royal treatment
by very talented model-makers... and Ed's is flat-out great! The model
pictured below went for over $600 in a recent eBay auction, and if you
ask me, the winning bidder got the bargain of the (last) century!
A model made in the UK (from a UK kit?) recently up for auction
on eBay.
There's a long story behind this model. Claimed to be a
Wah Chang "original," it was not, and the seller was later brought
up on charges for selling "counterfeit" props from a number
of movies. Note that the chair on this model matches the chair in the
miniature model in "The Time Machine." The Lunar Models version
(and Granite City's, and most models) are small models of the full-sized
Time Machine, with the "barber chair," rather than copies of
the miniature, which does not have the "barber chair."
I
saw this model in person, but declined to purchase it (the asking price
was somewhere between four and six thousand dollars) and was rather stunned
when I heard about the legal difficulties the seller later got into. He
was very pleasant and hospitable.
Another
view of the "Mystery Machine," actually
built by Steve
Stockbarger. This machine works, by the way. The wheel spins and
the lights light! A lovely model - even if its origins were
misrepresented.
Hope
springs eternal on eBay, where this machine was recently up for auction
with a starting bid of $7000. Item #288718138
if you'd care to look. The complete description: "The
TIME MACHINE is down to the detail Prop Replica model of the original
prop from The George Pal Classic "THE TIME MACHINE" that lights
up & has a motor which turns the wheel. Another nice feature is the
velvet seats. Size equals 12" X 12".See Photo. Seller pays shipping."
