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2016-10-11
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Thanks to Dave Ballard, images (and the story) of his reconstucted Addar
Stallion and Soldier
model have been added to the Models page.
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Thanks to Peter Keller, the eighteenth and final German lobby card for
Beneath the Planet of the Apes has been added to the German Beneath lobby cards
page. It joins the other seventeen scans, which were all contributed by
Mark Talbot-Butler.
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2016-09-02
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I've added large(r) versions of the now-infamous photos of the bodybuilder
gorilla extras that keep making their way around the 'net. You can find them,
and the names of the men, on the Muscle
Apes page.
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An essay/review of the ADDAR Apes models by Dave Ballard has been added
to the Models page. Thanks, Dave!
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2016-08-22
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After all of these years, I have finally added all twenty-nine issues
of the U.S. Marvel Planet of the Apes magazines from the 1970s. Thanks to
Estil for the files, though I have no idea from the where the scans actually
originated.
All twenty-nine issues of the Marvel mags can be
downloaded from the Marvel Planet of the Apes
page in both CBZ and PDF formats.
27-AUG-2016 Update: There was a problem with the PDF file for issue 13
in that it would display as blank pages. I have replaced the PDF file with one
that works correctly. My apologies for any inconvenience.
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2016-07-17
I've added PDF versions of the Revolution on
the Planet of the Apes comics, in addition to the CBR files.
2016-07-17
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Another huge update this evening. Mark Talbot-Butler has contributed scans of
more than 450 additional photos from his enormous collection of Apes-related stills.
These join the more than 1,425 he had previously contributed. For all 1,900+ scans,
you can click on each one to view a larger version, and for most, you can also
download a version in 300 DPI or higher resolution.
Many of these images are behind-the-scenes photos from all of the movies and
the TV show. It's an incredible collection of amazing images!
Thanks, Mark!
Mark Talbot-Butler's Huge Stills
Collection
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Thanks to chief editor and writer Ty Templeton, the 2005–2006 authorized
comics series Revolution on the Planet of the Apes is now available
for your reading pleasure! All six issues of the miniseries can be
downloaded from the Revolution on the Planet of
the Apes page.
Visit Ty's site, Ty Templeton's ART
LAND!!
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2016-06-06
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Another huge update this evening. Mark Talbot-Butler has contributed scans of
more than 175 additional photos from his enormous collection of Apes-related stills.
These join the more than 1,250 he had previously contributed. For all 1,425+ scans,
you can click on each one to view a larger version, and for most, you can also
download a version in 300 DPI or higher resolution. I've added a link to
Mark's Stills Collection to the "Movies &
TV" dropdown menu.
This batch also includes some photos contributed from the collection of Harry
Barnes.
Thanks, Mark and Harry!
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2016-06-04
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Cartoonist Ray Alama has contributed several great pieces
of his Planet of the Apes artwork. You can find them on the
Ray Alma Art page.
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2016-04-07
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Thanks to Greg Champy, a "clean" version of the San Francisco Zoo
poster from the TV episode "The Trap" is now available on the
Apes Reproductions page.
You can also download
a nice reproduction of Caesar's flyer from Conquest that Mark Nems
contributed years ago from that page.
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2016-04-04
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Artist/producer/director/actor Frank Dietz has contributed several fantastic
pieces of his Planet of the Apes artwork. You can find them on the
Frank Dietz Art page.
Frank also contributed a number of new Planet of the Apes stills, which
can be found here.
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2016-02-25
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Thanks to Manuel Borras Moreno, 24 more Apes
wallpapers have been added to the site.
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2016-02-20
2016-02-15
2016-02-08
2015-11-04
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PDFs of issue 15 of Castle of Frankenstein, issue 1 of Cinemagic,
issue 8 of Starlog, and issue 371 of Starlog
have been added to the Apes Magazines page.
Unfortunately, I don't remember who contributed these PDFs.
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2015-10-09
2015-09-08
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Another huge update this evening. Mark Talbot-Butler has contributed scans of
more than 250 additional photos from his enormous collection of Apes-related stills.
These join the more than 1,000 he had previously contributed. For all 1,250+ scans,
you can click on each one to view a larger version, and for most, you can also
download a version in 300 DPI or higher resolution. I've added a link to
Mark's Stills Collection to the "Movies &
TV" dropdown menu.
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2015-07-18
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- Thanks to Joe Escobar, I've created a new page for photos of Apes
displays around the world. Joe sent in photos of an Ape-o-naut outside of
Warren Exchange in Warren, RI. You can see his photos on the Apes Displays page. If any of you have photos
to contribute, please let me know.
- John Davis sent in six more photos from his Apes childhood. You can
find them and others on the '70s Kids page.
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2015-05-18
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Thanks to the tireless efforts of Mark Talbot-Butler, I have some new updates
today!
Thanks, Mark!!
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2015-05-18
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Thanks to Harry Barnes, more ephemera from the UK Fan Club has been added to the
UK Apes Fan Club page: a membership card,
a car sticker, and a decoder ring!
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2015-05-04
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More updates thanks to Mark Talbot-Butler!
- Scans of the full card pack wrappers have been added to the pages for the
Movie Cards and the
TV Series Cards. See all the Apes
cards on the Apes Cards page.
- Six more UK Fan Club newsletters have been added to the newly-created
UK Apes Fan Club page. A total of eleven
newsletters are now available.
- The original UK Fan Club application form and a photo of the Apes visiting
Mark's town have also been added to the
UK Apes Fan Club page.
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2015-05-01
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Lots of scans of Planet of the Apes cards have been added to the Planet of the Apes Cards page! Thanks to Mark
Talbot-Butler and Manuel Borrenas Moreno for the scans!
Visit the Cards page to see them all, or you can
click the links below to view the new additions.
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2015-04-25
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Thanks to Mike Rutherford, some photos of his fantastic completed and painted
Addar models have been added to the Addar Models
page.
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2015-04-03
Happy International Planet of the Apes Day!
Today seems like the perfect day to announce a new feature on my site. Back in
1998, Fox created a Planet of the Apes website to promote the 30th Anniversary
release of the movies on VHS. They took the site down a year or so later, but
not before I saved it all. Now you can revisit the site in all of its
1998-HTML-and-Quicktime glory! It's a subsite of my Apes site (in addition to
the link below, you can find the link in the "Subsites" menu at the top of the
pages), and it's all exactly as it was in 1998.
There are timelines for the series and each movie, augmented by video clips.
Enjoy!
Enter the Fox 30th Anniversary Apes subsite!
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2015-03-23
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Thanks to Manuel Borras Moreno, scans of the Spanish magazines
El Planeta de los Monos from both 1977 and 1979 are now available.
This time, the files have been made available as CBZ files instead of PDFs. CBZ
files are Zip files containing JPEG images. There are numerous CBZ/CBR readers
out there for computers, tablets, and phones. For Windows systems, I recommend
CDisplayEx.
You can find the covers and the download links on the
El Planeta de los Monos page.
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2015-03-21
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I have scanned the Apes content from issue 23 of Castle of
Frankenstein (1974) and added it to the Apes
Magazines page.
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2015-03-12
2015-01-21
2015-01-04
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Another original piece of Apes comics art by Earl Norem has been added
to the Comics Art page.
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2014-11-02
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Another huge update this morning. Mark Talbot-Butler has contributed scans of
more than 200 additional photos from his enormous collection of Apes-related stills.
These join the more than 800 he had previously contributed. For all 1,000+ scans,
you can click on each one to view a larger version, and for most, you can also
download a version in 300 DPI or higher resolution. I've added a link to
Mark's Stills Collection to the "Movies &
TV" dropdown menu.
Mark also supplied scans of German lobby cards for Beneath the Planet of the
Apes!
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2014-08-23
2014-08-02
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I've added another great '70s Christmas photo from Ogb Entertainment and Mark
Fikes to the
'70s Apes kids page! If you have any photos
you'd like to share, please email them to me.
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2014-07-29
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Thanks to M. Harraway, I've added scans from a brief article about the
Apes TV show that appeared in Starlog #45, April 1981.
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2014-07-19
2014-07-13
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A big update today!
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I've added a new photo from Mark Graham to the
'70s Apes kids page! If you have any photos
you'd like to share, please email them to me.
- Also thanks to Mark Graham, I've added
seventeen new Apes stills to
the Lobby Cards & Stills Page.
- Again thanks to Mark Graham, scans of three pages of original Alfred
Alcala artwork from his adaptation of Conquest have been added to the
new Comics Art Page. Also found there are the
original sketches for four covers by Earl Norem that were taken from eBay
auctions of the sketches.
- Manuel Borras Moreno contributed 25 more Apes
wallpapers.
My apologies to Mark and Manuel for taking so long to get their contributions
added! One more contribution from Mark will be added in the next day or two.
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2014-06-21
I've added two more photos from John Davis to the
'70s Apes kids page! If you have any photos
you'd like to share, please email them to me.
2014-05-03
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Another huge update this morning. Mark Talbot-Butler has contributed scans of
214 more photos from his enormous collection of Apes-related stills.
These join the more than 600 he had previously contributed. For all 800+ scans,
you can click on each one to view a larger version, and for most, you can also
download a version in 300 DPI or higher resolution. I've added a link to
Mark's Stills Collection to the "Movies &
TV" dropdown menu.
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2014-03-25
I've added a great, new photo from Geoff Ambrose to the
'70s Apes kids page!
2014-02-25
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Several updates today, including:
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2014-01-27
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Huge update this morning. Mark Talbot-Butler has contributed scans of
500 more photos from his enormous collection of Apes-related stills.
These join the more than 100 he had previously contributed. For all 600+ scans,
you can click on each one to view a larger version, and for most, you can also
download a version in 300 DPI or higher resolution. I've added a link to
Mark's Stills Collection to the "Movies &
TV" dropdown menu.
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2014-01-26
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I added fourteen more signed photos to the Autographs page.
Thanks to Mark Talbot-Butler for the contributions!
Also from Mark, scans of Japanese flyers for the movies have been added to
the Programs page.
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2014-01-25
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I added two more signed photos to the Autographs page. Thanks to Manuel Borras Moreno for the
contributions!
I also added a photo of the British Apes movie trading cards to the Cards page and some new/old merchandise ads to the Merchandise Ads page.
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2013-12-14
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With Mark's permission, the Simian Arms website is now officially hosted here
on pota.goatley.com. The subsite is dedicated to the various weapons and
costumes from the Planet of the Apes. If you've never seen it, check it
out!
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2013-11-13
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Thanks to Ricardo Pablo Lopez, scans of the Spanish lobby cards for
Beneath the Planet of the Apes have been added to the Spanish Lobby Cards page!
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2013-09-21
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When this site was first launched back in 2003, few people had high-speed
Internet access, so most of the PDFs on the site were split into multiple parts
to ease downloading. Now that it's 10 years later and few people are still
using modems, I've finally gotten around to assembling the
multi-part PDFs into single PDFs. This affects the PDFs on the Scripts, Power Records,
and Marvel UK Comics pages. I've also increased
the size of the thumbnails on the Marvel UK Comics
page, as well as added the ability to click on the cover thumbnails to view
larger versions of the covers,
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2013-09-16
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A new Planet of the Apes podcast is now in the works hosted by Hunter Goatley
and Ernie Zahn in association with Hunter's POTA Archive and a new Arts and
Entertainment site, All Kicker.
For more information, and to sign up to be a guest host for an episode, visit
the following Google Docs link:
PotA
Podcast Signup Form
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2013-09-10
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Artist and writer Gary Chaloner has posted all four issues of the comic
Planet of the Apes: Urchak's Folly on his website. Click here for links to the issues.
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2013-09-08
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I'm trying an experiment. I've added a discussion forum to the site.
Why? There are plenty of other discussion groups and Facebook pages, not
to mention the Yahoo! groups. However, the recent Yahoo! redesign has made
using their groups annoying. On top of that, I've decided that it would be nice
to know what visitors think of the site or the materials available here.
So I'm going to try the forum. We'll see how it comes to life, or if I pull the
plug on it eventually. I hope it proves useful!
You can find the forum here.
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2013-04-17
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Photos of various mutant concept pieces and prosthetics have
been added to the Prosthetics page. These images
were taken from various Profiles in History auctions over the past few years.
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2013-04-13
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Thanks to Mark Talbot-Butler, the final UK lobby card for
Planet of the Apes has been added to its siblings!
You can view the UK lobby cards here.
The last one is the previously-missing card.
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2013-04-10
2013-01-01
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Thanks to Don Reitsam, images of the Mego gumball machine figure stickers and
necklace pendants have been added to the Collectibles page. You can also click on the
images below to see larger versions.
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2012-12-01
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JamesA1102 has contributed a 2013 Calendar to celebrate the
40th anniversary of Battle for the Planet of the Apes. You can download
the calendar by clicking on the image or by clicking here.
Thanks, James!
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2012-07-11
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Thanks to E. Francis Kohler, the September 27, 1973, issue of
Scholastic Scope has been added to the Magazines
page. Thanks, Francis!
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2011-11-26
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JamesA1102 has contributed a 2012 Calendar to celebrate the
40th anniversary of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. You can download
the calendar by clicking on the image or by clicking here.
Thanks, James!
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2011-08-31
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- Thanks to Lance Brick, a new vintage newspaper ad for Back to the Planet
of the Apes (the re-edited TV series movies) has been added to the Apes Advertisements page.
- Thanks to Terry Pace, more autographed images have been added to the
Ape-ographs page. These include signed
photos of Heston, Hunter, McDowall, and Harrison.
- More Apes prosthetic pieces (chimp appliance, orangutan teeth, hands,
Roddy's wig) from the collection of Dean Preston have been added to the
Apes Prosthetics page.
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2011-08-14
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Thanks to Dave Ballard, more scans of design sketches,
both used and unused, for the Addar Apes models have been added to the
Models Page.
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2011-08-11
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I was just interviewed by Roberto Perrone on BBC Three
Counties Radio! We talked about the Apes films and Rise of the
Planet of the Apes, which opens in the UK today. You can download an MP3
of the interview here.
Thanks to Roberto and Lee. It was fun!
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2011-07-15
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Filmmaker and fellow Apes fan Sandy Collora, whose custom Mego-like
Apes figures can be seen here, is using
Kickstarter to try to raise money for his next film, Shallow Water.
You can read more about the project and contribute here:
Shallow
Water — A Monster Movie by
Sandy Collora
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Dave Ballard took the "Go Ape!" poster contributed
by Dario back in March and cleaned it up by removing all the text except for
the gorilla and the "Go Ape!" text. You can download the high-res
file by clicking on the image to the left or by clicking here.
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E. Francis Kohler and M. Harraway both sent me scans of a
Planet of the Apes poster magazine published in the UK in 1974.
High-res scans are available in both PDF and JPEG formats, or you can just view
the pages by clicking on the image to the left or by clicking
here.
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M. Harraway sent these scans of Vulcan magazine, a
UK-based fan magazine. You can download the PDF by clicking on the image to
the left, or you can find other options on the Magazines
page.
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2011-03-28
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Dario Sciola sent this "Go Ape!" poster for an
Ape-o-thon on Ottawa. The theater owner had an artist take a hi-res
image of the "Go Ape!" poster and edit it to include the theater logo
and showing dates. That high-res result is available for
downloading—note that it's a 6MB file, so it'll take a while to download,
but the resulting image is suitable for poster-size printing, if you know a
local printer capable of printing such an image. Thanks Dario (and to the
theater owner who gave him permission to share the file)!
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2011-03-25
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Filmmaker and fellow Apes fan Sandy Collora has
contributed photos of his custom Mego-style Apes figures. Check them
out here!
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Exhumed Films is holding a Go Ape! day in Philadelphia
on July 31, 2011, with screenings of all five Apes films in 35mm.
For details, click
here.
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2010-12-14
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JamesA1102 has contributed a 2011 Calendar to celebrate the
40th anniversary of Escape from the Planet of the Apes. You can download
the calendar by clicking on the image or by clicking here.
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Thanks to the efforts of M. Harraway, scans of the
covers of the British videotape releases have been added to the site.
For more information, visit the
UK Apes Video page.
M. Harraway also contributed a signed photo of Lee Delano
for the Apes Autographs page.
Scans of the UK paperback release of Pierre Boulle's Monkey Planet have
been added to the Books page.
Here's an unusual find, again courtesy of M. Harraway: a poster for the UK
Planet of the Apes Stage Shows! You can view the poster here.
More from Mr. Harraway will be added soon....
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2010-10-30
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Thanks to someone who wishes to remain anonymous,
scans of a photocopy of yet another Apes timeline has been added to the
Magazines page. This timeline appeared in
Comics Unlimited, a UK sci-fi/comics fanzine published in 1975 or 1976.
You can download the PDF
or view
the PDF.
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Thanks to French Apes fan Olivier Moretti, his take on
Galen has been added to the Fan Artwork page!
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Thanks to French Apes fan Laurent Cleret, a PDF
of the first issue of Marvel's Planete des Singes magazine is
now available!
You can download the PDF
or view
the PDF.
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2010-09-21
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Thanks to Greg Plonowski, a previously unknown version of Rod Serling's
original script for Planet of the Apes is now available for download!
This script is dated March 1, 1965. It can be found on the Scripts page. You can download the script or
view the
script online.
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2010-08-28
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Thanks to Don Reitsam, photos of a plush Zaius toy still in
its package and a Mego "Horse and Wagon and Catapult" box have been
added to the Collectibles Page. Don
also sent in photos of the Mego Bend 'N Flex figures still on their cards!
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A new page of Fan Art has been
created. The first contributions are from James Christopher.
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Thanks to Rory Monteith, a flyer advertising the first
release of Planet of the Apes on VHS has been added to the
Apes Ads page.
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Thanks to Michael Meyer, scans of an unused Addar model
prototype have been added to the new Models Page.
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