Thank you very much!
It is a pleasure to read all these comments, because they are so positive, but also because it is nice to have so many learned forum members who need no explanation what’s about this worm.
Actually, this morning I had the sudden revelation that the title I have chosen for the project is not optimal; Operation Desert Worm would have been much better. But now it’s too late, and sith happens, as they say in a galaxy far far away …
Now, the worm. Once you have started looking for these nasty creatures, you find them virtually everywhere. For instance
here,
here,
here, and of course
here (bon appétit!). In an earlier age, there was even a
model made by Revell. But is no longer produced (probably the moulds were destroyed during Butlers Djihad), and so today it is a “collectors item”, meaning the price is astronomical. Thus I decided to make my own worm with plastic tube from the DIY store that is not considered a rare collectors item and accordingly much cheaper. Plus some Milliput, I should add. Well, and some toothpicks.
But there was of course another problem: In creating such an object with a, well, quite distinct elongated shape, it did not want to end up with something that looks like certain unspeakable toys being sold in certain unspeakable stores. I think I managed that problem quite well – take
here a look for a worm design that is really awkward compared to mine, I have to say in all modesty.
A major inspiration was of course the Dune books and the movie, although I would say that the latter is not one of David Lynch’s best works. Just sayin.
However, it would be unfair to neglect the other famous worm movie called
Tremors, a real gem of B-movie trash!
And then there is the TV series, and I fully agree with FredG that it is closer to the books than the movie. However, for me this series is kind of spoiled because the German Actor Uwe Ochsenknecht was casted as Stilgar. This is so absurd, I think there is no other man as un-Stilgar-like as him in the whole universe! It is like someone casted Danny DeVito for the next Darth Vader, or Arnold Schwarzengger was to play Mother Theresa in a biopic.
But there is hope. At least I hope so. There are
constant rumors that a new Dune movie will appear, perhaps in 2020, this time by Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Bladerunner 2049). If I hadn’t run out of spice, I would take a look into the future and tell you the exact release date. Right now, we just have to wait, I suppose…