Sunday, March 05, 2006

Retro pic of the week - The Sleestak


The Sleestak from the 1970s Saturday morning adventure show Land of the Lost were pretty scary when you're a kid. Who could forget that hissing sound they'd make. For a Saturday morning kids show, the Land of the Lost was pretty intense. Of course by today's standards the show is really dated and kids of today would just laugh at how ridiculously slow the Sleestak were. Nevertheless, the Sleestak were pretty scary back in the day. An interesting bit of trivia is that college basketball players such as Bill Laimbeer(who later played for the Detroit Pistons) were in the Sleestak costumes. Rumor has it that a Land of the Lost movie is in the works. It'll be interesting to see what they do with the Sleestak using the technology of today.