The Outer Limits. Along with The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits served to scare the snot out of me when I was a young lad.
The Outer Limits opened each episode with the foreboding verbal warning:
"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image; make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery, which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits."
Each week creatures and beings from other worlds and dimensions visited earth, usually with dastardly plans in mind.
An alien arrives on earth to scout out our planet for conquest. He seeks to obtain a powerful weapon an earth scientist is developing. He agrees to help the scientist develop the weapon if he will help him obtain emotions-something lacking in his race.
He obtains the emotions, has second thoughts and turns on his own race-thus saving the earth.
The Sideshows Collectibles’ (Toys) The Outer Limits (TV Land Special Edition) box is oversize in order to hold both Ikar and his Soldier.
Open the flip lid and on the inside of the lid is a synopsis of The Outer Limits episode Keeper Of The Purple Twilight. On the opposite side of the box are the two figures held securely in place by a plastic cocoon and strips. A clear plastic sheet covers the figures and cocoon protecting them--allowing collectors to view the figures.
The front of the box has a photo of Ikar and two Soldiers seen from the chest up. The back of the box shows Ikar at a control panel.
Two stands with wire supports are included for posing the figures.
The Ikar figure comes dressed in a one-piece light-yellow velour jumpsuit with a wide belt and high Nehru collar. He wears large silver (shoes) made of metal with rivets around the two prominent toe sections.
Ikar’s face is green with a large cranium. He has a heavy brow with two yellow eyes with black irises. Instead of a nose layers of overlapping green sections run down to his mouth. The sections look a lot like fish gills. He also has two large pointed ears.
His hands have five fingers-all of them nearly twice as long as normal human hands.
The figure is fully articulated and moves easily in its loose-fitting cloths.
Ikar’s Soldier is dressed the same as Ikar. It has similar feet but both hands are large silver metal three blade weapons.
The Soldier has a small head, twice the amount of face flaps, no mouth and small ears.
A large silver weapon with a shoulder mount, handle, site and three cooling vents along with triple triangle decorations on each side is also included. Ikar can hold the weapon, but not the soldier.
Paint application (especially on the face) is crisp, multi-tonal and clean. Details match the figures as seen on The Outer Limits.
It’s a great set of figures featuring two classic The Outer Limits characters.
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