Via the extraordinary collectors at Coin-Op Warehouse - after years and years of it being thought lost and destroyed, the model for the original 1979 TV series, Supertrain, was finally discovered in a disused warehouse this week.
One of the most expensive TV flops of all time, Supertrain cost millions, including a quarter million in 1980 money on the model you see here, but was canceled after only a few episodes. It was essentially the Love Boat, but set on a futuristic ultra-train. The series was so expensive that it caused NBC to go into bankruptcy. It was such a hilariously misconceived concept, that I have profound affection for the whole thing. I have a jacket with a Supertrain patch.
I have painstakingly reconstructed Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’ Palaeotherium magnum sculpture. Lost decades ago, join us (Ellinor Michel, Mark Witton, Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs) this Sunday to see its return.
