Happy Sixth Birthday Wing Commander Movie!

Six years ago today the Wing Commander Movie stormed theaters across North America. Hades was here to deliver the announcement, because LOAF and I were in Austin for the premiere.

Although not everyone gave the picture glowing reviews, the film contributed to our community quite a bit. I've met many fans who say they were introduced to the series thanks to the Movie. We also got an exciting set of novels that we're still hoping to see completed. A plot synopsis is online for the unreleased third chapter. The eight action figures made Wing Commander toys a reality. Only prototypes of the vehicles were made, and LOAF and Joe own the only two that exist. The Movie based ride never came to be because its producer fell on hard times, but they've recently reemerged and we've tried to contact them for an update. The Nostalgia Factory still sells posters and press kits for Wing Commander. It's hard to believe so much time has passed. Can you believe the Movie only just made its debut in the United Kingdom two months ago?

Edit: From left to right: the action figure vehicles, ace finding the DVD in stores, the Japanese poster, LOAF and Chris at the Premiere, Joe Garrity in Blair's flight suit, the US promo poster, a set photograph of Prinze, a Spanish poster, a Belgian advertisement and Chris in a movie uniform.

Relics From The Past Still Around

Six and a half years ago, on our very first day of operation, we did an update about the Wing Commander GMS website. The site gained some notoriety over the next few days because of a squabble over rights to posting pictures. Everything worked itself out amicably, and we all lived happily ever after. Recently TC noticed that the site is still up! While the official site, Dan's Wing Commander Movie Site, and Fox's DVD site have all gone away, the original GMS site still stands today. You can visit it now here. It seemed bigger in the past.