Troy D. Sparks

Chief Scientist 🔬 #LlewellinSetters 🐶 Reds ⚾️ Sci-fi/Fantasy 🎥 Indiana & Texas A&M alumnus

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

@ZChampagne22 Finally arrived today from my Amz-Jp order …#TheMysterians (1957) and #Mothra (1961) …they look great 👀‼️ …Since Jap. only, I’ll occasionally AirPlay & sync up a Commentary/Eng. dub track to a stand alone 🔊while watching 🎥

#Toho newly remastered 4k 💿s #Tokusatsu #kaiju

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

@ZChampagne22 You can order them through Amazon Japan as well… you just have to set up an account.

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

Finally received my Amz-Jp order for #Toho newly remastered 4k 💿s #TheMysterians (1957) and #Mothra (1961) …they look great👀‼️ …they’re Japanese only (no sub/dub) I’ll occasionally AirPlay & sync up a Commentary/English dub track while watching 🎥 #godzilla #Tokusatsu #kaiju

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

Purchased “The Mysterians (1957)” on 4K ultra HD 💿

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

@GodzillaS_US Should probably have lead w this⁉️ I already have 6 💿s… I’ve compiled them into 2 sets of 3: 3 Godzilla Minus 1 Color 4Ks 💿s & 3 Minus-C Blu-ray 💿s ... Each set has: an Eng. Sub disc,an Eng. Dub disc & a Jap. Only disc. #godzilla #godzillaminusone

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

@UniofOxford @JRRTolkien Citation⁉️ Per Gronk: It’s an early 13th-century Middle English homily, Sawles Warde (titled by Tolkien as Soul’s Ward, if you pause the video). Likely translated ‘55/‘56 in AB dialect; it’s a prose homily/religious allegory, ca. 1210… in ‘83 Alan Bliss sent it to Christopher.

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

@fugitiveink @LiterateIndy Ravens 🐦‍⬛ return to Erebor 🏔️ 🐉

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

Happy 4th🇺🇸 God Bless America ‼️ Morning pics of Ol’76 🇺🇸 ☀️

#4thofJuly #250America #BenningtonFlag

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

America 250‼️Our Revolutionary War Bennington 1776 Flag is up 🇺🇸‼️… annoying feature the Union 🇺🇸 should really be on the upper left. However, this is a “one-sided flag“ if I flip it over & hang it the correct way the 76 is backwards. 👀
#4thofJuly #250America #BenningtonFlag

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

No better time for watching @thingexpanded ‼️ I watched my just released Blu-ray💿 today and it is 5+hrs of awesomeness❗️…covering a variety of topics w a variety of people (Actors Directors Producers FXers Music etc…)
https://t.co/f1GTF8mnsF @creatorvc

[John Watches Horror @Y2John84]

The Thing released 44 years ago today.

25 June 1982 🧊

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

My 2 Expanded Documentary Blu-rays 💿 for Carpenter’s 1982, The Thing 👾(2026, 5:12 hrs) & Cameron’s 1986, Aliens 👾(2024, 4:42 hrs) just arrived‼️ …produced by CreatorVC …I backed @thingexpanded …they’re a must have❗️https://t.co/dFVsKp8Mqo #TheThing #TheThingExpanded #Aliens

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

If you’d been in Bloomington Indiana last weekend you could’ve seen both @BuskirkChumley’s Mothra Fest along with Mothra and MvG 🦋🎥‼️…Ed Godziszewski was there; did intros before each film; signed my Godzilla: The First 70yrs. He was on set of GMK and has a Ghidorah scale

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

As part of Godzilla’s 70th anniversary celebration, 4K digital remaster is getting a theatrical release. I glanced at the title and immediately thought it was a 4K screening of “Destroy All Monsters” (1968), so I booked a ticket right away. It wasn’t until I got to the theater that I realized I’d made a mistake. It wasn’t“Destroy All Monsters,” but it was “All-Out Attack.” It turned out to be Shusuke Kaneko’s “Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack” (2001). Ok, I thought, and ended up revisiting “GMK” on the big screen for the first time in 25 years. Back when it originally came out, it was shown as a double feature with “Hamtaro: Adventures in Ham-Ham Land.” I remember taking my kids and some of their friends to see it. I’d forgotten the movie quite a bit of it over the years, so it was a lot of fun to rediscover. And I only learned during the end credits that Mizuho Yoshida was inside that white-eyed Godzilla.

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

Watching the newly released @ShoutFactory 4k remaster of 1954’s #Them! 💿‼️ 🐜 ☢️ …It looks lovely! …keep an eye out for #LeonardNimoy… how many #WilhelmScreams 🗣️❓ #FessParker’s performance lead to his selection as Davey Crockett! #JamesArness played “#TheThing” in 1951‼️👀

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

@HorrorCarnival Just got the new @ShoutFactory 4k remastered 💿 today… watching now‼️ 🐜 ☢️ …it’s my second favorite 1954 irradiated monster 🎥 🦖 #Them!

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

Prepping for showing of 1961 #Mothra 🦋🎥 2K DCP / Color @buskirkchumley tomorrow night‼️ w Blu-ray 💿 w Ryfle & Godziszewski commentary as well as their G-70yrs 📕, @jeffreyangles Luminous Fairies & Mothra 📕, and @DavidKalat Critical History of G-Series 📕
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#mothraday #モスラ

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

@CCignettiIU @mcuban apparently Dave Schnell is NOT in the Indiana University Athletics Hall of Fame?! 😳 He should be! Can you help with this? Thx, Troy @IUHoosiers

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

For Him‼️ (RIP): Don’t forget he beat both Mich & Ohio State my soph yr in 1987 …first time since the ‘68 Rosebowl. He also beat Ohio State in back-to-back yrs 1987 and ‘88; won the Liberty Bowl ‘88 #DaveSchnell #IU #indianafootball

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

@nicksortor @SharrellAnne2 Awesome! …did you send #TheHonorProject Tolkien as well? ☺️

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

@JackLinFLL I remember diving Vortex Springs w my Drive Club from Indiana University over a Spring Break (late ‘80s). …first we did when we arrived was recover 2 bodies out of the cavern… looked like they were swapping tanks bc one diver was low.

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

@Dr_Dimitra_Fimi Oooo found it. Fantasy Rising is in 2 parts streaming (free) on @Tubi in the US:

FR Pt. 1: The Birth of Fantasy: https://t.co/FQJaAVzi6x

And

FR Pt. 2: The Reign of Fantasy: https://t.co/2tth7atcEg

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

@PoppedNews @Kaibrex @DanielRPK My second fav 1954 irritated monster 🎥 🐜 ☢️🐜
Please be good
Please be good
Please be good 🤞

[Troy D. Sparks @TroySparks]

Well, today we finally know‼️…it’s a clock 🕰️ donated by the man Himself, JOSEPH DANIEL VOTTO ⚾️ …his post just dropped on his Insta. @reds @JoeyVotto #reds #joeyvotto #vottoclock @ashleydavis32

[Ashley Davis @AshleyDavis32]

Not sure what the Reds are installing at the front entrance of GABP, but I am intrigued.