A special announcement from CBT's CPT 1/10/12

  Hey all my faithful viewers! I have some news on the relationship front for the Trucker! He's met a very special woman and wanted to introduce her to my loyal audience. Kids and viewers this is my lady Lauren. We met a couple of weeks back and she has become a very special part of my life.

  How we finally got together really shows how the universe provides if you just relax and let things move at it's speed. Between a couple fumbling attempts to ask each other out. She finally lured me out of my truckstop with a promise of a viewing of the Adventures of Tin Tin movie. (On a side note. That is a great movie! I highly recommend it!) 

  From there I was destined to be come hopelessly in love with this fine woman. She's already inspiring me in a muse-like way in my art and business.

 (The Trucker had to be rebooted after this smooch as you can probably tell! But he did report improved hearing in his left audio port.)

  OK, enough of the mushy stuff kid's! I know you don't come here for that.

  In the past week I have been digging out some older figures that have been lurking in the deep corners of the truckstop. The first is one of the original GW Terminators and the second an early space marine with rocket launcher. Both vintage pieces. I'd like to thank again my friend Jim for the gift of the space marine with heavy weapon. 

   Instead of painting them up in a particular chapter's colors. I instead wanted them to have a kind of hard-sci-fi British troopers look. I painted a version of the Warzone Imperial badge on their armor.

   I have 3 more marines to finish. Hopefully soon.

   Hey kid's what was that horrible crashing sound outside?!?!

 Oh no! It looks like Delivery Dan dumped his flatbed full of DeLoreans and British police boxes! Wow does that tie into this weeks movie kids!

  Somewhere in time. I'll let this Wikipedia entry tell you a bit about it.

  In May 1972, college theater student Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) is celebrating the debut of a play he has written. During the celebration, he is approached by an elderly woman who places a pocket watch in his hand and pleads "come back to me". Richard does not recognize the woman, who returns to her own residence afterward.

  Eight years later, Richard is a successful playwright living in Chicago, but has recently broken up with his girlfriend and is struggling with writer's block. Feeling stressed from writing his play, he decides to take a break and travels out of town to the Grand Hotel. While looking at a display in the hotel's museum, Richard becomes enthralled by a photograph of a beautiful woman. With the assistance of Arthur Biehl (Bill Erwin), an old bellhop who has been at the hotel since 1910, Richard discovers that the woman is Elise McKenna, a famous early 20th century stage actress. Upon digging deeper, Richard learns that she was the aged woman who gave him the pocket watch eight years earlier, but subsequently died later that same evening. Traveling to McKenna's home, he discovers a music box she had made, in the shape of the Grand Hotel, that plays his favorite melody. He also discovers among her effects a book on time travel written by his old college professor, Dr. Gerard Finney (George Voskovec), and learns that McKenna read the book several times. Richard becomes obsessed with the idea of traveling back to 1912 and meeting Elise McKenna, with whom he has fallen in love.

  Visiting Finney, Richard learns that the man believes that he himself very briefly time traveled once to 1571 through the power of self-suggestion. To accomplish this feat of self-hypnosis, Finney tells Richard, one must remove from sight all things that are related to the current time and trick the mind into believing that one is in the past. He also warns that such a process would leave one very weak, perhaps dangerously so. Richard buys an early 20th century suit and some vintage money and cuts his hair in a time-appropriate style. Dressing himself in the suit, he removes all modern objects from his hotel room and attempts to will himself into the year 1912 using tape-recorded suggestions, only to fail for lack of real conviction. Later, while searching the hotel's attic, Richard finds an old guest book from 1912 with his signature in it and realizes that he will eventually succeed.

Watch the rest of the movie below to find out how it ends!