my friend give me these 3 huge box . theyre laserdiscs of flash gordon serial and he say . i be gon na have some giant coaster and i say . but not so . this serial rock . ( but i have to whine and moan to almost everyone i know to find a laserdisc player for em ) . there be really a little of everything in this serial represent there be lion men and hawk men and shark men and earthman and and i guess you would call em mongo men . the set and costume combine and greek and roman and oriental and egyptian and there even armour like english knight . awesome costume . and some of it be a riot . those horrible tights with short over em wear by zarkov be beyond description . and the guy in the furnace scene seem to be wear boxer . it also funny the way they rename the octopus to an octosack and the orangutan to orangapoid and and the tiger to a tigron . there even a dragon ( a godzilla like creature who threaten flash on a couple of occasion before be kill off ) . you like the invisible man . this have get you cover . you like sword fight and wrestling ( both animal and men ) and fist fight . plenty for any taste . we have an underwater city and a sky city and a city on top of a mountain and and tonne of secret passage and cave . hokey effect . massive amount . the sky city be support by radium furnace stoke like old time steamship . the rocketships be power by firework and have constant backfire and or or hum noise . lot of wire be visible hold thing up ( like food when flash be invisible and of course rocketships ) . there cloud out in space and but none around the earth when view from mongo . giant lizard show up briefly . fight sea creature supposedly threaten flash and co. on the way to the shark men underwater city . the gadget in dr. zarkov lab crack me up . and they seem to be the same one no matter what lab he in ( he work in ming lab and vultan ) . and yeah and we have romance . everyone want dale while ming and vultan and flash . but at least one person want princess aura ( prince baron ) just not the person she would have prefer . in fact and it seem a lot of the sub plot concern intrigue on the part of princess aura to try to win flash . man i think the character be awesome . that fat and horse laughing and king vultan be hilarious . how he manage those wing be pure artistry . and ming . what can i say about ming . he be perfect . they should have have him for the emperor in starwars . ming have get to be my favourite character in this serial . princess aura be quite a little character too . and she pull it off nicely . i think she a good actress than dale arden by a long shot . even the sneaky high priest have a distinctive role . zarkov be good and but not the strong character and he always stand in the background during fight scene hold dale . now we get to flash represent flash and of course and be the strong point and the leader and the hero and he do it well . crabbe be a good actor and this role fit him perfectly . after watch this and i think i know where george lucas get the main idea for starwars . watch this and you will see what i mean . if you ever consider watch an old serial ( or any serial for that matter ) and this should be your first choice . the only reason i do not give this one a 10 be because of a few story hole that could have be fix easily and the way the giant lizard seem just tack in there and and a couple of weak character ( king of shark men and king of lion men ) .