News

• December 2011: It looks like the endangered ZICA Buck Rogers line will be picked up by another company, which is supposed to be "very reputable". The company will be acquiring both the tooling and the license for the Buck Rogers figures. If this goes through then the remaining action figures that were planned, including Hawk and Wilma, will be produced by this company at some point in the future. Read more about this on the Mego Talk forum.

• September 2011: due to disappointing sales on ZICA Toys' Buck and Tigerman action figures, it looks like the remaining Buck Rogers figures (Hawk, Killer Kane, Draconian Guard) will not be produced. Read more about it on the Mego Talk forum.

• January 24, 2011: Jay Garner, who played Admiral Asimov on Season 2 of Buck Rogers, passed away at the age of 82. Read his Playbill obituary here.

• October 8-10, 2010: prototypes of the ZICA toys Buck Rogers action figures (see head sculpts below) were presented at New York Comic Con. Click here for pictures, and even more pictures here. Hawk is looking good! 

• December 11, 2009: According to The Geek Files, "Frank Miller is is no longer on board the planned big-screen return of space pilot Buck Rogers" (see the news item from December 2008 below). Read more about it here.


• November 14, 2009: Painted head sculpts revealed for new Buck Rogers licensed action figures to be produced by ZICA toys! The first assortment will include Hawk; see the picture below (used with permission). For more information see ZICA toys' Buck Rogers page. Also have a look at Toynormous' overview of new Buck Rogers merchandise, which includes a teaser trailer for the new web series (see the news item from January 2009).

• March 27, 2009: A new Buck Rogers comic will hit the stores on May 2nd. Read more at Newsarama. UPDATE: now available from Dynamite Entertainment.


• January 12, 2009: announcement of a web series based on the classic comic Buck Rogers. Read more at Trek.com. The web series aims at capturing the original Buck from the comic strips, so no Hawk.


• December 19, 2008: According to The Hollywood Reporter, production company Odd Lot Entertainment is trying to obtain the rights to "Buck Rogers" from Nu Image/Millennium, for Frank Miller (Sin City, The Spirit) to write and direct his take on Buck Rogers for the big screen. Probably most Thom Christopher fans will agree with Monika Bartyzel, who can't imagine Buck Rogers without our "wonderfully birdy" favorite actor.


• June 2007: the Buck Rogers DVD set (region 1 version) is now for sale at Walmart USA for only $19.96! (Thanks to buckrogersfans' Luckybuck for the heads up!)


• March 22, 2006: Hawk's armor for sale on e-bay (for $375!) and also his entire costume (for $2,500!!)


• August 11, 2005: Season 2 of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century has been released on region 2 DVD in The Netherlands! (See picture for cover art.) It can be ordered at bol.com for €29,99. The UK site play.com mentions 31 October as the release date; according to amazon.co.uk it's 3 October.

Older news

• February 25-27, 2005: Thom Christopher has attended MegaCon in Orlando, Florida, together with his Buck Rogers' co-stars Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, and Felix Silla.


• November 16, 2004: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Complete Series has been released on DVD by Universal Studios Home Video. Unfortunately, there are no commentaries or other extra's. See the links below for more details on the DVD release, artwork, commentaries etc.

• Bad news: the Buck Rogers 25th anniversary party that had been previously announced is not going to take place due to "financial constraints".

• Auction: on July 31, 2003 a large collection of original Buck Rogers items was auctioned at e-bay. Hawk's costume was sold at $2250; the model of the shuttle used in the 2nd season was sold at $3000.