I am not enough of a trainspotter to identify that engine. Sorry folks 😞

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#Monsterdon I have had it with all these motherfucking ants on a motherfucking boat!

no one tell the ants where the Snickers factory is

#monsterdon

And the other ants perpetuated a railway heist. Hell yea.

#Monsterdon

Was this a sugar ship?
#Monsterdon #Them

if these ants aren't careful, they're gonna catch the diabeetus.

#monsterdon #them

#Monsterdon how are they going to carry 40 tons of sugar

#Monsterdon the atchison topeka & the santa fe

Trains. And Fedi goes wild.

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@cheribaker I think the #Monsterdon bingo card needs a Wilhelm scream space.

Although...that might just effectively be a second free space.

Something seems off about her wearing a hat
#monsterdon

maybe the ants just need to learn about democracy #Monsterdon

World War Them: An Oral History of the Ant War.

#monsterdon

"Men with hats investigate a sugar train heist"

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#monsterdon Wilhelm!

@jonny @north Oh no, the authorities believed the pilot, but told the doctor to KEEP HIM LOCKED UP (to avoid a panic in their idiotic strategy), and will probably forget about him and he'll be locked up until he dies. These are the real monsters in #Them!1954 #Monsterdon

Radio guys are LOCKED IN, only a Wilhelm-worthy ant attack is enough to break their focus

#Monsterdon

beep beepity beep
bang bang
SCREEECH

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#Monsterdon navy ants!

points to the movie for having it's main cast do actual investigating though, instead of just tripping over their target. #monsterdon

mandible hug

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WILHELM SCREAM!

#Monsterdon

Finally, the ants are sending us their demands.

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"in this general area" while gesturing at a map of pretty much all of North America

not terribly effective, methinks

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"Viking was infesting with giant ants"

So many great merchant ships lost to giant ants

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Morse code intensifies....

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Thanks guy, have fun withering away in a hospital #monsterdon

I miss the good ol’ days, when we could smoke in hospital rooms. #Monsterdon

Fourmil-able flying saucers

#monsterdon #Them1954

This is how the SCP :SCP: got started

https://hachyderm.io/@combatwombat/113422428399146001

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#Monsterdon "flying saucers?" "i don't know what else to call them -- they were shaped like *ants*" maybe.... call them ants

Elephant-sized ants, flying saucers
Yeah, he's crazy

#monsterdon

Remember that time we though we were going to get some young Leonard Nimoy in a movie and he was playing an old guy?

#monsterdon

the internet says meerkats have wars

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"Monitor for thefts of sugar/syrup/sweets"

The Trix rabbit has been taken into custody

#Monsterdon

Bob with another power stance as he sits on that chair, Doctor Lady has seen it all before though, in ants

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#Monsterdon 🐜 !🐜 !🐜 ! 🔥 😱

"Now some of you display incredulity at our findings..." how I would like to start every conference talk from now on

properly identified flying ants

PIFA doesn't ring quite the same as UFO but give it time #monsterdon

Seriously there's a whole 1950s ant documentary mini film in here

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@davesdogmaggie Humans cutting deals with the Ants to survive, rounding up other humans via news media..
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"A young Leonard Nimoy has a bit part in the film as an Army Staff Sergeant who reads a news story off a teletype machine." #monsterdon #fascinating

LEONARD NIMOY BIT PART OMG he's such a PUPPY

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Flying saucers

Gotta keep your eyes out for flying saucers during an ant invasion

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Wait, are ants flying UFO's‽
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#monsterdon that's Leonard Nimoy!

@Lazarou There’s borax. #Monsterdon

"Psychopathic Ward"

Damn

#Monsterdon #THEM #THEM1954

Rules to live by right there, I look for the same things #monsterdon

imagining the president getting a briefing that just says "ANT PROBLEM" #monsterdon

I have to say, I'm glad this is a work of fiction and not documentary.

#Monsterdon

Ants use slave labor! They take over your sugar plantations and subvert your hotels! #Monsterdon

All this sugar is going to rot their mandibles #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon i like ants now. ive been converted.

Is.....(is he an ant in disguise?)

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The Doctor's North Atlantic accent makes him sound authoritative on ants.

#Monsterdon #Them1954

Inch long ants?? damn that's already huge #monsterdon

"They make slave laborers of the ants that they go and kill"

#monsterdon

Ugh... Science class. #Monsterdon #THEM

Of course! Everything's bigger in Texas

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Males seem to have quite the destiny there. Mate. Die. Done.

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@jonny And you know he travels with the film in a can, AND the rolldown charts he used earlier. #monsterdon #them

The doctor is totally nerding out about ants. #Monsterdon

"Watch this demonstration of power!"

Absolutely fantastic lecture

#Monsterdon

"She loses her wings after the wedding flight."

Ya don't say. 1950s women.
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I guess ants that size being able to fly isn't any more a violation of the square-cube law than them being able to survive in the first place...

#Monsterdon #Them1954

the savage mandibles!

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Lifting a ton and a half or more? So all these men are min. 300 lbs?

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"...this ant got trapped in amber. In fact, my brother is working on making a very special type of amusement park using some of the creatures he's found in amber. It's gonna be all kinds of fun!"

#Monsterdon #Them

A young HR Giger suddenly has an awakening during these scenes.
#Monsterdon #Them

#Monsterdon you could find them even in the finest Chinese Nookie Factories! ;)

45 minutes into the film: So, what is an ant?
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I enjoy the sound of an old timey film projector

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Oh great, another old Ant Safety military training film #monsterdon

"...extraordinary hush hush."
"Is that a technical term?"

#Monsterdon #Them

I like the translucent eggs with twitching larvae inside.

Doc: "Burn everything!"

#Monsterdon #Them(1954)

"We haven't seen the end of.... THEM" #HeSaidIt

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They should make a modern version of this, but in space. And instead of ants, aliens. That drip acid. Million dollar idea. You’re welcome Hollywood. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon I didn’t expect deadpan “you two act like it’s the end of the world.” “Well it could be.”

I hope no puppeteers were harmed during the making of this film.
#Monsterdon #Them

#Monsterdon didnt that one godzilla movie do literally that
you know. the bad one. that godzilla movie.

@blogdiva "Are you my mummy?"

#Monsterdon

"Very Strange"

Not really, except everything is just 1000x bigger

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#Monsterdon hatched egg trope started here. this scene is a historical monument.

Is this going to be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?

#Monsterdon

She didn't have to even change the flash bulb

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"Spit's all that's holding me together now too." What?
#Monsterdon #Them

Burn it!! Burn everything!

#Respect

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#Monsterdon aliens ripped this off

noting the timing here, usually we only reach "front yard broad day with the flamethrower directly at the monster" in the last 15 minutes or so, we haven't even learned anything about the hubris of the atomic era. there has gotta be at least one more level of ant above this #monsterdon

Oh, the formicity! #Monsterdon

Action science lady in action!
Sure it's a basic 50s trope we have seen before, but she's fiery.
#Monsterdon #Them

That's it, a flamethrower #monsterdon. Now you're cooking

they need special anti-ant weapons #monsterdon

leave the ants alone!

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We are just about at the halfway point. This would be deep into the third act of many of the worse movies we've watched for #Monsterdon.

I wonder what the back half of this one holds for us!

@futurebird @brooke at least some kind of ant preservation area or ant park, set up some of those thumpers from half life 2 for containment and then give them all the sugar they could want #monsterdon

Heeeeere's Anty!

#Monsterdon #Them

In an era where other films were shooting real insects on post cards Them was building full on life sized giant animatronic props. My hat's off to them for that. #Monsterdon #THEM

#Monsterdon goddamnit mastodon every time someone here says grenade my eyes autoread gender.

theyre throwing genders at the ants! 💥BOOM💥

I assume cyanide gas in sufficient concentration to kill ants would also be toxic to humans by skin contact. Gas masks alone not enough.

#Monsterdon #Them1954