{"id":40609,"date":"2023-12-12T22:15:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T22:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=40609"},"modified":"2023-12-13T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T13:17:43","slug":"christmas-countdown-2023-day-8-invasion-planet-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-countdown-2023-day-8-invasion-planet-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Countdown 2023: Day 8: Invasion Planet Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2023\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2023\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20869 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas14b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Christmas 2019, <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>Invasion Planet Earth<\/em> \u2013 in which Toyah had\/has a starring lead role and also performs the end credits title song, <em>Step Into The New World<\/em>, released as a digital single simultaneously as the film premiered \u2013 was screening in numerous cinemas around the UK.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">With the tagline: <em>They&#8217;re coming<\/em>, and reviews boasting &#8220;<em>British sci-fi at its best<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>A British classic&#8230; War Of The World meets Independence Day<\/em>&#8220;, the film was being compared to enduring sci fi movie blockbusters, and is now considered a cult film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>Invasion Planet Earth<\/em> &#8211; originally titled <em>Kaleidoscope Man<\/em> &#8211; had been an enduring, mammoth, film project and a labour of love for its creator, Simon Cox, for many years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022 See much more info on <em>Invasion Planet Earth<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/invasion-planet-earth\/\"><strong><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">here<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/kaleidoscope-man\/\"><strong><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">here<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. The film is available on DVD and in digital format. NB. A few months after the original release of <em>Step Into The New World<\/em>, the song was also released on the Planetary Invasion Mix.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/invasion-planet-earth\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/invasion-planet-earth\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32128 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/invasion19d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/invasion19d.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/invasion19d-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2019, Invasion Planet Earth \u2013 in which Toyah had\/has a starring lead role and also performs the end credits title song, Step Into The New World, released as a digital single simultaneously as the film premiered \u2013 was screening in numerous cinemas around the UK. With the tagline: They&#8217;re coming, and reviews boasting &#8220;British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3162,10],"tags":[3172,2265,1019],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40609"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40613,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40609\/revisions\/40613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}