Back button hijack warning.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ :)

The site added eight entries to my history, which I had to employ to escape. It's too bad, I like those illustrations.

That's a lot of toy packaging! Japanese toy companies used to be known for their more flexible price points and gorgeous box art; this was even the case when I was collecting Transformers. Sadly, this just isn't the case anymore; when Takara became Takaratomy, the MBA disease turned their local market releases mostly into Hasbro-releases as-is.

Lots of disaster imagery; the highway-as-a-boat is new to me. The "Ark of Space" with people being held back at gunpoint was particularly entertaining.

Very retro futuristism: https://old.reddit.com/r/retrofuturism

That "Highway Rescue Boat (1981)" illustration... I'd watch a movie based on that.

Those are very creative Photobucket Logos

why did the artist paint the photobucket logo on all of their illustrations?

It was probably part of the training data. /s

I've been following this twitter account for my daily dose of retro sci-fi art: https://twitter.com/70sscifi

I am a hardcore fan of this account: https://twitter.com/borgposting

This dude posts so much quality, incredible work.

Love it. Does anyone know of any active artists who do a similar style of art?

This has really strong Cowboy Bebop vibes. The space stations look very familiar.

Thunderbirds was pretty influential in Japan (and with popularity lasting long enough to be issued on LaserDisc, then again on DVD and again on BluRay). You can see a lot of Gerry Anderson in 70s and 80s Japanese fictional mechanical design.

Oh man, I really want a Space Train that goes around the moon.

I know it doesn't make sense, but it would look so cool.

Is there any reason to be concerned that this site opens links to mc.yandex.ru, visor.sberbank.ru and kraken.rambler.ru?

Wow that's powerful stuff!

I think it might be proudly hosted on Photobucket.

Old Amazing Stories pulps are a great source of beautiful scifi art.

I remember several of these featuring inside and on the covers of programming books for the 8-bit home computers of the 80's.

Anyone know what medium was used to create these?

What is the name of this style? Covers of old Galaxy magazines use it too.

Every picture screams “Proudly hosted on photo bucket”, can we not find anyplace at all to host the images that doesn’t want to emboss their logo on 20% of the image?

Comments are from 2010, so the images were probably put up there before Photobucket started watermarking everything (around 2017, I think).

Edit: just noticed the date of the post is June 2010.

Even the future was better back in the old days ;-)