It actually doesn't. I remains fixed and the earcup portion turns within that part of the plastic collar.
Just trying to put them on. I guess I'm very very strong.
The left earcup snapped off. You'll see from the pics that there is a sort of ring or collar made of black plastic around a brass/metal part. That black plastic piece snapped. I'm not sure how modular these things are, but it looks like some Krazy Glue might do the trick. I welcome your suggestions.
Good question. iirc (it's been a while), the original mini-series was much more '80s camp than that. In other words, I don't recall much of a them other than, "whoa! Aliens!" That said, I think there probably is a fair amount of Cold War imagery in the old one.
It's more good bad than actually good.
I never had them silly. I bought them, packaged them up with other headphones, generated a certificate of authenticity, securitized them and sold the new securities to investors. The actual headphones will stay locked in a vault somewhere.