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Just google screencaps, simples
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He wanted 'large scale' pics.
...and he wanted them 6 years ago.
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I saw ROTJ on Spike while channel surfing this weekend, and got to wondering what happened to that full size scout walker they built on location.
Could it have ended up in someone's backyard like the "secret entrance" to the shield generator bunker did?
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He wanted 'large scale' pics.
...and he wanted them 6 years ago.
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greenpenguino said:
Davnes007 said:
He wanted 'large scale' pics.
...and he wanted them 6 years ago.
lol
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Senator_Polk_of_NJ is still a great username.
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I was literally just thinking that. I'm sure it ended up in pieces in someone's trash dump like the full-sized Falcon did.SilverWook said:
I saw ROTJ on Spike while channel surfing this weekend, and got to wondering what happened to that full size scout walker they built on location.
Could it have ended up in someone's backyard like the "secret entrance" to the shield generator bunker did?
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Which is really sad to think about. There was a time when a certain tv starship actually drew more visitors to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum than the real spacecraft on display. Imagine what a draw the Falcon could have been in some venue!
Maybe some rich fan will build their own full size replica someday...
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Really? Cause when I went to see that ship last year, it was in the basement of the giftshop with no signs that there was a basement to begin with. Had I not known exactly where to look, I wouldn't have known it was there at all. Broke my heart. That and the fact they gave it such an awful paint job.SilverWook said:
Which is really sad to think about. There was a time when a certain tv starship actually drew more visitors to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum than the real spacecraft on display. Imagine what a draw the Falcon could have been in some venue!
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SilverWook said:
Which is really sad to think about. There was a time when a certain tv starship actually drew more visitors to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum than the real spacecraft on display. Imagine what a draw the Falcon could have been in some venue!
Maybe some rich fan will build their own full size replica someday...
someone's already planning it with an AT-AT:
http://atatforamerica.tumblr.com/post/4394511190/the-dream-an-at-at-for-america
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Really? Cause when I went to see that ship last year, it was in the basement of the giftshop with no signs that there was a basement to begin with. Had I not known exactly where to look, I wouldn't have known it was there at all. Broke my heart. That and the fact they gave it such an awful paint job.SilverWook said:
Which is really sad to think about. There was a time when a certain tv starship actually drew more visitors to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum than the real spacecraft on display. Imagine what a draw the Falcon could have been in some venue!
I heard a rumor someone high up didn't like that people were coming to see it over the real historical craft on display. Hence it's banishment to the basement.
When I saw it in the 70's it was hanging in a gallery only a few feet away from a model of a real life Mars probe my father worked on when he was at JPL! Some of his co-workers there were among the first "Trekkies".
And yeah, the current restoration paint job is an abomination. I'm sad I've lost my personal 70's photos of the "E". (And the IDIC page which had tons of better photos than mine has vanished from the web.) The replacement red nacelle caps were wrong at the time, as was the missing deflector dish apparently replaced with a plastic salad bowl, but she was beautiful swaying slightly in the air conditioned breeze!
It's comforting that Lucasfilm seems to take really good care of their miniatures, and doesn't hock them off like Paramount did. I wonder if we will ever get to see the TNG Enterprise or the movie 1701 in a museum.
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Louis Armour · December 20, 2007 - 17:35 EST #14
This summer (2007) I attended the World Star Trek convention in Las Vegas. There in the dealers room, sitting a booth was one of the men who restored the Enterprise for the Smithsonian. (I do not remember his name-sorry.) I had noticed a photo of the Enterprise restoration underway and asked him about it. He produced many more in-progress shots and his answers to my many questions were fascinating. He was really tired of hearing from people with no idea of what they were talking of telling him the restoration job had been a disaster. First off he told me that the original repairs were a total botch when the Smithsonian first attempted to restore the Enterprise. Inaccurate replacement of front sensor dish, wrong replacement of the nacelle caps, etc. The cables had been covered on the unseen side with duct tape! For the restoration of which he was a part of, everything possible was done to do an accurate job making her appear as she did in the last episode. The special effects company doing the repairs had built a number of the models for the later tv series- as such they were obsessive about doing a good job. They were given only 6 weeks and not enough money to do it properly- the Smithsonian really doesn't consider this item a prime display. His boss actually went into the red, paying for much of the repairs himself in an attempt to do it right. As paint was sanded down all layers of primer (and there were several colors) were identified and recorded. Original colors were identified and used in the restoration. The heavy weathering WAS originally there and had faded or been painted over in previous restoration. Studio lights faded out most of the weathering making it invisible on tv. In the Making of Star Trek paperback you can see much of this weathering on the original studio model. (Anyone who has looked at a few actual props can tell you that the paint is alot heavier-looking in real life than on the screen) About the only thing not restored exactly were the insides of the nacelle fronts. They now have leds instead of Christmas bulbs- but they look exactly the same in operation. He said despite many of the fans comments to the otherwise- nothing extra was added. He also commented that the Smithsonian seemed puzzled as to the length they had gone to to restore the Enterprise- "They don't see it at all as the fans do," he told me. As a model fanatic myself I was polite, but direct in asking for answers to many of the comments I've read about the lousy job they did. I'm now convinced it was in very capable hands and a very good job was indeed done.
Interesting to see how opinions vary. It's been said that the Enterprise was whited out by the lighting and that the "weathering" etc. was there to begin with.
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There are photos in existence from when the Enterprise was loaned to a college campus around 1972 for a static display of space hardware. It had been sitting around gathering dust in storage at Paramount since the series ended. This was prior to the Smithsonian ever getting their hands on it or any restoration.
Details like the infamous "grid lines" on the saucer were there all along. But where it was drawn on the model with a fine pencil line it has been way overemphasized on the current paint job.
As all the original guys who built it aren't with us anymore, there isn't anyone with the clout to definitively say whether the restoration is proper or overdone.
Wish I had saved photos from the IDIC page. It was an invaluable resource.
I only know what I personally saw in 1976 looked "right" to my young untrained eyes. *sigh*
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Well here are some pictures of the Enterprise model taken at the time of filming the episodes:
http://www.startrekpropauthority.com/2008/05/uss-enterprise-original-series-11-foot.html
Definitely a less detailed weathering job done originally
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Here are my pictures of it:
http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a115/doubleofive/Enterprise/
Its the underside of the saucer that I can't stand. I heard the top of it is the only part never painted over. They obviously did not care about keeping the original paint job, only whatever "detail" they could add later.
Who knows what happened to the other ships, all in the hands of private collectors by now...
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Thanks for sharing the pics. Shame they don't even light her up anymore.
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I love that this necrobump generated some actual content.