Just last night I got to reading another thread here on the RPF regarding the trials and travails of the Gallileo's current owner. The thread keeps branching to other forums so it took awhile to dig through. The shots of it in storage in Southern CA are there but only a few terrible cellphone pics of it in it's current state.jamief123 said:
Here are some of the last photos ever taken of the boneyard Spinner:
Phil
Correct me if I'm wrong but the first ever klingon knife from Star Trek 3 was stolen after the movie ended and was never seen again.
Yes, it is FROM Blade Runner, but I do believe that one of the spinner cars were used in BTTF 2 in the scene where Marty gets his first look 'round of the 2015 Hill Valley.breen2057 said:
*squints*
"The FUTURE..."
It was my understanding that the spinner car on display in the Seattle Science Fiction Museum is original and screen used from B.R.
Does anyone here know for sure about that?
I believe the Universal Boneyard Spinner was one of the two real hero units.
And I think the Spinner restored by Paul Allen was the "Latta" Spinner that was badly damaged while being moved at some point in its history.
I was always a little surprised that the paint use in the restoration was a metallic blue, rather than the blue that could have easily been matched from the original.
Phil
The first image is of the Paul Allen Spinner, just as restoration was beginning after the car was bought at Profiles (sold in December 2003 at Profiles for $55,000?). The other shots were labeled as the "Latta Spinner" in my archives. They're the same car (look at the 'O' on the RETRO:25 sticker).
Phil
What a waste. I worked at WDW in 1993-1997, and saw that thing loads of times. It's a shame they were so careless with it.poormansjb said:
There were two driveable 'hero' spinners with engines, the other one survives. The one that was scrapped was the main one, unfortunately. One version of the story is that it was mistakenly thought to be a replica. I'd love to do some archaeology on that bit of landfilll...
The wire work unit has an interior, I thought?
I was under the impression that the 'flying' Spinner delete the interior in order to carry the CO2 system and still fly.......Nwerke said:
There was a separate Spinner cockpit that had all the lights and screens.
Gene
I'm thinking of a pic in the museum, but I don't have it to hand. Maybe added later? Or I might have dreamt it; I'd certainly trust your recollection over mine.
The 1986 Iron Maiden album "Somewhere In Time" boasted a lot of BR-inspired imagery and the inside cover featured a shot of the band sitting on a (sanitized) metallic blue Spinner. Maybe that's where the wrong blue came from. But why paint it that color in the first place, unless it was for another show?
(The Scrambler from Spacehunter is in there, too, plus some other spacey car I don't recognize.)
What I want to know is, did they drag all those vehicles out to the desert just to take some album photos, or is that maybe out behind someone's shop in Lancaster/Palmdale?
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Hard to tell from the pic, but the obscured vehicle on the right looks like the Jeffries-built "hover car" from the Logan's Run TV series. It sat outside Jeffries shop in LA for years. And the background looks a good deal like Vasquez Rocks which is maybe 50 miles north of LA (and site of a gazillion movies and TV shows) so not hard to imagine a couple of vehicles being trailered there for a shoot.MFP 2020 said:
Note the Tardis in the left side of the panoramic shot under the L'Amours sign.
A repainted Spinner appears twice in the 2015 scenes of BTTF II.
MJ
Not sure if this will clarify, or muddy things re: the Spinner. But they are Spinner shots, and that's never a negative, right?
I took these photos in late 1982 or early 1983 at a car show up in Seattle. One of the Spinners was repainted by George Barris and put on the car show circuit. There was a large graphic on the rear of the car with "Harrison Ford in 'Blade Runner'." It had a candy apple finish of dark blue/purple, and sported somewhat accurate graphics. Note the "credit" painted on the side of the car -
I am not sure which car it was - one of the drivers or the "flying car". Judging from the nice seats, dashboard, and switch panel, I'd say it was one of the drivers. I suspect it is the car that was later used in BTTF2.
These two photos were taken by a friend of mine on a trip to Hollywood in the summer of 1986. I was on the same trip, but didn't go to this particular museum, otherwise I would have more pictures. When I moved to L.A. in 1988, I can't remember if this place was still around. But it has been looong gone from the scene. (It was on Hollywood Blvd, just west of the 101.) -
The paint is completely different, as are the majority of the graphics. I also don't see the jack stand points on the 1982/83 car that I see here. I suspect these are two separate cars. Something bad has happened to the canopy as the lower section has been repainted and what appears to be a crack has been repaired with tape. The headlights have also been painted over, leaving only a diamond. These details match the Iron Maiden photos and, sadly, the Disney/MGM boneyard photos.
Enjoy.
Gene
Great shots! Thanks.
Ah, so the red stripe in the one Maiden photo is tape. Interesting. And that George Barris is so humble and honest (and such a good grammarian). But I guess technically you could say he "paint" it.
The boneyard spinner above has the YI on the side, so I guess we know which one ended up there. But am I seeing things, or does the "Latta Spinner" have a two-piece back hatch where the others are a single piece? (I'm sure all this has been discussed and debated and dissected elsewhere, but it's just so much fun!)
That's not the Logan's Run hovercraft on the Maiden cover, but here's a shot of it at Dean Jeffries' next to the Landmaster.
And continuing the threadjack, here's a fascinating little film I just found. I anticipate spending many hours at DT's site: Blade Runner: Spinner Vehicles | Douglas Trumbull - Immersive Media and Visual Effects
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The other car in the Iron Maiden photos (and the one in the post above) is from (I believe) "Spaceballs". Correct me if I'm wrong......
Gene
I sometimes wonder what happened to the props made for the BBC's 1981 TV adaptation of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (as the on-screen title listed it), such as Ford's Electronic Thumb, the Babel Fish, and of course, the Guide itself.
The cars from UFO the TV series have private owners but they've been left outdoors to rot and go to ruin. A number of offers have been made to the owners but they won't sell them or restore them. One of them is in a back garden and an extension has since been built, so it would need a crane to lift it out or the extension would need to be knocked down.
There was a really good magazine article and lotsa pics on the full-scale Millennium Falcon a coupla years ago. Can anyone post it on here?
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