Marsha Parkins lol ,you pair , I am English , West Midlands . after collage here in UK I wanted to go to uni in America and first was a very rich snobby CT school , one of my friends dad was model maker for Disney's Black Hole and due to disagreements over pay he took the ship and it's in the basement of there ****ing huge ass house , it was pretty cool to be able to touch it and see it almost daily , sat behind us as we did our homework ! haah ,
Peter Birdsall Marsha... how big would you say the cygnus model you saw was... and what year roundabout would this have been?
Marsha Parkins it was 1989 Peter and it was freaking huge , over 10 ft long easily
Marsha Parkins film was 78 . model was in basement collecting dust when i saw it in 89 and onwards
Marsha Parkins i bet it's dilapidated by now even though it was a converted nice posh basement , still ..... no way of knowing , not seen them folk since I left in 92
Marsha Parkins aparently there were two at over 12ft long
Peter Birdsall Marsha, the weird thing is, there WERE two, and both are accounted for as destroyed: one in the filming of the finale (see pic below) and one supposedly in a forklift crash on the Disney backlot.... so if you actually can account for one of the two surviving intact, then it's kind of an amazing thing!
Marsha Parkins I'm pretty sure he had the crashed by forklift one , it was not in the best state , he could very well have rescued it and made repairs to it personally at home , it WAS dear to him he went on a lot about how Disney screwd **** up , very bitter about it , maybe that's why , it need rescuing from some forklift driving accident . there was a lot of other stuff in that basement also . he hoarded stuff , from films he had worked on
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Marsha Parkins no need for apology , it's ok , glad to be the bearer for good news , he had other large models down there too , and lots of animatronics from the theme parks and shop windows , eg there was a crumbling old Goofy about 7ft tall that waved and blinked , the insides were fascinating and wonderfully made . we helped build a few one summer , at that time that was what his dad did , fix up and make Disney animatronics , he had either Vicent or Old Bob there too (too partial to tell), not sure if original or his own made ones , but he mostly was talkative about the ship itself or planes, him n his dad were utterly NUTS for model planes , wood , paper covering and dope.