*shrug* It's possible. Unfortunately there wasn't any type of tag giving details on it. Heck, it was so high up on the wall, and in such a dark area I barely noticed it on the way out. And got a significant rolling of the eyes from my wife when I geeked out over it.
amazing pictures! wish i could see this stuff for myself.
You know evil, I posted a gagillion pics of the nice rocketpack in my other thread that I think you'd like
They had some great stuff at that back lot tour...
you get a glimpse of them here at 37secs in
YouTube - MGM Studio Tour 1996
I worked on the set in Santa Maria on the Rocketeer for two weeks. I got to work side by side with Joe Johnston and Ken Ralston. A friend of mine managed to get two of the foam rocketpacks that were used in the sequence where they launch the pack inside the hanger and it bounces all around. That effect was done by placing a rocketpack on a sort of zip line, shooting it into the opposite wall, tossing the resulting pieces of rocket pack and wall away, re-stringing for the bounce vector and doing it all over again. I'm not sure how many they went through, but my friend Steve and I ended up with the two best looking rocketpacks that were left. Mines missing one nozzle. They were like "stunt" packs hastily built from resin and urethane foam with urethane plastic details. I have it in the attic and its been waiting for me to have "time" to eventually create a nice looking finished piece.
Kinda cool to own a piece of the real thing. That production was a great experience. I've got tons of BTS shots, and lots of great stories about how the pulled off al the effects in and around the airfield.
If there's interest, I'd be happy to get it down and post some pictures of it.
Ryan Johnson
newrulefx.com
Please, please, please, please, PLEASE!!!I worked on the set in Santa Maria on the Rocketeer for two weeks. I got to work side by side with Joe Johnston and Ken Ralston. A friend of mine managed to get two of the foam rocketpacks that were used in the sequence where they launch the pack inside the hanger and it bounces all around. That effect was done by placing a rocketpack on a sort of zip line, shooting it into the opposite wall, tossing the resulting pieces of rocket pack and wall away, re-stringing for the bounce vector and doing it all over again. I'm not sure how many they went through, but my friend Steve and I ended up with the two best looking rocketpacks that were left. Mines missing one nozzle. They were like "stunt" packs hastily built from resin and urethane foam with urethane plastic details. I have it in the attic and its been waiting for me to have "time" to eventually create a nice looking finished piece.
Kinda cool to own a piece of the real thing. That production was a great experience. I've got tons of BTS shots, and lots of great stories about how the pulled off al the effects in and around the airfield.
If there's interest, I'd be happy to get it down and post some pictures of it.
Ryan Johnson
newrulefx.com
Hey gang. I'm still around. Just crazy busy building props for shows, so I don't get much time to hang out on the forum. But I have found some of my pictures from the set, so I do plan to scan all of that and make it available online. Because of this thread, the awesome guys from the Rocketeer Minute Podcast have asked me to be on an upcoming episode so I'll be able to share a few stories from the set!
Until then, here's a picture of the stunt rocket pack that I got. This was one of the screen used props that appears in the hangar sequence. Battle damage and some old partial attempts at rebuilding it as well, ...still visible
Stay Tuned!
-Ryan Johnson
NewRuleFX.com
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