Blade Runner F.C. - Frank Darabont's Spinner
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"The grail reference would to be to find these for the 1/4 scale hero (Paris Spinner).I have yet to hear from anyone who has (or who has even seen) all the pages of the blueline prints for the 1/1 cars...in full size.This doesn't make the project impossible, but it does tend to slow things down a bit."
Agree. Not a whole lot of point in doing it again if it can't be done *significantly* better. I have the Anubis, unbuilt, and it's certainly a challenge. That said:
"And to be fair, for its scale and price range, the Anubis Spinner has yet to be matched."
Agree here too! And Darabont's buildup is magnificent. Is Randy actually a Terminator or something? He's more productive in five minutes than I can be in ten years.
Of course you could argue with what's available now, and a slight size increase, we'd already be into "significantly better" territory. I'd buy another Spinner kit, for sure.
Cheers,
Martyn
Agree. Not a whole lot of point in doing it again if it can't be done *significantly* better. I have the Anubis, unbuilt, and it's certainly a challenge. That said:
"And to be fair, for its scale and price range, the Anubis Spinner has yet to be matched."
Agree here too! And Darabont's buildup is magnificent. Is Randy actually a Terminator or something? He's more productive in five minutes than I can be in ten years.
Of course you could argue with what's available now, and a slight size increase, we'd already be into "significantly better" territory. I'd buy another Spinner kit, for sure.
Cheers,
Martyn
The point is that's only one of three built. One (the Gaff hero spinner) was scrapped by Disney in '99, the other fell off the back of a truck and was smashed, then put back together (that's the unmotorised "aerial" version, which eventually went to Japan, IIRC)
Paul Allen's Seattle spinner is the second motorised version IIRC. (Unless I've muddled the two survivors up there.)
Either way - they all differed!
wasili
Sr Member
Read Bryan Ebenhoch's excellent research article on the full-size spinners, on Bladezone.com , and you'll be able to tell which is which.
Btw, i'm offering copies of 2 of the original blueprints in the junkyard. With readable dims. Maybe that will help on any builds.
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=60379
Best,
Wasili
Btw, i'm offering copies of 2 of the original blueprints in the junkyard. With readable dims. Maybe that will help on any builds.
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=60379
Best,
Wasili
In the eighties we had one in San Diego area, it was in El Cajon at some custom car place I think. It got displayed at a car dealership in Kearny Mesa for a few days as an attraction to get people on the lot and that was the last I ever saw of it. I am betting it was the motorized one. The custom car place even had the police building model I think too. Could be wrong on that, but they had a building from the movie to be sure.
Anyone else remember seeing it down here back then?
cirrusx1
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Hi, Just a quick correction. The arial spinner is the one in Seattle and the motorized version went to japan. The motorized versions did not have a complete finished belly. The Paul Allen one was a fiberglass shell built on a tube frame. it needed to be light enough and evenly balanced to be lifted by a cable/crane system.
Quite right, and that's why it's suspended again now. I couldn't recall offhand which way around it was, but there's no longer a driveable Spinner in the US.
Sad really!
drusselmeyer
Master Member
Anyone know if the working cockpit survived? That would be the interior we would all expect.
Yes you are correct, Years ago I was fortunate to see it on display at the same place in El Cajon, and they DID in fact have the Police Building Model too!
The Spinner was the same one used on film that IF you look at the Movie...you can see a Chain-link Steering Wheel on it, they also had Dekard's Squared Spinner and it was really nice, I have copies of the Company Flyers somewhere in storage and if I find it I'll post Scans of the images.
There is a guy on Ebay that sells Photos taken of the Spinner at the Same El Cajon location...
The Spinner was the same one used on film that IF you look at the Movie...you can see a Chain-link Steering Wheel on it, they also had Dekard's Squared Spinner and it was really nice, I have copies of the Company Flyers somewhere in storage and if I find it I'll post Scans of the images.
There is a guy on Ebay that sells Photos taken of the Spinner at the Same El Cajon location...
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