(1999) marker ink on bristol. More Space: 1999 art to mark the titular year. Sometimes the show's model work led me to underestimate the size of the Eagle Transporter spacecraft, but if you figure the main hatch to be six feet tall the rest of the vehicle scales up considerably, and in real life the ship becomes quite large, so the apparent scale in this drawing is about right.
The Eagle Transporter is a very zoomorphic craft, with a body plan analogous to a tetrapod animal: head, thorax, abdomen, hips, tail, four limbs and four feet.
I wish the show had had the time and budget to build a partial full-scale exterior mockup of the ship the actors could interact with - a command module, landing leg and passenger module finished on one side only, much like the partial mockup of the Millenium Falcon built for the first Star Wars film in 1976.
The Eagle Transporter is a very zoomorphic craft, with a body plan analogous to a tetrapod animal: head, thorax, abdomen, hips, tail, four limbs and four feet.
I wish the show had had the time and budget to build a partial full-scale exterior mockup of the ship the actors could interact with - a command module, landing leg and passenger module finished on one side only, much like the partial mockup of the Millenium Falcon built for the first Star Wars film in 1976.
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Pictures of the Eagle:
http://www.scifiairshow.com/images/...../eagleicon.jpg
And the Science Fiction Air Show: http://www.scifiairshow.com/guided-tour.html
http://www.scifiairshow.com/images/...../eagleicon.jpg
And the Science Fiction Air Show: http://www.scifiairshow.com/guided-tour.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7vfxTsFHa8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRwrmmGEcf4
I have never forgotten Alpha moonbase.
-Badger-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRwrmmGEcf4
I have never forgotten Alpha moonbase.
-Badger-
And of course, I would forget the tribute video....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21slrDwHsdM
-Badger-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21slrDwHsdM
-Badger-
And the last message-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nox6XjsS7Bs
According to wikipedia, this short film was actually written by Johnny Byrne; one of the original script editors from the Space:1999 series as a potential pitch to create a sequel series.
Set 25 years later, it was to feature the children of the original cast as Moonbase Alpha was returning in its orbit of the new planet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o....._1999_episodes
Sadly, nothing came of it, and Byrne died in 2008.
But we can imagine what it might have been like.
-Badger-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nox6XjsS7Bs
According to wikipedia, this short film was actually written by Johnny Byrne; one of the original script editors from the Space:1999 series as a potential pitch to create a sequel series.
Set 25 years later, it was to feature the children of the original cast as Moonbase Alpha was returning in its orbit of the new planet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o....._1999_episodes
Sadly, nothing came of it, and Byrne died in 2008.
But we can imagine what it might have been like.
-Badger-
I learned great respect for Space 1999 when I started courses for my masters' degree in Computer Engineering. My first course was Ubiquitous Computing / Pervasive computing. About 1/3 of the course was watching film & TV clips about "the future as we saw it", discussing what predictions were correct and what was off the mark. Much to my horror (as a trekker), Space 1999's comlinks were on the mark: multifunction devices (vs. Star Trek's single purpose tricorders, communicator, etc). What we now have in our smart-cellphones.
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