As a kid in the early 70's, I remember thinking that "The Ship" looked super-futuristic. I LOVED the whole "Apes" universe, and still do. Thank you for this!
I'm a witness to the ship being at that Kanab restaurant. I was about 13 and on a family trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. We ate at the restaurant. I mentioned to my dad that the ship, which was part of the restaurant's signage and out in the parking lot, looked like TPOTA ship. We asked the waitress and she confirmed it. I walked over to it and pulled off a small piece of internal foam that was accessible through an opening. Unfortunately, this cherished souvenir was lost over time. Thanks for bringing back some great memories!
Entertaining and interesting as always, Dan!! Thank you so much for the shoutout! Dan truly deserves all the success he's been getting lately. His videos have been a huge inspiration to me for as long as I can remember. It's great to see his hard work paying off!
I still have a picture of this spaceship as the hotel sign. We were driving to Salt Lake City from phoenix in 1978 and going through Kanab I saw this upright on the side of the road. I stopped and took a picture of it.. I recognized it as the plant of the apes ship.. it was rather cool…
I loved Robinson Caruso on Mars, That beginning scene of the Elenor M swooshing by and the sound that it made is still cool to this day.. Even got lucky enough to get my hands on a rare resin model kit of it ... FIRE UPPER RETROS!!
Fantastic story, nice work!!! I can't believe they ultimately sent it to the scrap heap... damn them all to hell!!! I was ready to book a trip to The Four Seasons Inn in Utah.
As a boy seeing Planet for the first time on TV (early 70s?) I instantly fell in love with this ship. So sleek. So aggressively pointed ... like the Delta Dart fighter jet or the Valkyrie bomber... Another vehicle I fell in love with around that time was the flying sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. I'm so pleased to see here that both of these beautiful exercises in design were executed by the same man.
Jim Aupperle & Stephen Czerkas are two amazing F/X people (sadly Stephen passed away) but I had the privilege of hanging out with Jim back in the 80s/90s. The last time I saw Jim Aupperle was at our mutual friend's wedding. He was telling me about the unbelievable project he was working on at that time, NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Thanxx to the world wide web I am in touch with him now. NIGHTMARE is still his all time favorite project.
I'm absolutely obsessed with the 1968 planet of the apes masterpiece and I cannot thankyou enough for explaining the back story of the iccarus/liberty 1 👏 looking forward to part 2 to see what happened to the main deck and the hibernation chambers 👍 I really gravitate to films that have space travel like inter stellar etc i wish more similar movies were made 🙏
Dan you are way too cool. I am about your same age and a lot of thoughts and feelings about seeing these films as a kid is often times exactly as I felt when I viewed them for the first time too.
Thank you for this video. You know, when I was 12, this movie was on My friends big Zenith color tv. When I saw the ship in the water, it amazed me! How futuristic! Awesome ship!
Great video as always Dan. An interesting fact about the filming for the first movie in relation to the scene where the escape hatch was blown. The pyrotechnics team overestimated the charge and it not only blew the hatch, it also popped the windows and one corrugated panel from the nose. You can see it happen in the film. One window was lost in Lake Powell, and had to be mocked up for the remaining scenes with a sheet of plywood painted black (also visible in some scenes). I think they had an anchor line problem there too?
Another great video, as usual. Now, one of the things that has always bugged me about the PotA ship is that I couldn't square the size and details of the interior with the size of the ship. There's just no way that there was enough room for all they had PLUS engines/power system to propel it. The crash-landed version made more sense, given that we saw what would logically be a separate engine/fuel section.
Now I have to watch PoTA again. Fun fact: the music in the scene where Taylor is being walked through the ape village was sampled by Snake River Conspiracy in the song Breed.
They underestimated the back pressure from the mortar that blew the hatch, and it also blew out both of the windows as seen at 5:37 in this video. They had to get replacements to continue shooting, but didn't re shoot that scene. The original windows are still at the bottom of lake Powell.
Another riveting and well researched video on my favorite science fiction film spaceship! I always loved the way director Franklin Schaffner photographed the Icarus with the overhead shots and that one flash pan shot especially as the ship sinks. Exceptional video, Dan, loved every second of it! Hopefully one day you can fill us in on the whereabouts of the Valley Forge (“Silent Running”) and the Proteus (“Fantastic Voyage”).
As far as TH-cam is concerned you popped up out of the woodwork but it's like you've been doing this for decades... I thank you sir for the absolutely professional approach you have taken.... 👍
Thanks Dan. This was the video I was waiting for and you nailed. Good job. Those aren't the exact photos I have of the ship at the motel but they are very close.
@DavidSmith-xs3or Lucas & ILM keep saying they will set up a huge display, museum. Once in NorCal then Chicago IL. Lucas & Star Wars have tons of stuff, costumes, props.
Loved this vid. Another ship that captured my young imagination long ago! Would love to see more of the late Greg Jein’s work on your show. His work was everywhere! I think he may have built or repaired a “Visitors” ship for “V” producer and creator Kenneth Johnson
About 25 years ago, I walked into a garage sale and there was this teared up box full of 60s 70s battleship models, with bits and pieces falling apart, a few planes, blue angels, etc., etc. and I saw this pointy recognizable iconic Icarus ship!
This is easily the best video regarding the “Icarus.” Those blueprints for the ballast system was eye opening. Always wondered how they kept that huge prop under control while it was half sunk in Lake Powell.
Another great presentation Dan. Watching your videos is like visiting that best friend down the street who likes the same stuff as myself. Thanks for opening up the door to let us in !
First time I saw this movie was on TBS. And I LOVED IT! Yelling the famous line "Get your stinking paws off me you #### dirty ape!" My pop would laugh every time I did. So of course, I had to do it again.
Notice @5:37 that when the mortar blows the hatch, the pressure also blows out both windows and part of the decking in front of the window on one side. Evidently the decking was lost to the depths, as the actors are shooting around a hole eg @3:36, @4:32 @6:22
It's hard to believe what they did with the props back then. It would have been great to go and have a rummage through the stuff seeing that it was regarded as junk anyway. Some cracking pieces I think. Thank you Dan
NOW you have to tell us what happened to the super cool full size submarine set/prop "Proteus" from the 1966 movie "Fantastic Voyage" starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence!!!! It was not only used for exterior filming but ALSO had a detailed interior built for filming too!!! The exterior was made to have removable sections to allow cameras into one side or the other. There were also very cool smaller sized scale submarine models built for various scenes in the movie. What happend to them? You got to do this one... By the way James Cameron was quoted as as saying he is doing a remake of this film and it is in the early stages of production now!!!! In his hands it has to be good. Mike in LA, Calif.
Hello Dan, Thanks for sharing this story on the ship from Planet of the Apes. It's amazing what this prophet went through and where it ended up. Thanks for another great video.
From when I was little, I always thought (and still do) that the design of this ship looked like it was part of something much much bigger, because of the way the tail cuts off. This only makes sense when you consider the purpose of the ship - it's meant to be a *starship* that travelled at an appreciable percentage of the speed of light. You don't get that with a few rocket thruster on the back...
Another awesome video, Dan! Kind of a sad ending to such a once-proud, majestic prop. I would think the preservation of something so iconic would have been a priority for someone with the means and resources to do so instead of letting it decay in some junkyard. Pity. Thanks for posting!
Back in the 70s, there were two Saturday morning shows on CBS. Space Academy, with Jonathan Harris. And Jason of Star Command with James Doohan. Maybe a future show on both these classics.
For those with a sharp eye, in 2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Taylor's ship was indeed called "The Icarus". There was brief footage of Taylor and crew on the news broadcasting on a television in a background in one scene. Then on another scene later on in the movie, on the front page of the newspaper reporting on the deadly virus, below there was another Headline stating "SS Icarus went missing in deep space:" therefore connecting Rise to the original 5 movies. My theory, it was the original timeliness before Cornelius and Zira went back in time and changed history.
I loved those movies and Linda Harrison (Nova) was simply EXQUISITE!. In Junior High School a local theater ran a "Go Ape for a Day" promo showing all 5 movies. Being in Jr High, I couldn't go but a friend of mine cut school and went. Also there was a place called Sam's Town in Cameron Park Ca. with Arcades, Gift Shops, a Bar and more cool stuff on a BIG lot that featured the "Slave Wagon" from these movies. I used to have a picture of me as a kid sitting atop it.
When I was a kid I use to draw diagrams of what I thought the rest of the ship looked like. even now in my 60s I'm Still thinking of scratch building my version some day and taking it to a wonderfest sci-fi modeling event.
You seem to have a lot of neat toys and props for your desk when you do a video. Perhaps you could show your collection to the world if you feel so inclined!
God I love this story! I didn't get to see POTA when it premiered at theaters but I did buy packs of the bubble gum trading cards that had pictures of the ship. I thought it looked like the most awesome spaceship I'd ever seen. I finally got to see the movie in the 70s on TV and the interior scenes of it really blew me away. Mind you, I did see 2001 when it premiered, and I was an fan of Star Trek TOS in the 60s, but "Taylor's ship" still has and always will have that soft spot in my heart. Thank you Sir for all you do with your channel, so many great memories. Live Long and Prosper.
Dan, you brought up a lot of great memories with your essay on the original ship. I was all of five years old when this movie came out. Maybe the ships name should've been NOVA😊😊. Keep up the great work. Hope you get a shot at an essay on Silent Runnings/Logans Run/Rollerblade. AAAAAHHHH, the 70s!
Enjoyed the tale of this prop. I think in our current world of CGI movies that props now seem much more valuable than they did 50 years ago when creative carpenters, electricians and engineers were making sophisticated props all the time for movies and TV. In a world of NFTs we now want something tangible that we can touch like a movie prop.
I let out a BIG sigh at the mentioned Scrap yard as the final resting "space" of this full-size prop just as and when you did!!! Sad, so very sad of an ending for this iconic prop! As Gomer used to say.. "For shame, for shame, for shame!" 😢
True story: around 1968 my dad and his friend were boating on lake Powell. The saw the spaceship in the water. They looked inside to see valves and pipes made to keep it afloat. So they boated over to shore and talked with the film crew who told them about the movie. None of the actors were present.
Breaks your heart to see what happens to some of these props . When i was younger i used to be a shotblaster/beadblaster and worked on vehicles for some tv shows here in the UK. Anybody who has watched a program called Heartbeat has probably seen some of the old trucks and cars i helped restore. Luckily many of them are still around and hopefully will be for a very long time .
I was fortunate to meet Linda Harrison (Nova) at a local convention about 10 years ago. She was very friendly and I got her autograph. My little brush with Planet of the Apes!
Good work, Dan, and thank you for it ! Now I have a real challenge for you. What has happened to all the ships and models from "2001, A Space Odyesey"? I know there has been some work on this, but you do so well on the finer details. :)
I thought I had read somewhere that Kubrick had most of if not all the 2001 props destroyed after he finished the film. Which would be sad but from what we know of Kubrick it wouldn’t surprise me.
Another great video! Thanks Dan, you never disappoint. Such a sad ending to a classic prop 😞 Hate that, that happens. I guess you can't keep everything.
I always wondered how the ship could fit behind the windows all that we see in the beginning which shows the console, chairs and hibernation beds that are at are probably 7 feet long. Still, it's a cool looking ship.
This is one of my favorite channels to escape the insanity of the world
Mine too!
There is no escape! Bwahaha
amen
As a kid in the early 70's, I remember thinking that "The Ship" looked super-futuristic. I LOVED the whole "Apes" universe, and still do. Thank you for this!
My grandfather actually built the ship, on loan from Warner Bros. He also worked on Illustrated Man, creating the funky foam trees.
When I saw that they turned it into a hotel sign I just wanted to scream, It’s A Mad House!! A MAD HOUSE!!
I'm a witness to the ship being at that Kanab restaurant. I was about 13 and on a family trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. We ate at the restaurant. I mentioned to my dad that the ship, which was part of the restaurant's signage and out in the parking lot, looked like TPOTA ship. We asked the waitress and she confirmed it. I walked over to it and pulled off a small piece of internal foam that was accessible through an opening. Unfortunately, this cherished souvenir was lost over time. Thanks for bringing back some great memories!
Awesome, thanks for sharing!
Entertaining and interesting as always, Dan!! Thank you so much for the shoutout! Dan truly deserves all the success he's been getting lately. His videos have been a huge inspiration to me for as long as I can remember. It's great to see his hard work paying off!
No mistaking the heavy influence of NASA's Project Gemini spacecraft on the window layout of ANSA's Liberty/Icarus
I still have a picture of this spaceship as the hotel sign. We were driving to Salt Lake City from phoenix in 1978 and going through Kanab I saw this upright on the side of the road. I stopped and took a picture of it.. I recognized it as the plant of the apes ship.. it was rather cool…
I loved that ship and Mars Gravity Probe 1 from Robinson Caruso on Mars.
I loved Robinson Caruso on Mars, That beginning scene of the Elenor M swooshing by and the sound that it made is still cool to this day.. Even got lucky enough to get my hands on a rare resin model kit of it ... FIRE UPPER RETROS!!
@@Spindrift-id1ez WOW!!! I love MGP-1. I've been saving a few Old Spice cologne bottles so I can make one from scratch.
That was an amazing design of a prop that gave the first film’s opening sequence a sense of futuristic reality. Excellent research.
Thanks for all this hard work. The smiles and memories are priceless. Keep up the great work!
Fantastic story, nice work!!! I can't believe they ultimately sent it to the scrap heap... damn them all to hell!!! I was ready to book a trip to The Four Seasons Inn in Utah.
As a boy seeing Planet for the first time on TV (early 70s?) I instantly fell in love with this ship. So sleek. So aggressively pointed ... like the Delta Dart fighter jet or the Valkyrie bomber... Another vehicle I fell in love with around that time was the flying sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. I'm so pleased to see here that both of these beautiful exercises in design were executed by the same man.
Jim Aupperle & Stephen Czerkas are two amazing F/X people (sadly Stephen passed away) but I had the privilege of hanging out with Jim back in the 80s/90s. The last time I saw Jim Aupperle was at our mutual friend's wedding. He was telling me about the unbelievable project he was working on at that time, NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Thanxx to the world wide web I am in touch with him now. NIGHTMARE is still his all time favorite project.
I'm absolutely obsessed with the 1968 planet of the apes masterpiece and I cannot thankyou enough for explaining the back story of the iccarus/liberty 1 👏
looking forward to part 2 to see what happened to the main deck and the hibernation chambers 👍
I really gravitate to films that have space travel like inter stellar etc i wish more similar movies were made 🙏
its hard to believe nobody had the vision to grab that prop n keep it!.. i mean... a scrap pile ?😱
Dan you are way too cool. I am about your same age and a lot of thoughts and feelings about seeing these films as a kid is often times exactly as I felt when I viewed them for the first time too.
A ship so easy to pilot even a Chimpanzee could do it. 😅
BEST COMMENT EVER!!! 🤟😎🤟
A overgrown chimpanzee.......
Good one!
And go backwards in time, too
And did! See Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971)
Thank you for this video.
You know, when I was 12, this movie was on My friends big Zenith color tv.
When I saw the ship in the water, it amazed me!
How futuristic!
Awesome ship!
Great video as always Dan. An interesting fact about the filming for the first movie in relation to the scene where the escape hatch was blown. The pyrotechnics team overestimated the charge and it not only blew the hatch, it also popped the windows and one corrugated panel from the nose.
You can see it happen in the film. One window was lost in Lake Powell, and had to be mocked up for the remaining scenes with a sheet of plywood painted black (also visible in some scenes). I think they had an anchor line problem there too?
I always loved the Flying Sub....and the Seaview.
Another great video, as usual. Now, one of the things that has always bugged me about the PotA ship is that I couldn't square the size and details of the interior with the size of the ship. There's just no way that there was enough room for all they had PLUS engines/power system to propel it. The crash-landed version made more sense, given that we saw what would logically be a separate engine/fuel section.
How incredible was that original film. Gosh this channel is always so informative and entertaining.
Now I have to watch PoTA again.
Fun fact: the music in the scene where Taylor is being walked through the ape village was sampled by Snake River Conspiracy in the song Breed.
We need a model company to make a scale styrene kit of this iconic ship! Maybe 1/72 or 1/48 scale.
Best video yet. That junk yard photo is amazing. I have no idea how you came across that one.
Love your videos!! Please keep them coming!!!
They underestimated the back pressure from the mortar that blew the hatch, and it also blew out both of the windows as seen at 5:37 in this video. They had to get replacements to continue shooting, but didn't re shoot that scene. The original windows are still at the bottom of lake Powell.
Another riveting and well researched video on my favorite science fiction film spaceship! I always loved the way director Franklin Schaffner photographed the Icarus with the overhead shots and that one flash pan shot especially as the ship sinks.
Exceptional video, Dan, loved every second of it! Hopefully one day you can fill us in on the whereabouts of the Valley Forge (“Silent Running”) and the Proteus (“Fantastic Voyage”).
Dan.. Thank you So much for all of your brilliant work in finding the history of these classic and well loved props. So many memories :)
Love this channel, would like to know what happened to "silent running" robots ships props
As far as TH-cam is concerned you popped up out of the woodwork but it's like you've been doing this for decades... I thank you sir for the absolutely professional approach you have taken.... 👍
The episode I'd been waiting for..nice work, thank you.
Hey billy, thanks so much for enjoying and supporting the channel. Much appreciated
Thanks Dan. This was the video I was waiting for and you nailed. Good job. Those aren't the exact photos I have of the ship at the motel but they are very close.
Fabulous video Dan, thanks so much for this one.
Im so sick of Hollywood's blatent disregard for props.
It's too bad Hollywood doesn't have a museum of movie and TV props.
And thier destruction of back lots MGM & even foxs back lot is now Century city
@DavidSmith-xs3or Lucas & ILM keep saying they will set up a huge display, museum. Once in NorCal then Chicago IL. Lucas & Star Wars have tons of stuff, costumes, props.
“How cool is that” quote ranks up near “I’ve got a bad feeling about this” 😊
agree 100%
Love this video. POTA was the first movie where I had a "jaw dropping" experience at the theater. One of my favorite movies of all time. Thanks Dan.
One of the best scenes in the movie is when Taylor looks back at the clock in the ship before exiting and it reads Nov. 25 3978
They didn't know they were still on Earth. Every Movie was good and we got a perfect ending.
Loved this vid. Another ship that captured my young imagination long ago! Would love to see more of the late Greg Jein’s work on your show. His work was everywhere! I think he may have built or repaired a “Visitors” ship for “V” producer and creator Kenneth Johnson
Awesome Dan, this one I really enjoyed. Cheers!
Great video, Dan...👍
Keep it up Dan. This stuff is amazing.
Thank you Dan' your best one to date about the history & origin of a Sci-Fi Space Ship...
About 25 years ago, I walked into a garage sale and there was this teared up box full of 60s 70s battleship models, with bits and pieces falling apart, a few planes, blue angels, etc., etc. and I saw this pointy recognizable iconic Icarus ship!
Dan, you are on a roll! Love the videos.
This is easily the best video regarding the “Icarus.” Those blueprints for the ballast system was eye opening. Always wondered how they kept that huge prop under control while it was half sunk in Lake Powell.
The ship reminds me of the real world XB-70 , my father was part of the Special Weapons Project and worked on the XB-70.
Another great presentation Dan. Watching your videos is like visiting that best friend down the street who likes the same stuff as myself. Thanks for opening up the door to let us in !
Awesome video Dan!!!...Can you do an episode on the Proteus from Fantastic Voyage and whatever happend to it?
12:35 You can feel Dan's discomfort when he says "a sign, in Utah!"
“How cool is that?” Another great and super interesting video. Thanks, Dan!
Hey thank you sir :-)
First time I saw this movie was on TBS. And I LOVED IT! Yelling the famous line "Get your stinking paws off me you #### dirty ape!" My pop would laugh every time I did. So of course, I had to do it again.
I'd love to see you produce videos on the vehicles from Damnation Alley and ARK II.
Notice @5:37 that when the mortar blows the hatch, the pressure also blows out both windows and part of the decking in front of the window on one side. Evidently the decking was lost to the depths, as the actors are shooting around a hole eg @3:36, @4:32 @6:22
Thanks Dan for another outstanding segment!
I love your 'cliff hangers' Dan, just like those on Lost In Space. Pure entertainment and great research and information on these classics!
Wow,Dude fantastic video. Thank you.
It's hard to believe what they did with the props back then. It would have been great to go and have a rummage through the stuff seeing that it was regarded as junk anyway. Some cracking pieces I think. Thank you Dan
Hey, thank you for watching. Much appreciated :-)
NOW you have to tell us what happened to the super cool full size submarine set/prop "Proteus" from the 1966 movie "Fantastic Voyage" starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence!!!! It was not only used for exterior filming but ALSO had a detailed interior built for filming too!!! The exterior was made to have removable sections to allow cameras into one side or the other. There were also very cool smaller sized scale submarine models built for various scenes in the movie. What happend to them? You got to do this one... By the way James Cameron was quoted as as saying he is doing a remake of this film and it is in the early stages of production now!!!! In his hands it has to be good. Mike in LA, Calif.
That was a very cool ship.
Great video as always!!!
When I saw the title I thought you were going to talk about what happened to ship in the movie … hehehe 😅
Very cool...it would be interesting to here your take on Stanley Kubrick 2001 models and what happened to them...legendary
Hello Dan, Thanks for sharing this story on the ship from Planet of the Apes. It's amazing what this prophet went through and where it ended up. Thanks for another great video.
From when I was little, I always thought (and still do) that the design of this ship looked like it was part of something much much bigger, because of the way the tail cuts off. This only makes sense when you consider the purpose of the ship - it's meant to be a *starship* that travelled at an appreciable percentage of the speed of light. You don't get that with a few rocket thruster on the back...
Another awesome video, Dan! Kind of a sad ending to such a once-proud, majestic prop. I would think the preservation of something so iconic would have been a priority for someone with the means and resources to do so instead of letting it decay in some junkyard. Pity. Thanks for posting!
Whoohoo!! New Dan on a Saturday, so I'm not wasting my work day watching awesome vids. ;P
Love it. This is a great show. Great presentation and content!
This is the best channel of its kind. Thanks.
But ... a hotel sign and a junkyard? ☹I can't believe it.
Back in the 70s, there were two Saturday morning shows on CBS. Space Academy, with Jonathan Harris. And Jason of Star Command with James Doohan. Maybe a future show on both these classics.
For those with a sharp eye, in 2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Taylor's ship was indeed called "The Icarus". There was brief footage of Taylor and crew on the news broadcasting on a television in a background in one scene. Then on another scene later on in the movie, on the front page of the newspaper reporting on the deadly virus, below there was another Headline stating "SS Icarus went missing in deep space:" therefore connecting Rise to the original 5 movies. My theory, it was the original timeliness before Cornelius and Zira went back in time and changed history.
Different "universe", so, they could say anything, that has zero connection to the original movies. It would be a "different" Taylor and ship.
I loved those movies and Linda Harrison (Nova) was simply EXQUISITE!. In Junior High School a local theater ran a "Go Ape for a Day" promo showing all 5 movies. Being in Jr High, I couldn't go but a friend of mine cut school and went. Also there was a place called Sam's Town in Cameron Park Ca. with Arcades, Gift Shops, a Bar and more cool stuff on a BIG lot that featured the "Slave Wagon" from these movies. I used to have a picture of me as a kid sitting atop it.
Iconic ship.i always wandered what the rest of it looked like from it's initial beginning as a young lad. 🤔🇬🇧👍
When I was a kid I use to draw diagrams of what I thought the rest of the ship looked like. even now in my 60s I'm Still thinking of scratch building my version some day and taking it to a wonderfest sci-fi modeling event.
You never fail to leave me wanting to see more
You seem to have a lot of neat toys and props for your desk when you do a video. Perhaps you could show your collection to the world if you feel so inclined!
God I love this story! I didn't get to see POTA when it premiered at theaters but I did buy packs of the bubble gum trading cards that had pictures of the ship. I thought it looked like the most awesome spaceship I'd ever seen. I finally got to see the movie in the 70s on TV and the interior scenes of it really blew me away. Mind you, I did see 2001 when it premiered, and I was an fan of Star Trek TOS in the 60s, but "Taylor's ship" still has and always will have that soft spot in my heart. Thank you Sir for all you do with your channel, so many great memories. Live Long and Prosper.
Happy First Contact Day, by the way. (April 5)
😂 And to you as well 🖖
Watching as a kid … I never could imagine that this could ever happen.. we are there
LOL. I think my biggest disappointment in the softcore spoof was they didn't use the line. "Get your hairy paws on me you dirty ape."
Thank you Dan, I'm glad to see the report was so useful to you.
Thanks for what you do Dan, love these videos!
Dan, you brought up a lot of great memories with your essay on the original ship. I was all of five years old when this movie came out. Maybe the ships name should've been NOVA😊😊.
Keep up the great work. Hope you get a shot at an essay on Silent Runnings/Logans Run/Rollerblade. AAAAAHHHH, the 70s!
Enjoyed the tale of this prop. I think in our current world of CGI movies that props now seem much more valuable than they did 50 years ago when creative carpenters, electricians and engineers were making sophisticated props all the time for movies and TV. In a world of NFTs we now want something tangible that we can touch like a movie prop.
Wonderful tribute to this art. Thank you!!
a documentary on Deep Space Nine said there was never a space station, it was only in a computer.
Excellent stuff! Absolutely love this guy!
I always enjoy your videos, Sir.
Hey, thank you so much my friend. Much appreciated
Wonderful presentation, thank you very much Dan for your very special hard work and dedication, ❤
I let out a BIG sigh at the mentioned Scrap yard as the final resting "space" of this full-size prop just as and when you did!!!
Sad, so very sad of an ending for this iconic prop! As Gomer used to say.. "For shame, for shame, for shame!" 😢
Ditto.
"Going... Going... Gone.". 😢
But never in our hearts and minds.
Thank you so very much for this video.
True story: around 1968 my dad and his friend were boating on lake Powell. The saw the spaceship in the water. They looked inside to see valves and pipes made to keep it afloat. So they boated over to shore and talked with the film crew who told them about the movie. None of the actors were present.
Cool story
I enjoyed this one a lot. Even with the sad revelation of the 1:1 scale prop's fate. Dan Monroe bringing da _HEAT_ as always!
Breaks your heart to see what happens to some of these props . When i was younger i used to be a shotblaster/beadblaster and worked on vehicles for some tv shows here in the UK. Anybody who has watched a program called Heartbeat has probably seen some of the old trucks and cars i helped restore. Luckily many of them are still around and hopefully will be for a very long time .
You put together a great piece, and your delivery and voice is superb, sir....
What a great episode Dan! Thanks for all your work on it.
So awesome! Thanks!
I was fortunate to meet Linda Harrison (Nova) at a local convention about 10 years ago. She was very friendly and I got her autograph. My little brush with Planet of the Apes!
SHE WAS FINE!.
Solid content! Will you be doing an episode on "The Invaders?"
Cheers 🍻
Great info, I appreciate that you take the time to dig deep and find out all this stuff,
Good work, Dan, and thank you for it ! Now I have a real challenge for you. What has happened to all the ships and models from "2001, A Space Odyesey"? I know there has been some work on this, but you do so well on the finer details. :)
I thought I had read somewhere that Kubrick had most of if not all the 2001 props destroyed after he finished the film. Which would be sad but from what we know of Kubrick it wouldn’t surprise me.
Dan, I love what you're doing! I would love it if you considered some 1950s movies such as This Island Earth and Earth vs the Flying Saucers.
Once again, you knocked it out of the park with this one!
What happened to the Land Master from Damnation Alley?
I remember being able to see it from the freeway in L.A. That would have been in the 80s.
Another great video! Thanks Dan, you never disappoint. Such a sad ending to a classic prop 😞 Hate that, that happens. I guess you can't keep everything.
I always wondered how the ship could fit behind the windows all that we see in the beginning which shows the console, chairs and hibernation beds that are at are probably 7 feet long. Still, it's a cool looking ship.
I enjoyed this very much. Thank you!!