Movie/TV show prop gaffes. - Page 1
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author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 04:04:06 am
content: So, I was watching a sci fi show, and in this scene they needed to disable the weapons targeting system.Now, this is a show which is probably watched by plenty of geeks, or people who are at least somewhat tech savvy, so it was a bit of a laugh when I say that the time traveling spaceship from the future had a USB port inside of it's high tech control panel (and in fact, removing this slightly modified thumb drive is what did the trick)I'd love to see some other prop blunders like this that you guys have noticed. (like the very obvious nerf guns in that one series with dinosaurs, never watched it so can't recall the name)

author: AntiProtonBoy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 04:19:30 am
content: well, if you time travel, you might hack shit together from different eras, wouldn't you?

author: warp_foo
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 05:09:42 am
content: Quote from: XOIIO on March 05, 2016, 04:04:06 amRip Hunter disapproves of this thread.m

author: Shadetreeprops
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 07:28:26 am
content: For someone that builds props for more of a hobby right now. I can out right tell you we hack crap together. Look at my post earlier, Its a broken stapler, and a metal tube, with some wire covers, and more hack stuff to be added to it for effect purpose only. All fiction, no fact, and to the untrained eye ultra cool sci-fi prop gear.the com qui gon gin spoke into when on tattooine, was a womens leg razor, paited silver and a few buttons glued on it...and the blade taken off... one of the star trek away shuttels were made of disposable razors.I have a super sweet prop ship i made...out of a computer mouse, and its engins..they are the wheels off the mouse. my brother loved it so its now sitting on his shelf, if things i gift him.

author: elgonzo
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 08:31:14 am
content: LOL, if a meager USB port used in a prop gets your 'blood boiling', then you probably should not look at the following picture (or at least avoid looking at the right side of it).

author: RobertoLG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 08:45:47 am
content: you mean that iron for clothes? LOL

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 08:48:20 am
content: Well, it is theUNIVERSALserial bus...-Pat

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 08:54:33 am
content: I remember seeing "The Doctor" messing with a gadget which had knobs all over it,& really looked like the Props Dept had spent a lot of time & money on it.Many years later,I came across the very thing at a TV Studio.The camera Techs said it was a Philips extended control which was meant to be fitted to the handle of a camera so the Operator didn't have to mess with anything on the camera itself.The "Ops" didn't like 'em,so they were left in the cupboard,or in Dr Who's case used as props.Not a prop,but in the famous chase scene from "Bullitt",they passed the very same VW beetle three times,in supposedly different places along the route of the chase.Or another antique one,in a Japanese series about a modern day Ninja,when the baddies driving a Toyota Crown went over a cliff,the car magically transformed into a 1930s Willys!

author: Dataforensics
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 11:08:57 am
content: Its going back a fair way, but I liked the old moving coil multi-meters that adorned the original Thunderbirds ships.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 02:01:22 pm
content: Another one was when cartoons showed a NASA or similar launch control room,they painstakingly animated blanking bars rolling up monitor screens,copying live film where there was a difference in fps between the cameras & monitors.

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 02:05:01 pm
content: Quote from: Dataforensics on March 05, 2016, 11:08:57 amHaha, I remember those, movement removed and replaced by a metal grill if I remember correctly. I had one of those meters at the time.

author: Seekonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 02:21:38 pm
content: There is a recent submarine movie that was fairly decent in plot, but it was ruined for me when they had to replace the shaft from the electric motor to the prop and it was a crankshaft from an inline six.

author: continuo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 02:23:06 pm
content: Quote from: elgonzo on March 05, 2016, 08:31:14 amAaaaah, the sixties...I still think the bridge in that old "Raumpatroullie Orion" flick looks way more cool and futuristic than in Enterprise TOShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftDXbIDfce8&feature=youtu.be&t=1m03s

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 02:50:03 pm
content: A few years ago, Lyric Opera of Chicago had a wonderful production of a modern opera by John Adams, "Dr Atomic", about Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project. The prop for "The Gadget" was perfect: directly based on the photographs and loaded with "MS" connectors.However, when the meteorologist was contacting his observers, the walkie-talkie looked like 1978-vintage Radio Shack, instead of the rectangular box units (e.g., SCR-536 "handie talkie") we see in all the war movies.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 03:51:45 pm
content: This is a classic scene from Lost In Space. Judy is trapped in a ring of 'Space Mines', as the hapless Dr Smith panics...I cracked up when I first saw it as a kid ... and it still has me shaking my head whenever I think about it........The poor beach balls never knew what hit them. Not to mention the reflections of the studio lights.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 03:53:55 pm
content: Quote from: Brumby on March 05, 2016, 03:51:45 pmOh my god that is amazing.Please tell me this scene is somewhere on youtube, I need this in my life.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 04:00:15 pm
content: Season 2 Episode 15 - The Golden ManThis is the best I found at short notice.... start from the 17 minute mark for the Space Mines....

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 04:05:40 pm
content: Oh man it's even better than I could have imagined.

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 04:06:29 pm
content: For years there's been something that's bugged me about science fiction when it comes to control panels, lots of blinking lights and switches but nothing is labelled. Star Trek TOS, Dr Who, Stargate SG-1, UFO and the other Gerry Anderson productions, all of them have these complex panels with no indication of function. Space 1999 made an effort but they used some weird non-latin symbols where nobody knew what anything meant.My favorite though is the launch bay for Thunderbird One where there is a grapefruit juicer stuck to the wall

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 04:06:52 pm
content: Quote from: XOIIO on March 05, 2016, 04:05:40 pmGlad to have put a little joy into your life....

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 04:12:56 pm
content: I remember working at a Tandy store years ago when a props person came looking for some 'instrument looking' items to put into a space ship control panel. The boss took them through a couple of things - and they walked out with an armful of these:Never did find out what piece of video magic benefited from them.

author: elgonzo
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 04:21:32 pm
content: Quote from: Brumby on March 05, 2016, 03:51:45 pmHaha, lost on a beach... space...Brilliant, i never knew what i have missed... until now...

author: Alex Eisenhut
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 04:40:50 pm
content: Dunno if that's considered a prop or makeup, but even as a kid I recognized scummy old TV parts and wondered how the lips worked with just a speaker behind them.

author: Shadetreeprops
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2016, 07:34:08 pm
content: The worst one i ever saw that made no sense. cellophane S from superman2. Not techy, but what the fork was that..

author: SkyMaster
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2016, 02:11:22 am
content: Is this from The Six Million Dollar Man?Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on March 05, 2016, 04:40:50 pm

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2016, 03:27:03 am
content: I would have guess Westworld.Way back when in school I made a mockup Star Trek TOS transporter console. For the set of lights along the upper edge that sequence back and forth, I had an old Radio Shack neon tube sequencer kit that I rigged up under the panel with the neon bulbs sticking up. Bunch of random switches and stuff from my hunk box all over it, some turned lights on and off, other just clicked and did nothing.I tend to be one who notices all the crazy goofs in movies. Still enjoy the movie despite some silliness. Best one I saw was in the movie Ray, about Ray Charles, they are driving to a show in the early 1950's and on a railroad bridge over the highway they are driving down, a modern double stack container train passes by. I guess the director assumed no one would catch it, and I guess they were right - I was watching the movie with my ex father in law, who worked his whole life on the railroad, and he never caught it until after it was over and I went back to the scene and paused it. The classic one there is in the movie White Christmas - they somehow make a trip to Vermont on the Santa Fe railroad - essentially the Santa Fe didn't come further east than Chicago. Was just easy for filmmakers to take a short ride outside of Los Angeles and get shots of trains.

author: kolonelkadat
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2016, 04:20:57 am
content: there was an episode of the good wife recently where some sparkfun doodads were passed off as voting machine hacking devices. in and of itself, its probably not too outlandish if it were an at tiny breakout board or something. but taken as a whole it struck me as being fairly comical. i dont recall why in particular.

author: android
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2016, 06:05:33 am
content: Here's my 2 cents worth...an episode of Dr Who (The Satan Pit) broadcast in Australia in 2006 shows a control panel that I was intimately familiar with - if only because my employer at the time was happy to indulge my penchant for taking things apart by letting me take home bits of an old IBM 3490 tape drive. I couldn't believe my eyes when an episode was broadcast a mere week later showing the exact same switch module in one of the scenes. I paused playback and took a picture of my son holding the unit for posterity. I believe the "Eject" button was being used to disable the oxygen supply...

author: jwm_
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2016, 08:51:13 am
content: Speaking of Westworld, this fan/artist created a great animatronics tribute to it.https://youtu.be/plaJGj3oq8Y

author: Muttley Snickers
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 06, 2016, 09:33:17 am
content: Apparently Daleks are cheaper than plumbers, and better equipped.

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2016, 12:32:05 pm
content: Speaking of reused props, I was thinking in thinking that the robot in Lost in Space was very similar to Robby the robot built for the film 'Forbidden Planet', however when I looked it up on Wikipedia I realized that the Lost in Space robot was a bit of a 'wimp' in comparison. It turns out that Robby did actually appear in a couple of episodes though, presumably as the evil one! I knew I'd seen Robby do a cameo in 'Gremlins' but I hadn't realize he'd had quite such an extensive TV and film career:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_the_RobotThey built their technology to last in the 1950s - 58 years and counting!

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 06, 2016, 01:04:34 pm
content: Quote from: wilfred on March 06, 2016, 10:41:19 amThe Lost In Space chariot(well, a replica)The first people mover I purchased(Just a coincidence ... REALLY)QuoteAs did any level headed person!

author: Augustus
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2016, 02:00:51 pm
content: No one mentioned "Mr. Fusion" from Back to the Future yet? It's a Coffee Grinder (Type 223) sold by the Krups company. It was also used in the first "Alien" movie

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2016, 02:20:07 pm
content: Quote from: rrinker on March 06, 2016, 03:27:03 amI remember seeing a British film set in WW2,where the protagonist is picked up in an Army Staff Car,complete with blackout slotted covers on the headlights,but it then drives through London,with recognisably 1960s traffic in the background.Another one was a mini-series about Dwight D Eisenhower:-In it,"Ike's"driver ran him around in a 1960s Morris Minor 1000.The dumb thing was that all the other vehicles were correct as to period.Australian TV Shows are usually very good with this,but in the WW2 series,"The Sullivans",a 1930s Ford V8 van which appeared regularly,had "after market" amber turn indicator lights,which weren't used till the mid 1950s.

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2016, 02:43:20 pm
content: Yeah, just once in a while you see a decent well made programme and there's a slight hiccup in the props department. A couple of years ago one of the UK TV channels did a documentary/drama about Robert Watson-Watt and the development of radar and in the lab (filled with period 1940's equipment) they were wiring up something using brown and blue mains wires. They were at least thirty years too early.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 07, 2016, 08:40:42 am
content: Who could forget the IMSAI computer used in WarGames?David is apparently receiving data via the modem but the SD/RD lights don't flash.Then there was the launch code that the computer brute forced, one character at a time...

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2016, 09:34:42 am
content: That and WOPR had the same voice synth chip as his home computer.

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 07, 2016, 10:21:16 am
content: In The Last Starfighter the 'Translator Device' attached to Alex's shirt is clearly the insides from a cheap 1980s digital watch!

author: Moshly
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2016, 11:01:50 am
content: is it with inflatable Beach ballsused again as one of the worst sci-fi movie aliens of all time in ->Dark Starhttps://youtu.be/gSccwmmrS5A?t=93Old school DR.Who:Ark in space: automatic door, the sensor is an aluminum heatsink complete with TO-3 mounting holes.Key to time (i think): TARDIS 'brain' is a phenolic PCB with 3 plug-in relays on itLEXX:?: 790's 'Brain Cube' is an octal based plug-in relay housing 'mechanism removed' and replaced with goop.?: spray painted 486 motherboards attached to the walls 'inside a spaceship'.Lafftrak: The button the executioner uses is a 'quickshot joyball' (one of the worst 80's, Atari joysticks).In another episode, a Nintendo 64 controller is used as a prop for something.Blade Runner: the Spinners dashboard has ceramic eproms embedded in it.Westworld: random Tek-Scopes, just for good measureFutureworld: random Tek-Scopes missing all the plug-ins

author: Augustus
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2016, 12:46:26 pm
content: Aaahh... Dark Star... This is one of my all time favourites... And a perfect example why so called "smart bombs" aren't a very smart idea

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2016, 01:22:37 pm
content: Douglas Trumbull was the special effects director for "2001-A Space Odyssey", and then the producer of "Silent Running". He came and spoke to our media production group one evening. He had many inside stories of the production process.1) The entire budget for "Silent Running" was less than just the special effects budget for "2001".2) They used the interior of a decommissioned aircraft carrier for some of the larger interior scenes including racing the electric vehicles through the ship. The carrier was ready to be towed from the Santa Monica harbor out into the Pacific Ocean to be sunk and turned into an artificial reef. They rented the entire ship for a couple months for far less than it would have cost to rent sound-stage space and construct the sets.3) To save money for the exterior model, Trumbull went down to a toy wholesale warehouse and bought 50 plastic model kits for a world-war 2 Sherman tank. He took all the pieces out and lined up the empty boxes on the buffet and dining room table. Then he invited all his friends over on a Saturday night and fed them beer and pizza while they broke all the little pieces off the sprue and put 50 of each different piece in a separate box. That gave him enough "raw material" to hand over to his model-maker who glued the pieces back together as the ship exterior which was several feet long. Hanging from black threads in a big studio, and lit properly, it is quite convincing in the movie.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2016, 07:48:24 pm
content: Quote from: Augustus on March 07, 2016, 12:46:26 pmHeh, that's pretty good.One question though, how long is that guys neck? I mean damn.

author: Dataforensics
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 07, 2016, 08:30:03 pm
content: One of my best Sci Fi films also.Although I could never work out how 20 bombs that big would fit in the ship.The scenes in the elevator shaft still crack me up.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 01:38:59 am
content: Quote from: Moshly on March 07, 2016, 11:01:50 amI don't think the Oscilloscopes are too bad in Westworld/Futureworld.A workshop may well have a couple running,though usually not triggered,in a separate work area from the "chemicals?" in the foreground.I think the Westworld ones have funny looking displays due to strobing effects from the TV camera.I've worked in places where there were a couple of old 545s sitting doing nothing in the background--even ones with plugins removed!,so Futureworld isn't too unrealistic,either.*Then there was the tear jerker scene in "Days of our lives",where someone was on their deathbed,connected up to a "Patient Monitor"-----a Tek 545B!!Talk about cheap!*PS:-Just noticed-the 'scopes in Futureworld have four plugin holes--two small,two large,so I partially take it back!

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 07:29:18 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on March 08, 2016, 02:09:47 amAn Australian filum, Hercules Returns (1993) comes to mind. Apparently shot over 8 days and with a budget "well under a million dollars".For those who haven't seen it, it's available on DVD (if you can find it). Otherwise...It's still one of my favourite comedies to date... You would need to understand Aussie humour though.Source:http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/home/view.asp?a=1384&s=Features

author: Moshly
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 08:25:08 am
content: wilfred: I never had a problem with the plot / director / budget or even the beach-ball aliens character (its a kind of goofy space dog), Just the beach ball itself. Even the BBC can spray paint some bubble wrap and fold it into a shape, maybe they would of been better off with a 'space hopper', at least it kind of has a face.THX1138 is brilliant, full of random vintage Tek scopes, computer and telco gear.vk6zgo: I actually love Westworld, another 1 of my favorites, (there is another Tek behind Martin, half way back up the corridor) Futureworld on the other hand is poor in comparison (lots more Tek & even some HP stuff in it tho). The picture I posted was the best view i could get of all 3, if you watch the movie you can see that they all have been totally ratted for the plug-ins. Futureworld only has a few scenes with functioning Tek gear.Blade Runner: EPROMs

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 08:34:36 am
content: Star Trek Mantis in the sick bay!

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 01:58:33 pm
content: Quote from: Halcyon on March 08, 2016, 07:29:18 amOnly had time to watch the first 8 minutes for now, but if that's any indication of how the rest of the movie goes, I will be watching the rest of it after work tonight. Pretty darn funny so far.

author: Dataforensics
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 02:16:23 pm
content: Old Tek CRO's seem to be the staple of air crash investigators around the world if you believe the 'aircrash investigation' documentary series. Just saw one being supposedly used to check operation of a mechanical relay from a 2008 crash.Oh and they seem to use SCSI HD controllers in place of flight data recorders. Saw them trying to recover data from just the controller minus the disc itself.

author: PioB
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 05:37:37 pm
content: Non tech but geeky was the use of a "Matrix" t-shirt in "goodbye Lenin". Matrix came out 10 years after the fall of the Berlin wall.Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

author: Zbig
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 06:11:15 pm
content: Computers from some parallel universe featured in movies whose action is set in our universe, still happening in this day and age. You know, otherworldly GUIs, text slowly appearing on the screen character by character for no particular reason, each and every event accompanied by ungodly cacophony of beeps and bleeps. I mean come on, FFS, this could slide in the '80s but haven't they realized that just about everyone on this planet and his dog is already using at least one computer of some sorts on a daily basis and knows damn well how the thing looks and works?On a bit similar note, progress bars showing you the exact state of brute-forcing a password. Not the time to exhaust the key space, mind you, but the exact progress/ETA to the password being found/"hack being done"

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 10:11:30 pm
content: Another old US television SciFi show that I remember from the late '60s was "Land of the Giants", where some humans are trapped on a planet where the locals are humanoid but maybe 10x taller, with everything to scale.Watching one of the heroes scampering along a baseboard, I noted a US-standard wall duplex socket (NEMA 5-15).Hell, you can't even find one on the other side of the Atlantic!

author: Alex Eisenhut
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 19, 2016, 12:01:11 am
content: Yeah, fembots!

author: Synthetase
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 19, 2016, 02:25:55 pm
content: I remember laughing at the pile of socket 7 motherboards that sufficed as futuristic techy stuff for the geek character to fiddle with inAndromeda.Also the 'super secret former NSA' guy from that Will Smith filmEnemy of the Statedoes nothing but fiddle with a couple of 'scopes in his ridiculous Faraday cage bunker.Oh man, don't get me started onHercules Returns. Hate that movie.

author: IanJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 19, 2016, 02:50:35 pm
content: Predestination (2014)...................Arduino.They said it was a "timer display".Ian.

author: elgonzo
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 20, 2016, 05:37:39 pm
content: Quote from: Synthetase on March 19, 2016, 02:25:55 pmWhen i read your post, i remembered a scene from "Automata" (don't watch, it is a truly stupid movie; i could still kick myself for spending my money and my time on watching this crap). The film was about work robots becoming sentient (or showing an ability to modify itself or other robots) and trying to escape their fate (which would be being disposed of, i.e. killed).In the film, the protagonist meets a sentient robot who is able to not only to repair/modify other robots, but also to build entirely new robots. To illustrate how this robot can build new robots from parts, the filmmakers decorated a table with an assortment of components such as a number of through-hole parts, things that look like tubes, relays and ceramic fuses and other old junk. All in a tidy and neat arrangement. In the middle of this junk yard, a lot of TH capacitors placed in a circular pattern. When i saw this, all i could think of was that the robot must definitely be a capacity in his field.Attached are two stills from the film (which is watchable in its entire length in deservingly crap resolution at Dailymotion, although only in Hindi or some other alien language; the scene i am talking about starts around the 1:15:00 time mark).By the way, the film is from 2014, which only adds to the cringe-worthy display of comedy...EDIT: Also, this lame excuse of a movie had a budget of about US$ 15 million. If you want to know how good a movie about sentient robots can be with a similar budget of US$ 15mio, go and watch "Ex Machina". Excellent movie.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 20, 2016, 05:45:42 pm
content: Was worth watching if only for that and just how that could actually make a humanoid robot ( hint NOT), along with the removable faces, where the face behind stuck out further than the mask......

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 20, 2016, 05:50:22 pm
content: Star Trek Continues, the opening scene, with a server motherboard as the ship's computer...http://player.vimeo.com/video/139692418?byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=1http://startrekcontinues.com/episodes.html

author: JacobPilsen
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 20, 2016, 06:12:43 pm
content: I think that it is intentionally joke. In The Original Series there was similar scene with a vacuum tubes.Real Industrial / Science / Spacecraft nowadays electronics (lifetime dozens years) doesn't look so-much-futuristic as nowadays Comsumer electronics (lifetime several years of months).

author: elgonzo
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 20, 2016, 06:34:27 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on March 20, 2016, 05:50:22 pmThey should have used a motherboard like the MSI X99A Godlike Gaming Carbon. No, i did not make this name up, this mobo really has such a thoroughly stupid name. While its lighting effects are really worth a face-palm in any other situation, in this particular case it would be a perfect fit for the colorful atmosphere of the TOS Enterprise. (They could even incorporate its "Godlike" aspect into a story where the ship computer becomes sentient and goes rogue)

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 20, 2016, 06:37:18 pm
content: Don't think that is yet available as surplus in the studio dumpsters though, they might still be used in a few years as they become last year's models though.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 20, 2016, 07:43:48 pm
content: I actually quite enjoyed automata, but I've always loved that sort of genre, I don't know why.

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 20, 2016, 08:21:18 pm
content: The computer in Blake's Seven had a 6502 based Acorn System 1 on the fronthttp://www.starringthecomputer.com/feature.html?f=361And remember Terminator's 6502 code listing..?

author: station240
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 21, 2016, 03:26:11 am
content: Anything in Jurassic Park involving the main computer that runs the island. Especially the part where it gets damaged and flames/sparks come out.Clearly Hollywood think the magic smoke and a bad smell isn't enough.Also the vehicles that ride on giant rails, when optical/inductive pickup would work and not required hauling thousands of tons of steel onto a remote island.

author: RobertoLG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 21, 2016, 04:06:32 am
content: Quote from: SeanB on March 20, 2016, 05:50:22 pmJames Cawley was better as captainnevermind my comment, wrong star trek lolhttp://www.startreknewvoyages.com/