Top notch! Wouldn't it be great to modify a ship like that as a personal space-yacht, decked out for just yourself and maybe a couple pals and/or lovers? That'd be the life, cruising the interstellar spaceways in style!
Beautiful rendering. One thing I've always wondered about is the Ion Cannons used to battle the Id monster. The Rectangular shield in the front seems to imply they are normally bolted to the hull and only unloaded when a short perimeter defense is needed. Given the weight penalty of carrying exclusive ground artillery in the cargo hold that would make sense. I notice structures resembling the ion cannons around the perimeter of the Radar Deck. Is that what I'm seeing? If so then the dome would function as does the armored turret of a Monitor Type ironclad, with the saucer shape presenting a minimum cross section sloping hull to deflect enemy fire.
As usual,lugodoc,you`ve done a beautiful job. Your work is amazing and reflects the amount of time,effort and speculation you spend on your videos. Thannks bro!
It's a brilliant story but I have ABSOLUTELY NO FAITH IN HOLLYWOOD anymore. None at all. It'll just be a vapid, predictable, overly dark and moody CG jerk fest with far too young soap opera looking actors with zero depth. But I'm not bitter! :)
Preston Wagner Most of the crew would be women. Any men aboard would be incompetent and/or evil. The captain would be trans and black. No. It's best to leave the great movies great. They would completely destroy this classic with a sequel or remake.
Back then, sequels were rare. However, "Forbidden Planet" practically cried out for a sequel. Can you imagine what Adams would have faced upon his return? He failed to rescue any survivor but one. He lost four men. AND he lost an entire earth type planet filled with incredible artifacts and knowledge from an advanced civilization. All he had to show was a robot and what few artifacts and records that could be hurriedly gathered. It was even his hand (albeit by deceit) that destroyed the planet and poisoned the whole Altair system! Out of this chaos, the idea would eventually emerge that the Krell civilization must have left other traces outside their home planet during their healthier era of space exploration. Oh, I have some ideas! But, as has been pointed out, the big problem is that Hollywood (like the Krell!) has gone decadent and couldn't handle a clean, cerebral adventure film of this order.
And where do the ion cannons, shield generators, shield components, tractor, bedrooms, showers, toilets, food, exercise equipment, and common areas go please?
Ah yes, now I remember Robby was already on the planet at the home of the doctor. But if they wanted to take him back to Earth I am certain they would have found a place to stow him.
Really, really nice. I don't suppose there is *any* chance you'd share the models? My best buddy (I've known him for 50 years) is an absolute fanatic about FP, and I've modeled the outside of the Cruiser to create some videos for him (to show you how much, his RU-vid image is of the Cruiser). I would LOVE to have the interior (or any portion thereof) to create some stuff with him inside (using After Effects). I promise I'd put full credits for you (actually, these would most likely be private videos anyway -- just him and me).
EXCELLENT art-work!! The lower deck (service deck) was full o stuff: WHERE's the tractor and the two big blaster cannons aka Colt-Vickers quad fission cannons. I didn't see ANY room for those three big items.
The original studio set had 5 sections around the central open area containing the astrogator. I reckoned this was the equivalent of the missing "4th wall" in a normal set and that the "real" C57-D would have 6 sections. 4 of these are open, the radio shack, mess, decel stations & bunk room. I made the closed section between the bunks and the radio shack a washroom for the 16 ratings billeted in the bunk room, and the closed section between the radio shack and the mess became 3 state rooms for the 3 officers with their own ablutions (making 19 in total, the number stated in the script). This is in the model and can be glimpsed in the video, I just didn't show a close up because I couldn't make it very interesting ;-)
I'm glad someone finally showed the officers quarters. Although having been an enlisted in U.S. Navy I'm glad they showed where the enlisted berthing was. The interior of the ship is much like a modern submarine with space at a premium and everyone living in close quarters.
C 57 D...Hollywood.got it's money's worth out of.that ship. A few Twilight zone episodes . The uniforms were used in.the.movie Queen of outer space in 1959 .Robbie the robot shown up in Twilight zone , Lost in space .Like I said they got their money's. Worth.
wouldn't the outer wall actually be the floor? spinning the interior to make gravity would mean you'd have to lay on your back and pee up to the wall when urinating in the latrine, or something like that. but of course in the forbidden planet universe, and most other saturday matinee sci fi, there must be some advanced magic-like artificial gravity thing-a-ma-jig... nice graphics however.
the ship is really way too small to have everything they needed for a trip thru space for a year with a crew of 23 young men I think the Commander Adams said in the movie...all the equipment, supplies and just the internal workings of the ship would require way more space
Consider the long submarine patrols of World War II. C57D was a dream in comparison. As for ferrying survivors, they'd probably have to "hot bunk" it, as submarines said. In the novel, the Omega Lamps were only used for secondary deccelerations. For the big one, they'd strap in tight and hang on! Therefore, the poor castaways would have to tough it out! I'd suppose that the tractor and perimeter blaster arrays would be stowed outside the pressure hull in the rim section of the ship. Just consider how many of these small vessels you could build with the same effort it would take to make one hulking tub like Enterprise!
@@dudleymq I've thought of that possibility myself also, but in conjunction with the excellent episode of The Twilight Zone: "On Thursday We Leave For Home"! Since the same ship is used in that teleplay, with ostensibly the same crew number and gear, how are all those rescued colonists (40+) going to fit in for the one year trip back to Earth?!
