I agree with the comments here - this video is incredibly detailed - the robot's movements, the handrails, the way the steps extend at the end of the stairwell - unbelieveably detailed. Seriously, top class work! If you're not involved in the special effects industry, it's a tragedy! Superb work.
First time that the Jupiter 2 is shown in a coherent size, because in the series the ship has always been shown in a size incompatible with the two floors, Rover garage, space for auxiliary ship, reactors and tanks (including these tanks, an episode was shown in which Will is chased by a creature, and it was a deposit that looked bigger than the ship itself). They never thought of scale in the series, the same thing happened in Civil in Journey to the Bottom of the Sea. But this montage was perfect. Congratulations.
your attention to detail is unbelievable!! I love how the hand rail lines up with the upper hand rail. Its so well thought out. Too bad the series isnt going to happen. We can only dream now
Brilliantly executed and I had to rewatch this @ least 3 times. Maybe 6😂. I like the scale of the robot compared to the Jupiter 2. It gives the impression of a much larger scaled space ship. Capable of carrying the chariot and space pod. I could never work out how they could fit everything in the space ship. Gives me a nostalgic feeling to see this.Thanks
Very well done. You even make the size appear better to scale, and more credible. I'm glad you're out there to help breathe new life into the LIS technology bracket. Long live lost in space.
Seems like an elaborate way to have the robot exit. Seems simpler to just have a service elevator that drops down. Also a service elevator makes sense for the crew to bring in materials vs walking up stairs. I can't imagine they always intend to land the ship on its skin.
Beautiful. Attention to detail far above and beyond what even the original LiS series included. I have been thinking about the "Scale" of the original show and whether the J2 was big enough to accommodate all the interior sets as filmed. By today's standards the Production Designers would fit everything together and insure it all came together properly. What you have done is actually GONE THERE and explored the unfilmed details that give a story real depth. Well done. Remaking LiS' original ...
Just amazing, ought to have been part of the full scale mock up to explain how the Robot gets off the ship when touched down on the landing legs. The Robot can't be expected to walk down the steps. The Stairway appears to have a hatch in the same corridor as the entrance to the power core. Just past the hatchway to the core. Unless it was the hatch on the lower deck between the lab and gallery.
To scale the ship out correctly would require the robot to be half his size. Think about room for power plant, engine and engine control, sanitation and water jacket storage, and so much more.
Wow!...I was a fan of LIS since I was a kid and always wondered how the Robot got down those landing gear steps...Now I know...Thanks from Pete..age 55.
This is a great and imaginative approach to one of the many "Robot mobility" questions that arise from watching original LIS. I do think that the TV series' producers and designers intended that the Robot was (in the context of the story) approximately as capable with his legs as a person would be. Early episodes showed the Robot walking a few times, but in real life that was injurious to performer Bob May inside the prop costume. In the episode "Condemned of Space", the Robot makes initial motions to climb down the Jupiter 2's lower hatch ladder, reaching with his arms and claws for the ladder. Smith orders him to stand aside and climbs down first. Cut to inside the Vera Castle... Smith comes off the ladder into the corridor... the camera follows him as he steps several feet left of the ladder... then pans back right, and we see the Robot standing at the bottom of the ladder. The implication was very clear, but of course it wasn't possible in real life to actually show the Robot climbing down .
Memorable scenes like this should have been incorporated into the new Netflix production of LIS. The new trailer is out and the new Jupiter looks identical to the awful 1998 film version - drab and nondescript. Netflix have made a huge blunder not employing Haselius as its Creative Director.
I'v always wondered how did the robot come down from the Jupiter 2's landing gear stairway? This video explains it all. he had his own track. Nice job!
... style is not entirely necessary. Look at Robbie the Robot from the other well know vintage era movie. His original style and detailing still "works" today, as I think LiS' robot, chariot, landing pod and blaster pistols would also! - It was future technology that actually looks like some of the things we now have, so re-engineering some of the "props" would not even be necessary. I still have an affinity for silver spacesuit after all these years!! - Keep up the excellent work.
Awww... I'd give KOOLMENFROMUSA some leeway here. I think he's responding more to the fact that the US - arguably the world's only remaining superpower - has not ventured a more aggressive space program. I do agree that NASA has performed some really miraculous feats of engineering. And we should all give hearty "bravos" to them!
A mi también me encanta el robot! ¡Gracias! No sé mucho español, así que perdóname. Estoy usando Google Traductor. Solo quiero responder a todos los que se toman el tiempo de comentar. Así que gracias Marisol Galindo Roco! También tengo videos más nuevos. Aquí hay uno: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lrxv3SqzGeQ.html
Thanks, Nakyer! I studied the Robot's blueprints carefully and, with the help of many other LIS fans, hopefully re-created our favorite Bubble-Headed Booby accurately. :)
This is impressive. But while I like the design, I can't help but have the nagging feeling that from an engineering perspective, it's more complicated than it needs to be. All the little moving parts and the ninety degree turn at the bottom would be a nightmare to build with physical hardware, and you'd be better off having the stairs and elevator off to the side so that no ninety degree turn is necessary at the foot of the landing legs. Still a neat design though.
Yeah, this is a re-imagining of the Jupiter 2, so I took some liberties with its size. :) It would have to be nearly 100 feet in diameter to accommodate the upper and lower decks as seen in the show. So I figured that each of the landing legs were unique. And one of them was devoted to the Robot and any cargo that needed to be brought to the surface of a planet.
I think you misunderstand my friend. :) This video was produced for the proposed Lost in Space Web Series 7 years ago. Here, the Jupiter 2 is 98 feet in diameter to accommodate the two decks seen in the original series, instead of the 52 feet the show implied (which could not possibly have two decks). The enlarged Jupiter 2 makes the landing legs proportionally larger. Hence the Robot looks smaller relative to the legs. The entire ship at a 98 foot diameter was very carefully drawn out in the plans for the show. It even accommodated the chariot and its ramp.
This is great work and shows alot of skil, but is a terrible design. There should not be a single inline strut breaking one ramp into two. Two stats, one on either side of the ramp is a much design. 1. The ramp can continue in a single unbroken path requiring less parts to break. 2. Two struts can be smaller and since a strut is a simpler mechanism than a powered lift. 3. A straight ramp is better for moving equipment. Try carrying a coach up a straight stair and then another that bends. You'll immediately see why.
Thanks Bill! All I was trying to do here was to make the impractical design of the original 1965 ship's landing gear appear more believable. Especially when it came to the robot. For decades people had wondered how the heck would the robot have been deployed when the ship was using the tripod gear? This is just a little solution of mine. As to the engineering, I agree with you. :) In fact, I addressed the very issue you brought up in my video of the Odyssey here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X73OgSA4obs.html
@@Haselius00 I think (opinion) the best design I have seen for the leg ramp entrance was in Forbidden Planet ship. The simple straight path leads to a clean design with the least amount of points of failure. Having that I think is critical to a realistic design. You can't risk it breaking 16 light years away from your home base repair hanger. Obviously the movie an TV shows did it to cut production costs. I dont even know if considered realism in there choice. But one the they drummed into our heads in aircraft maintenance was K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid). Each thing that makes is more complicated greatly increases the chance it will fail when you need it most to save your life.
Yeah, really. All we've managed to do recently is drop a robot the size of an SUV from a hovering platform. On Mars. Perfectly. With real-time 3D simulations that any person in the world could view as it happened on their home computer. So on behalf of all the hard-working, brilliant people at NASA who can't say it for themselves: "You're an asshole, KOOLMENFROMUSA."
This is a test of the larger Jupiter 2 used in the canceled Web Series. The diameter of that ship was 98'-4". That's why the Robot appears smaller relative to the scale of the ship. :) In the original TV show the Jupiter 2 was only about 52 feet across. And everyone knows that a ship that small could not possibly accommodate two full decks. So the J2 was expanded to nearly 100 feet across so both decks could fit.
@luciferosirisarnold Thanks, though I hope it was for joy! :) As I've mentioned, I have been having a ball working out the details of the often-contradictory original Jupiter 2. While the proposed web series had to change recently to an all-original production that is no longer based on Lost in Space, many of the ideas and effects are being incorporated into the new spacecraft, The Odyssey. Go to InterstellarOdyssey(dot)com for details.
