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MikeTheMook	COOLEST 50's SPACESHIP/SAUCER	Lead	[-]
Sep 10 06 8:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Which spaceship/flying saucer do you think is the coolest from your favorite 50s sci-fi flicks? My vote goes to the ship in FORBIDDEN PLANET.
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Monsterpal	Re: COOLEST 50's SPACESHIP/SAUCER	#1	[-]
Sep 10 06 8:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I like the EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS ships.
Alias the Scarecrow	Re: COOLEST 50's SPACESHIP/SAUCER	#2	[-]
Sep 10 06 8:47 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Both ships from FORBIDDEN PLANET and EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS were great! I'd like to add two more: the Martian ships from WAR OF THE WORLDS and Exeter's ship from THIS ISLAND EARTH.
Bill Warren	Re: COOLEST 50's SPACESHIP/SAUCER	#3	[-]
Sep 10 06 8:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	the C57D and Klaatu's ship
skelton knaggs	Re: COOLEST 50's SPACESHIP/SAUCER	#4	[-]
Sep 10 06 9:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	All great picks guys....But I still love Commando Cody's rocket and spaceship Luna from DESTINATION MOON.
TomWeaver999	Re: COOLEST 50's SPACESHIP/SAUCER	#5	[-]
Sep 10 06 9:17 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	From the outside, judging from scenes of guys coming in and out via the stairs, the inhabitable part of the FORBIDDEN PLANET spaceship must be the size of a couple living rooms. What about bathrooms, sleeping quarters, kitchen and eating area, etc.? It's just too small, once you see people in the same shot as the spaceship.
TomWeaver999	Re: COOLEST 50's SPACESHIP/SAUCER	#6	[-]
Sep 10 06 9:20 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I also never understood why the LOST IN SPACE spaceship is one story on the outside and two stories on the inside. And if I'm remembering right, there's an episode where Will climbs down into the engine room or something, ANOTHER story down!
grgstv338	Re: COOLEST 50's SPACESHIP/SAUCER	#7	[-]
Sep 11 06 12:27 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* And if I'm remembering right, there's an episode where Will climbs down into the engine room or something, ANOTHER story down! It's a cool little AND THEN THERE WERE NONE episode, complete with the climax taking place in the never before (and never again) seen reactor room - a really big place that seems to be filled mostly with large cardboard boxes and crates!
Bobtheman	Coolest Saucer	#8	[-]
Sep 11 06 7:06 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Plan 9 from outer space - "You just can't believe your eyes." Innovative use of the word "There." Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.
jimi d2	Re: Coolest Saucer	#9	[-]
Sep 11 06 9:40 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Though not literally a space craft, the Martian "ray/cobra" ships from Pal's War of the Worlds top my list as the greatest "saucer" craft from the '50s...
Auroraboy	Re: Coolest Saucer	#10	[-]
Sep 11 06 10:22 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The 1950's certianly were the heyday of cool saucer and rocketship designs. They are much better than the last few decades of greebly covered, sharp angled and mechanical looking craft IMO. Tough to decide a favorite but for saucers I'll go with Pal's War of the Worlds "cobra" ships. Very sinister looking, part snake, part manta ray, part flying saucer. For spaceships I'll go with Mars 1 from It the Terror from Beyond Space. It has a mostly believable look with a sleek art deco styling.
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TomWeaver999	Re: Coolest Saucer	#11	[-]
Sep 11 06 10:39 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I also like the silver-dart-looking ones in (say) FLIGHT TO MARS, WORLD WITHOUT END, etc., but the orientation of the insides always throws me. Chairs, consoles, etc. are horizontal when the thing takes off from a standing position and still horizontal when it crash-lands on its side. I'm sure some elaborate explanation could be devised but I bet the simple real-life truth is the moviemakers didn't notice or didn't care.
PeteFitzgerald	Re: Coolest Saucer	#12	[-]
Sep 11 06 11:52 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I concur with Jimi. The WAR OF THE WORLDS manta/cobra war machines are the coolest to my eyes, in an era of cool ship designs. I'd also like to tip my hat to Eiji Tsuburaya & Co's flying saucers in THE MYSTERIANS.
TomWeaver999	Re: Coolest Saucer	#13	[-]
Sep 11 06 12:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I don't know that I'd call those WAR OF THE WORLDS things spaceships -- the Martians come in the "meteors," and then use their war machines just for gettin' around once they're here ....... no?
Auroraboy	Re: Coolest Saucer	#14	[-]
Sep 11 06 12:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tom, I think you're technically correct. If you think about it, they did it then like we now do to them (if there are of them there) with our martian rovers.
skelton knaggs	Re: Coolest Saucer	#15	[-]
Sep 11 06 3:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* I also like the silver-dart-looking ones Yippy! Tom I assume we are on the same page here. Don't you think those silver-darts are taken straight from DESTINATION MOON? And Robert Heinlein as technical adviser on the film created a pretty accurate environment on the inside? Please say I'm making some sense.......
TomWeaver999	Re: Coolest Saucer	#16	[-]
Sep 11 06 4:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	<<Please say I'm making some sense.......<< I'm sure you are, but I know so little about rockets (real or reel), outside of what I've gleaned from (say) CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON, that my seal of approval ain't worth a whole lot. I got in trouble for saying this once a while back but at this point I don't even know what the goal of space travel is. There ain't nuthin' up there that I want, that's for sure. Take the temperature on Mars? Yawn. But if it makes you happy, go 'head. Bring back soil from Venus? Ummmmm ... sure, why not, I've got a couple low spots in my yard. Double-yawn. Can't all these million$ go toward something useful?
Ted Newsom	Re: Coolest Saucer	#17	[-]
Sep 11 06 6:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The first baby steps toward moving outward and onward, Tom, the natural move from one place to another, from the old to the new. The old Columbus and Magellan voyages, the ships of the Vikings, the sailings of the Phoenecians, the Hindus... they all must have seemed so foolish, so pointless... yet we are here because of them. Some day our planet will no longer be enough. It will be exhausted, like a squeezed lemon... or face obliteration from an unavoidable cosmic disaster to which we have no counter-move. It may be tomorrow, or a thousand tomorrows ahead, but the time must come. Perhaps it has happened in the past, here, and we have rebuilt, as some believe. Or perhaps mankind has been blessed with a mind and the means of saving itself in a way lesser beings could never do. The stars are our destiny, Weaver. All of that... or nothingness, my friend. Which shall it be?
TomWeaver999	Re: Coolest Saucer	#18	[-]
Sep 11 06 6:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I have more vital things to worry about. Starting with the possible time-compression of WEIRD WOMAN.
Ron Prescott	Re: Coolest Saucer	#19	[-]
Sep 11 06 7:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	LOL! Tom, the CHFB would be a much duller place without you. -------------- "The magnitude of your simplitude overwhelms me!"
Monsterpal	Re: Coolest Saucer	#20	[-]
Sep 11 06 8:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ted, you're a poet.
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