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Prop departments LOVE recycling random junk lying around, it's way cheaper than custom making stuff. It's especially fun when you see the same prop recycled in a different show... sometimes a different genre, even. Though that occasionally rises to the level of being an in-joke... As for ATM chat, there are still some out there running OS/2... MOST of those were replaced with things running XP, but not all. Keiya has a new favorite as of 05:28 on Dec 5, 2016 |
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Kwyndig posted:I didn't see the issue at first, as dilators are used for serious cases of vaginismus, then I realized these were rectal dilators. We also had the Recto Rotor 
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Dec 5, 2016 05:48
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Keiya posted:Prop departments LOVE recycling random junk lying around, it's way cheaper than custom making stuff. It's especially fun when you see the same prop recycled in a different show... sometimes a different genre, even. Though that occasionally rises to the level of being an in-joke... The Borg use computers and stuff, right? Stick some floppy drives in the wall!  Many many more of these: http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/present-day-devices.htm
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Dec 5, 2016 06:03
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Keiya posted:Prop departments LOVE recycling random junk lying around, it's way cheaper than custom making stuff. It's especially fun when you see the same prop recycled in a different show... sometimes a different genre, even. Though that occasionally rises to the level of being an in-joke... I used to do model making (not building) back in college. I took it as part of my bachelors degree. At the time there were only two colleges offering 4 year degrees in model making in the US. It's essentially rapid prototyping and prop making. It is way easier to re-purpose than to manufacture. What a lot of shops miss though, is to hide the original piece. It's not hard. It should only be other model makers that know how you made the part.
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Dec 5, 2016 09:41
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Powered Descent posted:The Borg use computers and stuff, right? Stick some floppy drives in the wall! I get a 403 error
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Like those two horizontal glas pipes that light up and flicker and are being used in every sci-fi show from the 90s
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Dec 5, 2016 13:49
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I'm at a loss for finding good pics of it but the Satellite of Love from MST3k was a full of reused everyday items for the set. I'm sure as a homage to sci-fi prop makers. Edit: To get back more on topic here's the Audience Response Duplicator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpY0Muy_1qI&t=25s It's not a great video but essentially is a mellotron of laughs for sitcom laugh tracks. It must be weird when producers argue over which canned applause to add in. E2: I think I unconsciously stole that last sentence from a movie. Annie Hall? E3: Kinda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Gb9FPAL2s RoyKeen has a new favorite as of 14:59 on Dec 5, 2016 |
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The Ape of Naples posted:I'm at a loss for finding good pics of it but the Satellite of Love from MST3k was a full of reused everyday items for the set. I'm sure as a homage to sci-fi prop makers. My question is: how do they trap so many souls into a mechanical horror like that AND get those souls to laugh as though they enjoy being trapped in a box?
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Last Chance posted:My question is: how do they trap so many souls into a mechanical horror like that AND get those souls to laugh as though they enjoy being trapped in a box? It does have a Hellraiser quality.
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Dec 5, 2016 14:57
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Last Chance posted:My question is: how do they trap so many souls into a mechanical horror like that AND get those souls to laugh as though they enjoy being trapped in a box? You joke but those laugh and applause tracks were recorded long enough ago that most of those people are dead.
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Dec 5, 2016 15:01
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Humphreys posted:I get a 403 error Copy/paste the URL. The site doesn't like the SA referer.
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Dec 5, 2016 15:09
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One Day Fish Sale posted:Copy/paste the URL. The site doesn't like the SA referer. Still 403. Even if I search for it in Google and click on that link, it's 403.
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Dec 5, 2016 16:14
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Phanatic posted:Still 403. Even if I search for it in Google and click on that link, it's 403. It works fine for me. It might be on your side.
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Dec 5, 2016 16:24
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I got a 403 following the link, then got a 403 going through the site's own navigation (but only for that one page), but copy/pasting the URL worked fine and so does following the link now. Copy/paste and force a reload?
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chitoryu12 posted:It works fine for me. It might be on your side. Worked for me too, albeit with doing a copy and paste to obscure the referrer.
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Shai-Hulud posted:Like those two horizontal glas pipes that light up and flicker and are being used in every sci-fi show from the 90s *Every sci-fi production since at least the 70's. They riff on it in Airplane II with Shatner, so it was already a joke by 1982. http://i.imgur.com/OjpWTnc.gifv "All I've found is that these red lights keep moving back and forth, aside from that this thing seems to have no other function, sir."
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Oh wow. I knew it was used on star trek, but i thought it only started with tng.
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Samizdata posted:Worked for me too, albeit with doing a copy and paste to obscure the referrer. Huh, I didn't even have to do that.
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The worst re-occuring scifi prop are these loving things it's one thing when they're using it in fuckin Jack of all Trades, but Stargate? C'mon now, you can do better, you have SOME money. Like at LEAST get this far cooler ones:  no ring
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Light Gun Man posted:The worst re-occuring scifi prop are these loving things 
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Light Gun Man posted:The worst re-occuring scifi prop are these loving things Hellooooo Borg alcove thingy.
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Fukken exactly. Immediately thought of the interior of a Borg ship. I don't even watch Star Trek. Maybe 15-29 episodes of DS9 and a few of Voyager as a kid, tops.
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Light Gun Man posted:The worst re-occuring scifi prop are these loving things These stupid things, at least cheap ones anyway, also push out enough interference to cause wireless Xbox 360 controllers to stop working. Took me days to figure that one out.
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 See those things in the middle on the right with the circles and rectangles? Those come from filmstrip/cassette sets. I used these in high school many moons ago.
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Jesus, we could do this for weeks. My favourite is when Star Trek uses bits from Star Trek toys/models. The inside of the Exocomps had a bit from a Klingon D7 model and Bashir had a medical tool that was a nacelle from a Romulan warbird kit.
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I've never seen this mentioned before, but the Jem'Hadar ships on Deep Space Nine had some grey blocky vent tube thingies in the back that were made from some specific brand (they all look a bit different) of septic infiltrator chamber. 
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Cat Hatter posted:I've never seen this mentioned before, but the Jem'Hadar ships on Deep Space Nine had some grey blocky vent tube thingies in the back that were made from some specific brand (they all look a bit different) of septic infiltrator chamber. Man, "septic infiltrator" sounds like the worst job ever.
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Powered Descent posted:Man, "septic infiltrator" sounds like the worst job ever. They mostly use repurposed EMHs for that job now.
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BattleMaster posted:They mostly use repurposed EMHs for that job now. "State the nat...PHEEEW" 
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In Galaxy of Terror, according to the film's trivia, "The walls of the spaceship the Quest were made out of McDonald's takeout cartons."
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It's very surreal coming from the GBS star trek thread to here. I was thoroughly confused...
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the oscillation overthruster has been everywhere http://www.figmentfly.com/bb/popculture3.html
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If your favourite repurposed item in a movie isn't Aunt Beru's table set in Star Wars, then you're wrong. The apocryphal tale is that the SF author Robert Rankin was working on the set and was told to get some futuristic looking things to use for the dinner scene, so he nipped down to the shops and bought some Tupperware. Whether or not it was really Rankin I cannot say, but it definitely really was Tupperware.
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Jedit posted:If your favourite repurposed item in a movie isn't Aunt Beru's table set in Star Wars, then you're wrong. The apocryphal tale is that the SF author Robert Rankin was working on the set and was told to get some futuristic looking things to use for the dinner scene, so he nipped down to the shops and bought some Tupperware. Whether or not it was really Rankin I cannot say, but it definitely really was Tupperware. Tupperware was pretty futuristic when I was a kid  e: The gently caress there were Tupperware toys? 
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Jerry Cotton posted:Tupperware was pretty futuristic when I was a kid Apparently they still make a couple. 
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Jerry Cotton posted:Tupperware was pretty futuristic when I was a kid Oh wow, I had these as a kid. They held up really well and my little sister played with them too.
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JnnyThndrs posted:Oh wow, I had these as a kid. They held up really well and my little sister played with them too. Did they have interchangeable parts?
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JnnyThndrs posted:Oh wow, I had these as a kid. They held up really well and my little sister played with them too. Do they burp?
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Jerry Cotton posted:Did they have interchangeable parts? Yep! You could create hybrid monstrosities with them easy as pie. Unfortunately, they did not burp.
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Jedit posted:If your favourite repurposed item in a movie isn't Aunt Beru's table set in Star Wars, then you're wrong. The apocryphal tale is that the SF author Robert Rankin was working on the set and was told to get some futuristic looking things to use for the dinner scene, so he nipped down to the shops and bought some Tupperware. Whether or not it was really Rankin I cannot say, but it definitely really was Tupperware. Tupperware is the only way to keep your blue milk from going sour in Tatooine's climate.
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