"Space: 1999" - 50th Anniversary Studio Rebuild of the Eagle Transporter

[@Bananaskin101]

imo the best space vessel in SciFi TV ever, great job

[@deLimitedProductions]

It really is. Brian Johnson should be forever proud.

[@jpofgwynedd3878]

The most impressive aspect of the Eagle is that despite not having massive fuel tanks, it still LOOKS feasible; so feasible, in fact, that I'm astonished no one has tried to actually MAKE a real one.

[@deLimitedProductions]

It really does. Much of the Eagle's charm is that the design looks and feels like it's grounded in reality. This side of her personality jumps out long before one can peel away the technical layers to discover that she's hardly believable even in sci-fi!

[@jpofgwynedd3878]

@@deLimitedProductions A similar thing happened with the overall designs in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Many waffle on about how great Kubrick was, what a story, etc... yet the movie was NEVER hailed for any of that: it was how realistic the interiors were - hell, even when Frank Poole's watching the news during a meal break, he does it on a tablet... AND IT'S IN PORTRAIT MODE!

[@BenoitLamarche]

The center of gravity would be a problem, the propulsion section would be heavier than the command section IMHO.

[@curmudgeonextraordinaire1884]

Feasible for the low gravity, no atmosphere environment of the moon. However it would never work anywhere else.

[@themercer4972]

Some great work there. The Eagle was a fantastic craft. I wish they would reboot Space 1999.

[@PatriceBoivin]

I was disappointed when there wasn't even a movie released in 1999. A missed opportunity.

[@BenoitLamarche]

I would too, but... I really would like to reimagine Space:1999 for grown-ups. In the grown-up version, there would be an accurate (and current) representation of engineering, physics, chemistry, and biology. It can be done. Science becomes a significant character in the storyline. Both the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica and The Expanse, while taking great liberties, also took advantage of actual engineering and science to enhance the plot. It was fun to watch. The "1999" would not refer to the year, obviously. In this re-imagined version, the Eagle would never fly in an atmosphere, or venture too far from the moon. As represented, the Eagle is a "better" version of the 2001 Moon Bus. I'd like the inside set of the Eagle to match its external proportions. And make these black rectangles on the pod actual windows! No anti-gravity or acceleration compensation. No force fields.

[@cerberes]

@@BenoitLamarcheYeah, Slap on some Raptor 4 engines and away we go.

[@themercer4972]

@@BenoitLamarche The big problem, from a plot point of view is, How to move the moon from one exciting new story setting to another? There would have to be some malfunctioning jump drive or other fictional gizmo. or we would have a very realistic show with the moon just wandering around our solar system on a eccentric orbit. Anyhow, you are quite right, the Eagle would not be very good for atmosphere use, but makes a fine moon bus.

[@BenoitLamarche]

@@themercer4972 Right. It would have to be some other sort of interplanetary vehicle, which could at least land on a planet with an atmosphere.

[@PatriceBoivin]

I agree about the Viper. The old Battlestar Galactica technology had its charm. The actors were good as well.

[@monsvillerailways5736]

Awesome. Such an iconic ship, it's fantastic to see her given some new life. Great work Team. 👍

[@ralphreinhardt6020]

Very cool, as a 58 year old O.G. fan. I whole heartedly appreciate this very much. 😎👍

[@guillermodiego819]

Absolutely gorgeous!! Top notch work!

[@deLimitedProductions]

Thank you very much!

[@eagletransporter1999]

Superb piece of work !!!

[@deLimitedProductions]

Thank you for watching, Jorge!

[@jeffos8724]

Well done.

[@chrischeshire6528]

According to Nick Tate the interior of the command module when first built was in scale, but the lead cameraman complained that it was too small and too tight to photograph the crew, so it had to be enlarged.

[@CannonRanger-1]

Fantastic work! I so wish I still had my Eagle toy from when I was a kid. It was huge.

[@johnbower7452]

I think part of the attraction with the Eagle was that it looked believable; the kind of ship we might build as a go-between to and from a Moonbase.

[@richtheobald4390]

Thanks for showing the landing gear retract. It always annoyed me when I was a kid that my toy eagles never could even though it was obvious that they should

[@ak1ranger]

As a kid I had the giant plastic eagle toy that you could assemble in several different configurations. I'm sure it came from the Sears Christmas catalog. I had it until the mid 90s when my Dad moved and trashed all my OG Star Wars toys as well as the huge Eagle. That thing was so cool! I would often play with the Eagle and the Buck Rogers Star Fighter together since they were of similar scale, I think!

[@XianHu]

Beautiful work on the model! Also, I had this (0:47) as a kid, and I loved it.

[@fw1421]

I watched Barbara Bain all my early life. She was on so many good shows like Mission Impossible.

[@robgoodsight6216]

Just brilliant!!!

[@Zeus-rg9mu]

The eagle inspired a generation. I love the rebuild.

[@everettumphrey]

Very nice work. This model even on the show worked for me as a spaceship that one could see in real life.

[@ploppysonofploppy6066]

Such fine work, achieved so quickly. Bravo. I have mixed memories over this show. The moon couldn't just blast off, without destruction of the earth, and voyages to other worlds would take 10s of millennia. But that's not what sci fi should be about really. I was reminded of it when I read Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot". He hypothesised mans first exploration of interstellar place by establishing self sufficient colonies on asteroids, then nudging them outwards, toward a distant star. A voyage would take 10,000 years or more the descendants of the voyagers may not be human by the time they reached their destination. Could be great sci fi though!

[@deLimitedProductions]

Thanks! Still trying to process how 14 weeks is "so quickly." I guess time really is relative!

[@ploppysonofploppy6066]

@@deLimitedProductions "Time is an illusion", - Albert Einstein. "Lunchtime doubly so", - Douglas Adams.

[@JimWood28]

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[@wilsonst6044]

When space1999, battlestar galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th century. Feel so inspired back then.

[@timothyosullivan6079]

wonderful work. Looks great!!

[@JoelGrant-ie4ly]

While vacationing during the summer of 1975 I caught an episode of the American TV show the Mike Douglas Show. Martin Landua and Barbara Bain were promoting their new show Space:1999. The TV audience was able to see clips from the show and the costumes. I was hooked even before the series began!

[@conservativemike3768]

The mid-century set design of the era is still awesome.

[@iana6713]

Now that is impressive! I like how you sorted out the cockpit conundrum - even as a child watching the show, I noticed that certain dimensions didn't line up.

[@angrymandalorian8496]

I’m 61 years old, I loved this show. My parents worked for Sears and got great discounts. I had a lot of the toys. Don’t know whatever happened to them.

[@keithscott1926]

My dad worked for Sears part-time as a special delivery guy.

[@TheShornak]

Your size at 30m is very close to what I felt the length of the ship would be based on the side doors and the height of most men on the show. You mentioned the articulated legs on the passenger module. They were shown extended in a couple episodes but the most clear was Season 1 Dragon's Domain, probably one of the best epeisodes. The Pilor Tony Cellini takes off leading the Passenger module behind. You don't see them moving, it's just they are extended out when he takes off. Your 3d CGI Model is beautiful and what is in my opinion a very good representation.

[@deLimitedProductions]

I've never met you, but I can tell you're a person who cares about details, too! Thanks for watching :)

[@davewills148]

Very nice indeed, like many, brings back those heady days as a teen, some great shows around then, and Space 1999 was on of the best. 3d print has brought about a new found interest in many of these wonderful shows. Also a few companies are now remaking many of the Star Trek hand-helds like the tricorders/Phasers, expensive highly detailed models. Adam Savage features many of them on his toutube channel. Kudos

[@ptonpc]

The Eagle will always be a beautiful 'ugly duckling' Very nice work :)

[@deLimitedProductions]

Well said.

[@cpnscarlet]

Landing pads were extended in the episode "Dragon's Domain" for the scene where Tony Cellini takes an Eagle back to the Ultra probe but leaves the passenger module behind so he can face the "dragon" alone. Also it should be noted that there is also a scene where he jettisons the Eagle's command module and docks it to the Ultra probe - excellent model effects.

[@AJFisherDesign]

Beautiful build. Your attention to detail is impressive. Your “cockpit conundrum” about conflicts in scale & configuration is familiar to me and seems to have been common in Hollywood productions. While building custom scale models of both the Star Wars UT-60D U-Wing from Rogue One and the family house from The Waltons I came to realise the interiors depicted on screen were larger than the exteriors shown. Upon reflection this makes a sort of sense; the creators of these stories are primarily interested in storytelling. Choices are made mostly to reflect story & budget not continuity although that is important. Thanks for an entertaining and informative video!

[@deLimitedProductions]

Thank you. We run into these hull-to-interior scaling losses often in Star Trek as well, but Trek was generally careful about the *shapes* of its filming sets. This was the first time I felt I was literally trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

[@rorythomas9469]

The size of a set, particularly pre digital is often dictated by lighting and cameras. That forces a minimum size. If it’s a 4 walls set, then it needs to be big enough to get the camera, lighting rig and crew in as well.

[@PaulShanley]

1:48 Brilliant framing!

[@stevevanzandt6784]

Way cool spaceships ❤

[@B.B.Digital_Forest]

I'm impressed you used Lightwave. Some things don't die.

[@JimWood28]

We copy. (Staggering work, thank you)

[@Echowhiskeyone]

Building the Command Module is easy, once your solve the interior. This has bugged me as a kid in 1975. Glad you solved it, within reason.

[@kriswingert1662]

@3:00, Season 1, Dragon's Domain featured the passenger landing feet being deployed when it was left on the pad when Tony left it set to keep Koenig from going with him to the space ship graveyard. Allen then landed on the pad to pick them up ( just the same sequence run backwards ).

[@Whalewraith]

Never seen an answer to this. On the beak the 2 upper black triangles were basically viewing ports. What on earth (apart from looking good) was the point of those cut outs below which would presumably be at knee height. Always bugged me. Great ship

[@deLimitedProductions]

I think the "looking good" (really, aesthetic symmetry) *was* the point. It's rather obvious from the set designs that there was some disconnect between what Johnson was doing and what Anderson was doing. That disconnect may have been explicit and okay for both of them.

[@Whalewraith]

@@deLimitedProductions like the travel tube?, the outside and the inside really don't match up.

[@craigw.scribner6490]

Fantastic job! Thanks!

[@venturefanatic9262]

The first Season was the best one.

[@MRRice-wz3bv]

Good designs.

[@keithscott1926]

Space:1999 was a great SiFi show. I had a EAGLE TRANSPORT model l put together.

[@Kr0N05]

If they want to unload heavy equipment on the Moon or Mars they will need something with the general layout of the Eagle , minus the aerodynamic nose :) A cargo section, behind the front cab, that you can drop off anywhere.

[@noneya3635]

Wow Barbara Bain has aged but she looks the same. Healthy life style right there.

[@Tbonyandsteak]

Imagine thats what they imagined space exploration would be, 25 years in the future in 1974

[@gucumatzmusic7286]

En una tienda camino a Miami encontré el "Eagle" solo que en color verde, lloré, pataleé y no me lo compraron, que lo podían conseguir en Chetumal más barato, llevo cincuenta años esperando el "Eagle" que nunca llegó

[@soylentgreen6667]

I still have that eagle in the box .

[@zachariasbennett5105]

I just love the Eagle transporter for it has got to be one of my favourite spaceships and by the amount of diecast Eagles that I have in my collection you would think I was rather obsessed by them (which I am) but as a child back in 1975 when I used to watch Space 1999 I didn't notice a design flaw with the Eagle and it is only when I became an adult that I started to look at the eagle closely to the design and the thing that sticks out to me is that there isn't anywhere for the doors on the main body of the eagle transporter to slide into when the doors open because of how the body is too narrow and when the cockpit sections door opens and closes there isn't anywhere for the door to slide to for in the episode 'Brian the Brain' and the cockpit section of the eagle transporter separates you cant see how the door could possible open and there's a few other things too and I have been trying to think of how some of the things could be done on the eagle to fix certain issues with the design because of things it was supposed to do but in reality it wouldn't have been able to do but of course it is just a sci-fi series and not to look deeply at designs of certain things too seriously but sometimes you can't help yourself to look at something and think "mmm". Have you ever thought about designing your own version of an Eagle transporter.

[@deLimitedProductions]

The Eagle needs a split-open door style (like on Star Trek). It solves the problem completely for the command module. For the doors on the junction modules, I think I estimated the doors could open 80 to 90% with the split-open design.

[@PWingert1966]

Next a 1:1 model for the Rooftop landing pad!

[@deLimitedProductions]

Okay, but whose rooftop?! 😅

[@radagastaddams3703]

just as much as an icon as the USS Enterprise. I hated Space 1999 as a kid because it very unsettling in places..like Brian Blessed melting & that man burnt by the reactor...but I adore the Eagle..it's one of the few sci-fi spaceships so based in realism it would make perfect sense for us to build them today. They even thought of using the crew compartment as a detachable lifeboat..great design..

[@leokimvideo]

Yep the TV series Eagle cockpit was more like The Tardis

[@tomnakzy]

The Eagle Transporter's command module is quite different in appearance and interior. If the exterior settings were prioritized, not only would the cockpit be very narrow, communication between the main and co-pilots would be poor, and above all, visibility to the left and right would be very limited. It would be interesting to see a remake, but unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to see it in my lifetime.

[@BenoitLamarche]

Very nicely done. Especially bringing some much needed sanity to the command module interior (however the spaceship graveyard had some wonderful ideas). How did you reconcile the bottom rocket nozzles and the (purported) rocket machinery behind (on top) of them? Any ideas? How about the doors in corridors between the center and crew modules? The corridors too narrow to accommodate the doors when opened. I can't wait to see the interior when fully done, and build an actual physical prop. What is the source of Barbera Bain inteview?

[@dale3852]

Nice 🇬🇧 ❤

[@stevevanzandt6784]

❤❤❤

[@swanvictor887]

technically.....as filming began in December '73.....it's already gone 50 lol.

[@deLimitedProductions]

Wedding anniversaries aren't based on when the couple were dating.

[@RT-eb6vo]

Sorry, I just need to nip off and watch a replay of the Professionals intro. Great music!

[@KujoTV]

It is great to see LightWave 3D is still out there. I use to dance with that program. Oh and the Eagle looks great. Even as a kid I had problems with the exterior and interior of the command module. Are you going to do the Strike Eagle?

[@gl3nnium]

Although UFO was a far better show space 1999 did have some great vehicle designs

[@youhou2000youhou]

Could it be : the humans are lost, leading to 25 years of bad news etc, because in 99 there was no moonbase alpha. Imagine the untold trauma on 70's native children brains

[@thebritishengineer8027]

50 years...? Well I'm half way through fixing an .stl and building an accurate cockpit & fixing the crew positions, all fans know about that one. Using my largest printer for the "beak" I worked out the overall length will be 5' 6" a bit bigger than the studio model, making the frame in aluminium why not just build a big un.

[@farmerned6]

the Viper (Original series) has wings and banks against air THATS NOT THERE the Eagle has maneuvering jets as a FUNCTIONAL spacecraft the Eagle Wins Its modular (thunderbird 2 vibes) a true utility rock hopper Shout out for the B5 Starfury

[@luizmattos9031]

The beste movie sci-fi. Will wich go back with more news movie?

[@Coffeeman-yq6xu]

The damn things crashed all the time. They must’ve had like a million of them.

[@markosborne6559]

Don't get me wrong I love the Eagle but how did it enter a planets atmosphere without burning up?

[@spitfireboy1]

Where is the full size version held? I have family in USA who may like to see it.

[@tehpw7574]

*Claps* Bra-Vo, sir.

[@deLimitedProductions]

Takes a bow. Thank you; that's very kind.

[@allenbarrow4904]

True be told, the Eagle spaceship would be better candidate for transportation between Near Earth Orbit ( NEO ) station like the ISS or China's Heavenly Palace after building a permanent station. We never got an explanation of why an Eagle transport couldn't be built for space since weight or cooling issues wouldn't be a problem. However, the technical issue would be the Engineering of the Propulsion engines, cargo modules and what types of fuel to make it fly especially from Earth!!! NASA will never get ahead or be considered a reliable partner if China, Russia, India or Iran creates an Eagle prototype and use it for service!!! Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos has better uses some imagination and create more reliable spaceships like the Eagle before their competition does!!!😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@shaynechild2517]

Elon musk should build this for real! That would be epic if he could take this model and build a real space craft off this design. With the center pod being able to carry many different types of pod like living quarters and lab set ups etc etc.

[@showxating9885]

I had the Eagle in the 70s, and the action figure wasn't size appropriate for the model.

[@Atlantianreborn]

What about giving it away in a draw for watchers.

[@deLimitedProductions]

Great idea... but who's going to pay for the shipping? It's 30 meters long!

[@jamespollock2500]

Elon musk should take a look at the design and figure out if it would be a viable option to use for transportation in orbit and lunar landing. be funny if he said yes that could work as construction and prime mover for sections

[@bumfie]

When will Elon Mush build an eagle ? I'm sure he want a Moonbase Alpha as well

[@X-Radio]

I rejected Space 1999 for our Puget Sound area tv station. I knew it would degenerate into schlock. Looked slick and that all it was...eye candy.

[@stuartchen365]

ComMod looks wrong

[@koenig487]

I don't understand it all. MPC has released the most authentic Eagle model kit in existence, a replica of the 44-inch studio model. Why wasn't it based on that?

[@roccolarocca4435]

NO space 1999 e 2099 , si sicuro spazio 2199 okay

[@164diecastcars-x9m]

I'm so disappointed I watched this show when it came out and thought one day we will have a base on the moon when 1999 came we humans had only made a space station But a moon base nahhh You know now that living on the moon You would be radiated by solar flares And die