SPACESHIP ICARUS FROM PLANET OF THE APES

[@johnbockelie3899]

When I was a kid in 1968, I always wanted to see more of that space craft. It sunk so fast in the movie that you had to look at it real good. Thank you for that model.

[@sandpeople1000]

Thank you!

[@kemgreene8525]

"Of all the sci-fi movies this spaceship was and still is to date my number one favorite. I once built it from memory as best as I could out of scrap cardboard paper and it came out pretty good"!

[@55Quirll]

But for the 4 hibernation chambers and control areas, the capsule is too small. Also can't understand why there would be a door at the back where the thrusters are located.

[@allenjones3130]

Does the Icarus have any armaments?

[@stanleykubrick1472]

Originaly in a Public Service Announcement from ANSA, the ship is called "Liberty 1".

[@paulofernandes296]

Fiz uma dê isopor e massa corrida ficou boa

[@ericrausch5122]

Great Scorch marks....Music too !!!

[@generalyellor2187]

I noticed how the interior and exterior shots of the spacecraft didn't jibe when I first saw the film as a ten-year-old in 1973 when it premiered on network TV, but I was already such an Apes freak by then (saw "Escape" in the theater first) that my imaginative little brain just figured that this cool-as-hell triangular spaceship had a separate propulsion module, similar to that era's Apollo's Command & Service module combo. And that the POTA's Command module's Service module had been jettisoned prior to entering Earth's atmosphere, just like the Apollo spacecraft; hence, the reason for no engines protruding out the back of the too-small Command module that I first saw in Escape, just what looked like an ablative heat shield similar to that on the Apollo Command module after splashdown. A young fan will do anything to make his favorite movie series more realistic in his mind's eye. Finally, My Two Cents: I don't like calling it the "Icarus" because that was a name created years after the movie was made and not a name made up by anyone who had anything to do with the original film.

[@JohnRWMarchant]

The whole problem with the no need for engines at the back as its like the lunar lander is that firstly the lunar lander had engines and thrusters. If it is meant to be like the apollo capsule that descends to earth on parachutes, they why did they not jettison automatically. The biggest problem for me then is why the hypersleep chambers onboard if this is just a vessel to land on a planet.

[@Jeffrey314159]

This spaceship is much larger on the inside than the outside would allow for - - but that is an old story in SciFi movies and TV - - they never get the dimensions right. Also the craft's windows are swept too far back - - not enough room for the crew's cabin

[@sandpeople1000]

I totally agree! "Creative" freedom. In the series Lost in Space it was the same thing. Jupiter 2 was MUCH larger on the inside than on the outside.

[@thejupiter2574]

+Richard K I Luv this ship. LOL Doctor Who's TARDIS bigger on the inside is his long running joke now. When I first saw POTA as a little kid I spotted just before the ship sank I spotted a ladder ring and well in the back of the Icarus as the water was spurting in and you can see the hole in the floor implying a bottom level. That thrilled my imagination thinking for decades about what the bottom level would look like and if the ship had not sunk but was beached and then camouflaged for protection or as a precaution on an unknown planet.

[@susanwaltho4151]

Hi its rubbish in the film there was mention about the name and th ey did not go to alpha centuri but a star in orion

[@elviakerlick1163]

I bought that model from Monsters in Motion years ago; what an annoying model to build! The window sills weren't well executed, and wouldn't support the thin clear plastic window panes. The rear bulkhead was also poorly engineered, and wouldn't fit in its groove.

[@sandpeople1000]

I bought it there too! It is an imperfect, garage kit. Too bad it was never officially launched by any official company.

[@robertbeck168]

@@sandpeople1000 I was really hoping to see an official styrene kit for the 50th anniversary in 2018 but no luck. Years ago I chatted with someone from Moebius Models at New York Comicon and they said rights from 20th Century Fox were hard to get. When they did release the Fantastic Voyage Proteus kit my hopes were high but still no POTA spaceship.