As much as I love the show and considering how much I loved making our fanfilm, I was even happier seeing FedEx drive away with my Control Panel wrapped up and headed to Burbank for the show. But like I said, I love it all, but man... that thing is freakin' huge and a LOT of work. I spent the better part of last week packing this beast up on a skid, and it was really tough considering I had a six month old tagging along too.
Originally, I thought I had to cut the table top to the Control Panel to ship out, but my mother in law who owns her own sign shop had a 4x8 wood skid, big enough to place the table top on the skid... you all will see what I'm talking about when you see it.
I had the chance to do a lot of finishing work to it that I didn't have the chance to do so back in September when we shot it. This time, I was able to provide much needed support beams (to prevent bowing), re-wire the lights that BLINK (woo-hoo!), and a lot of other little stuff that the average eye won't notice, but makes me happier about its structure and stability.
I'm guessing that this is a 90-95% accurate replica, but of course, I have no blueprints or plans to base that guess off of. Upon watching a higher quality version of 'The Leap Back', I noticed that the original Control Panel used egg-crate style acrylic, and the base of the unit has a slightly different color pattern scheme.
And remember (shameless self plug), this Control Panel can be YOURS at the charity auction benefiting the Starlight Foundation! I have to state that this is a non-working Control Panel though... meaning you can't contact Ziggy or open doors with it. :roflmao:
Chris
Originally, I thought I had to cut the table top to the Control Panel to ship out, but my mother in law who owns her own sign shop had a 4x8 wood skid, big enough to place the table top on the skid... you all will see what I'm talking about when you see it.
I had the chance to do a lot of finishing work to it that I didn't have the chance to do so back in September when we shot it. This time, I was able to provide much needed support beams (to prevent bowing), re-wire the lights that BLINK (woo-hoo!), and a lot of other little stuff that the average eye won't notice, but makes me happier about its structure and stability.
I'm guessing that this is a 90-95% accurate replica, but of course, I have no blueprints or plans to base that guess off of. Upon watching a higher quality version of 'The Leap Back', I noticed that the original Control Panel used egg-crate style acrylic, and the base of the unit has a slightly different color pattern scheme.
And remember (shameless self plug), this Control Panel can be YOURS at the charity auction benefiting the Starlight Foundation! I have to state that this is a non-working Control Panel though... meaning you can't contact Ziggy or open doors with it. :roflmao:
Chris