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Err, unless you actually plan on having actors run around it during filming and not CGI everything? Every single one of those bunkers has a ship they are working on parked in front of it.
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The bunkers are the giant, long-abandoned Concord Naval Weapons storage complex, out east of wind farm at Altamont Pass. Using them for a life-size set is kind of clever.
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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Given that the crane boom is chroma-keyed and looks set up to lift the entire Millenium Falcon, I'll go with movie set.
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Given that the crane boom is chroma-keyed and looks set up to lift the entire Millenium Falcon, I'll go with movie set.
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I am stoked that they are apparently going to physically swing the Millennium Falcon in for a landing/takeoff. As long as they can keep it from landing on Harrison Ford. Again. |
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They are swinging something, but not the entire Falcon. Not at that size, and considering that's likely the same Falcon seen in the teaser vid with the Batmobile last week certainly not at that weight. You'd need a tower crane at the least. It's likely not chroma-keyed just the branding of the crane company in question, since the Falcons cockpit is on the ground to the left of the crane. Err, unless you actually plan on having actors run around it during filming and not CGI everything? Every single one of those bunkers has a ship they are working on parked in front of it.
Exactly. Abrams said they're doing as little CGI as required and actually building sets/ props like the originals. The second hangar down on the right is an X-Wing. Third hangar on the left looks like some sort of Naboo variant due to the engines. |
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Well it's not like it has an actual hyper drive in it, it's just a shell. But there is no way it would be moving, you'd use CGI or if they wanted to go old school a scale model for that.
Actually, maybe if they wanted to film the two seconds it takes to 'land' straight up and down. Like Mahrin said that is the color the crane would have to be.
Viral leak to stir interest though right?
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Mandella
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Actually, maybe if they wanted to film the two seconds it takes to 'land' straight up and down. Like Mahrin said that is the color the crane would have to be.
Viral leak to stir interest though right?
That's really all I'd expect: Just lift it up enough to show the shocks "taking the weight" when it's set back down again. Or maybe the crane is there to swing a jetpacking Boba Fett clone over the Falcon. Either way, congratulations Disney for getting me interested in another Star Wars movie again... |
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What are they doing?
That was a Tokyo Game Show booth. The game in question (Onechambara) is rated CERO-Z, which is basically R/MA. In Japan you can't show those on the floor of TGS out in the open. Usually they are behind closed doors in a special area, but for that game they made a thing where you stuck your head into breasts to play. |
vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Canada Post. Reason for not delivering. In Northern Ontario that isn't all that uncommon.Since the removal of the spring bear hunt a few years ago they wander into town quite regularly.This past spring we had a mother and two cubs behind one of my warehouses keeping my guys from getting to the trucks too start work.They still wander around the area from time to time but keep to them selves.If you call the MNR too remove them, when they come to your property,if they find anything that might attract a bear i.e garbage outside or bird feeders or any food source they will fine you for the cost of removing the bear so noone bothers calling them. |
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MahrinSkel
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That's really all I'd expect: Just lift it up enough to show the shocks "taking the weight" when it's set back down again.
Or maybe the crane is there to swing a jetpacking Boba Fett clone over the Falcon.
Either way, congratulations Disney for getting me interested in another Star Wars movie again...
This appears to be the same MF under construction, as you can see it's clearly just a shell over scaffolding and could easily be lifted by that crane:  I can't imagine another reason to have such a tall crane parked so close to the MF in the first picture. They're using a much smaller one than in the first shot to actually build it. --Dave |
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I'm aware it's just a shell. Just how much do you guys assume that she's weighs and just how much do you assume a 50' boom crane can lift. Because you're in to unobtanium and ultralightium ranges and amusing me.
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Canada Post. Reason for not delivering. They can't toss a package at the bear's face, but they can write a note on on a doorhanger and put it on the doorknob? |
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I figured they put the note in the mailbox.
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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I'm aware it's just a shell. Just how much do you guys assume that she's weighs and just how much do you assume a 50' boom crane can lift. Because you're in to unobtanium and ultralightium ranges and amusing me.
I can't tell exactly what model of crane they're using,. but this manual for one that seems similar seems to indicate something around the 10 ton range (could be much higher, depending on how great a radius they need, and they don't seem to be pushing the limits). I'd assume that scaffolding is aluminum (it doesn't look like carbon fiber or anything else exotic), and I'd estimate there's 2 to 3 tons worth of that, let's say 3-4 tons or so for the shell (probably fiberglass), which seems conceivable and still leaves us a few tons for safety factor and underestimates. Again, I can't imagine any other reason to have a crane that tall (it's much more than 50 feet) involved. What else would you possibly need it for? If that were a static model, it wouldn't need that much internal bracing. Anyway, if we really want to sperg about this, we should probably move to the Movie forum thread. --Dave |
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Those need captions. Still awesome.
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That just proves to me that I should start taking acid again.
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The LSD one actually looks pretty normal -- it's just that the angle of the light is off.
I'm not sure the acid had any effect on the spider at all...
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No way. Too many non-90deg angles. That image is gorgeous, in a CGI post-process Photoshop sorta way. Glad you stated where it was from. Was about to call your bluff  |
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No way. Too many non-90deg angles. That image is gorgeous, in a CGI post-process Photoshop sorta way. Glad you stated where it was from. Was about to call your bluff That's probably the most awesome use of a Star Fort that I've seen. At least I assume it's a converted one rather than building a suburb in the shape of one. |
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No way. Too many non-90deg angles. That image is gorgeous, in a CGI post-process Photoshop sorta way. Glad you stated where it was from. Was about to call your bluff That's probably the most awesome use of a Star Fort that I've seen. At least I assume it's a converted one rather than building a suburb in the shape of one. Modern suburbs typically don't include windmills. Even in Holland. Regarding the CGI post-processing. There's a good chance that there isn't that much done to it. By the shadows, you can see that it's taken at dawn which gives great contrasts and a surreal, golden glow entirely naturally. |
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calapine
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No way. Too many non-90deg angles. That image is gorgeous, in a CGI post-process Photoshop sorta way. Glad you stated where it was from. Was about to call your bluff That's probably the most awesome use of a Star Fort that I've seen. At least I assume it's a converted one rather than building a suburb in the shape of one.Now that would just be tacky!  It's a real place, here the Wikipedia pageMy source was this Guardian slideshow: Aerial views taken from a drone. Another place from there, a hermits dream: |
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Speaking as a hermit-in-training, I agree on that being an ideal location.
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Awesome aerial pictures. What the heck is this?!?
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yes, looks like it.  River crossing part is 227.4m, the rest 690.65 m  |
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IainC
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If you click the info button in the slideshow it actually tells you where the photo was taken and what the subject is.
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