Jupiter 2 flight console replica.f4v

This is a replica of the flight console on the Jupiter 2 spaceship from the 1960's TV series Lost In Space, and was built by Bill Hedges. I also show some of the effects I created for the mural in front of the view-port, including stars, aurora, meteors, and a thunderstorm.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Lost In Space
• Jupiter 2
• replica spaceship
• flight console
• mural
• cyclorama
• painted stars

[tooncesthecat]

That was the 3rd season episode Space Creature, and Will goes down to the power core to search for other members of the family who disappeared and finally confronts the Id creature who then falls into the reactor pit.

[dawson850]

Fantastic..call me a nut but my dream is to have a full size replica of a crashed Jupiter II, upper & lower deck...the works...in an isolated patch of land and live in it.

[tooncesthecat]

@dawson850 That was always my dream too, but that plan wasn't likely to happen so I compromised on the scale so I could at least build part of it. I wouldn't be up to building more than this anyway, it took me 17 months for the whole room. Since this video, I finished the rest and a friend made a three part you tube video of it under the name hamiltonpl

[WrascalVision]

Fantastic work!  I have a replica Burroughs/Datatron 205 which you can see in a few of my YT posts, the lights are divided into 4 groups and light up in sequence. What kind of light sequencer do you have in your 205s?

[tooncesthecat]

@WrascalVision Thanks, I used a Cramer mechanical timer with a 4 rpm motor and six cam driven switches. The patterns overlap to create 12 different patterns. All three B205's are driven by the same timer.

[djhubbahubba]

Awesome...simply Awesome. I want to start a Jupiter 2 console but have to wait till my B9 robot is finished first. Awesome job

Hubba B9 0565

[tooncesthecat]

@djhubbahubba I'm the opposite, I had to

finish this first, before I start on my robot.

They do go together though.

[mearp69]

sweet as hell well done

[JetMechMA]

Hey guys? You guys gotta be the ones to ask....wasn't there an episode on Lost in Space where they showed the reactor room downstairs. Not the episode seen on Hulu.com, but as I remember it they were in space flight somewhere like they used to do, and I think John Robinson told Will to never go down into the reactor room because it was too dangerous. Obviously we were headed into the Reactor room for that episode...but I can't find it anywhere. That door was always intriguing. Anyone?

[crmfghtr]

You did such fine work! Thanks for posting this

[part5man]

MORE...MORE...MORRRREEEEE!!!!

[alphacontrol]

Literally a "Basement of Dreams". You are an inspiration to all the LostInSpacePropBuilders.