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I just want to throw this out there in case there's somebody who can actually pick up the thread and run with it. For those who have already listened to commentary track on The Gathering, Straczynski and Iacovelli talk about a mysterious prop object that reportedly has been in shot for all sorts of genre projects. JMS presses the production designer for a bit more information about the object, but to no avail. I notice in a recent news group post that Joe said he still hasn't found out.
Well, this thing has been driving me crazy for several days, and I finally found a bit of time to comb through some old interview notes, and I'm 99% convinced that the object in question is the over-thruster from Buckaroo Banzai. During production on B5, I spent a fair amount of time with the props guys Bear Burge and Dark Hoffman, and they were nice enough to give me a tour of the prop cage and let me take some photos for an article I had hoped to do for the B5 Magazine. For those who haven't seen it, the prop cage was like a wizard's cave of cool B5 stuff, basically every object that had been purchased or built from scratch for the series, all crammed into shelf after shelf. And one of the items that Dark Hoffman showed me was the over-thruster, which I think had appeared as a piece of Whitestar debris in one episode. But one of the guys told me that the object had been handed around to other prop department guys on other shows and movies, who would then do their best to work it into a shot. I think it was a private joke amongst themselves, not really meant for anybody else.
So like I said, that object seems to fit what Iacovelli had discussed. I don't have any compunction about discussing it here, because we were talking on the record, and if the B5 Magazine article had ever been done, people would have heard about it years ago anyway. Like I said, I throw it out here in case somebody more knowledgeable than myself has something to add. Any thoughts?
Well, this thing has been driving me crazy for several days, and I finally found a bit of time to comb through some old interview notes, and I'm 99% convinced that the object in question is the over-thruster from Buckaroo Banzai. During production on B5, I spent a fair amount of time with the props guys Bear Burge and Dark Hoffman, and they were nice enough to give me a tour of the prop cage and let me take some photos for an article I had hoped to do for the B5 Magazine. For those who haven't seen it, the prop cage was like a wizard's cave of cool B5 stuff, basically every object that had been purchased or built from scratch for the series, all crammed into shelf after shelf. And one of the items that Dark Hoffman showed me was the over-thruster, which I think had appeared as a piece of Whitestar debris in one episode. But one of the guys told me that the object had been handed around to other prop department guys on other shows and movies, who would then do their best to work it into a shot. I think it was a private joke amongst themselves, not really meant for anybody else.
So like I said, that object seems to fit what Iacovelli had discussed. I don't have any compunction about discussing it here, because we were talking on the record, and if the B5 Magazine article had ever been done, people would have heard about it years ago anyway. Like I said, I throw it out here in case somebody more knowledgeable than myself has something to add. Any thoughts?
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