WHAT Are Your Favorite Spaceships from Movies And Television?

[Phyrebrat]

Sorry for the double-pics-post guys. When I previewed my post only the Defiant and B-wings showed. I went to edit mode and added the others (having found new pictures as I'd closed the browser tabs) and now see there are doubles. Also, apologies for the size of the Cygnus one.

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[Rodders]

Standing with Junk Monkey.

Maya was beautiful, though.

 

[Perpetual Man]

As they have been mentioned but no pictures have been up... one Liberator (Blake's 7) and, well....

 

[Mirannan]

I rather like the spaceship from "Flight of the Navigator".

 

[JunkMonkey]

Standing with Junk Monkey.

Maya was beautiful, though.

Except I missed a crucial 'not' out of my post. D'oh!

 

[Rodders]

Having just got back from seeing Guardians Of The Galaxy I have to say that the Milano was a nice looking ship. Colourful, pretty even. She's not my number one favourite, but she's different.

 

[BAYLOR]

I did like the Draconian battle cruiser in Buck Rogers.

 

[Grimward]

As a really YOUNG kid, I sat mesmerized in front of the Thunderbirds, and liked ALL of their ships because of the intricate workings and mechanical detail in every launch...

...and while I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the Millenium Falcon, it's pretty hard to beat re-entry in a Classic 'Vette.

 

[Ursa major]

My favourite was Thunderbird 2: less glamorous than 1 and 3, but usually the one that got the job done.

 

[JunkMonkey]

As a really YOUNG kid, I sat mesmerized in front of the Thunderbirds, and liked ALL of their ships because of the intricate workings and mechanical detail in every launch...

...and while I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the Millenium Falcon, it's pretty hard to beat re-entry in a Classic 'Vette.

They can still exercise a fascination. My son, aged 5, loves Thunderbirds and my 12 year old has a serious girl crush on Fab 1.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Fireball XL5, Supercar and Stingray!
I guess I'm old.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Fireball XL5, Supercar and Stingray!
I guess I'm old.

Stingray wasn't a spaceship!

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Only Thunderbird 3 was a spaceship. Thunderbird 5 the space station. Though the "boys" were all named after Mercury space program real astronauts. Supercar wasn't a spaceship either. Fireball XL5 was. To be honest it's so long ago I only remember the launch of Fireball XL5 (on a rail/ramp I think) and possibly a vaguer memory of Supercar.

Great adventures though.

[edit: official Gerry Anderson site Fireball XL5 footage]

 

[BAYLOR]

Stingray wasn't a spaceship!

True, but that submarine still looks pretty cool.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

If we're allowed cool things that aren't exactly spaceships when you first brought it up I kept thinking of the golden condor in Mysterious Cities of Gold but it's more akin to an aeroplane. They've been making a new series but I've only managed to see one or two episodes:

 

[JunkMonkey]

[edit: official Gerry Anderson site Fireball XL5 footage]

I loved the shadow of the smoke on the cyclorama starting at the 45 second mark. Another for the collection. (My favourite is the shadows of the crater wall being cast on the sky in Mission Stardust - if you squint and use your imagination you can just about make it out towards the end of this crappy Youtube version:

It's the best bit of the whole sorry mess of a film - probably the only movie to feature a scene where a spaceship is captured by nurses with machine guns:

The unspecial effects included scratching raygun blasts into the emulsion of the film with a butterknife.

(which is all getting seriously OT - my apologies)

 

[BAYLOR]

I loved the shadow of the smoke on the cyclorama starting at the 45 second mark. Another for the collection. (My favourite is the shadows of the crater wall being cast on the sky in Mission Stardust - if you squint and use your imagination you can just about make it out in this crappy Youtube version:

It's the best bit of the whole sorry mess of a film probably the only film to feature a scene where a spaceship is captured by nurses with machine guns:

and the unspecial effects included scratching raygun blasts into the emulsion of the film with a butterknife.

(which is all getting seriously OT - my apologies)

I remember this piece of Cinema

 

[Ray McCarthy]

This is good fun
http://www.scifiairshow.com/index.html

This is confusing
http://www.scifiairshow.com/ships-eagle4.html

 

[Mouse]

I was going to say Mr Spoon's ship!

Moya. Serenity. Starbug. Thunderbird 5.

 

[Hermit the frog]

I think Fireball XL5 was the first thing I saw on a black and white TV back in Victorian times (feels that long ago). What I would like to see is a group of Rapid Offense Units leaving a General Systems Vehicle and taking on some worthy opponents. And let one of them be 'Attitude Adjuster', suck a cool name.