I saw this video about a year ago and I am still blown away by the awesome special effects of this project. Outstanding job to all the people involved in making this RUclips masterpiece! 😃👍
It has always been my favorite. My mom made me a birthday cake of the Jupiter 2 for my birthday when I was 5 or 6. That's always been my favorite cake. The ship setting in a small diorama of a planetary landing. It was so much fun I was sad when we had to cut it.
The biggest mystery for me is, what special sound effects were used to generate the different stages of the Jupiter 2's engine. From powerful sound of liftoff from earth in episode 1, The Reluctant Stowaway, which also used an anti-gravity drive, used to escape the gravity pull from earth. The anti-gravity drive was never meantioned in the show, and the 250 mega watts of power definitely had an unpleasant experience for Dr. Smith. The glow around the Jupiter 2 at liftoff was produced by the anti-gravity drive. The special sound effects was well done also when the Jupiter 2's engine went through the 4 stages of power before lifting off without the use of the anti-gravity drive. This video was Absolutely Awesome!!
One of my all time Favorite shows. Of all the things I saw on the show, the one I would like to have today would be the washing machine. In one of the shows, Miss Robinson dumps a hamper of clothes in. Closes the lid and presses a few buttons and in three seconds you hear a beep. The clothes are clean, folded and shirk rapped. Ready to put away. What a time saver.
I was 6-8 yo during the TV presentation and I could never understand how many things could be kept in that spaceship. It was evident that the size of the ship (compared with the cast) in outdoor scenes, was the same of an ordinary truck, It was a time of innocence in television without correct notion of proportionality. But however that's my favorite serie of childhood (Time Tunnel also) and what made me study engineering.
It was the same principle as in "Gilligan's Island:" how did they have all those non-essential items in the confined space of the SS Minnow or the Jupiter II? LOL, both shows were strictly designed to be fun! Actually, it all worked for us as kids...except when they got to the LIS episode, "The Space Creature" in season three. When they tried to make us believe that there was this huge "power core" beneath deck two, even we kids couldn't swallow that!
I thought the same, and, though I still do, since encountering a geodesic dome house, I found that a circular structure seems much smaller from the outside than it actually is because it immediately begins to slope away from you to either side no matter at what point you are standing. That circle of the J2 would have covered a lot of ground, if the prop had been complete. My main problem was that the lower level seemed just as high as the upper, even though on the miniature, it appears noticeably lower. Then, in the 3rd season, they actually gave it a third level where the reactor core was ensconced.
Even as a kid I always laughed at how they wanted us to believe that the Jupiter 2 carried seven humans, a big robot, all of the equipment and supplies, including the food, AND the Chariot, in that small spaceship. The Chariot alone was nearly half the size of the ship.
Yup. Except that it wasn't "regular people ..." ("One of the original Star Wars film model makers from ILM, William (Bill) George, and crew manage to create this magnificent short film of a fictional Sci-Fi Air Show.")
I love the heck out of the Jupiter - even though its design could never allow for the 3 deck space, nor storage for the Chariot or the escape pod. Still its a fun TV show. I bet hardcore logic-oriented scientists lost a lot of sleep worrying how people could buy into the big lie - LoL
Wow, the robot spider-walker from Johnny Quest in the opening scene, nice little cameo there. Yeah, I wish there was such a thing as a sci-fi airshow, I personally love the concept of this that everything was built as a real aircraft in the Sci-Fi Airshow universe instead of models and mockups as was the case in real life for all these classic films and TV shows. Personally, the one I'd really like to have a ride in would be the Orion III from 2001 (AKA the Pan-Am Space Clipper), to LEO and back, have to confess it's one of my favorites. Maybe you could do a video on that one sometime? Cheers, Brendan O.
Great show! I loved the Jupiter 2! I went crazy looking for a model back in 69-70. J.C. Penny was selling them. The last one they had sold before I got there and they were discontinued. Didn't get one until nearly 30 years later! My favorite part of that ship is that elevator!
As a kid when watching the show, I would always think to myself. "There is no way that all that stuff could fit inside a ship that small!!!" You know like the chariot. The laser drill etc.etc .etc.. never made any sense.
That's what I thought too. Even if they had to assemble everything, there still would not have been enough room. The only big thing that they had room for was the shuttle. It was in its own compartment on the first level. I could never figure out how they had 2 levels.
Same here and it's why I hate the house on the tv show Everybody loves Raymond. Those types of Cape Cod houses had one bedroom upstairs and with slanted ceilings that you were forever bumping your head into where as on the show it had three commodiusly large bedrooms with no sloping ceilings as depicted in the exterior.
Just before the start of the second season in 1966 my father bought a Zenith 25 inch color console TV, which was fantastic because Lost in Space was going to be broadcast in Color that year. The Zenith had a 25 inch TV, a stereo record player that had speeds from 16, 33, 45 & 78 rpm's and an AM & FM/Stereo radio. I remember it cost $800 in 1966 (almost $6,000 in 2017 dollars). That was the first time I ever heard of or saw an FM radio and in 1966 there were only 2 FM stations available in our area and they both played only Classical Music, but that was about to change.
I never watched the show Lost In Space, but this video got my attention because I actually witnessed an aircraft similar in size and somewhat similar in appearance to the Jupiter 2 back around 1993 in eastern Pennsylvania. To make a long story short, from a distance of about 75 yards, I saw a saucer shaped aircraft hover and fly away over the course of at least mile at no more than 30 mph while I was traveling by car. I believe it was man made because the center of the aircraft had windows evenly spaced around the center that were shaped just like the passenger windows on a commercial airliner. It also had a rotating ventilator looking thing on the roof and a small red or orange light on its rear. Seeing this thing proved to me that someone has aircraft that operate with alternative propulsion systems. By the way, I know this aircraft was not a fake because it had moving parts - the center of the hull with the windows rotated slowly and it had a spinning ventilator looking thing on top. I also witnessed it travel a good distance over many obstacles (including a river) before it slowly gained altitude.
@@3v3rb0t True. The times he's standing and speaking in the "open air" but was clearly recorded in an enclosed space. Too bad - everything else was so nicely done...if he'd just paid a little more attention to this type of detail....
For kids, the J2 was an ideal home. It was safe & secure, made of cosmium steel and with a forcefield "fence" for extra protection. Even the windows had blast shields when needed. Inside it was a clean & orderly retreat from a world that children don't fully understand nor can deal with. Plus, Mom (Maureen) was always there and Dad (John) was always ready to defend it, whether with bare hands or laser rifles and pistols. Both were loving and wise.
The Jupiter 2 was great because it was the ultimate RV, a Winnebago to the stars. You'd travel someplace new, park on the surface, unpack and set up a little camp area outside the door, then break out the smaller vehicle to do some sightseeing in the vicinity.
4:30 "...two paper plates..." I made a number of iterations of that. One or two of the final versions had a threaded bolt and a domed chrome lugnut through the center of the ship to keep the upper and lower sections from collapsing. It was fairly intricate and it took me a minute or so before I remembered the details of the actual construction.
That's so weird how they're greenscreened over it. At least they lit it fairly well, but it's still pretty obvious. Acting like they're standing in a parking lot with this thing but you hear like.. cable access commercial quality audio with the small room echo. lol
They are not the only greenscreened things in the video - the Jupiter 2 model itself is greenscreened into the outdoor scene there (it's actually only a few feet in diameter).
To capture a childs imagination they had the perfection dimensions for the ship as it encourages more vivid imagination and bewilderment how a ship so small could be so large and roomy inside.
This was fun. I am a outdoors person I love the shot with the ramp down and picnic table outside "Jupiter 2 space RV." all they need is stickers of other planets on the back to show where they have been.
Quinn Martins The Invaders, Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek,( The Enterprise and the Shuttle craft) Irwin Allen's Voyage to the the Bottom of the sea,( the Sea view and the Flying Sub) The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, (the Jupiter 2) and Land of the Giants, ( The Spin-drift), Gerry Anderson's Space:1999 ( Moon base Alpha and the Eagle) I remember them all on TV in the 60's and 70's. I also remember the spacecraft 20th Century Fox used on Planet of the Apes........ Growing up and being part of those TV shows was an experience. They weren't OVERLY COMPLICATED and confusing as today's movies and TV shows are. the were simple, practical shows that made it easy for the audience to identify with. If only they could bring that concept back to TV or the theaters, it might help for sure.
She always reminded me of "Mary Anne" from Gilligan's Island. The blonde (what's her name, anyway?) and Ginger were supposed to be the sexy females in those shows, but the cute and wholesome ones were, by far, the fan favorites.
MaskedMan66 : I know. I was just being facetious. She portrayed a rather forgettable character. Insert blonde here; must have beautiful blonde in show. Angela Cartwright was a show biz veteran by the time of LIS.
I watched this as a kid and loved it (still do). Right before it came on the show "Zorro" aired, also starring Guy Williams, with only about a 30 sec commercial spot in between. I used to wonder how he changed his clothes so fast! Ah, the blissful ignorance of youth!
ikr. Unfortunate that those "classic" TV shows have so much cut out of them on the TV stations showing them to accommodate those very annoying and overly long commercial breaks nowadays.
For a moment I thought OMG where and when was this!???!!!! I'd have loved to have seen all of these scale models!!! Then reality slapped me in the face! 😭😳🤪🤣🤣🤣
I'm glad the full size is preserved. That ship and series have a special place in my heart. Reference the previous post about scale- it is way off. But hey- it's the Jupiter 2 and that is good with me.
Laughed muh ass off at that last "UFO" saucer photo from Chickasaw Falls. It was the Jupiter 2 as Chickasaw Falls was the town where they ended up when they went back in time that one episode. I remember actor Robert Pine trying to explain to someone on the phone, " It kinda looked like a plate, or a saucer... Yea, that's what you'd call it, a flying saucer!!"
One of the main reasons I like to watch the show is to see the putterer 2 especially the interior of the ship. That is the part of the show I watch most intently. I liked it better when they were in actually in space rather then Stranded on a planet ,Though still interesting. It was where ever they went ,Stranded on a planet or traveling light years in space,They were always at home in the Jupiter 2 .
What a fun video! It looked almost real, and with great attention to detail! Love the collection of props you showed here! As for me, I wish I could have a collection of all the cool LIS ship models...not just the J2, but also the ones from "The Derelict," "Invaders from the Fifth Dimension," "The Keeper," "The Sky Pirate," etc!
This would've been perfect except for the echo off the walls where the greenscreen was being recorded, so it's obvious that none of the people were actually outdoors. Almost sounds like the voices were recorded in a tiled bathroom.
As well as intentionally jiggling the camera around in order to gratuitously show off the motion-tracking when in reality they'd probably have a locked down camera.
Great "virtual tour"; wish this was a real thing, but for production value, considering this was created using a virtual set, I'd say they did a pretty great job!
This video is amazing! Just the other day, I referenced how cool it would be if the next space faring group were to back a family to explore the cosmos just like the Robinsons using the Jupiter 2!
I always thought it was so cool to see John Candy on the movie The Great Wilderness or something where the bear chases him and he goes Big Bear chase me Big Bear chase me! Now that's a bear! They have a video of his owner and how he raised him from a cub.
"…stapled 2 paper plates together to make the Jupiter 2…" I have no idea how many paper plates we stapled together to make those in the mid-60s when the show was on. I got Dad to buy me one of those little staplers just for that. I'll never forget the first time I saw Lost in Space in color and found it odd the robot's claw hands were orange.
I have always ADORED the Jupiter 2!! Now, of course, it would have had to incorporate TARDIS tech to encompass all it supposedly contained. But I can Roll with that!
Yeah, nothing better than having women know their role is only at home or in the kitchen....though Lost in Space was in 1965 not the 1950's you twit... Clearly you have no value in the 21st Century so I suggest that you build a time machine and live in the past where ya belong with the rest of the fossils. There's no place for you in the present...
You know when you think about it. Speaking about our mold of transportation today. We are really Cave Men. I could take you back to the 1938 - 39 New York world's fair. Even tho I wasn't not born yet. Just watching film clips. Their models on transportation was a least 150 years ahead of us back then.
The actual JUPITER 2 mock up that was used in the episodes "THE DERELICT" and "VISIT TO A HOSTILE PLANET" was destroyed after LOST IN SPACE went off the air in 1968.
This is unbelievably cool. I have a sixteen inch "lunar models" version above the bar in my home. Really appreciate your posting this marvelous piece. - Love it!
Arthur Cabral If you actually managed to make a decent-looking display model out of that vacuformed Lunar Models Jupiter 2 kit, I salute your skill and your patience.
***** Bought it on ebay pre-constructed. It is a hollow shell inside. The lunar models "Nautilus" from 20,000 leagues under the sea is a great disappointment. The three degree up sweep from the bridge to the bow ram has been omitted, along with most small details. It vaguely represents the Jim Coil design of the 1958 classic. Just a couple of solid blocks and some trim of low quality resin. - Pathetic.
I saw this video about a year ago and I am still blown away by the awesome special effects of this project. Outstanding job to all the people involved in making this RUclips masterpiece! 😃👍
blown away by the awesome special effects, LMAO!
@@dragonfly492 you do realise it's not....ummm....real...
Love the Jupiter II. I was 10 years old when this show aired and loved it!!!!!
Yes Me too 10!
6
I was 4 years old
@@mikehartsook5281 Just a baby!!!!
It has always been my favorite. My mom made me a birthday cake of the Jupiter 2 for my birthday when I was 5 or 6. That's always been my favorite cake. The ship setting in a small diorama of a planetary landing. It was so much fun I was sad when we had to cut it.
I love that show, when I was a kid, I played hours and hours, with my block friends pretending to be lost in space!!! what a days!!!!
The biggest mystery for me is, what special sound effects were used to generate the different stages of the Jupiter 2's engine. From powerful sound of liftoff from earth in episode 1, The Reluctant Stowaway, which also used an anti-gravity drive, used to escape the gravity pull from earth. The anti-gravity drive was never meantioned in the show, and the 250 mega watts of power definitely had an unpleasant experience for Dr. Smith. The glow around the Jupiter 2 at liftoff was produced by the anti-gravity drive. The special sound effects was well done also when the Jupiter 2's engine went through the 4 stages of power before lifting off without the use of the anti-gravity drive. This video was Absolutely Awesome!!
I love the whole series of Lost in Space
Not season 2, I hope...
One of my all time Favorite shows. Of all the things I saw on the show, the one I would like to have today would be the washing machine. In one of the shows, Miss Robinson dumps a hamper of clothes in. Closes the lid and presses a few buttons and in three seconds you hear a beep. The clothes are clean, folded and shirk rapped. Ready to put away. What a time saver.
I was 6-8 yo during the TV presentation and I could never understand how many things could be kept in that spaceship. It was evident that the size of the ship (compared with the cast) in outdoor scenes, was the same of an ordinary truck, It was a time of innocence in television without correct notion of proportionality. But however that's my favorite serie of childhood (Time Tunnel also) and what made me study engineering.
Me too LOL
It was the same principle as in "Gilligan's Island:" how did they have all those non-essential items in the confined space of the SS Minnow or the Jupiter II? LOL, both shows were strictly designed to be fun! Actually, it all worked for us as kids...except when they got to the LIS episode, "The Space Creature" in season three. When they tried to make us believe that there was this huge "power core" beneath deck two, even we kids couldn't swallow that!
This show did not compute...
I thought the same, and, though I still do, since encountering a geodesic dome house, I found that a circular structure seems much smaller from the outside than it actually is because it immediately begins to slope away from you to either side no matter at what point you are standing. That circle of the J2 would have covered a lot of ground, if the prop had been complete. My main problem was that the lower level seemed just as high as the upper, even though on the miniature, it appears noticeably lower. Then, in the 3rd season, they actually gave it a third level where the reactor core was ensconced.
Even as a kid I always laughed at how they wanted us to believe that the Jupiter 2 carried seven humans, a big robot, all of the equipment and supplies, including the food, AND the Chariot, in that small spaceship. The Chariot alone was nearly half the size of the ship.
It never ceases to amaze me the cool videos regular people can put together. nice work guys.
Yup. Except that it wasn't "regular people ..."
("One of the original Star Wars film model makers from ILM, William (Bill) George, and crew manage to create this magnificent short film of a fictional Sci-Fi Air Show.")
I love the heck out of the Jupiter - even though its design could never allow for the 3 deck space, nor storage for the Chariot or the escape pod. Still its a fun TV show. I bet hardcore logic-oriented scientists lost a lot of sleep worrying how people could buy into the big lie - LoL
Wow, the robot spider-walker from Johnny Quest in the opening scene, nice little cameo there.
Yeah, I wish there was such a thing as a sci-fi airshow, I personally love the concept of this that everything was built as a real aircraft in the Sci-Fi Airshow universe instead of models and mockups as was the case in real life for all these classic films and TV shows.
Personally, the one I'd really like to have a ride in would be the Orion III from 2001 (AKA the Pan-Am Space Clipper), to LEO and back, have to confess it's one of my favorites. Maybe you could do a video on that one sometime?
Cheers,
Brendan O.
Lockheed P-3 Orion...? Avion de patrouille maritime ...?
@@yannickmadec2050
Non, je voulais dire l'avion spatial fictif Orion III du film 2001 : L'Odyssée de l'espace.
Ahh, the beloved Jupiter 2! Always ready to whisk a 10 yo boy away to wherever his imagination could take him and safely bring him home....
So True!
Great show! I loved the Jupiter 2! I went crazy looking for a model back in 69-70. J.C. Penny was selling them. The last one they had sold before I got there and they were discontinued. Didn't get one until nearly 30 years later! My favorite part of that ship is that elevator!
Here's that elevator: ruclips.net/video/85mMZFIyFkY/видео.html
I loved the elevator on the Jupiter 2.
And of course the Robot 🤖
The B9 Robot ROCKS!🤖
As a kid when watching the show, I would always think to myself. "There is no way that all that stuff could fit inside a ship that small!!!"
You know like the chariot. The laser drill etc.etc .etc.. never made any sense.
That's what I thought too. Even if they had to assemble everything, there still would not have been enough room. The only big thing that they had room for was the shuttle. It was in its own compartment on the first level. I could never figure out how they had 2 levels.
Same here and it's why I hate the house on the tv show Everybody loves Raymond. Those types of Cape Cod houses had one bedroom upstairs and with slanted ceilings that you were forever bumping your head into where as on the show it had three commodiusly large bedrooms with no sloping ceilings as depicted in the exterior.
It was a fantasy world ...that's how it all fit!!!... lol
Great video ! I always wanted to have a house with the Jupiter II main deck and door. As a matter of fact, I still want it.
Me too and it better have an electric door on the front
They had to assemble the chariot. It was packed away. Watch some of the first episodes. I think Don West sez: "let's assemble the chariot"
Apparently is was a quick assembly and breakdown. They always managed to take it with, even when leaving on short notice.
cool how the Galileo from trek cruised by in the background!
what about the cargo carrier from Star Trek the Motion Picture? it flew by in the upper right corner.
This show and the Flintstones...lived on them! Underdog and Rocky and Bullwinkle must see t.v. too!
I never understood why they decided to redesign it for the movie. The ship was iconic.
The Jupiter 2 is the most poorly designed miniature in history, when bumped up against what it was supposed to be portraying.
Awwww.... I wish a show like this would happen again and that I could go. Can we still see that replica of the Jupiter 2 in 2022?
I grew up in the 60s and 70s watching "Lost in space" what a time to be a kid in those days.
Ben Rayonez And that incomparable John Williams music! What memories.
Every day after school.
@@tommytruelick1871 Every Wednesday night @ 8:00pm on CBS channel 2 for me, (I'm a bit older than you!)
It was actually 7pm on Wednesdays!!
So wonderful to see it it brings back lots of great memories I would love to see it again in live person
The Jupiter 2WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. ONE OF THE GREATEST SITCOMS EVER.
Just before the start of the second season in 1966 my father bought a Zenith 25 inch color console TV, which was fantastic because Lost in Space was going to be broadcast in Color that year. The Zenith had a 25 inch TV, a stereo record player that had speeds from 16, 33, 45 & 78 rpm's and an AM & FM/Stereo radio. I remember it cost $800 in 1966 (almost $6,000 in 2017 dollars). That was the first time I ever heard of or saw an FM radio and in 1966 there were only 2 FM stations available in our area and they both played only Classical Music, but that was about to change.
Wow! Someone built a full-size Eagle? Very nice. I'd like to see that one close-up and also the Jupiter 2.
This show was my favorite of all time during my childhood. So great!!
Guy Williams played Zorro in earlier movies!
And television.
What a waste ...not using Guy William's more. The $$ though was very good for him...
I never watched the show Lost In Space, but this video got my attention because I actually witnessed an aircraft similar in size and somewhat similar in appearance to the Jupiter 2 back around 1993 in eastern Pennsylvania. To make a long story short, from a distance of about 75 yards, I saw a saucer shaped aircraft hover and fly away over the course of at least mile at no more than 30 mph while I was traveling by car. I believe it was man made because the center of the aircraft had windows evenly spaced around the center that were shaped just like the passenger windows on a commercial airliner. It also had a rotating ventilator looking thing on the roof and a small red or orange light on its rear. Seeing this thing proved to me that someone has aircraft that operate with alternative propulsion systems. By the way, I know this aircraft was not a fake because it had moving parts - the center of the hull with the windows rotated slowly and it had a spinning ventilator looking thing on top. I also witnessed it travel a good distance over many obstacles (including a river) before it slowly gained altitude.
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE JOKING YOU MEAN THERE IS NO SCI FI AIR SHOW.THIS WOULD BE UNBELIEVABLE IF IT EXISTED.
But I did enjoy watching the various ships flying by during the report. lol
OMG... I LOVE photon antennas! I am totally saving up for a J2
WOW, for a minute I was fooled to believe all those sci-fi spacecrafts were life size, they're just CGI effects!
At 4:30, you can see proof that this was CGI. There is a "ship" flying in the air.
So that's what they are.
The sound design is what throws it off. That and the lighting is off
@butchtropic uh I was talking about this video.
@@3v3rb0t True. The times he's standing and speaking in the "open air" but was clearly recorded in an enclosed space. Too bad - everything else was so nicely done...if he'd just paid a little more attention to this type of detail....
I'm totally in Love with the Jupiter 2 and the Eagle !!!😛😛😛😛😍😍😍😍😍
For kids, the J2 was an ideal home. It was safe & secure, made of cosmium steel and with a forcefield "fence" for extra protection. Even the windows had blast shields when needed. Inside it was a clean & orderly retreat from a world that children don't fully understand nor can deal with. Plus, Mom (Maureen) was always there and Dad (John) was always ready to defend it, whether with bare hands or laser rifles and pistols. Both were loving and wise.
See, I didn't need to go see a Therapist! You just explained why I loved the show as a child lock in!
The Jupiter 2 was great because it was the ultimate RV, a Winnebago to the stars. You'd travel someplace new, park on the surface, unpack and set up a little camp area outside the door, then break out the smaller vehicle to do some sightseeing in the vicinity.
By some combination of chance or foresight, this ship is here with us today & those of us who love her are so grateful.
Fascinating. Thank you for posting this. I assumed it was all just a set, and had no idea there was really a full-size model.
When I was a kid, I stapled 2 paper plates together too!
I used scotch tape!
Prepare to be sued for copyright infringement.
@@MediaWatchDawg Yeah- especially if you spray painted it silver LOL!!
I’m from the UK and the Jupiter 2 gets my vote.😎
WHAT??? Never made a model KIT? I had one!! had the upper and lower deck.
This was funny, the cheesy CGI...
I didn't want to point out that one mistake. But I remember seeing the model kit.
4:30 "...two paper plates..."
I made a number of iterations of that. One or two of the final versions had a threaded bolt and a domed chrome lugnut through the center of the ship to keep the upper and lower sections from collapsing. It was fairly intricate and it took me a minute or so before I remembered the details of the actual construction.
That's so weird how they're greenscreened over it. At least they lit it fairly well, but it's still pretty obvious. Acting like they're standing in a parking lot with this thing but you hear like.. cable access commercial quality audio with the small room echo. lol
I noticed that too. A bunch of us at our studio were shaking our heads at the audio. Lol nice attempt though if you're willing to suspend belief.
It's the first thing that hits you. He should have worn a lav mike.
All that effort on the effects spoiled by mediocre audio.
Juliana Brown
Juliana Brown
They are not the only greenscreened things in the video - the Jupiter 2 model itself is greenscreened into the outdoor scene there (it's actually only a few feet in diameter).
I loved the show always thought how cool it would be to see the actual ship and here it is
Yeah I always thought the scale of the ship was waaaayyy off.... It should be 500% bigger
they did it based off of the original movie, not the (way better) NETFLIX tv show version
@@patblogz2908 Correction. It was based on the original TV series in 1965. Not the movie.
Oh so correct!
To capture a childs imagination they had the perfection dimensions for the ship as it encourages more vivid imagination and bewilderment how a ship so small could be so large and roomy inside.
This was fun. I am a outdoors person I love the shot with the ramp down and picnic table outside "Jupiter 2 space RV." all they need is stickers of other planets on the back to show where they have been.
So, is this a CG model or a full size practical model. Your work is so great, it is hard to really tell.
Quinn Martins The Invaders, Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek,( The Enterprise and the Shuttle craft) Irwin Allen's Voyage to the the Bottom of the sea,( the Sea view and the Flying Sub) The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, (the Jupiter 2) and Land of the Giants, ( The Spin-drift), Gerry Anderson's Space:1999 ( Moon base Alpha and the Eagle) I remember them all on TV in the 60's and 70's. I also remember the spacecraft 20th Century Fox used on Planet of the Apes........ Growing up and being part of those TV shows was an experience. They weren't OVERLY COMPLICATED and confusing as today's movies and TV shows are. the were simple, practical shows that made it easy for the audience to identify with. If only they could bring that concept back to TV or the theaters, it might help for sure.
Penny was CUTE!!!!
yeah, BUT NOT NOW :(
frase1234 Eh, shuddup, Angela Cartwright is still cute as a button with those eyes and that smile.
She always reminded me of "Mary Anne" from Gilligan's Island. The blonde (what's her name, anyway?) and Ginger were supposed to be the sexy females in those shows, but the cute and wholesome ones were, by far, the fan favorites.
Agent Fungus Marta Kristen played Judy Robinson.
MaskedMan66 : I know. I was just being facetious. She portrayed a rather forgettable character. Insert blonde here; must have beautiful blonde in show. Angela Cartwright was a show biz veteran by the time of LIS.
Such a truly beautiful vessel.
I loved Lost In Space, but really I would have thrown Dr. Smith out in flight, really!
I think they tried that, lol!
William Butler I would have shot Dr Smith AND Gillian !!
@Scott Halloween 😀😁😂😅 agreed!
He did cause it to happen.
I think major West would agree with you!
I watched this as a kid and loved it (still do). Right before it came on the show "Zorro" aired, also starring Guy Williams, with only about a 30 sec commercial spot in between. I used to wonder how he changed his clothes so fast! Ah, the blissful ignorance of youth!
ikr. Unfortunate that those "classic" TV shows have so much cut out of them on the TV stations showing them to accommodate those very annoying and overly long commercial breaks nowadays.
For a moment I thought OMG where and when was this!???!!!! I'd have loved to have seen all of these scale models!!! Then reality slapped me in the face! 😭😳🤪🤣🤣🤣
The first few seconds I was thinking along the same lines, but then reality set in.
Haha, this is great! Love how you talk about it as it was actually launched - complete with hd-blur and excellent NASA-style muzak
Colonial Shuttle in the back ground :)
I'm glad the full size is preserved. That ship and series have a special place in my heart. Reference the previous post about scale- it is way off. But hey- it's the Jupiter 2 and that is good with me.
This was a green screen fake.
Loved Lost N Space....Fascinated with the Jupiter 2!
"The pain, ohhh, the pain. Come here and help me you Bubble Headed Booby."
funny
Laughed muh ass off at that last "UFO" saucer photo from Chickasaw Falls. It was the Jupiter 2 as Chickasaw Falls was the town where they ended up when they went back in time that one episode. I remember actor Robert Pine trying to explain to someone on the phone, " It kinda looked like a plate, or a saucer... Yea, that's what you'd call it, a flying saucer!!"
Thank you so much for posting this. Classic.
Always loved lost in space as a kid,,,still do !
One of the main reasons I like to watch the show is to see the putterer 2 especially the interior of the ship. That is the part of the show I watch most intently. I liked it better when they were in actually in space rather then Stranded on a planet ,Though still interesting. It was where ever they went ,Stranded on a planet or traveling light years in space,They were always at home in the Jupiter 2 .
I have a feeling that Guy Williams and Jonathan Harris are in heaven having a chuckle together..
What a fun video! It looked almost real, and with great attention to detail! Love the collection of props you showed here! As for me, I wish I could have a collection of all the cool LIS ship models...not just the J2, but also the ones from "The Derelict," "Invaders from the Fifth Dimension," "The Keeper," "The Sky Pirate," etc!
Yay Eagle and Proteus....
AWESOME JOB!!!! LOST IN SPACE 4 LIFE . . . AND>> (( NEVER FEAR SMITH IS HERE )) RIP JANATHAN HARRIS
This would've been perfect except for the echo off the walls where the greenscreen was being recorded, so it's obvious that none of the people were actually outdoors.
Almost sounds like the voices were recorded in a tiled bathroom.
My thoughts exactly.
As well as intentionally jiggling the camera around in order to gratuitously show off the motion-tracking when in reality they'd probably have a locked down camera.
David Roberts Wow, the stupidity of your comment.
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I was born in 1953. I was just the right age when this show aired that it was easy for me to "suspend disbelief".
Great "virtual tour"; wish this was a real thing, but for production value, considering this was created using a virtual set, I'd say they did a pretty great job!
The Jupiter 2 is and always will be the best space ship ever made and so superior to all the others in so many ways..
I only wish the ships were actually built so I could go see them. The Eagle is my favorite.
I don't think they ever built more than a model of the Eagle. There were sets for the cockpit and the cargo, but that would be about it.
There was an exterior of the eagle built. I remember seeing Alan standing by the hatch in one episode.
This video is amazing! Just the other day, I referenced how cool it would be if the next space faring group were to back a family to explore the cosmos just like the Robinsons using the Jupiter 2!
At the very least they should have the actor that played Will Robinson on the Jupiter 2 with the robot.
lost in space & grizzly adams was 2 of the best Tv shows that ever was or ever shall be
I always thought it was so cool to see John Candy on the movie The Great Wilderness or something where the bear chases him and he goes Big Bear chase me Big Bear chase me! Now that's a bear! They have a video of his owner and how he raised him from a cub.
"Dr.Smith...you have now lost your membership card in the human race!" The robot.
The Jonny Quest mechanical spider really blows me away🤩! I want to go to the Sci-Fi Airshow😻!
Eagle one from space 1999 at the begining. 11 y\o me just got all giddy. lol
The eagle was the highlight of the show. In real life the vessel was technological very possible.
Brilliant. Thanks for the memories.
"…stapled 2 paper plates together to make the Jupiter 2…"
I have no idea how many paper plates we stapled together to make those in the mid-60s when the show was on. I got Dad to buy me one of those little staplers just for that.
I'll never forget the first time I saw Lost in Space in color and found it odd the robot's claw hands were orange.
I have always ADORED the Jupiter 2!!
Now, of course, it would have had to incorporate TARDIS tech to encompass all it supposedly contained.
But I can Roll with that!
"Aliens intent on stealing our women"...well you can have the women of 2020s just not the women from the 1950s, they know how to cook and clean!
Yeah, nothing better than having women know their role is only at home or in the kitchen....though Lost in Space was in 1965 not the 1950's you twit...
Clearly you have no value in the 21st Century so I suggest that you build a time machine and live in the past where ya belong with the rest of the fossils. There's no place for you in the present...
The video looks pretty convincing -- the sound is the giveaway, all the exteriors have obvious "inside" sound to them
Is any of this film for real? It all looks like CGI trickery, but very well done.
Sadly, no.
All fake, Einstein.
jlovebirch Damm it
The best part about the Jupiter 2 is that it is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside!
Holly SHIT!!!!!!! THIS IS GREAT FANTASTIC,WOW,!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!
At 6:52 - Jupiter 2 over Chicasaw Falls, MI in 1947 - Visit To A Hostile Planet. Who noticed that? Very cool
I did ...!
That was fun to watch. Props!
Serious LIS geekdom... Go LIS!!
Definitely ignites my childhood memories!🥰🥳👍🍻!!!
You know when you think about it. Speaking about our mold of transportation today. We are really Cave Men.
I could take you back to the 1938 - 39 New York world's fair. Even tho I wasn't not born yet. Just watching film clips. Their models on transportation was a least 150 years ahead of us back then.
Nice, but one nitpick is that the scenes where he's supposed to be outside sound like they were recorded indoors.
Ahhh..the classics.
If your going to use a green screen to drop in the commentary, at least either use a better room or a lav mike.
WOW I NEED TO GO TO THAT SHOW
The actual JUPITER 2 mock up that was used in the episodes "THE DERELICT" and "VISIT TO A HOSTILE PLANET" was destroyed after LOST IN SPACE went off the air in 1968.
i loved lost in space when i was a kid !
I have an un-assembled model of the Jupiter 2 in my garage, still in the box.
Ebay buddy
I have two in my garage mint with the shrink wrap 100% intact. lol (seriously)
Ironically, I have an un-assembled model of my garage in the Jupiter 2, still in the box!
Well, now I guess i'm going to have to binge watch Lost in Space on Hulu now.
Pity about the echo....
PRECISION COMPUTERS - THE LIGHTER SIDE OF I.T. Hazard of small studio shooting. It was less distracting when he was standing under the ship.
Echo about the pity
what echo? what echo? what echo? what echo? what echo?
wish i could see it myself. i grew up with the show, corny but loved.
This is unbelievably cool. I have a sixteen inch "lunar models" version above the bar in my home. Really appreciate your posting this marvelous piece. - Love it!
Arthur Cabral If you actually managed to make a decent-looking display model out of that vacuformed Lunar Models Jupiter 2 kit, I salute your skill and your patience.
***** Bought it on ebay pre-constructed. It is a hollow shell inside. The lunar models "Nautilus" from 20,000 leagues under the sea is a great disappointment. The three degree up sweep from the bridge to the bow ram has been omitted, along with most small details. It vaguely represents the Jim Coil design of the 1958 classic. Just a couple of solid blocks and some trim of low quality resin. - Pathetic.
I absolutely love the Jupiter II. I could live in this no problem.
Super Video 👍 🙂 👍 Thumbs Up
Came across this by chance. Excellent piece of work. If only these craft could fly.Well hopefully the new British Space plane will.
4:20 "To put this whole thing together and make it operational"... LOL It was operational?