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The finished prop was so cumbersome, they had to have guys in black skin suits running it. They constructed the test model with 2x2s and trash bags stuffed with newspapers to get the articulation down. “I started designing it when they went to Pinewood. Cameron seems to have revisited the design for Avatar. Syd Mead’s early design of the powerloader. Former ILM employee Joe Johnson told in 2010 that “The snow walkers were from a brochure by Syd Mead for US Steel of these walking trucks going through the snow – we turned them into walking tanks.” ~ James Cameron, Lofficier interview, 1986.įunnily enough, the AT-AT design from Empire was inspired by Syd Mead, who Cameron would later briefly task to design the powerloader. I think that the exo-skeleton concept has been used in a lot of literary SF.” That predated the ‘Transformer’ robots, at least as a fad in this country. It’s based on a design that I created a few years ago for another story that never got made. “I don’t remember exactly the origin of the idea. So I changed ‘the Spider’ to more of an upright, forklift exoskeleton concept.” I felt vaguely ripped off, or scooped would be more accurate. When Cameron wrote Aliens he retooled it from one of his unmade scripts, Mother, and also brought over Xenogenesis’ mechanised vehicle, changing it from a four-legged contraption to a two-legged exo-suit: “A year and a half, The Empire Str ikes Back came out with these big walking machines in it. It was a four-legged walking machine that used a tele-presence-type amplification: you put your feet in things, you grabbed onto these controls, and however you moved and walked, it duplicated your actions.” I came up with a device I called ‘the Spider’ that was used to crawl around the outside of the ship to make repairs. “When I was young,” Cameron told when discussing Xenogenesis’ mechanical ‘outfit’, “my friends and I did this little film with $20,000 from the rich, Mormon dentists out in Orange County … The story we wanted took place on a colony starship bound for another planet with the last remnants of humanity on board frozen. And the woman’s robotic vehicle is replaced by one of the film’s most iconic inventions: a mechanised exo-suit called the ‘powerloader’. The Alien Queen takes the place of the robot, the design of which Cameron would recycle for the Hunter-Killer Tank in Terminator. There is no chasm instead Newt cowers under the Sulaco’s flooring. The scene was transplanted directly into the climax of Aliens, with the two nameless protagonists replaced by Ripley and Newt. The robot leans in to finish him, but a far-off wall panel is forced open, revealing the woman – now encased in a robotic vehicle and ready to do battle for her partner’s life. The woman manages to flee, but the other is forced over a precipice and hangs perilously over a chasm. In James Cameron’s Xenogenesis the two protagonists, a man and a woman, are hounded by a gigantic robot. ~ Aliens script, by James Cameron, September 1985. Like medieval armour with the power of a bulldozer. “Ripley steps out, WEARING TWO TONS OF HARDENED STEEL.
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