Post #206227 by tikijackalope on Sat, Jan 7, 2006 8:15 AM

Irwin Allen was notoriously cheap and used Lost in Space costumes and props in his other productions (i.e. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea). I wouldn't be surprised to see those slit drums, or just the tops of them, turn up somewhere else. For that matter, they may have been scavenged from some other production. A glance down his list of credits might render a suspect: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000740/

Bob May (the guy in the LIS robot suit) was one of the guests at a sci-fi convention I shot last year for it's promoters: http://www.starbase21ok.com/trek__expo__2005.htm

Some of the perks were signatures and the freedom to create photo ops for my own blog, http://thelope.blogspot.com/2005_07_05_thelope_archive.html

I subsequently had pic requests from a guy who works conventions with May; I'll ask if he knows anything about the set design for that episode...slim chance, since an actor would not really have been involved, but they seemed to be a tight group so I'll ask anyway.

I thought it'd be cool to shoot the robot replica with Tricia Helfer (a cylon in the current Battlestar Galactica) partially because its a robot group shot but mostly because it was fun to pose her in front of pretty much anything.

By the way, the guy that designed the LIS robot, Robert Kinoshita, also designed Robby for Forbidden Planet. Here's more info on that, which also mentions set design: http://www.b9robotbuildersclub.com/pub/home/kinoshita.html I'd love to have the pleasure of meeting and photographing him someday.

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