- September 30th, 2020, 3:49 pm#4940199
Wanted people's opinion on this.
So you make a new movie, you need new merchandise. You can't replicate 30 year old merchandise 1:1.
But you don't want to change the old GB1984 props at all. How do you solve this?
I think whoever made the decision to do what they did on GB Afterlife was very intelligent and very creative.
The wand has changed somewhat, ok. The flat wooden grip on the front (not the best change) and the tape on the back, passable. Also the dimensions have been maximized to look most impressive. Keep the prop the same but make it bigger.
The PKE however has been brilliantly reconsidered. Looks exactly the same, GB1 light animation. Only new thing is the lights on the wings shine through the bottom through what looks like aging on the fiberglass wing shells. A stroke of brilliance to keep a prop the exact same, but to change it at the same time. Just changing the opacity of parts. Really well done.
If you also look closely, the PKE graph goes from lower left to upper right,... a direction we had not seen before in the franchise. Again a super creative way to keep a prop the same, but change it.
My hat's off to the designers of GB: AL. They seem to understand exactly what to do and how to do it.
Has anyone else found examples where they changed a known prop, while treating it with gloves?
So you make a new movie, you need new merchandise. You can't replicate 30 year old merchandise 1:1.
But you don't want to change the old GB1984 props at all. How do you solve this?
I think whoever made the decision to do what they did on GB Afterlife was very intelligent and very creative.
The wand has changed somewhat, ok. The flat wooden grip on the front (not the best change) and the tape on the back, passable. Also the dimensions have been maximized to look most impressive. Keep the prop the same but make it bigger.
The PKE however has been brilliantly reconsidered. Looks exactly the same, GB1 light animation. Only new thing is the lights on the wings shine through the bottom through what looks like aging on the fiberglass wing shells. A stroke of brilliance to keep a prop the exact same, but to change it at the same time. Just changing the opacity of parts. Really well done.
If you also look closely, the PKE graph goes from lower left to upper right,... a direction we had not seen before in the franchise. Again a super creative way to keep a prop the same, but change it.
My hat's off to the designers of GB: AL. They seem to understand exactly what to do and how to do it.
Has anyone else found examples where they changed a known prop, while treating it with gloves?
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