Stoop Davy Dave Are you trying to tell me there's NOT an island full of live dinosaurs, out in the Pacific Ocean? There's no Polar Express? And no Santa Claus too, I suppose? Ha! Next you'll tell me Forrest Gump wasn't a documentary!
Are you trying to tell me there's NOT an island full of live dinosaurs, out in the Pacific Ocean?
There's no Polar Express? And no Santa Claus too, I suppose?
Ha!
Next you'll tell me Forrest Gump wasn't a documentary!
Ummm. ...How are we going to break it to you that Star Wars wasn't a documentary
..or that there never was a real "three hour tour"
Have fun with your trains
It's not called Movie Magic for no reason.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Remember Hollywood built a 1" scale live steam model of 4449 for the the wreck in "Tough Guys". It looked convinsing on film like they did wreck 4449. So I suspect it is a 1" or a 11/2" Live steam model that was used.
"The last Zorro movie did this effectively"
That last Zorro movie did indeed have me believing the equipment was real ... until they did those aerial shots of that ridiculous track layout, with the Popeye-cartoon arrangement of switches, and the railroad-to-nowhere non-terminal. The decorated interiors of the mostly-empty boxcars were pretty funny too. And don't get me started on the trampoline -enhanced fight stunts.
That said, thank you, and I hope you're right, and your explanation sure does sound right.
I seriously doubt they could get someone (private owner or museum group) to allow the studio to wreck any preserved steamer. Likely this is a full scale prop augmented with a large scale model and alot of CGI. Aside from the recent use of CGI, its a long tradition in the movies to do this, not many know that the Hooterville Cannonball in the later years of Petticoat Junction was actually large scale model for the running shots and then a full size model (actually a wood/fiberglass replica of a real locomotive built for the movie Ticket to Tomahawk and that has a amazingly interesting Hollywood career in itself) for the station scenes. The last Zorro movie did this effectively, Night at the Museum also used a large scale model to crash into Ben Stiller's foot.
BTW I can tell you this Lone Ranger movie is NOT using the Hooterville Cannonball/Ticket to Tomahawk replica as its currently undergoing restoration in Colorado.
I'm sorry to be off-topic, but I don't know who else to ask about this.
I just saw a trailer for next year's "The Lone Ranger" movie, and in it, there was a very beautiful 4-6-0, getting some VERY rough treatment. How rough? They had it flopped down on its side and sliding across some rocky-looking ground towards a collision with another piece of rolling stock, with the pistons still churning the drivers. It hurt to watch!
Was this an actual preservation / museum-piece locomotive, or some fresh-built fake? If it's fake, it's a really good fake!
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