Source materials for the Count Iblis ship
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:00 am
We know from various sources that (in spite of some fan theories) Count Iblis's crashed ship was never supposed to be the Pegasus. In the War of the Gods novelization, the ship is described as so large that it would dwarf a battlestar the same way a battlestar dwarfs a Viper, and Apollo calls it "an immense ship of unfamiliar design."
In the script for Part 1, Glen Larson suggested using the twisted structural pieces from the crash aftermath in Universal's 1975 film The Hindenburg to represent Iblis's ship. Instead, to make sure it would be seen as futuristic but different in design from a battlestar, the set designers used pieces left over from the Universal TV-movie Brave New World (telecast in 1980), which they altered to simulate crash damage. This Facebook post includes images of some of those circular and cylindrical pieces as they appeared in Brave New World and as parts of Iblis's ship. Some of the large round doorway units would also be repainted and reused in episodes of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/battles ... 9365710684
In the script for Part 1, Glen Larson suggested using the twisted structural pieces from the crash aftermath in Universal's 1975 film The Hindenburg to represent Iblis's ship. Instead, to make sure it would be seen as futuristic but different in design from a battlestar, the set designers used pieces left over from the Universal TV-movie Brave New World (telecast in 1980), which they altered to simulate crash damage. This Facebook post includes images of some of those circular and cylindrical pieces as they appeared in Brave New World and as parts of Iblis's ship. Some of the large round doorway units would also be repainted and reused in episodes of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/battles ... 9365710684