I never get tired of seeing the Jupiter 2 lift off and land. The sound is truly one of a kind.

🏍️ I was mesmerized by the Jupiter 2 when i was a kid. Used to draw it all the time. 🖍️

Better than what the effects people did in the 60s! Wow, wow and wow 👏

This video is superb. The models are incredible. What a great hobby! When I was in grade school I used to doodle the Jupiter 2 all the time. I could never understand how they fit that giant engine room in there lol. I still get a thrill looking at the J2 and this video is very satisfying lol. I got to see the real models at the L.A. Museum of TV and Radio exhibition on October 16, 1997, the day of takeoff. Mark Goddard was there still looking very fine. They had the full sized Robot, and models of Jupiter 2 and the Chariot. It was fantastic. Great video. Thanks.

The quality of this work is extraordinary! 100% professional!

Who doesn't fantasize being with family and friends in this cozy flying Winnebago-like spaceship sharing a thrilling camping ride through the Galaxy?!

Fantastic recreation!

Spectacular!

Magnificent!.

Awesome models, irwin would be impressed

The original Space Pod filming miniature was quite an interesting little model. It had several animated parts. In addition to the large rotating antenna on top, the small periscope twisted back and forth and the right hand scanner on the from rocked up and down. They were all controlled by linkages to a single servo motor that operated all the animated features of the model simultaneously. Excellent job on your models, BTW.

First time that I've seen a J2 model with working retracts ... Excellent!

Totally professional! Couldn’t be better. Fantastic work. Congratulations!

Great model work and great video production! As a kid, I missed the original run of "The Derelict", the only 1st season episode in which the landing legs were seen. For a whole year, I didn't know the J2 had them. When the 2nd season started in Sept. 1966, the 3rd episode "The Ghost Planet" had a soft landing sequence... I remember just being blown away by the landing leg extension and retraction. Then not seen again until numerous 3rd season episodes. I never understood why all three legs needed steps, though.

It is the most beautiful and aerodynamic ship and that unforgettable landing gear and ladder at the same time

Lovely models that capture that unique feel of the classic series i am 63 and vividly remember watching this new US series on TV here in the UK 🇬🇧 😀

Man this looks almost as good as the show lift offs were...great job!

Fantastic shots, love to see a behind the scenes video.

I like how Major West and Prof. Robinson are manning the controls and flying the ship.

Astounding! I really like the next to last one.

wow! these look as good as the show1

Pretty cool. My favourite was the Space Pod inside the Derelict, something we never saw in the series. Love the articulation of the Space Pod's radar dish and the J2's legs retracting.

Perfect!!A huge well done!!!!!

I always loved the sound of it taking off and landing. In the first episode and pilot, not so much.

HOT! Love the lighting on these beautiful models .BRAVO!

Simply magnificent! Very nice work!

That's some of the best work I've seen yet! It could have been used on the show!

great job. the landing legs actually work better than the real thing from the show. j2 always gonna be my fav ship

Damn near better than the original effects

Actually far superior to the actual 1960s show! I would have liked some landings as well.

Absolutely brilliant!!

Great practical effects well done!

Docking the space pod into the Jupiter 2 would be cool. Video both inside (receiving) and departure.

Great Job . I've started Both J - 2's the small one that has full details on upper and lower decks also about a foot in diameter . Then the Larger w/ Single Main Deck that's about 2 feet in diameter and finally both the Pod and Chariot witch needs a Lot of masking . And last but not least I've finished the Classic L O S Diorama of the giant alien cyclops and the J - 2 from the reimagine movie . Almost forgot I'm also building the 1 : 6'th scale B 9 . Yea ... No wonder I have nothing to do .

I can watch this all day!😀

wow. it’s so good i thought these must have been outtakes from the original show. well done

Excellent, Love your video ! You did a fantastic Awesome job ! So realistic both sounds & sight including the swirling dust from the planet surface scene when blasting off.. All totally Awesome ! I admire the fusion core lights both the Jupiter 2 & the Space Pod also the scanner lights on top of J2. Both look excellent & let alone the working retractable landing gear awesome... All look fantastic !!

That Jupiter 2 engine sound was always so awe-inspiring to me. I've never been able to replicate it, even on synthesizers. I wonder what they used in the 1960's to get that specific sound?

Damn! AWESOME

Amazing work, looks fantastic!!

Super cool! Great sound too.

GREAT WORK.

Very well done

EXCELLENT work!

Superb job

Incredible!

Excellent beyond cool!

That is just incredible!!!

Everyone seems to have forgotten that in the pilot, the landing gear would been rendered inoperable since it was buried under several hundred tons of Jupiter 2. Only when the Dr Smith character was added did it make an appearance. Also, the drive dome would have been sheered away or irreparably damaged during the crash landing.

BRILLIANT....

Thanks for great memories

well done, watched a railroad video first. big like

Excellent!

Followed the link from Facebook! Awesome!

Super cool!!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Pretty well done!

GREAT JOB!!!!! LOVE IT..

I keep expecting to see Dr. Smith running up to the ship as it's lifting off screaming "WAIT!!! WAIT FOR ME!!!!! WHAAAAAOOOHHH!!!!!"

Incredible work!! Just as I recall the original shots of takeoffs and flying also from my childhood in the 60's. I would LOVE to see how you did the electronics for the fusion core and especially the overhead bubble. I don't like the few kits out there have a couple LEDs chasing on a board for the bubble. The real one looked like yours. Something like a then current day police bubble light. And then the landing Legs!! Works of art! C'mon man, don't be stingy show us how you did it. Share your knowledge with mankind. I built the first replica Knight Rider KITT 2000 back in 1988 from scratch and all my stuff worked. Dash, scan light EVERYTHING. Now there are KITS (no pun intended) out there you can buy or about 3 diff companies will turnkey them for you. Anyway If I just had some tips I think I'd know which direction to go in. Thanks!!!

Great job.

The space pod as I remember sounded like a power hand drill

It cracks me up the space pod is almost as big as the Jupiter 2

Cool!

Really nice.

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

What parts did you use to get the J2 landing legs to deploy and retract? I have the 18" J2 from Mobius and would like to get them to work. Great job!

Awesome!

Fantastic! You should be in charge of SFX in any remake!

Looks like the real deal.

Just found this. You have created a really faithful version of the fusion core. Kudos for that. I have not seen any others that I like enough to want to put into my J2 when I build it. They are often WAY too bright and regular. I love the landing gear retractions. Do they reverse as well- deploying rather than folding up?

In the first season there were sea bathispheres or ball shaped precursers of the pod one episode showed will going up in one with a.balloon attached

Could you show the making of the video, special effects for the lack of a better word?Thank you for bringing back childhood memories.

Great work. The only thing that doesn't quite measure up to the original FX shots are your smoke effects, only because, I suspect, your models aren't as big as the ones used by Lydecker. Other than that, not only do you faithfully recreate the original shots, but, improve on them, particularly in the case of the fuel barge. I particularly liked the next to last sequence of the J2 taking off from the night planet; not a shot we ever saw on the show. You could have made it even better by recreating the interior of the J2, but, I understand that you reproduced the model as it is seen in the series.

GOOD STUFF

Well done!👍.. Sadly Mark Goddard just recently passed away 🙏

The ice princess. J5 , and IDAK are ready for you..

Awesome job man. I love these LIS ships. I was pissed at the recent remake movie when they had what was a reasonable facsimile of the OG ship break apart to reveal the odd shaped splotch that was the new ship, awful. Not a great movie but could have at least left the ship intact, certainly would have increased my enjoyment (or tolerance) of it.

It's sad to think that most people under the age of 20 will see this as inferior to CGI. It isn't. It has depth and volume and atmosphere, something CGI can never quite duplicate.

So, are there any drawings of the space pod?

Why didn't they have GPS?

Where can you find the j2 engine sounds

What would be the cost to make Jupiter 2 with retracting legs, and light interior? Thank You.

Space pod didn't exist until the third season and they reused the derilict

Where can I buy these toys?

far out man.

There no way! That ship as 2 decks.

Your timing is a bit off, the sounds should reach their crescendo right at the moment of liftoff as opposed tojust after.

Jupiter 2 is a stupid craft.

That saucer could never have contained the pod, the chariot, the jet pack,the hydroponic growing system etc,etc. it was hardly large enough for the people. And they were sent into the unknown with no armament for the ship just evasive action. Irwin Allan did voyage to the bottom of the sea. The Seaview at least looked large enough for the flying sub.