Gunstar
from "The Last Starfighter" (1984)
Price: $125.00 + Shipping
STATUS: IN STOCK
Price: $125.00 + Shipping
STATUS: IN STOCK
About the Design
Released during the post-"Star Wars" sci-fi boom of the early 1980s, "The Last Starfighter" was a benchmark film in its own right in that it was the first major Hollywood film to make extensive use of the then-nascent technology of Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI). The tale of a young videogame player who is recruited by an alien alliance to pilot its last remaining spacecraft, the film had as its centerpiece the "Gunstar," a large and wholly credible two-man fighter designed by celebrated conceptual artist Ron Cobb. Lifting off vertically and equipped with a powerful "Hail Mary" weapons array called the "Death Blossom," the Gunstar never existed as a physical model, being wholly a creation of computer graphics. Although the early 1980s technology was admittedly crude, the Gunstar remains a much-loved spacecraft among sci-fi fans worldwide.
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