Is it me or were those boat like transporters usind in the Martian Chronicles as well? I seem to remember a scene from my childhood where an old guy in some sort of cowboy outfit was shooting at guys with big V shaped masks and sparkly cloaks on those kind of desert ships on mars and when he shot them they disappeared.
I could be wrong, but I'm sure it was that! If it was is it the same ships?
It's possible. Sometimes sci-fi's in the 80s recycled props to save on their budget. I remember seeing some random sci-fi with the exact same ships as in Battle Beyond the Stars. I think it is all because of the Buck Rodgers/Battle Star Galactica thing in 1979. Someone decided it was a good idea and that the audience wouldn't care that the same props were being used again and again even though their target audience would likely have seen both films/shows.
Which would probably be why so many of those recycled prop films are so well known today...yeah, that's why they stopped doing it I guess.
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Yeah,the samething happened with that huge armoured land train used in the movie adaptation of Damnation Alley, it also appeared briefly in Apex,in the background.
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