Show and Tell: 2001 A Space Odyssey 1/6 Scale Spacesuit!

Monolith...not obelisk

Was the IBM logo on the com pad the reason they didn't appear in the movie?

To weather or not to weather

Adam counts like a Discworld troll... 1... 2... many... many 1... many 2... lots...

I'm thinking the word of the century is so . 🙂

I'm startled no one makes the Newspad terminals seen in the movie, which were also seen displaying blueprints on a poster's artwork.
Who has the Monolith? Love to see Adam copy it. I DON'T think it was 1:4:9!

Dance pole would work best

Thats a beauty

Now you can scale up the suit hanger system, I'll bet it would be heavy though.

Wait... Did you just refer to the Monolith as an "Obelisk"?
That's an entirely different shape, Adam!

To me, that blank black inner box looks like the monolith lol

Looks like they missed the opportunity to give the box the 1:4:9 dimensions of the monolith from the book.

Okay, editor. The hiss of escaping air when he pulls the hose is brilliant.

Hey Adam, you can find telescoping floor to ceiling bicycle stands which should easily hold the spacesuit like you described to hold the helmet and suit separately. Apologies if this has already been suggested

Good Morning Dave. What are you doing Dave. LOL

Like a kid, a very sophisticated kid, on Christmas morning. Love the joy you exude enjoying the things you love.

Couldn't you use a stripper pole to mount the life size suit just bolt those mounts onto it that should be strong enough

You just made the 1/6 scale community happy. 👍👍

That tiny helmet in the thumbnail is so damn cute🥰😁

I have some 1/6 but $370 is too much for just a suit. That's a $500 figure when complete.

Hi Adam... could you do a show and tell vid of your Blade runner Officer K coat please?!!

Maybe a pole for pole-dancing would be significantly sturdier (since it'd have to support the weight of a human moving around on it) and thus suitable for hanging the suit on?

Hey Adam, how does a kid like me get to meet you! Awesome stories can’t wait to see more videos!

This actual suit from the film sold two years ago for $370,000!

I've got to ask this because it is Shark Week. Do you miss being with Jamie and the rest of the Mythbusters on Shark Week? I am so tired of these celebrities and sports people trying to add entertainment? Instead of scientific content.

Have you and Rick Beato ever been photographed together>

Adam. Could you send me one for my GI Joes?

And, Mr. Savage, we shoukd also note, in one of the few times 'Hollywood' got the hardware of spaceflight right, or logically extrapolated. No lights INSIDE the helmet to obstruct the asteo's vision. The first time I saw that annoying piece of stupidity, as I recall, was directed a film called "Outland", with Sean Connery. Sir Sean's entire face was lit up with an entire circle of Christmas tree lights. The latest instance? Probably one of the new Trek series, or 'Expance'. I've never see the Expanse, but I assume, a d hope, that Naren Shankar has more integrity than that. And check Dune as well.........

Why do I get the feeling that there's a model-designer really kicking him/herself right now as they find out about the text on the front pack...

It looks like they also left the face of the box blank to complete the appearance of the monolith. Seems like they got the proportions right!

Would have been a good prank to have someone hiding in the suit (or a mechanism) without Adam knowing, so that it moves (looks over, or waves) while he's talking

York, Nebraska is having a Comicon September 24,25

It bothers me more than it should that we never get to see the suit on a figure... with a little Adam head!

Would a vintage 1/6 GI Joe fit in it?

Adam never seems to mention prices in these videos: for anyone interested, this suit's listed on their website at $414.99 !!

There is a movie called 'On the Silver Globe' a Polish sci fi movie from the 80s based on an old book. It is a really great movie for space suites. The first part with the satellite as well is very cool. But there is a lot of epic shots with space suite involved. A space suite on a funeral pyre very iconic imagery. Definitely one to check out.

What a beautiful piece or pieces.

It's good for me to have the collector-guy nerdiness playing in the background; but I thought he was going to redesign an new env-suit.

My Clavius 1/6 suit arrived recently and it does indeed have the Letraset lettering on the chestpack. There’s a mystery here.

In the 2001 production, there are three styles for the spacesuits. 1st is the TMA-1 Excavation Pit suits, of which there were six all made of aluminized nylon. Only one of these "natural silver" styles exists and it's at the Academy Museum. The helmets had curved glazing on them. In these suits the back "memory modules" on the helmets just had the sliver raised retangles without any number stickers on them or kit parts. They also, as pointed out by others commenting, did not have the IBM arm pushbutton control for the memory modules. The concept of the memory modules and pushbuttons were devleoped by Elliot Noyes & Assoc., who were an IBM contractor for design of their Selectric typewriters and housings for their main frame computers. The boots were the UK fireman boot that had a ring rivited to it. The suits had a "bootie" style foot, like pajamas, and you just slipped the boot on...there was no connection to the suit. The 2nd style was the Discovery suits modified by the studio, which were painted in color over the natural silver fabric with a paint mixed with a rubber solution so it wouldn't flake when flexed. The front and back packs were different and also made at the studio and painted orange. The memory modules for this style were black with kit parts attached and presstype lettering. The arm pushbutton was added to this suit. The boots were painted grey instead of the buff sandy color of the original TMA suits. The trim on the hose connectors and metal items on the suit were changed from the IBM blue to black. The USAA patch was changed from "Clavius" to "Discovery". Two red and yellow suits were painted and outfitted along with a blue one for the Podbay hanger. Originally, these suits had the same "bootie" type arrangement for the feet, until Keir Dullea triped and fell while filming a sequence in the Discovery Command Module. After, there was a connecting ring designed and made for the boots to connect to the leg of the suit. Also, Dullea's two red suits had a split neck ring with a connector made so that he could get into the suit quickly. Getting into the suits required some bending and a bit of a contortion to get into the legs and then the arms and through the neck ring. When you're paying your main star actor, you don't want any delays in getting his wardrobe on. Also, the two red and yellow suits were to be ready in case anything happend to one of them the other could be put into service immediately. Some other changes were made to the suits while filming for comfort and functional reasons. One silver suit was painted Green for the Emergency Airlock sequence when it was decided Dullea would enter it without his helmet (the original airlock design had no provision for an extra spacesuit). When Lockwood and Dullea's parts were over (sequences in the Pod, Emergency Airlock, Podbay, EVA parts), which were filmed first due to the stars being on the clock, the suits were readied for stuntwork involving the EVA wire-work sequences and shots in the HAL brainroom. A number of stuntmen and stand-ins, including Bill Weston, Max Faulkner, Arnold Shulkes, and others wore the suits. During the stuntwork, the face visors became flat and the suits got a bit of ware on them...especially during Bill Weston's collision with the Pod as Pooles body. The 3rd style was used for a shot called the "Clavius Hilltop", where three silver suited astronauts, one with a camera, were on a hilltop overlooking the Clavius Base while the Aries ship was landing with Floyd. This shot was one of the last things filmed for 2001 and was based on illustrator Bob McCall's poster art being painted at the studio. Kubrick liked the image so much that he decided to film it. The suits for this shot were painted over the Discovery colored suits with silver paint and the rubberized additive. They utilized the original TMA front and back pack and had a number of color sticker with presstype numbering added to them along with small kit parts to make them slightly different from the TMA natural silver suits (like the memory modules on Adam's suit). The arm controller buttons were painted blue, like Adam's suit. The other two silver suits held by collectors today are repainted silver suits, rather than the natural silver unpainted suit at the Academy.

I'm sure I'm not the first person to say this, but “Stripper Pole”.

Hello from Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the UK. 2001 a space Odyssey is my all time favorite film ever made. 2010 is a good film as well. I only wish they had kept making more films to being the story up to date. Keep up the good work. And a big Hello to HAL , the 9000 series' computer. 🙂👍

It's a monolith box....nice touch.

"Obelisk"...?!?

My go to font is Alburtis (big fan of the Prisoner).

Adam when you seen the space x space suits For the first time did you get angry like I did thinking to yourself why can’t they look like 2001 space suits ? I’m still confused why the space x vision of the future looks so horrible and stupid !