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With this animation, and the thought of the ship rotating.. then hitting the ground with the horns first.. would tell us that there are 2 Space Jockey ships..

Gang, just a little daft observation, but zooming-in on the animated gig there you can see that the explosion (or collision?) happens to the far side of the far side of our favourite vessel, to the far side of the opposite 'prong'. My point being that this is the same side of the vessel that we (to date, going back to Alien) have NEVER seen anything of in any scene or image (a 'far side of the moon' situation if you will). In other words - our Mr Ridley can do anything he likes with that far side of the ship as none of us have ever seen the ship from that side. Even in the trailer when we see it sat upright we still aren't shown that same far side. So we can't tell if in that upright scene if it has been damaged yet, will be damaged at all or how bad any damage may be. Also making it hard for us to determine if it's upright parked position is gained after or even before the mid-air incident or the 'rolling(?)' incident. Food for thought there gang.

'gig'?!?! Frikkin phone! 'Gif'!!! lol.

In one shot of the ship just as it reaches the ground, you can see Rapace running, and in the background, you can clearly see one horn in the distance, striking the ground just before the other one, much nearer Rapace does. Even though it's a very brief shot, if you pause the video at 1080p, it's possible to make out some of the details on the horn which strikes first. We don't see it in the trailer, but I'm guessing that the ship continues that rolling movement along the ground like a gigantic wheel, gradually slowing until its' horns are upright, at which point it stops...........in the shot of Rapace staring at it.

From your gif BM it looks like the Derelict gets on the hammerhead side, but your right it does look like there are some flames and smoke coming from near the three vaginal entrances. Only guess I can come up with is that the flames extinguish before it settles. Also, the lack of soot may be because the thing rolls like a wheel when it crashes.

I agree with you there Biomechanic. I think it is something hitting the Derelict that causes the explosion rather than the explosion coming from inside the derelict itself. Possibly the Magellan? The look on Janeks face in that brief shot in the trailer looks like he's about to poop his pants, maybe because he's about to crash into something?

A common assumption engineer, and one i had myself. But from the brief piece of footage we can't really tell. The only supporting evidence is the assorted wreckage from a human ship (Magellan/Prometheus) during the Derelicts crash and roll scene.

5 months untill we find out. Thats to long for speculations if you ask me. I've been waiting for this film for years, the next 5 months are gonna be tough.

No glaringly obvious damage from an enormous explosion. The horns that struck the ground first, look like they're still completely intact. The incredible mass of the gigantic ship didn't cause it to crumple up like an aluminum can when it struck the ground, as we would expect. Conclusion: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

huh i dont think the horns strike the ground first ...i think we see the botton slowly taking ground ( so there is a sort of controlled landing crash )...will be pretty ridicuouls to see the ship landing on the horns imo . i agree on the collision outside the alien ship ...

We can't really tell what hits the ground first, all we know is that it rolls like a wheel, at some point would create a "n" shape before settling into a U shape.

Watch the trailer in 1080p. In one of the shots with Rapace running from the crashing ship, you can plainly see exactly what hits first; that is, the horn with a rounded "fin." There's no doubt about it.

Just watched the trailer in 1080p - The Horn end is already in the ground as the Hammerhead comes down, we actually don't see what hits the ground first, I just checked.

I still think it's a second Derelict crashing next to another derelict. There are 3 objects on the final fall... a Derelict base and 2 horns.. The way the ship falls apart would be odd if there was just one ship.. so I'm assuming there are 2 Derelicts.. @BioMechanic, What tools are you using to grab the trailer then convert some of the scenes into images or animated gifs? It would be fun to have an animated gif for every scene!

Snorkelbottom, if you look at an 'aerial' view of the derelict type ship, the only way what we see onscreen makes sense, is if that horn strikes first. If it landed squarely on one side, it wouldn't make sense for the ship to have been so unbalanced that it rotated all the way around to a horns-up position.

Maybe, but not necessarily. The impact/explosion seems to send the derelict spinning downwards... [img]http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc389/bongobat/Fun%20on%20the%20Internet/derelict.gif[/img] Then the footage of the crash in the trailer shows this spinning wheel-like motion continuing, until it settles in a U shape. We don't see the actual moment the Derelict collides with the ground, so it is anyones guess until we actual see the point of impact, which is why I'm not saying it does or doesn't, because we simple don't know yet. We don't even know how far it falls, and how many turns it makes before it impacts the ground. IMO its pointless speculating, bottom line something causes it to crash, it rolls and settles, everything else in between is of no importance.

two images ..i hope they help [img]http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/5306/derelict1.jpg[/img] [img]http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/5300/derelict2.jpg[/img]

Frantz, in your top shot, the other horn is in the background, gouging out the ground, behind the one that's impacting near Rapace. If you look at the overhead shot of the upright derelict on the main page of this site, you can see a big gouge in the ground, to left of the ship.