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One thing that I love about the new generation of films, wondercon and ridley scotts new film is that the new sets will probably live on in museums of be looked after. they will be apreciated for years to come. but and its a big but!! Sir ridley has built some of the most awe inspiring structures ever put to celluloid. and here is how history treated them. some set designers wept 1. the original space jockey was put on display at Graumans theatre with the release of the film. a religious group, believing it was the work of the devil set it on fire 2. the original derelict ship was starting to stink so bad from rotten cow bones they burnt the sets 3. the mobius/cobb space suits were burnt 4. the nostromo ship was left out in the parking lot for 25years where rain rodents and age nearly destroyed it, and now it is an extensive restoration project for the propstore 5. the same thing happened to the spinner from blade runner, left in the parking lot, now in a museum thankfully 6. the Tyrell building caught fire from the enormous heat from the bulb inside 7. the blade runner hero blaster was discovered in some ones garage 25 years after it was believed lost forever my point is, ridley is the best and todays items are tomorrows antiques I wished when I was younger that I could have gotten to see some of these preserved but ridleys film sets have had some of the worst abuse I've seen for such iconic items incidentally if you want to watch the six restoration vids for alien here they are [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NoCsZvYeEQ]Nostromo restoration 1...[/url] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH66DI2nYUs]Nostromo restoration 2...[/url] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIePpgknKI8]Nostromo restoration 3...[/url] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auX8O2N25Ls]Nostromo restoration 4...[/url] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaErKQ-jPAA]Nostromo restoration final...[/url] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtiDNSxSubg]Alien suit restoration...[/url]