This show was GARGAGE compared to the orignial. BUT... this ship was a cool design! Bless Lorne Greene for coming back and lending some gravitas to the downgraded BSG "kiddie show". So much potential, so much studio interference. BUT, great ship!
OMG, you have the concept model of the heavy raider....WOW!!!! It's great to just see it in this vid and you even own it, congrats (one more time)!!! 🤩👍👍👍👍👍
I find it funny people not thinking there wasn't very many ships in Galactica. I had to look up some reference but I got to 25 ships. That's better than the original Star Wars lineup. But who cares, back in the day we were happy to get anything sci-fi. Even if there was just one ship in a show, that could make your month.
The “6th millennium” straight-wing fighter in “The Long Patrol” is the only other armed small craft I remember. The Celestra was armed, I remember, based on a computer screen read-out.
It made me laugh because the thumbnail for this video is a Photoshop image (The A-B firing its lasers) I created of my friend Jon's recreation of the A-B Raider. He had a lot of help from his friend, the late Greg Jein. My favourite ship from the Galactica series.
Well, Galactica 1980 did two things right, this Heavy Raider and the final episode with Starbuck doing a riff on “Enemy Mine“ (though bringing it in a more supernatural direction, which was an interesting choice).
How did the show of continued Starbuck would have returned in the form of one of the seraphs. The airship of lights aliens. He was going to function as a recurring character and an intermediary or a liaison between the Galactica and the seraphs. The part was actually intended for Apollo, the script was written for him, and it ties into an early line of dialogue from Lieutenant Troy, when he says he wants to find out what happened to his father. Also, wanna Dona gives his big goodbye Starbucks beach and is all choked up and everything, it’s pretty obvious that was written for Apollo. Leaving your son behind in order to save the fleet is huge. Leaving your sons. Best friend behind is I’m sure pretty emotional, but nowhere near the delivery, Lorne Greene gave it. But Richard hatch didn’t want to do it so: Starbuck .
@@battlestarcollectica7106 well, the original concept is actually pretty similar to quantum Leap. There is some speculation that quantum leap was actually built around some leftover concepts from the original pitch for Galactica 1980. Oh, and, of course, early on the show was only intended to be sat five years after the conclusion of the original series, I would have starred, Starbuck and Apollo. The Xavier character was originally supposed to be Baltar believe it or not. In any event, it was not universal of that screwed around with the show, it was ABC. The full story is a little too detailed to go into here, but the bottom line is ABC wanted the show to fail. The only reason it had been green live in the first place was because they wanted it to fail. They have taken a lot of bad publicity from canceling the original Galactica, and there was even a suicide as a result of that. Even a year later, ABC had not recovered from the bad price so they decided to make a disastrous show that no one in their right mind would ever watch, then cancel it, and say, “well, we tried, but clearly no one was interested.“ So the major shift between the time travel adventure in the pilot movie to childcare in space in the subsequent episodes, was dictated by the net work, not the studio
Cool to learn more about this version of the Cylon Raider. Question for you: Do you have any of the watches used in the original series? All the Viper pilots and male bridge crew used Hughes Electronics manufactured LED calculator watches. i would love to see you do an episode on those someday.
I don’t have the real world watches or calculators they used on the show. If I pick them up (very expensive pieces) I will do an episode. Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks for your reply. I am a little surprised you don't have one of them. You seem to have a TON of classic Galactica stuff. 😊 Looking forward to the next episode.
well, now i know you hate 1980, but did you hate it as a kid? i was stoked. i remember VERY clearly being on my bike down the road, and realizing it was about time to watch it, racing home, putting up my bike, and rushing to the TV. I was just glad that BSG was back, and good or bad, i needed this show. As a kid i only stored good memories of it.
I saw Galactica 80 when it first aired but it never occurred to me until years after the reimagined series that it was the first time we saw a human-like Cylon. At the time when I was a kid the idea didn't register much with me but apparently the writers of the reimagined series must have drawn some inspiration from it, somehow.
Darn it all, you *finally* made a video where you talk about something from GALACTICA 1980 that you actually liked... and I missed it! Okay, okay, I'm pressing the subscribe button right now... 😆😂🤣 🚀🚀🚀 PS. Merry Christmas!
@Battlestar Collectica: Going by your voice and speech, you're what, 25? You never saw the series in that time. You haven't got a clue. Bet you love that abhorrence reboot, don't ya? Figures.
It makes me wonder if RDM thought about using this design for the actual Cylon Heavy Raider but opted for a unique design instead. Though I do wonder if Deadlock's version was inspired by the 1980's version. 🤔
Highlights of Galctica 1980. Favorite episodes the final one about the return of Starbuck.. that is one my all time favorites, I have fond memories watching that quite a times as a kid. The Halloween episode with Wolfman Jack was a really fun one. Possibly that episode maybe the 1st one I think... was the episode that had some scenes of the Cylons fighters in an aerial attack on Earth. The flying motorcycles was a decent special effect for the time. Last but least I could not stand that kid who took control of the colonial fleet..... Do you recall another good episode from Galactica 1980 worth watching?
The show was not good. I liked some of the concepts but overall it was a giant disappointment. The Starbuck episode was the best and it is often said that the Galactica 1980 show was actually his nightmare!
I agree with you when it comes to the reboot! The show had some good ideas but was never given a chance to develop. That 7pm time slot really held it back!
I thought it was just five crew? Three traditional clothes on the sidelines and two humanoid ones. Anyway, I could be miss remembering it, but I think we see the outline of this one. Apollo is flipping through the war book in the very first episode of the original show. The war book contains very early designs for some of the ships in the show, including a cylon base ship that I only had one saucer, and I want to say this was in there too. I might be a miss remembering that but I feel like it was there.
@@mahatmarandy5977, you were only one out and it’s easy to get confused with just thinking the shots of the side Cylon is a reverse of just one. The outline in the war book is actually the flat ship you see in the opening credits fling towards the camera away from a planet in the background.
The "hero" model of this ship was sold for $46k on Oct 15/23 as part of the Greg Jein Auction. You can check it out online- probably rhe best photos of this model you'll ever see 👍
Of course there were two other rejected fighter designs ... that became the Starfighter and Marauder from Buck Rogers. Wonder if anyone's considering a reboot of that series?
@@ReconViper1 Judging by the shape of the launch tubes, I'd say they're designed for Vipers. Seems inefficient... introduce a new fighter and you have to remodify all of the launch bays.
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Yep! It looks remarkably similar in design..Though IMO this ship design is far cooler looking..The model is incredible..Wish it was still available..👍👍
This show was GARGAGE compared to the orignial.
BUT... this ship was a cool design!
Bless Lorne Greene for coming back and lending some gravitas to the downgraded BSG "kiddie show".
So much potential, so much studio interference.
BUT, great ship!
I agree with you!
OMG, you have the concept model of the heavy raider....WOW!!!! It's great to just see it in this vid and you even own it, congrats (one more time)!!! 🤩👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you very much!
I find it funny people not thinking there wasn't very many ships in Galactica. I had to look up some reference but I got to 25 ships. That's better than the original Star Wars lineup. But who cares, back in the day we were happy to get anything sci-fi. Even if there was just one ship in a show, that could make your month.
There where very few warships but your right a big hunk of the original budget went into creating that awesome fleet!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Back in my studio scale model days, guys were going nuts over the Rising Star.
The “6th millennium” straight-wing fighter in “The Long Patrol” is the only other armed small craft I remember. The Celestra was armed, I remember, based on a computer screen read-out.
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It was a rag-tag fleet of ships lead by a single battlestar. there not being many war ships makes alot of sense
It made me laugh because the thumbnail for this video is a Photoshop image (The A-B firing its lasers) I created of my friend Jon's recreation of the A-B Raider. He had a lot of help from his friend, the late Greg Jein. My favourite ship from the Galactica series.
Great image! You know I thought it looked better then what we saw!
Very disappointing that Eaglemoss never made this one...I guess they thought anything from the much hated Galactica 1980 would sell poorly.
Master Replicas is thinking of taking on Galactica again so who knows! We may see it someday!
Well, Galactica 1980 did two things right, this Heavy Raider and the final episode with Starbuck doing a riff on “Enemy Mine“ (though bringing it in a more supernatural direction, which was an interesting choice).
How did the show of continued Starbuck would have returned in the form of one of the seraphs. The airship of lights aliens. He was going to function as a recurring character and an intermediary or a liaison between the Galactica and the seraphs.
The part was actually intended for Apollo, the script was written for him, and it ties into an early line of dialogue from Lieutenant Troy, when he says he wants to find out what happened to his father. Also, wanna Dona gives his big goodbye Starbucks beach and is all choked up and everything, it’s pretty obvious that was written for Apollo. Leaving your son behind in order to save the fleet is huge. Leaving your sons. Best friend behind is I’m sure pretty emotional, but nowhere near the delivery, Lorne Greene gave it.
But Richard hatch didn’t want to do it so: Starbuck .
Enemy Mine! Very underrated movie! Galactica 1980 could have good as a time travel show had Universal given it more time.
@@battlestarcollectica7106 well, the original concept is actually pretty similar to quantum Leap. There is some speculation that quantum leap was actually built around some leftover concepts from the original pitch for Galactica 1980. Oh, and, of course, early on the show was only intended to be sat five years after the conclusion of the original series, I would have starred, Starbuck and Apollo. The Xavier character was originally supposed to be Baltar believe it or not.
In any event, it was not universal of that screwed around with the show, it was ABC. The full story is a little too detailed to go into here, but the bottom line is ABC wanted the show to fail. The only reason it had been green live in the first place was because they wanted it to fail. They have taken a lot of bad publicity from canceling the original Galactica, and there was even a suicide as a result of that. Even a year later, ABC had not recovered from the bad price so they decided to make a disastrous show that no one in their right mind would ever watch, then cancel it, and say, “well, we tried, but clearly no one was interested.“
So the major shift between the time travel adventure in the pilot movie to childcare in space in the subsequent episodes, was dictated by the net work, not the studio
A ripoff of a movie that came 5 years later... You must be a lawyer for McDonalds.
Cool to learn more about this version of the Cylon Raider. Question for you: Do you have any of the watches used in the original series? All the Viper pilots and male bridge crew used Hughes Electronics manufactured LED calculator watches. i would love to see you do an episode on those someday.
I don’t have the real world watches or calculators they used on the show. If I pick them up (very expensive pieces) I will do an episode. Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks for your reply. I am a little surprised you don't have one of them. You seem to have a TON of classic Galactica stuff. 😊 Looking forward to the next episode.
well, now i know you hate 1980, but did you hate it as a kid? i was stoked. i remember VERY clearly being on my bike down the road, and realizing it was about time to watch it, racing home, putting up my bike, and rushing to the TV. I was just glad that BSG was back, and good or bad, i needed this show. As a kid i only stored good memories of it.
I don’t hate the show. Return of Starbuck is my favorite episode!!
You get a like just for hosting a Battlestar Galactica channel with a name that rhymes. :)
Lol! I appreciate that. The best is yet to come!
I saw Galactica 80 when it first aired but it never occurred to me until years after the reimagined series that it was the first time we saw a human-like Cylon. At the time when I was a kid the idea didn't register much with me but apparently the writers of the reimagined series must have drawn some inspiration from it, somehow.
The human Cylon was planned as a cost cutting measure for BSG cancelled second season. Those chrome costumes cost so much! Lol! Thanks for watching!
Darn it all, you *finally* made a video where you talk about something from GALACTICA 1980 that you actually liked... and I missed it!
Okay, okay, I'm pressing the subscribe button right now... 😆😂🤣
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PS. Merry Christmas!
Welcome back and sorry for taking so long! 😉 Merry Christmas! 🎁
😆😂🤣 I'll try to keep up from now on! 🤣😂😆
Galactica 80 was terrible
The premise was good but the execution not!
@Battlestar Collectica:
Going by your voice and speech, you're what, 25?
You never saw the series in that time.
You haven't got a clue.
Bet you love that abhorrence reboot, don't ya?
Figures.
Lol!! 🤣 25 is even too young for the reboot now! Nothing beats OG BSG. That’s what the channel is all about.
It makes me wonder if RDM thought about using this design for the actual Cylon Heavy Raider but opted for a unique design instead. Though I do wonder if Deadlock's version was inspired by the 1980's version. 🤔
I think you’re onto something. There definitely is a connection!
G80 wasn't terrible show on it's own, just not a replacement of season 1 Battlestar Galactica. Cool that you got ahold of the original concept model!
I agree! That 7:00pm kids hour really hurt what stories could be told. Thanks for watching!
Uow !!! What a great aquisition budy !!! This Version if the Cylon Raider is fantastic I really would loke to have a model kit on my collection here.
That would be cool!
Ir was shitty. Awful lazy design with the pink Xanadu lighing. Nope. Horrible.
Lol! At least it was something new. Thanks for watching and Happy New Year!
It was a let down. I thought the show was, "coming back." Instead I got flying motorcycles. Woe is me!
Lol! We all did! 😩
Highlights of Galctica 1980. Favorite episodes the final one about the return of Starbuck.. that is one my all time favorites, I have fond memories watching that quite a times as a kid. The Halloween episode with Wolfman Jack was a really fun one. Possibly that episode maybe the 1st one I think... was the episode that had some scenes of the Cylons fighters in an aerial attack on Earth. The flying motorcycles was a decent special effect for the time. Last but least I could not stand that kid who took control of the colonial fleet..... Do you recall another good episode from Galactica 1980 worth watching?
The show was not good. I liked some of the concepts but overall it was a giant disappointment. The Starbuck episode was the best and it is often said that the Galactica 1980 show was actually his nightmare!
Doesn't the schemantic of a similar looking ship appear when Apollo checks the Warbook attempting to identify the Cylon tankers at Cimtar?
I think your right! Sharp discovery!
What? Lousy?
You mean the current MARVEL shi**t? do you?
Don’t get me started on SW, Indy and Marvel! Lol!
There is a somewhat popular non canon warship called a Tiger class Basestar Destroyer. I'd love to see a model of that.
I’m not familiar with that ship. Going to do some research now! Thanks for the tip and Happy New Year!
It wasn't lousy. I liked it a lot. It was much better than the 2005 reboot.
I agree with you when it comes to the reboot! The show had some good ideas but was never given a chance to develop. That 7pm time slot really held it back!
It was a rag-tag fleet of ships lead by a single battlestar. there not being many war ships makes alot of sense!
You’re right but I will always wonder what we did not see. There had to be other smaller ships protecting the colonies.
I thought it was just five crew? Three traditional clothes on the sidelines and two humanoid ones.
Anyway, I could be miss remembering it, but I think we see the outline of this one. Apollo is flipping through the war book in the very first episode of the original show. The war book contains very early designs for some of the ships in the show, including a cylon base ship that I only had one saucer, and I want to say this was in there too. I might be a miss remembering that but I feel like it was there.
There’s two Centurions at the front, two either side, and two humanoids at the rear.
@@Bishop37 Oh wow. My memory that are way off. I’m sorry.
@@mahatmarandy5977, you were only one out and it’s easy to get confused with just thinking the shots of the side Cylon is a reverse of just one. The outline in the war book is actually the flat ship you see in the opening credits fling towards the camera away from a planet in the background.
Very cool info! Your right about the command crew!
I liked the motorcycles!👍🤷🏼♂️
I liked them as well. Did you know they were made for BSG? The episode was canceled at the last moment so they were recycled for G80! Cool stuff!
I love Battlestar Galactica from 1980
The show has its moments! The last episode is one of my all time favorites!
Dude, the AB raider was filmed before BSTG 1980, Starbuck and his new cylon buddy was in tat ship.
😂your right!!!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 I rechecked my statement, I may have boo booed, I saw that episode back then, but it was in 1980ish..👈
Every time I watch your videos, I feel like the Joker in the 1989 Batman movie: "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"
🤣it’s why I’m always broke! Lol!
That is interesting It would have been great to see season 2 before 1980
Season 2 would have been amazing! It still breaks my heart that the show was canceled!
The "hero" model of this ship was sold for $46k on Oct 15/23 as part of the Greg Jein Auction. You can check it out online- probably rhe best photos of this model you'll ever see 👍
Holy! That is/was a lot of money! Thanks for the info. Will check it out!
Of course there were two other rejected fighter designs ... that became the Starfighter and Marauder from Buck Rogers. Wonder if anyone's considering a reboot of that series?
There was talk of a Buck Rogers reboot but there is a problem with the rights.
@@ReconViper1 Judging by the shape of the launch tubes, I'd say they're designed for Vipers. Seems inefficient... introduce a new fighter and you have to remodify all of the launch bays.
That's a beautiful Raider..Looks like this design was even borrowed for the "ID4" alien fighters..
You may be onto something with that ID4 ship! Very interesting!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Yep! It looks remarkably similar in design..Though IMO this ship design is far cooler looking..The model is incredible..Wish it was still available..👍👍
Or more like ID4 borrowed ideas from BSG
@@KuDastardly Agreed 💯
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Who says Battlestar Galactica 1980 was lousy???? I enjoyed it!!!
I do. It was awful. No offense.
I enjoyed it too, but when comparing it to the original series, it’s like night and day.
Ok, I admit that it had its moments! Lol!
I wouldn't say it was lousy. I'd say it was felgercarb.
I'd file under 'better than no Battlestar Galactica.' I could have done without the Superscouts.