Jefferies ring ship in "Tomorrowland"?

[jayrath]

I saw "Tomorrowland" for the second time this afternoon. Just before Casey exits the levitating monorail, I think I caught a glimpse of Matt Jefferies ring ship (the early Enterprise sketch that later popped up as an image in the TMP rec room). Anyone else spot it? An internet search suggests that a few others think they did.

A clever in-joke by Brad Bird or the CGI animators?

 

[Richard Baker]

I haven't seen the movie yet but it would not surprise me to have it in there as an Easter Egg- fans make these films and have done similar things all the time...

 

[Dac]

Looks like theres a bunch of ships which look like the Ring part of the ringship Enterprise, but they don't have the long necks protruding forward. Instead theres a rounded pod in the center held there by a brace that goes across to both sides of the ring horizontally, vs the single half vertical brace on the Enterprise.

 

[137th Gebirg]

More like this?

 

[bryce]

There was a ring-ship taking off from a U-shaped dock, but it looked a lot more like the Vulcan ring-ships from Star Trek: Enterprise...especially like the small Vulcan ship with the broken half-rings for the warp nacelles, the Vahklas.

Of course, I believe that the Vulcan ring-shaped ships were a bit of a tribute of Jeffries' design, and the Vulcan ships we saw in the Next Generation 2-parter with Spock.

And this is neither here nor there, but having just re-watched "Tomorrowland", which I really liked, I keep thinking how much I'd really like to see a remake - or continuation - of "The Golden Compass" with Raffey Cassidy, the girl who played "Athena" in "Tomorrowland" as Lyra. She is like the only child actress that I could see believably playing a character that was much older inside than she looks, plus she could do the action scenes that adaptations of the later books like "The Subtle Knife" and "The Amber Spyglass" would require. She's certainly much better than the child actress that they got for the first movie (which, like "Tomorrowland", was a bomb at the box-office.)

Alas, it's not to be, and she's probably already too old to play a "Lyra" in the first book, but she could probably play her as she is in the sequels, but only if they somehow started production like *now*.