AA Starbug for sale.

[bountyhunter]

The large Starbug model that was built to promote the AA Red Dwarf adverts is up for auction:

https://auctions.windsorauctions.co.uk/auctions/9117/windso10233

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[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

There’s a unique, purpose-built AA Starbug specifically for that promo material?

[Dave]

There’s a unique, purpose-built AA Starbug specifically for that promo material?

https://www.ganymede.tv/2019/06/howay-the-lads/

[Moonlight]

Guys. If we all chip in like 5 bucks I bet you we could get this in Cappsy’s garage.

[Renegade Rob]

That model is one motor and an elaborate Mr. Bean-style chair-and-pulley system away from being a workable Carbug 2.0. 

[bountyhunter]

More details here: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/huge-scale-model-of-red-dwarfs-starbug-put-up-for-sale-77665/

[Moonlight]

Statistically, there is definitely a non-zero number of people who were big fans of Red Dwarf in the 90s whose first exposure to the Dave era was Stellar Rescue and still didn’t realize there were new episodes.

[GlenTokyo]

Still think it’s a huge missed opportunity for a fantastically scaled model shoot if GNP bought it and did it up a little bit.

Of course they’d have to go back to the original (and frankly, better) Starbug but it’d be worth it for a 1:5 or so scale model to launch off an escarpment or something, would also look great for a water stunt if they lobbed it in the sea.

[Moonlight]

Staging the ultimate Starbug crash sequence would be the most worthy use of this thing.

[Ian Symes]

More details here: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/huge-scale-model-of-red-dwarfs-starbug-put-up-for-sale-77665/

Not massively accurate details, mind. It obviously wasn’t built for filming, and in what way is Stellar Rescue a “season trailer”? There hasn’t even been a “season” of Red Dwarf since!

[Paul Muller]

You could do some decent forced perspective shots with it in the background of scenes so it looked full size and further away. Of course this wouldn’t work with the redesigned XI and XII Starbug as they look different, which raises the question of why they built that version in the first place. I just hope it ends up somewhere nice, not rotting in a field under a tarpaulin somewhere. 

[Moonlight]

and in what way is Stellar Rescue a “season trailer”?

Series AA has been held up in a legal limbo since 2019. According to Robert, a Blu-ray is coming out next spring.

[Asclepius]

I bet this guy has room for it. That’s a Judge Dredd CityCab rotting away in the front garden there. Plenty of room for a Carbug, too.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mauldeth+Rd/@53.4356976,-2.2224134,3a,17.3y,198.56h,89.37t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sWika1QyPZAcFa6RVCjalgA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0.6311589028801166%26panoid%3DWika1QyPZAcFa6RVCjalgA%26yaw%3D198.5564093611244!7i16384!8i8192!4m6!3m5!1s0x487bb24d67cc8097:0xa88bf3dbe4861a1!8m2!3d53.424866!4d-2.2026126!16s%2Fg%2F1tx8srxy?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIwOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

[bountyhunter]

In an update to this, the Starbug model sold today for £4,200

https://auctions.windsorauctions.co.uk/auctions/9117/windso10233/lot-details/f14e8dac-0819-4a91-bfc8-b23f0122179d

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