Regarding Starbug’s support legs

[Tonguetied]

Now come series 7 we not only had a larger Bug but also it’s thruster capability/velocity was immeasurably increased. Now this could have all been left to changes to interior changes which wouldn’t be noticeable on the outside; However Douglas and chris veale had other ideas – ”Wouldn’t it be cool if we could show the changes on the outside, have Starbugs support legs horizontal, it would be cool and sleek and the fans will love it!” Well chris sadly not, just like we despised the Blue Midget dance( which was sadly a changed design..cough Andrew). What I’m saying is, I feel that the Bug look considerably worse off than better, it looked like something more out of another Sci Fi show. The old look should have been retained, and I know that in Back to Reality Starbug had a one off, change of angle of support legs, under water, so no one is going to get me there saying ”But Tonguetied it wasn’t a big mistake on Doug or Veales part because it was in a series 5 episode. Now what are your own humble views on this matter. Ian included.

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[GlenTokyo]

I always thought the whisk attachment on the front of the new Midget was a drill of some description, so legs would let it get a good angle on something like an anglepoise I suppose, but it could only start drilling because that whisk is probably about 8ft long if you scale it to a person, so it’d get the hole going and then the Red Dwarf equivalent of Thunderbird 2 would come down and drop the Mole.

I feel like maybe you can explain away giving something that flies another way of getting around if it saves on fuel and fuel is a thing in the universe, the OG Blue Midget looked like it had a big diesel engine too for the tracks, some kind of future synthetic diesel is probably cheaper than whatever the rockets use or cheaper to get into the engines than something like Hydrogen which is abundant but hard to gather. The legs must be a bit of a drain on power though.

[Taiwan Tony]

If Chris Barrie wore the Blue Midget mech suit, he’d be Pacific Rimmer.
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