One of his biggest challenges was building a cockpit that has to rotate in a perfect sphere and keep two occupants comfortable. The cockpit was done and it looked all fine and we all liked it and then the script changed,” said Simon.

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Kosinski said there are differences between what he put down on paper and what ended up on the screen. I thought it would be a small film,” he said, but then Tron Legacy came along, providing him with a great chance to make his first movie. Royal Bobbles is leading the industry with its realistic and lifelike likenesses, making them right at home in any environment. Promise of a New World: The Making of Oblivion is a comprehensive five-part documentary: Destiny looks into the development and planning of the movie, Voyage explores the creation of the bubble ship, Combat goes into details about all the stunts, Illusion delves into the post-production work, and Harmony focuses on the score by M83. The seat has to be so comfortable that he can be in it eight hours and doesn’t get back pain especially for the next day.What began as a small film developed into a much bigger product when Kosinski expanded the universe of Oblivion. Seeing his drawings and his design modifications become real is already one of the biggest highlight of his career. Barba’s team at Digital Domain found the end sequence inside the massive space station the most difficult test. POP CULTURE COLLECTIBLES – Royal Bobbles features several different product lines of famous icons including entertainers, artists, and historic/political figures. Growing up a fan of the classic television series Twilight Zone and films such as Planet of the Apes (1968) and Alien (1979), Kosinski earned an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University and then graduated with a Master’s degree in Architecture from Columbia University.

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There were all these little details not only to make the seat work for Cruise but also manufacturing constraints. Once it became obvious that Tom Cruise would have to spend many hours sitting in the bubble ship seat, it had to be custom made for the actor. COLLECTIBLE BOBBLEHEADS – Each premium bobblehead comes in a colorful collector’s box with a custom-cut Styrofoam inner protection. Oblivion features many visual highlights, including shots of the torch of the Statue of Liberty and the top of the Empire State building in a post-apocalyptic Earth.This is a great gift for any Elvis fan, it’s a good height for either a classic car dashboard, or next to the office keyboard. Perhaps the biggest challenge was the seemingly floating station where Harper and his friend Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) reside high up in the clouds above the Earth’s surface. Oblivion took shape inside the mind of director Joe Kosinski, leaped onto the pages of a graphic novel and ended up as a science-fiction movie with Tom Cruise. I had this idea of what would it be like to be the last man on Earth, to be kind of the one looking back at the world we know,” he said.

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He worked with Kosinski as a vehicle concept designer on Tron Legacy and on Captain America: The First Avenger and Prometheus. I played with a couple of different endings way back when I was kind of formulating the story,” he said, “but fundamentally the themes and the story of Jack Harper (as played by Tom Cruise) remained true to the end. The only true reason is that Elvis could be exactly right where the director wanted it for eye level shots,” he said. PREMIUM STATUETTES – Founded in 2009, Royal Bobbles is a premium designer and manufacturer of high quality, exquisite collectible figurines, allowing for a high level of detail and durability in every product.The opportunity to bring the story of Jack Harper to life was too good to pass up after completing Tron Legacy,” Kosinski said.

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I understand it’s a very unique opportunity to be able to make a movie like this, an original movie in the landscape of big movies… so I feel very lucky to have gotten that opportunity. When some of the shots didn’t match, Digital Domain replaced Cruise’s face with a fully CG version by capturing a 3D scan of the actor’s head on a light stage. You cannot just put a pillow behind his back because he would run out of the ship on camera,” he said. ELVIS PRESLEY BOBBLEHIPS – This BobbleHIPS bobblehead portrays a lifelike image of Elvis in his famous appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1956.Simon designs his own vehicles and is currently working on a book incorporating his designs with a story. Kosinski told Simon the idea of a bobblehead would have to be part of the cockpit and at a specific spot. As a designer, you always look for this as the whole thing and if you have one favorite part that normally means that the whole thing is not so good,” he said. Simon wasn’t too fond of the seatbelts “because I would think in the future you’d have something better than that. I will of course purchase several more in the future from this seller; great pricing, specials, and he always ships quickly and protects the items very thoroughly( an absolute must) All in all one of my "go to" sellers and I highly recommend him.