General Discussions

Mule seen at Universal Studios, Los Angeles, CA

POSTED BY: Anonymous1
UPDATED: Monday, July 31, 2006 06:52
VIEWED: 12672
PAGE 2 of 3

GELASSENHEIT

Friday, February 10, 2006 12:16 AM

It looks all plastified. Maybe cuz it's washed?

Gelassenheit means Serenity

DAMROD

Friday, February 10, 2006 1:35 AM

Great pics!! Thanks!! If only I had a garage!!!

Have a better one!!!

Always bring grenades!!

ANONYMOUS1

Friday, February 10, 2006 1:38 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by aeronstorm:
Well, you got better pictures than I did! I saw it two weeks ago when I was visiting LA. We were moving too fast to get anything decent!

Nice shooting!

tall_n_moody took the pictures. I just posted a copy of them here.

Aeronstorm, was the Mule close to the tour vehicle or far away? Are the metal bars in tall_n_moody's pictures from the tour vehicle or from some other prop material?

Quote:
Originally posted by FollowMal:
It looks so abandoned sitting there like that.

It does not look abandoned to me. It is upright. It looks like Universal left it so that people on the Unversal Studios tour could yell WASN'T THAT THE MULE?? THE MULE! THE MULE! as they go by. Makes the tour more exciting to see props and recognize them. Makes you want to pay to go on a tour and point out to the driver that you want them to stop or slow down at the Mule.

Whoo-hoo!

BLUE786

Friday, February 10, 2006 5:19 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by jason2025:
Quote:
Originally posted by FollowMal:

Why don't they take better care of it, they are gonna need it for the sequel!

For the same reason they usually don't save sets: cost. Cheaper to rebuild it than to store it.

Cheers.

J\

You knwo, I never understood that. Lust looking at that Mule, it looks like it took a lot of man-hours to put in all the detail and everything. I could see getting rid of small, easily reproduced props. But something like the Mule?

I guess I kind of figured that the big studios all had warehouses someplace oustisde LA where they stockpiled this stuff.

NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME

MISSTRESSAHARA

Friday, February 10, 2006 11:54 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Cybersnark:
This reminds me of the thread about the Ariel med shuttle --did we ever secure that one?

Not that I'm advocating trying to take possession of the mule; it's on Universal ground, even if they aren't using it. The shuttle was apparently cast-off.

Still, makes for some interesting ideas. . .

-----
We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You beat me to it Cyber, I keep coming on here to find out if that guy had mananged to buy the ambulance. I haven't heard anything since his last post in 2005. I do hope someone can find out if they got it and rebuilt her. Anyone with info and links, please post them. I hear they need help in a rural area of Ariel.

If I'm a bitch, then life just got interesting.

KHAZARA

Saturday, February 11, 2006 2:23 AM

So where in Universal *is* the mule? It looks like it's near the Jurassic Park props on the tram tour?

MER

Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:19 PM

Lucckkeeee

JAMIECHAMBERS

Sunday, February 12, 2006 10:22 PM

I got to see the mule at the Serenity Fan Fest just after the premiere. Glad to hear it's going to stick around Universal Studios for a while!

** Jamie

GRIMJACK21502

Sunday, February 12, 2006 10:30 PM

It looks like it is in pretty good shape...Kaylee won't have to spend too much time getting her back up to speed!

And if Universal won't give it back to us WHEN we get back on the air, then Browncoats we MOUNT UP and spring our Mule...when Mal gets back we ain't leavin' nobody behind!

We will hold...we hold till Mal gets back.

"And once you're gone, you can never come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black"
-Neil Young

AERONSTORM

Monday, February 13, 2006 1:07 AM

Quote:
Aeronstorm, was the Mule close to the tour vehicle or far away? Are the metal bars in tall_n_moody's pictures from the tour vehicle or from some other prop material?

The mule was close tot he tram on the first part of the tour - my picture was crappy since I almost missed it! The bars are from a tarp-roof that went over that part of the tram route. It was still really cool to be THAT close!!!