www.scifisquad.com: Their engines whine; their walls creak. These spaceships may look like antiques from the future, but many pack more punch under the hood than they let on. Never judge a book by its cover, and never judge a spaceship by its rust-holes and sputtering warp drive. What space-faring rattletraps make the cut in our top five list of “hunk of junk” spaceships?
5. EAGLE V from Spaceballs
The most impressive thing about the Eagle V is its amazingly pristine (and retro-hideous) 1973 Winnebago chassis. Piloted by Captain Lone Starr and his Mawg co-pilot, Barf, the Eagle V is a ship-for-hire last seen crash landing on the surface of MoonaVega. I would say it was last seen on the recent Spaceballs cartoon series, but that would imply that people actually watched it.
FEATURES: Interior shag carpeting, perfect for camping.
DRAWBACKS: Screen door, chemical toilet, small fuel tank.
4. THUNDER ROAD from Explorers
The only ship on this list named after a Bruce Springsteen song, this is the vessel that carried Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, and Jason Presson into outer space where they made first contact with a rubbery alien who could lip-sync to “Yakety Yak”. Higher forms of intelligence, indeed. This bold trio built a craptacular capsule out of a rusty tilt-a-whirl, a garbage can, a busted TV, and Charles Foster Kane’s sled, and somehow, not only managed to get it into space without imminent death, but impressed Dick Miller in the process. The vast loneliness of space caused so much psychological damage amongst the children that Phoenix OD’ed years later, Presson went off-the-grid, and Ethan Hawke married Uma Thurman.
FEATURES: Bubble-based technology provides the ship with its own oxygen supply.
DRAWBACKS: Bubble-based technology does not prevent the ship from sinking into the ocean at the end of the film.
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It might be a hunk of junk, but my favorite is the Millennium Falcon, it can resist anything 😀 What do you think of these hunk of juck ships? Which one would you ride or not ride?
