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You won't belive this!!!

Post by HungarianKnight » Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:10 am

I'm currently making pixel art drawings of Kitt's consoles and I browsed through Season 2 to get a good view on that version of the Lower Console. People all over the vide world, the buttons of that console originate from a Cash Register machine!


There are buttons like ITEM, QTY (probably for quantity) and even PRICE with capital block letters!

How humiliating for poor Kitt! They had no money to fix him up so they grabbed a broken cash register machine and used its buttons for Kitt's console.



Have a look, you'll find out that I'm not lying. A good source for pics is Mouth of the Snake, part 2, when Kitt recieves the data about the stolen weapons.
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Post by Wizster » Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:30 am

Can anyone provide captures to prove this insane notion? :lol:
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Post by Joe Huth » Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:37 am

From "Mouth of the Snake":

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Post by HungarianKnight » Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:24 am

Thanks, Joe!


If you watch closely and lighten the image a bit, you can see ITEM, QTY and PRICE clearly as cristal.
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Post by Wizster » Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:35 am

Oh dear! Fantastic spot HungarianKnight, and thanks Joe.
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Post by BoMcD » Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:19 am

yep..
ya sure can....

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Post by imranbecks » Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:57 am

Incredible!!!! They must have taken that part of the console from a cash register or something...
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Post by LuvKITT » Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:20 pm

Gee. Why didn't they just put all numbers? Seems alittle strange to put those buttons in there.
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Post by Lost Knight » Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:26 pm

That's pretty amusing. Great find, HungarianKnight. Although...K.I.T.T. did have an on-board cash dispenser...
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Post by rulloa81 » Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:31 pm

I don't understand why they used a cash register machine for it's buttons. Mattel was the company who designed the dashboard, why did they use cash register buttons? Maybe Michael Knight had his own business on the side and he needed to give people a receipt..lol :kitt:
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Post by BoMcD » Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:40 pm

I can see it...
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20 years ago in the Universal optical transfer department...

"Yeah we'll just darken it to where ya can't read those buttons...20 years from now, no one is gonna remember this anyway..."

riiiiiiiight......
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Post by Major Ursa » Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:34 pm

Vert interesting! Many televisions show have done that technique of using parts from ordinary things like what was mentioned in this thread. I still rememder from Star Trek: The Next Generation where Jordi LaForge's VISOR was made out of hair clips.
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Post by LuvKITT » Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:05 pm

Oh yeah, Levar Burton had a "Reading Rainbow" special show on how things were done on the The Next Generation. His visor was made out of a girls "banana clip". I had forgotten about that until you said something...hehe.
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Post by KNERD » Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:07 pm

Oh dear. That's another illusion shattered. Kitt used to be a cash register. :lol:
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Post by Knightling » Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:09 pm

was the dashboard disigned by mattel? the toy company??
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Post by KITTfan » Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:51 am

You gotta remember the centerconsole in the pics here are the 2nd season version, NOT the original one designed by Michael Scheffe from Mattel. The original centerconsole along with all other original KITT parts is used in the pilot and throughout 1st season.
They appearantly "updated" the centerconsole for 2nd season and probably it's Universal's prop department's work instead of Scheffe's.

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Post by AtariKnight » Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:51 am

Well, Maybe KITT's scanner is actually a barcode reader?
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Post by FuzzieDice » Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:59 pm

:shock: Man, that's unbelievably funny. :lol:

It's amazing what technology 20 years later can reveal about those shows. :)
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Post by James_kr » Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:18 am

so KITT actually was a "Child"
K.I.T.T: "Dog go away"
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