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You won't belive this!!!
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:10 am
by HungarianKnight
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.
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:30 am
by Wizster
Can anyone provide captures to prove this insane notion?
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:37 am
by Joe Huth
From "Mouth of the Snake":
Joe
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:24 am
by HungarianKnight
Thanks, Joe!
If you watch closely and lighten the image a bit, you can see ITEM, QTY and PRICE clearly as cristal.
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:35 am
by Wizster
Oh dear! Fantastic spot HungarianKnight, and thanks Joe.
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:19 am
by BoMcD
yep..
ya sure can....
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:57 am
by imranbecks
Incredible!!!! They must have taken that part of the console from a cash register or something...
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:20 pm
by LuvKITT
Gee. Why didn't they just put all numbers? Seems alittle strange to put those buttons in there.
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:26 pm
by Lost Knight
That's pretty amusing. Great find, HungarianKnight. Although...K.I.T.T. did have an on-board cash dispenser...
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:31 pm
by rulloa81
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
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:40 pm
by BoMcD
I can see it...
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......
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:34 pm
by Major Ursa
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.
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:05 pm
by LuvKITT
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.
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:07 pm
by KNERD
Oh dear. That's another illusion shattered. Kitt used to be a cash register.
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:09 pm
by Knightling
was the dashboard disigned by mattel? the toy company??
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:51 am
by KITTfan
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.
-KITTfan-
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:51 am
by AtariKnight
Well, Maybe KITT's scanner is actually a barcode reader?
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:59 pm
by FuzzieDice
Man, that's unbelievably funny.
It's amazing what technology 20 years later can reveal about those shows.
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:18 am
by James_kr
so KITT actually was a "Child"