Create Your Own Star Trek Movie Thanks to the New Effects of the Action Movie FX iPhone App !

Star Trek Into Darkness grossed nearly $84 M in its first four days and the movie fully deserves them as it is a real good one as i told you previously in my review. I've watched it again this week-end and it's just as good the second time than it was the first. This is due not only to the brilliant direction of J..J Abrams and the excellent script but also to all the actors who are playing extremely well. Not to mention the quality of the editing, the visual effects, etc... If you've not watched yet Star Trek Into Darkness , go ahead, you shouldn't be disappointed.

That said, Bad Robot, the company of J..J Abrams and the publisher of the highly popular Action Movie FX App - available on the iTunes AppStore - did an update of the App with five new FX and all are Star Trek effects! The five Star Trek visual effects are : Enterprise fly over, Warp effect, Photon torpedoes, Teleportation, and Phasers guns, this last one not show in the video below. So, you certainly won't do a whole Star Trek movie with this, and considering that it is just a smart phone app the FX obviously have huge limits but you still can have some fun with them and film your own short Star Trek movie, and to show you how it looks i did a short video for you. Although it's just an iPhone app, you'll probably be surprised by what it is possible to do now with a simple phone... and a bit of editing magic with iMovie.




Picture: copyright Paramount Pictures

Video: copyright Disney and more

The True Story of the Amazing Star Trek Attraction That Almost Was

The Goddard Group, a company directed by Gary Goddard, has launched a new blog which you're gonna like! Gary Goddard is the man who created for Universal when he was running the Landmark company the Jurassic Park ride and Terminator 3D among others famous rides and one of the latest post of this new blog is definitely not to be missed as Gary describes the incredible story of the Star Trek attraction that "almost came to life" in Las Vegas, back in 1992.

In one of my previous articles three years ago i've shown you this amazing concept of a real-size Enterprise, thanks to fantastic artwork like the one above - click to enlarge the pictures. This amazing project unfortunately not realised have a story. Years ago the Las Vegas Down Town hotels association, aware that the new Strip's hotels were getting most of the visitors, wanted to create a unique attraction to be located in down town Las Vegas. Different companies created concepts, including Landmark with this amazing Star Trek concept, but, although EVERYBODY loved this Star Trek idea their final choice went to the now famous Fremont Street Experience.



This real size Enterprise would have stand in the Las Vegas strip and would have been as long as Paris Eiffel Tower is high. That means unbelievably big. And of course guests would have found inside themed Star Trek attractions. The whole project had an estimated cost around $200 M (back in 1992) which was reasonable - specially considering the size.



Now, why such an unbelievably great project was never built, specially when EVERYONE was okay to do it? Well, as you will read in Gary's article ONE person was not okay, and because of this person all the project was cancelled. So, jump to the Goddard Group Blog HERE to read this truly amazing story!

Artwork: copyright Landmark, Landmark entertainment, Star Trek is copyright: Paramount Pictures