Adam Savage's Lost in Space Spacesuit!

Hey everybody, Adam Savage in my cave and I have some spacesuit goodness to share with you today. I shared it recently with a tool tip about a new polishing tool that I have implemented into my process and I use that tool to polish up the visor of this beautiful helmet from the television show Lost in Space. Highly regarded, I have to admit. I have not seen it but everyone I know who has loves it and that is I'm so happy when an excellent sci-fi franchise goes out into the world and does good. I plan to watch this because yeah of course I can't ignore it. That's awesome. The spacesuits are the part of the show I am most fascinated with as one would imagine because I am deeply spacesuit obsessed as you all know. The suits in this show were designed by Academy Award winning costume designer Angus Strothy. He won the Academy Award for Moulin Rouge. Well deserved, highly deserved, an amazing film for everything up to and including costumes and these spacesuits were under his purview and I have obtained an entire spacesuit from Lost in Space for my collection and I'm going to put it on for you today. We're going to get a little hot under the collar as it were but this has built-in cooling and lighting. I cannot wait to show it to you. Also it turns out you know who made this because I know who made this because it was made by my friends at FBFX. Here is some of their former work under the aegis of costume designer Jante Yates. This is from Alien Covenant, a magnificent piece and I'm so proud to have this in my collection. Someday I want to build the rest of the suit, someday I will. But FBFX out of London are our good friends here at Tested. We've shot in their shop many, many times. They make all sorts of different props but one of their specialties is spacesuits. In the video where I polished this, I covered how neat it was to see a production piece from a television show versus a film because I have seen pieces from films and a television show imparts a lot more abuse onto a prop than a movie even because it's used over many, many hours of shooting. A television show can be 8 to 16 to 24 hours of actual content over several years where a movie is just two. So I could see artifacts in this costume to make it that much more robust for the kind of abuse that television imparts. I think that's enough talking about the preliminaries. It's time to put this puppy on. All right, I'm going to start by taking stock of what I've got here. I've got a pair of gloves. I've got a harness. Let's see. Oh, oh, oh, a Snoopy cap. Oh, this is the suspenders. OK, those are not part of this because those are part of the costume when it's in a different state. Oh, beautiful boots. FBFX not only did the spacesuits for Alien Prometheus and Covenant, but they also did the spacesuits for the Martian. And you can see this little front panel. That's very much an FBFX move on their spacesuits. Martian suit also has those. This is the meat thing. So we have here a harness, a climbing harness that goes with the suit. We have a look at that. Oh, wow. OK, just preliminarily on first glance, what I'm seeing is some custom screen printed textures on fabric. It's actually weathering really beautifully. Yeah, the famous abdomen plate. That is one of the key things I noticed about the suit. And in there are the pants, the pants. Yeah. Check this out. This is really interesting. The pants actually are built like motorcycle armor, and thus they actually connect to the top part. All right. That makes dressing really easy. You know, those go with the spenders, but there's no is that true to show that everything. Oh, right. Well, there's a risk computer here. OK, great. I will need a little help at one key part of this, but we'll get it. Yeah, I guess I can just lay this down right here. We'll do the pants first. All right. I'm going to go take off my pants and put on these pants. I'll be right back. All right. Already a couple of really interesting things about these. They're built like fishing waders. So I've got these rubber feet that go into their boots, which I think is really neat. Oh, right. I had. Yes, yes, yes. I did that. OK, great. In order to fill. So these boots are based on, I believe, winter muck locks in Canada and cold places of the world. People go to offices wearing dress shoes, but they get to those offices in the winter by wearing boot covers over their dress shoes. And I think that's what these begin their life as. But it means there's a lot of room in there. So I bought these like real cheapy sort of wool boot liners. I think these are like slippers, but they're cheap and they fill that space in there. Doesn't that look great? Look at that. Awesome. Same thing here. I think I can just slip this right on. Yeah. Yeah. Terrific. Remember, cosplayers always put those boots on early. Yeah. The other way lies madness. Oh, right. And before I put on the top, let's get let's get this thing correct, because it's got a few moving parts. So there is I think that's how it goes. I should have done this before I put the boots on. OK, wait, wait, wait. Let's see. So it goes. That's towards the crunch. Yeah, that's towards the crunch. So my legs come in. One leg. Yeah. And the other leg. Yeah. OK, now what am I missing? What's going on here? Is that how it goes? Wait a second. See? Yep. I'm actually looking at reference material and it is off center, so I am wearing it correctly. OK, I'm going to lower this down just a little bit so I can get the top part zipped on. Also, this is all custom construction, but does it feel commercial in its nature? It's like really, really nicely built. All right. Yeah, here we go. OK. Yes, the risk. I'm sure they had to do this so the actors didn't have to do it themselves. We won't put the gloves on until we're very fast. I will tell you from a from a wearability standpoint, I can feel they've got some there is some air coming in and I'm not boiling, which would be their goal, right? They want to make these suits wearable by the actors and not have to take them off every 20 minutes if they're overheating. Really quite comfortable. All right. The next part of this is. Oh, right. So I just want to talk about this. This is the main body of the suit. And this is I believe I believe this is polyurea sprayed into a mold, a 3D printed mold. It made it very accessible for getting to the battery components. And this does the fan and the lighting. You can hear the fan, but it is very quiet. The fan is over here. And you can see the custom scoop, the 3D printed to channel the air. And it comes out through this manifold here, very similar to an actual Apollo manifold. The goal is to come out from the back of the helmet and around the front. I have found this one works great in there. Okay, so let's get this puppy on. I guess I can do without my hearing aids because I'll be wearing the suit cap in a minute. Okay, so Norm, I need your help. Yeah. Under the. Right. Then that guy. Yep. You might not be able to close that one. Oh, great. Let's see now. Gloves and a Snoopy cap. Let's get the Snoopy cap on. Oh, there's a back seat. Oh, I should have put this on earlier. There we are. Not as bad as I was afraid it would be. Okay, we got one glove. Should I do the gloves after I do the suit, the helmet? Yeah, I think I should. Okay, so this is going to be tricky with this because it doesn't quite fit my glasses. Oh, there we go. Okay, Norm, I need you to push the helmet down on its top. Yep. Hard. That's it. We're locked and you can hear me loud and clear. Okay, gloves. I've got a friend coming by the cave in a minute. He has no idea how cool this is. It's like just randomly stopping by. I think this is what he's fantasizing it's actually going to be like and he's going to be right. There we go. Oh, hey, Norm, would you compress that glove so it just snaps? There you go. And these gloves, I'm like mystified. I feel like they had to have had a custom glove company make these because they're so good looking. Yeah, go ahead and do that. And that's everything. There you go. Ladies and gentlemen, the latest addition to my collection of now over 20 spacesuits lost in space. I feel great. It's very lightweight. It's I really could spend a couple of hours in this. Don't get me wrong, it'd be really nice to take off if I was wearing this for a couple of hours. But it's surprisingly comfortable. I guess I don't have to know. Hey, everybody, Adam Savage here in my cave fully protected from COVID and all other environmental pathogens. I really want to walk on the street wearing this. I know I shouldn't, but I want to. Well, Halloween's coming up. I'll tell you, maybe I'll wear one of these all day on Halloween. Seriously, like you would become an actor just to get to put one of these on. I would learn acting just to be able to wear one of these. Are you kidding? This is like fantasy camp of the best possible time. Oh, yeah, there is a sweet relief to that, to be sure. Damn, that is a good looking suit. I am so delighted that this is now seen all in the same place someday. All right. To infinity and beyond. Oh, that's a different franchise. Hey, guys, Adam Savage from Tested here. If you've ever seen the six inch ruler in inches and centimeters on my forearm and wanted one of your own, but you didn't want it to be permanent. Well, today's your lucky day. You can now buy temporary tattoos of my measuring stick, my measuring forearm at Tested-Store.com. Comes like this, goes on in about 30 seconds with a little water. The instructions are on the back. It comes off with rubbing alcohol and hopefully it warms you up to the idea of permanently attaching a measuring device to your body because I use mine every single day.