All I did was actually design that animation rig that was inside of it. But another funny story is that in addition to the eighteen foot and the two nine foot versions, we made twelve of them that were nineteen inches long and perfect replicas of the big one. These were used for the mass fleet-attack. They had all of them in play at once, whereas [laughs] they could have just duplicated one. But the way they did it at the time, they didn’t want to mess with tying up the computers, so they just made twelve of these little ones.

The big ones were nice, and those ended up in some Sony museum somewhere, I’m sure. But the little ones…all the model-makers were salivating over these things [laughs]. Every model-maker collects things from movies they’ve worked on, and these were a perfect size for you to display on your mantle. They kept asking the shop foreman ‘Hey, what’s going to happen to these twelve little ones when the movie’s over?’. There were nearly fifty people working in the shop at the time, and they were all asking about these.

The shop foreman said no, there’s not a chance. These were already spoken for; the producers were each going to get one, and a couple of people at Sony and different departments too. So they said ‘No, you’re not going to get one’.

Anyway towards the end of the project, the guys who were making the little ones kept putting in more orders, and the boss came in and said ‘Oh, we’re going to need a couple more of these for the agents’, and the stars wanted one. At the point where they were making about ten more than they were going to be filming, they had just started making them as souvenirs for some of the bigwigs working on the film.

Finally the boss came in and said ‘Okay!’ [laughs] ‘Everyone that wants one can have one of these, but you have to cast up the parts and you have to assemble it on your own time. But everyone gets one!’. So I’ve got one sitting right here in my kitchen.