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Who owns the tank from the TV show the walking dead? Supposedly someone from Marietta, GA.
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M1a1
I saw that episode... LOVE the series... it was supposedly an M1A1 or 2, and it was most likely a mockup done with a Chieftain or a Centurion... I have heard that so far all efforts to get the military to use an M1 series have been rejected... but this may just be internet rumor...
I saw that episode... LOVE the series... it was supposedly an M1A1 or 2, and it was most likely a mockup done with a Chieftain or a Centurion... I have heard that so far all efforts to get the military to use an M1 series have been rejected... but this may just be internet rumor...
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I thought the interior scene, where he crawled in and shot the zombie, was done in a stage set. Too much interior space to be a real M1.
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They do that alot in TV. Make one side of an interior and the filming is alot easier.
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It is a chieftain.
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Yep
That's what I had heard... Chieftain with exterior panels to look like an M1a1 or 2...
The interior shots, as anyone who owns a tank can tell you, are definitely soundstage... there is no room in tanks to shoot, and no room that large for one, let alone two men to sit on the floor of the basket...
That's what I had heard... Chieftain with exterior panels to look like an M1a1 or 2...
The interior shots, as anyone who owns a tank can tell you, are definitely soundstage... there is no room in tanks to shoot, and no room that large for one, let alone two men to sit on the floor of the basket...
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very cool series!!!
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I Agree!
Had hopes for Falling Skies, but now its turning into baby showers and touchy introspection scenes.... fight the monsters! At least there are some good weapons being carried around.
Had hopes for Falling Skies, but now its turning into baby showers and touchy introspection scenes.... fight the monsters! At least there are some good weapons being carried around.
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Not true, I have seen a couple movies with actual M1 Abrams tanks in them, but you are right in the fact that there aren't many of them. The US military is happy to loan out real equipment for movies, but if the movies put them in a bad light, they won't. Since most of the movies about war or the military coming out of Hollywood have a liberal slant to it, and make our guys look bad, you can bet most of the movies will have doctored up Chieftains looking like Abramses. Or FV432s APCs from Britain doctored up to look like M2 Bradleys.
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Which ones?
Wow, thats cool. What movies have had real M1s in them?
Wow, thats cool. What movies have had real M1s in them?
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I think, that last Transformers movie had an Abrams, which could transform to a Autobot. But I haven't seen the movie yet, just trailers.
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I can't remember it's been a while, though. Sorry...
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No problem...
No problem... thanks for the info.
No problem... thanks for the info.