![]() ![]() Lloyd Webber and Peter Reeves wrote a novelty pop song for Jordan called "Engine of Love", which was released in 1977. (Ironically, the Thomas & Friends series later premiered seven months after Starlight Express and became highly successful.)Īfter withdrawing from the project, Lloyd Webber heard a recording of an American soul singer, Earl Jordan, who could sing three notes at once in the style of a steam whistle. ![]() The episode was completed in early 1976, but Granada ultimately decided not to produce a full series as they feared that Awdry's stories were not then popular enough outside the UK to justify investing the time and money needed to make the series. They pitched their material to Granada TV, who commissioned a pilot episode. Following the meeting, Lloyd Webber started composing, with actor and children's TV writer Peter Reeves contributing lyrics, alongside artist Brian Cosgrove animating for it. Awdry about adapting Awdry's Thomas the Tank Engine stories as an animated TV series. In 1974, Lloyd Webber approached author Reverend W. Starlight Express has its roots in three abandoned projects: an animated TV series based on Thomas the Tank Engine, a novelty pop single, and an animated film based on Cinderella. Starlight Express is the ninth-longest-running West End show and the most successful musical in Germany, where it has been performed in a purpose-built theatre since 1988, holding the Guinness World Record for most visitors to a musical in a single theatre. Famously, the actors perform on roller skates. It tells the story of a young but obsolete steam engine, Rusty, who races in a championship against modern engines in the hope of impressing a first-class observation car, Pearl. Starlight Express is a 1984 British musical, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Lauren Aquilina (additional lyrics) Don Black (additional lyrics) This is the second SpotMini version Boston Dynamics has shown to the public since 2016 – it’s been made a lot cuter with a new, bright yellow paint job.Logo for the Japan/Australia tour, 1987–1988 It’s quite unlike the group’s Atlas robot, a more humanoid machine that barreled around quite clumsily in a video from 2016. All these small abilities seem to reflect a pretty advanced autonomous system. A marked difference here is the almost-intelligent way the SpotMini deciphers the door’s location, zones in on the handle and, quite politely, holds the door while maintaining its balance. Past video clips show their other creations, like the BigDog made for the U.S military, performing simple tasks. The Boston Dynamics SpotMini can be seen opening the door with an extendable hydraulic arm and clamp in the short video. See into our cold, metallic, dead future by watching the above gif again and again. The robot dog we first saw stacking plates in a dishwasher has now graduated from its servitude to opening doors for itself and another robotic mate – excitingly, they’re probably now planning how this new skill fits into the destruction of the human race. ![]()
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