FUNCTIONING PROP REPLICA
From the inception of the project, the Factory Entertainment Team wanted to incorporate a functioning LED screen into the replica, partly because it's what the original designers of the props were trying to imitate, but also because a functioning screen is so much more gratifying in physical replica than the static 35mm slides the prop makers had to use, due to period technological limitations. Animated graphics based on screen-used slides were specially created and approved by Paramount. Users can select different animations to indicate GEO, MET and BIO functions.