A little bit of info from Jeff Wayne

[jeffwaynefan]

Here is a little bit of info from Jeff, kindly sent down to me about the Martian Handling Machine, Martians and Fighting Machines. Many thanks to Jeff for doing this as I appreciate as well as others on how busy you are at this moment.

'The Handling Machines purpose in life is to gather humans with their claws/pincers. Once a human is captured the arms work in such a way as to 'drop' the humans into the baskets, and then, in a conveyor-belt fashion pass the humans into the Handling Machine for the waiting Martians to extract (drain) the blood from the living Humans.'

This will be seen in detail in the CGI movie. Though it should be pointed out that the Martian are inside the Handling Machine (and in fact all other Martian Machines) and proceed with the blood draining from within the Handling Machine. The Martians themselves are but giant 'brains' with tentacles and can only function completely by 'completing' their bodies by operating from within the various machines.

As Jeff recalls 'So, if they want to 'fight', they move into a Martian Fighting Machine. If they wish to 'feed' they move into a Handling Machine etc.'

With much thanks to Jeff Wayne for the above information.

H_C

[Gerkinman]

So the handling machine is like a walking resteraunt that serves fresh food for the tired soldiers? ;D

[jeffwaynefan]

You could say that, a sort of Mc Martians Drive In ;D

H_C

[krys666]

At least you've got more chance understanding them than human ones!

"*/dagadyagbab*htwvkta,fjajgkljgjsdahjoiw?"
"What?"
"heuiashnrifhuimhduthmsmtushnhsndthgis?"
"I'll just have the fries..."
"fdhbsfgfnhfsrfberhusnrhsreuhnrewhn hand over the money at the first window fjsdiofjsoi."

[Rob]

Reminds me of that Waynes World scene where they cut out words from what they are saying to the microphone at the drive through, yet the guy on the other end manages to read it back perfectly.

I'm like the sound of that handling machine though. Image being chased by it, knowing that when it gets you your gonna be drained of blood 30 seconds later. I bet the martians dont sedate you first either.

[Gerkinman]

^{Reminds me of that Waynes World scene where they cut out words from what they are saying to the microphone at the drive through, yet the guy on the other end manages to read it back perfectly.}

thats the first thing that came to my mind too ;D

[the Donal]

Rob said:

Reminds me of that Waynes World scene where they cut out words from what they are saying to the microphone at the drive through, yet the guy on the other end manages to read it back perfectly.

I'm like the sound of that handling machine though. Image being chased by it, knowing that when it gets you your gonna be drained of blood 30 seconds later. I bet the martians dont sedate you first either.

Happens to me most weeks.

It's not that bad really.