knoxvilles_joker wrote:
They only had time span of one weekend to build them from parts they could source locally. The estimation of two units may not be wrong.
Knowing how films go (I have experience first hand) and also knowing what I know about how Cameron's production of Aliens went, I can imagine that probably not more than 2 were made.
The setup will have been that 2 of them are needed, one for each team during the corridor sweep, one each for Hudson and Vasquez during the lock-in in operations, one of which Ripley takes off Vasquez while she welds the doors shut. And they will have wanted to see the screen on one, so that will either have been another version with detail focussed on the screen, or a simple part swap on the others to do those shots once the hallway wide shots have been completed.
Always love doing this kind of research.
Nick