Your chance to own a unique piece of lighting control history – a beautifully presented control interface from the game-changing Galaxy control made by Strand Lighting in the 1980s.
GalaxyPod is a new idea with two ambitions:
- To let you own a piece of theatre lighting history, without it having to take up your whole living room!
- To help fund the ongoing preservation and restoration of a number of Strand’s innovative Galaxy lighting console, the aim being to have one fully working example of each generation of the console.
GalaxyPod is a bit of a Galaxy in a Pod.
The Pod is a plywood box CNC made to perfectly house one of the Galaxy’s modular controls. That might be a channel or memory controller module, or the wider group master or submaster panels. You purchase the Pod with a module of your choice; the modules come from the rescued stash of Galaxies from theatres and television studios. It is non-functional, just a fascinating display item (or a great toy for kids!) By becoming part of a GalaxyPod these modules get to play a part in preserving other Galaxies, and you get a fun object to show off at home or work. This feels like a far better fate than being turned into electronic waste.
We’re suggesting a price of £120 for a ‘single width’ Galaxy module (channel or memory controller), £150 for the wider modules. That includes the wooden Pod fitted with a module of your choice, from a Galaxy generation of your choice, subject to availability.
Costs aren’t quite finalized but from this about £80 will go to the work of preserving other Galaxies, the rest covering the cost of building the Pod.
Just to give you an idea, the cost of restoring the Galaxy Nova shown at Classic Gear Live at PLASA this year was about £900; that included electronics parts including new ROM chips, two display adapters to allow the Galaxy to drive modern monitors, replacement foam for its flight case etc. Those are the costs we’re trying to cover as we start work on other Galaxies.
Want to see one for real? Come find us on the Classic Gear Live stand, stand D55, at the 2024 PLASA Show, Olympia in London, from Sunday Sept 1st to Tues Sept 3rd.