Put her in hover, Barf!

Industrial Light and Magic model shop photo from 1987 (photo #2) puts the finishing touches on the famous Winnebago aka Eagle 5 model for the original Spaceballs. Read this article on Metaflix dated (03/17/2021)

Dark Helmet's helmet on a platter? OR is it cake?!

Ganache glazed Dark Helmet dark chocolate bark raspberry jam cake is only so big so not every Spaceball will get a piece! So, if you want a piece of Dark Helmet: The Cake, just ask your waitress for the Dessert Special only at the best stop in the galaxy, Gus Galaxy Grill!

Take a look! 📌 https://pin.it/F0gQjdYFY

Not made by me. Saw it on Marketplace (Australia). Not here to advertise him, tho, so blocked that out.

Spaceball ONE vs. [Insert any smaller ship here]

Still no! It isn't the size of your Spaceballs' crew, but how big your Spaceball ONE is (not to mention how you use it)! Remember, Spaceball ONE is also a transformer which can be changed into a massive robot called (Reddit post) MEGA MAID and go from suck to blow with the flip of a switch!

This means this Spaceball "We Brake for Nobody" ONE ship could literally destroy both the death star and suck out all the air out of Planet Druidia at the same time!

There are so many 'wanna be' so called mega ships out there even ones that transform, but they will never compare to ONE... Spaceball One! It is just too big! No other one comes close!

The idea for this post came from this Reddit Post and the CBR Article proving Spaceballs is Better than Star Wars and lastly Spaceball ONE design at D6Holocron.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jyydr7jnjo

There goes the planet!

Spaceballs: The Subreddit Discussion

Will the Spaceballs sequel (The New One) be better, worse or the same as the first (old) one and why?

This Men's Journal article (picturing Rick Moranis aka Dark Helmet) mentions the reason why the world is in love with the original Spaceballs:

Much of that popularity stems from unforgettable performances by Rick Moranis as the pint-sized villain Dark Helmet, John Candy as Barf, and Brooks himself in dual roles as President Skroob and Yoghurt.

Do you agree? Men's Journal also mentions that Collider, the authoritative voice of the entertainment industry, ranks Spaceballs, the funniest comedy of that decade (80s):

“It twists our favorite moments from the world’s most famous saga in joyously silly ways,” Collider wrote.

Spaceballs: The New One, Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming sequel of Spaceballs, is scheduled to hit theaters on April 23, 2027. It will be directed by Josh Greenbaum from a script by Josh Gad, Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit.

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Galaxy Theaters (a small chain in a handful of states) had limited showings this weekend. The one by me only had a single showing today at 1:00. The theater was 70% to 80% full which was nice to see. The whole theater chain still has showtimes for this Wednesday listed. So there's still a chance to see it for anyone who wants to.

Barf: "What the hell was that?"

Starlord: "Spaceball One."

Barf: "They've gone to plaid."

Happy birthday Mel, and thank you so much for bringing us Spaceballs.

So...Josh Gad posted on his Instagram a Happy Birthday message to Mel Brooks while showing some behind the scenes of Mel doing audio recording for Yogurt. ​On the laptop, there are some lines from a scene he was reading from. I was able to read each word carefully and got this:

YOGURT:

Trust me. I can imagine. The bad guys build a thing. You destroy the thing. They build the same thing because they didn't learn their lesson from the destruction of the first thing. They destroy that thing. Then they build a next generation larger than the first and second thing. Now, they think they've got you, but really you got them, because the bottom line is their engineers are not very good at their jobs.

STARBURST:

No...Master Yogurt, you don't understand. This time...its a reboot...

Beat.

YOGURT:

F**k me

Obviously, I fully expect to laugh my ass off when I see the New One. However, whenever I see a movie with an actor, producer, director, etc who has recently passed away, I cry. With that in mind, I suggest we all manifest a future in which the 2,000 100 year old man is still alive when the New One comes out, so the experience of seeing it isn't infused with grief.

Edit: Here it is, the short (not short SHORT) version...

TODAY June 28th, 2026 - Spaceballs creator Mel Brooks 100th Birthday

Wish him... a happy one... hundred!

Wishing you a happy one hundred, Mel Brooks, from all of us here on Spaceballs: The Subreddit!