What images did Doug Drexler create for the proposed TV show Buckaroo Banzai: Ancient Secrets and New Mysteries?

Doug Drexler is a visual effects artist, designer, sculptor, illustrator, and a makeup artist who worked on sketches and digital designs for the proposed Buckaroo Banzai: Ancient Secrets and New Mysteries TV series. Learn more here: Where is the TV show Buckaroo Banzai : Ancient Secrets and New Mysteries?

Doug was kind enough to allow the Buckaroo Banzai FAQ to host these images here for archival purposes.

The following is from Doug Drexler's FaceBook page where he posted the images below:

When Mike [Okuda] first approached me about doing some developmental work for a proposed Buckaroo Banzai TV series, he had me at hello. I was stoked. Banzai is offbeat, irreverent, and one of a kind. Once I read the wacky script, “Super Size Those Fries!”, I was nuts for it. Dr. Emilio Lizardo plans to steer the Earth out of it’s orbit like a big sailing ship, powered by the combined energies of the world’s potato fields (remember science class? Getting electricity from a potato? No kidding!). This is Banzai at it’s best. There is no money, says Mike, we’re just trying to give Rick (W.D. Richter) all the ammunition he needs to sell the series. Count me in, Mike! I’m there!

"That Buckaroo project was a whole lotta fun. For a while, it seemed like everyone in the graphics department was a volunteer member of the Banzai Institute! Doug did those great sketches, as well as a bunch of cool CGI renderings of Buckaroo’s new underground headquarters (built in an abandoned missile silo) and World Crime League central. Anthony built a miniature Jet Car. Our friend and colleagues at Foundation Imaging did an amazing CGI demo with glimpses of future adventures of Dr. Banzai. Other friends built some amazing props, including a couple of great oscillation overthrusters and a series of potato-energy guns designed by Doug for Dr. Lizardo." - Mike and Denise Okuda

The captions below are from Doug's Facebook page or an archived version of an old post from his now defunct blog called Drex Files.

The Banzai Institute West, built into an abandoned missile silo, and designed and drawn up by Doug Drexler.

For those of you in the know, The Banzai Institute is in New Jersey, but what most don’t know is that there is a Banzai West, and it inhabits several abandoned missile silos in the Arizona desert. That’s about one of the coolest things I ever heard! Let me at it! I checked it out on line, and anyone can buy an abandoned missile silo! Not so crazy!

I liking the voice somewhat myself! BB sketch by Doug Drexler.

I don’t get it! The Sci Fi channel pumps out gems like “Mansquito”, and we can’t get “Buckaroo Banzai” off the ground! What’s the deal with that?!

“Come again, Mike?… it’s called what?” Mike grinned. “… Supersize Those Fries.” “Ha!” I said, rubbing my chin. “Buckaroo Banzai with a vengeance. I love it… need illustrations?” Mike grinned. “I thought you’d never ask!”

Lizardo’s Rhizome-Tuber Accelerator and Projector Tower by Doug Drexler.
This device can focus the energy from the world’s potato fields enabling Dr. Lizardo to steer the earth out of it’s orbit like a sailing ship. Just below the dome there is a “bridge” with a big ship’s wheel to steer us to hell. The tower itself is based on Tesla’s Wardenclyffe project on Long Island, topped off with a vegetable steamer. The steamer opens up and fires a beam of energy into space, powering us out of orbit.