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D floors and walls. Industrial dehumidifiers hum continuously. Surfaces develop texture. Mould and fungal growth constantly threaten to return. We deliberately avoided seamless perfection; there are joints, seams, crevices and openings. The architecture feels porous, and that porosity was essential to the horror. The smaller alien creatures required routes of ingress and escape. Consequently, vents became a recurring design motif throughout the facility. The architecture itself became complicit, and the complex could not protect you. Bedrooms, laboratories, corridors, control spaces. All contained potential points of entry. Indeed, they may already be harboring the thing that threatens you. Interiors were often discussed as biological spaces rather than architectural ones. Walls functioned as membranes. Ventilation systems became circulatory networks. Openings became orifices. The facility itself began to feel alive. The horror has always emerged not simply from the creatures but from environments that appear capable of supporting them. Neverland was designed precisely to do that. Lost Designs, Vehicles and Airships Not every design survives the journey to screen. One casualty was Boy Kavalier's private airship. Conceived as a sleek, lavish executive jet-style variant of the larger Prodigy airship, its interior included a lounge bar, luxury accommodation and even a glass ceiling designed to enhance a dramatic crash sequence. Although the sequence was ultimately removed from the script, the design remains one of my favorite unrealzed concepts from the project. The Prodigy tactical vehicles and production airships that did reach the screen shared a common philosophy. They were not military hardware in the traditional sense; they were expressions of corporate authority. Everything from their proportions to their detailing reinforced the notion that corporate power had become inseparable from governance itself. Special thanks must go to Mr. Big and the Thai picture vehicle team, whose ingenuity transformed ambitious concepts into beautifully finished functioning reality. F G E D. NEVERLAND EXTERIOR. ILLUSTRATION. E. NEVERLAND TRANSITION ROOM. ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANE LEVALLOIS AND RUBEN ALBA. F. NEVERLAND CORRIDOR. SET PHOTO. G. NEVERLAND TALKING ROOM. HEINOUS CONVERSATIONS ABOUT BOTH THE CHILDREN AND THE SYTHS TOOK PLACE HERE, SET PHOTO.