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Throwback Thursday for 14th May

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Just a bit late in posting this weeks edition of Throwback Thursday. This week we look back at Red Alert from 1996 and the interesting design of the Power Plant. For those who haven't noticed the Power Plant in the original Red Alert bares a striking resemblance to the real life Battersea Power Station located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Battersea, an inner-city district of South West London, England. I guess its safe to assume that Westwood used this building as inspiration for their Power Plant design. The Battersea Power Station has become an iconic structure, being featured in or used as a shooting location for many films, television programmes, music videos and video games. And its cool how we can tie in some Command & Conquer nostalgia to it these days.

 

Check back again next Thursday for another Throwback. Send in your ideas for future instalments. We encourage you to share this on social media using the hash tags #CnCTBT and #CNCNZTBT.

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The unused power station from Red Alert 2 looks even more like it:

 

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unused power station from Red Alert 2

 

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Source for that? :o

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Extracted from ra2.mix, it's one of a few unused buildings called city##, this particular one being city05.

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Not just the power plant, but the advanced power plant. ;)

 

But the normal power plant resembles the first stage of the power station.

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