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The 2010 live version displays the Flying Machine more frequently on-screen but is never directly mentioned by the narrator.

The Flying Machine makes very minor appearances throughout Jeff Wayne's Live on Stage tour - making only one on-screen appearance ( The Red Weed part 1). Instead of being a flat bulkhead the Flying Machine is a large round hull (similar to the Fighting Machine) surrounded by four large pods and an under-mounted Heat Ray turret. Jeff Wayne's version of the Flying Machine is very different from the original description.

2 Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds PC Game (1998).

The novels tripod appearance is absent from the film. Crab-like walkers appear in The Asylums modernized War of the Worlds film and are the Martian fighting-machines, not handling-machines. No handling machine is seen in any other film adaptation. Wells The War of the Worlds these machines have six legs and a jointed tail and closely resemble a scorpion. Handling machines appear in the 2005 Pendragon Pictures adaptation H.G. It has two giant claws for smashing into buildings and two much smaller claws which come out of vents by the big claws. In the 1998 PC game, largely based on Jeff Waynes album, the handling machine is used by the player to construct and maintain Martian facilities. In Jeff Waynes musical adaptation of The War of the Worlds, the handling machine was the primary vehicle for capturing humans, a cage being placed on the "back" of the machine. They are described as "spider-like" and "crab-like", in both appearance and behavior. Handling machines are described as having five jointed legs, with numerous jointed levers and whip-like tentacles. The handling machine is depicted making, moving, and assembling machinery under control of a single Martian.