Well that's a blast from the past.
Here's the story, many years ago when I worked in LA we installed an SX 200 at the Lucas films production offices called the Egg Factory in North Hollywood. I never noticed the console in the film but when we installed the system one of the managers came along when I had the cab door open noticed the LED's , thought it was cool and as this was in the reception area they had a custom built glass door for the SX 200 !!
Money no object
Perhaps this is where the idea come from to use the console in the film.
I later worked at ILM is San Francisco and learned some interesting things that the special effects folk did. Wow that's a while ago now.