There are a couple pages here full of costume sketches and filming props I thought some might be interested in seeing.
I thought of particular interest were the panel from the Pegasus, the Tricorders, and Kes' outfit from Voyager. Because you know... anything that Jennifer Lien has sweated in...
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
Wow. Not only the Star Trek stuff, but scanning all those pages listed, there's some rather interesting items. Some stuff from the original Battlestar Galactica, Planet of the Apes, and many Star Wars items, including Vader's lightsaber from ESB and Luke's severed hand! If only I had some spare cash lying around!
B.J.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Yep. Lots o' cool schwag. I can't even imagine how wealthy I would need to be to see a $50,000 movie prop up for auction and seriously consider buying it.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Ah, yes - Profiles in History. The prop community spends a lot of time lusting after some of the lots in their auctions. Then they console themselves with, say, a screen-used crate label that appeared in a cargo bay in one of the Trek films, for about $50.
Posted by StarCruiser (Member # 979) on :
Including a Marilyn Monroe nudie shot!
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
That Maximum Duty phaser on the TMP guard sketch is quite... large
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
From the description of the First Contact type II: "Boomerang phaser made of resin painted silver and black, with red trigger which depresses to simulate firing." So the buttons on the high quality close-up props actually moved? (Or at least this one did?)
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Tosk's mask starts at only $200!
That would rock to have.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
There are many degrees of props. The most basic distinction is between Hero (for close-up shots, often with electronics, moving parts etc) and Stunt (often made of rubber). Although I've never heard of or seen an actual example of a screen-used boomerang with depressable button(s), I know plenty of people who are quite obsessive about the level of detail that should or shouldn't go into a prop (for example: no sound-generating capabilities because sound is added in post-production and to have sound would make it a toy, dammit) who've built replicas (usually from kits, I think roddenbery.com does or did a kit that could have this function added to it, if indeed it wasn't already a main feature) with the springy-buttons.
Whereas I just went out and got the Master Replicas FC phaser with sounds and everything. The novelty soon palls. Now it's just in the display case on my shelf. I must get it ou, put the batteries back in, and have a play.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Those tricorders are sweet though....I've seen kits to make the old PLaymates toy into a perfect prop- with sounds and lights and whatnot.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Next year they might be doing the STV/VI Assault Phaser. Yum. And Art Asylum are bringing out the black&white version of the TOS Phaser.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I've seen really nice resin props of the FC compression phaser rifle. ..not that tuning fork from Voyager, mind you, the good looking one.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
There are a few kicking around. People who manufacture kits of the rifle tend to keep a low profile to avoid the wrath of Viacom. One of my contacts has just brought out a beautiful kit, for $200 ($300 assembled and painted), and I'm saving up right now. . . Well, trying to. You can even have a choice of FC/Ins or Nem scope.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Ah, but can you get the EVA version?
I always enjoy these windows into the shadowy world of hardcore prop dudes.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
The only prop I really want is Criton's gun (Wynonna?) from Farscape (and yes, it's avaliable).
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
EVA version is available, yes. But it costs more and is nowhere near as common.
The Peacekeeper Blaster can be picked up on eBay, usually one-piece and made of resin although some ar hollow for adding electronics. One cabal I've encountered used to make them, maybe still do, but they keep a low profile since they specialise in taking other people's scratch-built props and using them to make moulds then producing copies. Very good copies, but it's still recasting which is anathema to propmakers. They've also done Blade Runner pistols, original BSG laser pistols, and so on.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
I still want an Omni from Voyagers. I think I've posted the link before. If I socked $20 per paycheck away, I could probably afford it in a year... hmm... must visit site again...