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Movie Memorabilia
Money is no object. Any and every prop imaginable is available.
What are the top three movie props You would love to have?
Would it be Indy’s hat from Raiders of the Lost Ark? Or the shower curtain from Psycho? Snow globe from Citizen Kane? Zagnut bar from Seems Like Old Times?
My top 3:
From the greatest movie ever made and I have watched thousands of times would be Doc’s mind-reading helmet from Back To The Future.
“You want Me to buy a subscription to the Saturday Evening Post.”
Next, from the greatest movie ever made and I have watched a thousand times would be the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle from Stripes.
“C’mon. It’s Czechoslovakia. We zip in, We pick ’em up, We zip Right out again. We’re not going to Moscow. It’s Czechoslovakia. It’s like We’re going into Wisconsin.”
And My top movie prop is from the greatest movie ever made and I have watched thousands of times would be Otto from Airplane!
“Elaine… Don’t panic. On the beltline of the automatic pilot there’s a hollow tube. Now, that’s the manual inflation nozzle. Pull it out and blow on it.”
Top 3 movie props You just have to have. Go!
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The One Ring
Anduril
Luke’s ROTJ Lightsaber
How about TV props?
Because I want a working TARDIS.
The yar model sailboat from “The Philadelphia Story”
Mel Brooks’ jacket as Governor in “Blazing Saddles” with GOV on the back
the floppy hat Donald O’Comnor uses in his Make ‘Em Laugh number in “Singing in the Rain”
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For me, the coveted items are:
Great call.
[Yeah, I’m aware. That’s why I hope You saw the sarcasm in My comment.]
You can buy a replica for not much money. I had one for a while., I don’t remember what happened to it. When that happens, usually one of my kids has it.
As I was scrolling through this, I was thinking “I can’t actually thing of anything” until you mentioned the Death Star.
Down at the EMP, now the Museum of Popular Culture, they had a Star Wars exhibit that featured many things, the coolest of which was a model of the Millennium Falcon. It was used in the original film, and was probably 8 feet long. It’s all I’d want.
The Dude’s rug that tied the room together in The Big Lebowski. After cleaning, of course.
This is my #1. Re-watched the movie again last week. Reminded how perfect it is.
The reproduction is between $99 and $129 and is on my splurge list.
Hmmm.. What do I want from Ghostbusters? There’s the containment trap, I suppose. But what about the Twinkie?
The gatling gun from the Wild Bunch
Chico Marx’s trombone from Animal Crackers
The original Bluesmobile
I have one. A friend gave it to me when he was downsizing a few years back.
Sorry about the last one. Just got back from vacation, partaking of some “Welcome Home!” beer . . .
@neutralobserver, It’s time for parental controls on the Internet access.
Whom do you plan to poison?
Coming to mind from recent movies, maybe Dicaprio’s flamethrower in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Already mentioned:
And my own pick:
3. A Huey from Apocalypse Now, complete with speakers and sound track, please.
One of the packs from Ghostbusters.
Or even better, the marshmellow man.
Maybe just keep it next to the cream and sugar when I have people over for coffee.
I thought about including the Six-Fingered Sword in my list, but I already had a sword in it. Seemed to lack creativity.
You can never have too much cutlery.
I want Tony Stark’s house.
The shoes Eugene Levy wore in “Best in Show.” Eugene Levy has normal feet, but his character Gerry Fleck had two left feet. So a shoe had to be made that fight Levy’s right foot but that looked like a left shoe.
I tried so hard to enjoy that movie, and I just couldn’t.
I don’t know what that is.
Iocaine Powder. Supposed to be good for you.
Ingrid Bergman’s flying saucer hat from Casablanca, to remind me how very beautiful she was, even wearing that funny headgear:
(Come to think of it, any hat from the movie, including the fez, just Because. Casablanca.)
The banister knob from It’s a Wonderful Life, to remind me of what’s truly important in life, and what isn’t:
Charlie Allnut’s crate of gin, just before Rosie dumps it all in the river (surely I don’t have to explain why I want this), from The African Queen: