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Title: Odd things used as props in movies and TV shows
Post by: Trevor on January 23, 2022, 06:16:18 AM
From Robocop 2

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While displaying RoboCop's new directives at the police station, the cable plugged into his head is actually a water supply coupling for a toilet

 :buggedout: +  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies
Post by: chainsaw midget on January 23, 2022, 11:44:01 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/3XmPEMX.jpg)

Here's a guy in the Empire Strikes Back evacuating Cloud City with his icecream maker. 


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies
Post by: Trevor on January 23, 2022, 12:01:59 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/3XmPEMX.jpg)

Here's a guy in the Empire Strikes Back evacuating Cloud City with his icecream maker. 

ROFLMAO  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies
Post by: Dr. Whom on January 24, 2022, 02:25:44 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/3XmPEMX.jpg)

Here's a guy in the Empire Strikes Back evacuating Cloud City with his icecream maker. 

Makes sense to me


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies
Post by: RCMerchant on January 24, 2022, 11:42:30 AM
Karloff is wearing asphalt spreader boots in FRANKENSTEIN (1931)

(https://i.imgur.com/HOvjjLz.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies
Post by: Alex on January 24, 2022, 01:39:38 PM
Not a movie, but the BBC props department was notorious for using things like two hairdryers glued together, or a shower head painted gold as spaceships.


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies
Post by: Trevor on January 24, 2022, 02:17:39 PM
Not a movie, but the BBC props department was notorious for using things like two hairdryers glued together, or a shower head painted gold as spaceships.

I think some of those wound up in episodes of Blakes 7 :wink:


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies
Post by: Dr. Whom on January 24, 2022, 03:25:31 PM
Not a movie, but the BBC props department was notorious for using things like two hairdryers glued together, or a shower head painted gold as spaceships.

Like when humanity was threatened by green bubble wrap in Ark in Space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU5r1EHV0H8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU5r1EHV0H8)


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies
Post by: Dr. Whom on January 24, 2022, 03:26:18 PM
Not a movie, but the BBC props department was notorious for using things like two hairdryers glued together, or a shower head painted gold as spaceships.

I think some of those wound up in episodes of Blakes 7 :wink:

That would be the notorious Andromedan invasion fleet.


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies
Post by: Alex on January 24, 2022, 03:54:36 PM
Not a movie, but the BBC props department was notorious for using things like two hairdryers glued together, or a shower head painted gold as spaceships.

I think some of those wound up in episodes of Blakes 7 :wink:

Yeah, that and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies
Post by: zombie no.one on January 25, 2022, 08:53:24 AM
Not a movie, but the BBC props department was notorious for using things like two hairdryers glued together, or a shower head painted gold as spaceships.

guess that might explain BUTTON MOON


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies and TV shows
Post by: chainsaw midget on January 25, 2022, 05:15:07 PM
In Starship Troopers, the soldiers wear calculators on their wrists. 

(https://i.imgur.com/zqqpLPN.jpg)


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies and TV shows
Post by: Dr. Whom on January 26, 2022, 02:07:34 AM
In Starship Troopers, the soldiers wear calculators on their wrists. 

(https://i.imgur.com/zqqpLPN.jpg)

Obviously for the bodycount


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies and TV shows
Post by: Jim H on February 01, 2022, 03:20:56 PM
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/27/63/1c/27631c0e8633193f56fa4c523b038fa7.png)

Klingon belt buckles on TOS are spray painted bubble wrap.


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies and TV shows
Post by: RCMerchant on February 02, 2022, 03:59:12 AM
The spaceships used in ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS (1963) are revamped from WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953).

(https://i.imgur.com/N0tM0uO.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

(https://i.imgur.com/zBbOxBW.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

Not really odd, but interesting, in a geek kind of way.


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies and TV shows
Post by: JuanSnz on February 03, 2022, 10:52:48 AM
According to IMDB, in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)

"The giant ear muffs that the giant tomato is wearing at the end were actually two big bright green toilet seat covers."

(https://i.imgur.com/0pLmJ7b.jpg)


Title: Re: Odd things used as props in movies and TV shows
Post by: chainsaw midget on February 05, 2022, 10:58:41 PM
Let me pick on Star Wars again. 

Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber is just a flash handle from an old camera. 

(https://i.imgur.com/rVPktwU.jpg)