Images Of ‘Futuristic’ Movie Props That Are Just Regular Items
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- Images Of ‘Futuristic’ Movie Props That Are Just Regular Items
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“Ordinary objects can become extraordinary treasures if one has enough imagination.” -Idk these prop designers I guess
and black paint XD
@@thequeertelope7941 And silver paint :-P
And super glue and greebles
“The Skywalker saber came from a flash handle of a vintage camera”
Really takes the phrase “shoot the family, frame them, hang them all” to new level
...I haven't heard of this sentence before, but damn, languages sure find ways to troll you
In Germany, there is an almost 60-year-old science fiction series "Raumpatrouille Orion".
The outfitters, for the command desk, have painted taps, shower heads, pencil sharpeners and irons silver. In the end it looked very "futuristic".
As the saying goes >>Where there is a will, there is a way
Not forgetting that the "blasters" Dietmar Schönherr and his crew used on the baddies were quite obviously just bent-over screwdrivers.
MsG
Where there's a will there's a smith
Thanks, now I'll have the theme song stuck in my head for another week...
So if you are creative and love to craft, become a set designer or props master. Lol
Go to college and major in set design
@@CraftHarlot Not even that. There's a woman who found she was great at making prop food and decided to turn it into her own business.
I mean, it _is_ one of the requirements of the job..
I'm actually taking a technical theater class next year in high school and I'm super excited bc I love to make props and be in theater but without all the acting (ironically)
Us cosplayers do this all the time.
It doesn't have to work; it just has to look like it does
The small medical scanners Dr. McCoy used in Star Trek TOS were really salt and pepper shakers.
In the TOS episode "The Ultimate Computer," the switches that Kirk uses to turn the M-5 unit on and off looked just like repurposed children's whistles, but AFAIK, no one from Paramount ever mentioned this.
what i learned today is you can appear futuristic/ sci fi just by painting everyday objects in eddgy colors
Or gluing a bunch of everyday things together to become something else! 😲
That’s what makes Star Wars feel authentic it’s old and has familiar items that don’t feel out of place
Hats off to the costume/set designers for being so creative!
Tbh, this is just creativity.
Me when we have a roleplay in schook and i need props:
*school
Honestly, as a crafter who uses a lot of "garbage" to make things, this all makes a lot of sense. Why spend an outrageous amount of money to make something when you have junk just lying around that can do the job and look just as nice?
Two parts from the same jet engine in two star wars movies. Imagine getting that call.
Bob, were working on something here, and it would be cool if we could use that project motor you've had sitting around.
_ Well, it doesn't work, you know that.
Doesn't have to, Bob. I'll be by tomorrow.
The coffee cup was a goof, not a prop. You can even see her holding her actual cup in the picture. 🤦
That whole season was a goof.
They should admit they just wanted to throw that pic in there even though it was bs to be included in this video, lol
@@DoomguyIsGrinningAtYou. I think the cast and crew had just given up caring at that point.
Oh yes, set dressers and prop designers have to be creative, especially when they realize they are missing something for the next scene to be filmed and have to cobble something together in 15 minutes. When I interned on a low budget (but still quality) film I learned a lot about what you can bs because very few will even notice if it is done well and blended in. Also that most props often get improvised because the original doesn't work. I actually have my old phone in that film because I was the only one with a Samsung phone but the ones Samsung provided couldn't do what was needed (they were all demo units and couldn't actually make or receive calls). I also got really good at finding exactly what I needed at antique shops (I ended up in charge of seeking and buying specific prop items and set dressings since I knew the area). So yeah, you really need to be good at improvisation, building, and breaking things to be good at set dressing and prop making. Yes, you break a lot of things to make props and sets look right, it is just a matter of breaking them the right way. Aging items precisely is an art form in itself.
that sounds like a dope job
@@thequeertelope7941 It was fun, it is surprising how many practical effects you can do with microfilament. :)
Geordi's Visor was a banana clip they painted gold.
Picard's tea set with the cups that sat in the pot were spotted one day in a shop and the prop master bought it. Same with the pyramid clocks and some of the glassware in 10 forward.
They did that a lot for ST:TNG.
I still have im my living room the exact same lamp they had over the poker table.
Picard's case when he was leaving the ship was a sort of diamond shaped black CD carrying case.
I'm so glad this list has Terra Nova, no one seems to remember that series, and I was amused to no end when I saw all the spray painted Longshot and Nightfinder blasters lmao
The visor Geordi LaForge wears over his eyes looks like the banana hair clips I used to have.
you are semicorrect. It is a modified hairband
@@cayenigma No. It IS a banana clip.
In Galaxy Quest when the crew first gets transported and the Thermians enter to examine them on of the tools is a speculum. You can see it when they’re scanning Gwen.
I laughed so hard when I realized what it was! I don't know how she stayed in character, I'd be giggling every time it got near my face!
The support staff of the entertainment industry is really the talent. They solve problems every day and repurpose something for the projects. They follow the idea why build from scratch just repurpose with paint and spackle.
The diagnostic tools that Dr. McCoy uses on Star Trek:TOS are just futuristic looking salt and pepper shakers.
And the pump sprayer with it's molded handle, stock. They were new, they used to press down not a by trigger handle. Salt shaker with lights sequencing inside, probably wired to arm battery. That shows they are working!
The Smartguns in Aliens was a WWII German MG34 mounted to a steadycam harness with extra plastic mouldings to disguise the very old machine gun.
Weren't MG34s also used in Star Wars Episode 4. ? Carried by the Stormtroopers in Tatoine?
@@tommiturmiola3682 That's right, most of the weapons used in Star Wars were altered real-world weapons, most of them from WWII. One of the most famous guns is Han Solo's blaster, being a modified version of the Mauser C96 pistol.
@@Andres33AU And the "blasters" used by the imperial troops were L2A3s - more commonly known as the Sterling submachine gun. Whoever thought that they'd pass muster as "ray guns" must have a pretty vivid imagination.
MsG
it also had motorcycle parts
In s1-e9 of Babylon 5... the case that Deathwalker uses for the longevity serum is a fancied-up Singer buttonhole attachment case. You’d probably only spot this if you made your own clothes as a teenager, as I did!
I applaud all props designers for their creativity. Their job must be the funniest work ever!
The Sci-fi gun in the Bruce Willis starring _Surrogates_ movie is built out of an old rechargeable flashlight. My grandparents owned one when I was a kid.
1:35 - This is from Star Wars: Rouge One.
What you are looking at is the London Underground Station at Canary Wharf.
It's reportedly being used again as a set for the new Disney+ Star Wars show "Andor"
They are simple things but they made them look really cool!
I love it when low-tech ingenuity makes it to movies and TV shows, and I think it makes it more fun (and cheaper) than making props from scratch.
I loved the podracer crowd with the Q-tips, I thought that was ingenious, but I laughed out loud at the spy cam in Meet the Fockers being a pen lid, haha.
I no longer feel bad about using a "bop it" toy to design an OC's lightsaber.
BUT DOES IT MAKE THE SOUND EFFECTS WHEN YOUR OC ATTACKS?? I REALLY WANNA SEE THIS FIGHT SCENE!!
this is a goldmine for cosplayers :D
The drink ware used for the Blue Milk scene in New Hope are Tupperware.
This reminds me that most of the guns you used to see in the original Star Wars movies were real guns with plastic pieces added to them. All of these here were clever.
Villaim: "And now I'll make you talk once I'm through with using my torture device on you."
Me in a mocking tone: "Oh no. I hope that ceiling fan doesn't fall onto your head."
When kids who see some stick as a cool sword stay as a kid in adult body. :v
7:36 How lucky you must be to find IG-88/IG-11's head at the beach?
I remember in Dr. Who they often used items as props for their episodes. They essentially used whatever they could find. I remember the Doctor's "sonic screwdriver" was originally a tire pressure gauge and in the episode of the Five Doctors the device that was given to the Master to get back and forth from the field was an air fresher, one of the super-stick-up things common back in those days.
The flight stick that the Mandalorian uses to fly his ship is a generic USB flight joystick that my dad owns, and I jumped out of my seat and said something right when I saw that. It's a good flight stick too, he made a good purchase.
In one of the Star Trek TNG movies (I want to say Generations but not sure) The Enterprise is flown under manual control with a Gravis Blackhawk PC joystick.
Well this makes it a lot easier to make a halloween costume
Yeah no kidding!
One of Doctor McCoy's medical instruments in Star Trek TOS was a "futuristic" looking Swedish salt shaker. The hatches to the escape pods in Star Trek: First Contact are the lids off cargo holders for transporting skis on car roofs.
Star Wars takes place in the past.
That makes our regular items are futuristic
A lot of the lights on the original Star Trek bridge were just Christmas lights. I love how set and props people are so creative. I once found and old camera lens canister at a yard sale and turned into the lighting canister from Star Dust. Seems that the props folk on Star Dust had done the exact same thing.
The medical instruments in the original Star Trek were salt shakers, and the Klingon command chair in Wrath of Kahn was the front seat from a junked car set in a plywood frame.
0:48 THAT'S HILARIOUS AND AMAZING OML
also from firefly, the containers used for bodies during the hospital heist were just cartop carriers.
A lot of these, I didn't actually know already. But then, I don't have time to sit through full length feature films frame by frame. Kudos on keeping the segments short so I had to pause to read the caption and thereby massage the Algorithm, by the way.
1:40 that escalator shot is a London Underground station, specifically the Jubilee Line platform at Canary Wharf station.
In the 1965 series I Dream of Jeannie, the bottle that Jeannie emerges from is actually a painted 1964 Christmas edition Jim Beam whiskey decanter.
Nice compilation.
I have a the Galaxy's Edge cook book (Star Wars) and they use a lot of transmission parts as plates and props to make the food look more futuristic. 10/10 for the cookbook BTW. Great recipes.
The door opener button in Event Horizon is an air orbital sander that I used to use when I was an apprentice Cabinetmaker.
I'd definitely add the Rowenta brand flat iron as spaceship's main switch in the german 1960s SciFi series "Raumpatroille". There are a few more of such Easter eggs in this series as they had a small budget and therefore had to be creative.
Wow!! Truly amazing!!
These were pretty cool !!!!
This is why I have two giant boxes of random junk for prop making...
Dang, prop makers are creative as heck
Fun fact: the Moonraker laser rifle from the 007 movie "Moonraker" was made out of IMI Uzi replicas, store-bought plastic toys (made of resin and rubber).
Dang this is actually really nice, I wish I thought if this so we could do a play using only props like these for a play. To late for that now
Amusing how 'futuristic' is the accurate descriptive category for something set 'long long ago'.
in a galaxy far far away..
Learning to see shapes and you can easily make new stuff that looks cool. Its pretty silly how easy you can change the look with just adding a few items and a new coat of paint
I appreciate how they slapped a ww1 era rifle grenade onto Obi Wan's lightsaber
The WW1 English rifle grenades used to make lightsaber handles are pretty rare to begin with. Damn nerds made them more rare, tearing them up to make their playtoys
Yeah. Now we have find other things to throw at Germans.
@@Warvvolf given time, the Germans will design something for just this purpose.
the toy collections and replicas that we buy are more expensive. We are dam gullible!
Thank you! ❤️
I love how they redeemed the GOT coffee cup issue....
...kinda. It's still a gaff that should have been noticed by the studio.
@@RuffWarl0ck Yes, I realize. I'm just pleasantly surprised they were trying to redeem and simultaneously poke at the mistake. Emilia got a lot of crap for it and after the ending they gave her in-show and how they handled everything with her at the end in promoting the final season, I'm glad for her that some people aren't falling in line with the blatant scapegoating. No one deserves such treatment.
Also the mesh corridor floors in Aliens that the marines find melted through are made from BPC. AKA British packing crates. And the underside of the facehugger when Ash dissects it in the first movie is fish guts.
I already knew about the Mangalore bomb detonator from The Fifth Element even when the movie was new and to this day I STILL CAN'T UNSEE IT.
Not a physical prop, but in the first Terminator film when they show the Terminators view point the scrolling computer code is actually assembly language from a 6502 chip. That is the eight bit chip used in home computers like the Commodore PET, VIC 20, Apple II, BBC B and Atari 800.
In The Phantom Menace, in Anakin's room at about the 38:38 mark, you can also find a classic Trac ball basket/launcher hanging from the ceiling and another variety is seen hanging a few seconds later.
Here comes Bruce with them Jordans
I remember I was watching a TV show at one point and my mom recognized the printer in the background.
It takes some real imagination to turn some of the things on here into the Scifi technology shown
Ngl I always wondered how they made the first Star Wars movies on a small budget
Now I can paint old parts in chrome and sell them as a collectors item 😂
Batman got the Jordan’s 😳
In V for Vendetta he uses a device that blocks the bug from listening to their conversation and I recognized it as a book light.
I love it! Shows you don't have to spend a fortune to make something COOL!
Yep. No technology's more futuristic than some serial killer's mask.
U should see how awful most movie props look close up, even the ones from the recent high definition era!
If anyone is interested, but the escalator in the phantom menace picture is found in London's Canada Water underground station.
they didn't even try to hid the dial lock in 5 element
bubble wrap get use alot
often to give texture to wall they just spray paint them
Fun fact; bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.
@@realityquotient7699 There's a heavy duty large bubble, bubble wrap used to cover outdoor swimming pools when they are not being used.
2:39
Yep, a Us army mermite can Is a very regular item
In Star Trek TNG the vast majority of the unusually shaped glasses that people drink from in 10 Forward are actually candle holders, the pyramid shaped hi tech games on the tables there are an 80s Bandai VFD game called Pair Match, some of the Padds are light boxes meant to backlight acetates or X-rays, in one scene the device Picard is using to operate one is actually a desoldering pen, and for further reading: www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/present-day-devices.htm
I own an ikea ps 2014 lamp. It's just in my bedroom, and it's awesome.
No mention of the fact that the fur cloaks work by a lot of Game of Thrones characters are actually IKEA rugs.
Fun fact, 95% of big guns in movies, ESPECIALLY sci-fi movies, are painted Nerf guns.
I don't know if these count, but there is an episode of Star Trek Voyager where they're stuck in the orbit of a planet that spins really fast. At the beginning of the episode, some of the planet's inhabitants are bringing an offering of alien looking vegetables to an altar. In one of the star wars movies there's some aliens handling some alien looking vegetables in a kitchen. The star trek one is called a jelly melon, the star wars one is romanesco Italia broccoli, both of which can be purchased from Baker Creek heirloom seed company.
Bro the lumber tycoon theme still hits different
1:36 That escalated quickly...
@4:52 - It's plain to see that Dany is holding her chalice, so no, that is incorrect. The coffee cup was a mistake that wasn't caught. It was left there by a cast member during a break in shooting. The blame for which was placed on a few cast members until one of them finally admitted to leaving it there. - ruclips.net/video/R5oYt_J9OJE/видео.html
The glassware used on the "Buck Rogers" tv series were UnCandles...
I love how most of these are star wars related
omg, the Gillette razor was the worst. Everyone in the theatre knew what it was the first time they saw it.
... in back to the future it was the entire joke that Mr. Fusion was a Mr. Coffee... that wasn't hidden, it was blatantly showcased...
You have got to hand it to George Lucas for being creative
In the show Dark Matter, they use a PSVR headset for a full dive thing.
2:49 I was wondering what Zemekis used for the Mr.Fusion
Scifi really only has two aesthetics, huh? That's one of my few complaints about NewTrek. The TOS/TNG aesthetic was iconic and unique. VOY and DS9 deviated from that a bit, but now Picard looks like the typical Star Wars/Guardians scifi, and Disco looks like the shiny AOS Kelvin timeline stuff that a lot of feature length movies replicate. At least Disco's getting a costume change. Hopefully SNW will be better in this regard.
The music on this video was repurposed ‘music on hold’ from your ‘70’s Cable TV Company’s Support Desk...
great resource for cosplayers
give a new meaning to the phase Star Wars is every where and is everything.
lol Yeah High School was deadly that's why they used Highschool padlocks in movies to keeep reminding us of this.
It's called functional fixedness. You can only see an object for what that object was meant to be used for. Take it out of that context and it becomes unrecognizable.
The music made it feel like a nolistalgia video