hey everyone norm from tested here once again at prop store for an upcoming
auction brandon there are a bunch of costumes you guys have for this upcoming auction and you
have a few of them lined up here something from my childhood the power rangers movie yes yeah loads
of great costumes in this auction uh december 1st and 2nd the auction's taking place but the power
rangers costumes are very cool because a they're from the movie as you just said the 1995 film
not the television show the movie has far more interesting costumes and b i think this is the
first time the costumes from the movie have ever been on auction so we're happy to have this set
and we do actually have the full set of all six rangers we just have a few of them out here today
uh and a few few more of the helmets but we do have the full costumes for all six of them what's
super interesting from the production standpoint is obviously for the tv show they used a lot of
the footage from japan spliced in with stuff they shot in america for the kids but for the film it
was like a full-on american production they got to make all the costumes and kind of redesign them
blow them up for the for the big screen and so the aesthetics here much more armored which you could
tell was influencing than the the reboot also yes yeah definitely i mean i think they just i'm sure
they had more money for the film right yeah and i think they wanted to bring a more interesting look
to the rangers themselves and i'm sure they're influenced by other things that are going on in
film at the time and it's like hey let's get a cool sort of muscle suit superhero type suit let's
get some detail in there and so you know these kind of start with a spandex base they're actually
really interesting construction and obviously there's some deterioration from time you know they
they they show some of their age as you would expect from an artifact like this but but they
start with the base spandex suit and then that's actually treated with like uh a latex like maybe
they were dipped in latex or there's some sort of coating on that to give it a little bit more
of a of a glossy sheen and then you've got these pieces of armor that have been installed
that are i think casted out of a urethane um and you know you've got various like
elements of vinyl in the cuffs where it's you know they created
ribbed stitched areas and obviously the helmets are made of fiberglass and top the thing off um
and the helmets i think a bit more stylized also than their television counterparts right
it's so cool you think about like you ask a kid of the 90s to draw a power ranger and you think of
you know the diamonds and the silhouettes and the obviously the color scheme
but like you said there's so much layering in here in the cut and so you know things like the ribbing
there and and all of that it's you know to to make it look like some type of futuristic superhero
oh the helmets themselves can you talk about the the helmets and how they were made and used yeah
yeah the helmets are really neat so let me see if i can just take this one off and show you this is
actually a one-off uh from a special shot in the film where the yellow ranger has lights most of
the movie the yellow ranger does not have lights on the helmet there's one shot in the film where
they're in the parking garage i think and all of a sudden they need to light up the scene and for
whatever reason the yellow ranger then has lights on the helmet so this one actually had practical
lights and the way all these ranger helmets are made they're seamed at the sides and they open up
this one i think's been taped so i can't open it right now but there's little hinges in there like
little uh ball and clasp hinges where a ball would snap into a socket to lock it in place and you can
see the wiring for the electronics um and some of the padding in there this one's just marked yellow
one of the really interesting things that we learned as we're researching these helmets and
i think you can see it on one of the dvd special features is that they were considering having the
rangers wear their helmets without the eyepiece in and the mouthpiece in because they wanted to
see the actors faces and you know they sort of talked about the fact that when you watch the show
you can sort of tell that maybe it's not the actors in the suits maybe it's just the stunt
performers yeah maybe we'd like to see the actors in the helmet so they tried versions where the
eye lens was removable and the mouthpiece was removable but i think they said it just looked
ridiculous you would still have that seam over the nose right there exactly yeah so i don't think
they wound up ever using any of that footage but they did experiment with it and like you can tell
with this one the mouth is actually a separate piece in there that's that's cast in fiberglass
and that's been fixed in now i think it's just hot glued in but at one time they were experimenting
with the idea that you know they would have these things installed with magnets and you'd be able
to take the mouthpiece out and an actor you know a principal actor would wear a ranger helmet without
the mouthpiece in so that's that's the yellow ranger um and whenever i take a look at this stuff
you know it has to look good on the outside but i also always try to empathize with the performers
whether it's the stunt performer or the main actors and how comfortable this thing is to wear
looking inside the helmet it's just glued in pieces of foam sure they added more foam took
things out to to make it feel snug but they're pretty snug as helmets yeah absolutely yeah you
wouldn't want to be claustrophobic in there and um you know the suits themselves i'm sure we're very
very hot with all these layers here and such but i think when they design these things especially
in this era they tend to go for form over function should we say not necessarily the most comfortable
thing to wear but it looks cool yeah totally and you have the white ranger of course so
even though there's the helmets here it's the full costumes for the whole it is yeah
on the red ranger the helmets of replica unfortunately so that's the only one that doesn't
have its original helmet the other five rangers all have original helmets most of them are comp
or 100 complete costumes some of them are missing a couple of components here there
it's all detailed in the descriptions um i could show you maybe another one of the helmets let's
see if we can take a look at the blue helmet this is honestly a big piece of my childhood like i
remember seeing this on the big screen waiting in line so excited to watch power rangers and this is
you know yeah over 25 years later now where that helmet is ended up and it says right there hero
so that's what we saw on screen that's so cool so you see it's basically just attached with a
couple of pieces of elastic at the top of the head they've built up all this yellow foam padding for
actor comfort um you can see some of the padding on the side is actually colored and dyed blue
so you know maybe they thought that that would be visible through seam at some point and then
these little pole straps are basically designed for the actor to grab pull down and break the
face away from the back of it and the the mesh screen that's in the mouth here that's actually
been installed later someone put that in because the original mouthpiece was missing so that was
put in just for display that's not original to it um but the helmet itself is original and
yeah in a way very simple but also very effective way to get in and out of a helmet quickly right
and you saw that labeling in there so as we've seen costumes and you guys you guys
have costumes come in through the warehouse you know modern labeling and inventory systems are
very robust in terms of what actor what's seen and when you find something like this that's gone
through collector's hands is there more research that's needed to find out the providence of it and
where and screen matching it and how it was used sometimes i mean something like this is very hard
to screen match because all the suits would be so similar to them to each other and obviously
you have reasonable deterioration and wear on them so it makes it tough to screen match but
you know it is interesting and we do note in the catalog the various markings you know some
some components are marked hero some are marked i believe some of the helmets say specifically hero
dark working set and that was a reference to a dark visor so there were probably multiple shades
of visor some dark some light maybe depending on whether they're filming at night or not or whether
it's an action scene or not some pieces are stunts you know sometimes the gloves or the boots or even
the body suits themselves will be marked stunts and again all that's called out specifically
in the description so it is kind of a mix match but all original pieces from that 1995 film and
it's all kind of archaeology that's done so that when you re-watch the film you can have a better
understanding of the production and recognize this stuff speaking of costumes though plenty of other
costumes of course you know the 900 lots here any of your favorites anything you want to call out
uh well there's actually one here that i love the alien three suit oh yeah so that's from the third
film which doesn't always get the most love but i really like the movie and i really like
the costume as well you know they went back to the translucent dome on the alien head which i
think is a really nice effect and i just love the paintwork i mean it's somewhat faded now on the
bodysuit i think the foam latex kind of absorbed the the airbrushed paints but you can really still
see it on the shoulder blades which are fiberglass amazing paintwork on those alien 3 suits
and that i think is the only alien 3 costume that still exists anywhere so that's a significant one
uh but we have lots of great costumes you know standing behind me is general kale from willow yes
on the 80s fantasy kick we have some spacesuits we have spacesuits from things like the martian
we have some stallone costumes from things like creed so there's some great costumes
throughout the auction absolutely especially in the world of spacesuits one of those things where
it probably is at a fraction of what the the studio was charged
to make that or what the you know what the actual fabricators that do you know when it comes on the
market oh yeah and those martian space suits are beautiful so gorgeous um yeah james bond
couple of very nice james bond costumes with the official eon paperwork those are really nice lots
yeah take a look at the catalog there's there's a great spread in there awesome and the catalog is
online as well for people it is yeah calm auction you can also get a printed copy if we still have
them i think we're running low but there's still a few there and yeah take a look over 900 lots
of of great memorabilia well thanks for bringing some of those out here to share with me brandon's
always great to see you and good luck with the auction yep thanks norm thanks for coming out