Hey guys, it's Adam from Tested
You know how much I love props
And I'm here to tell you that there's a new prop store of London auction coming up for gods of Egypt and
as Is often the case with an upcoming auction they've sent me some items for my collection to talk to you about
These are going to be weapons from
Gods of Egypt, and I'm about to open them up. I literally have no idea what's in this so this is effectively like my Christmas
Happening right here in front of you
Let's see I know I know you guys get all nervous when I use knives to open boxes
I haven't cut into something important in months
All right, let's see here
Packing peanuts, this is great as if i don't have enough of those.
Ooh okay, there's something there.
There's something there. These are these are lightweight
So I'm starting to suspect that these are stunt weapons which would make sense right?
Oh, oh ooh
I sense I sense a shield ooh
By the way over Christmas several people sent me
wonderful tweets
Pointing out that they were building stuff out of the organic peanuts that they were getting with their Christmas presents
And I always appreciate those builds, so keep sending those pictures
Okay
Let's start with this. I'm going to believe that this is a shield.
I decided to open it like I'm 10
Pretty. Wow that's actually genuinely gorgeous, yes there we go
Look out
This is great this actually, I mean like it's a it's a fiberglass casting
So this is a mold that they made with all of these parts all at once and then a real piece of copper
Lovely, and some uh fish monster motifs going around the outer perimeter
Plus what looks sort of like a alligator skin alligator shells or some type of, yeah who knows.
Okay, moving on to the smaller of the two weapons
Aah
You know I have not damaged something opening it with a knife, but I have certainly damaged things
I've ordered on ebay because they're overly wrapped
Because people take a tiny little delicate object and wrap it in bubble wrap and then wrap it in like 20 rounds of packing tape
It's like one of those
Ooh
That's pretty, all right. Let's see here
again a stunt weapon
This is actually made of a flexible rubber. It's hard to hurt someone with it.
This is a ceremonial dagger of some kind
we have a
two-part, what looks like yeah
a vacuum-formed sheath and a
Cast rubber and resin knife. That's awesome. This is like for my ritual sacrifice
evenings
All right
Let's see here
How best - Ah there we go
Oh, I sense a non-standard shape here. I like the non-standard shapes, oh yes
Come on, come on
Oh Yes look at that. Ooh that is beautiful
Absolutely
badass
So this is a, this looks really cool, but it is a rubber stunt weapon
But it is
I mean looks almost like it's sharpened to a fine edge with a little bit of silvering work done out there
for any close-up, this is gonna look absolutely fantastic that is a beautiful piece and
What looks like a fiberglass sheath that holds it?
Wait is that how that goes? Yeah something like that. There we go, yes!
Wow, that is a interesting problem to solve isn't? It so that is the sheath that is the sword
Oh! I almost forgot there is one more
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that this is a pike or spear of some kind. Let's see
It's not, Wow is this, could it just not be a spear? Oh, it is a spear tah-dah
Oh wow again
Super lightweight flexible out at the end a great stunt weapon clearly heavily used because the gold
Leafing on this handle has been worn away
I can see that it is cast around a uh
An aluminum pipe which is both here and here and that these are
resin casting slipped over it
I love looking at stuff like this because it's not just a prop from a movie
This is the end result, both the sword and the shield and each of these pieces is the end result of
hundreds of hours of research by the art direction teams and the production designers and the prop masters
Making sure that this fits within the director's vision, but also has some historical accuracy
I'm sure they're like combing through books of old Egyptian
Artifacts plus early fantasy films they're looking to quote all of this so to me every one of these represents
You know a whole bunch of heart and soul into making these aesthetic decisions
These are some props from gods of Egypt, and they are going up for auction at prop store of London's site later on this month
Get yours now
I've got mine all right. I'm gonna figure out where these go
And as always props tour has included certificates of authenticity saying that these were
Obtained by them from the actual production and each of these pieces. This is a sets armies
- The god set - sets army sword his army dagger his army shield and his army spear looks like I've got
A complete set.