hey guys adam savage here in my cave with the show-and-tell that i am pretty excited about um
recently on the replica prop forum uh one of the members a man by the name of tom k reached out to
me dm'd me and said hey adam i know that you are super obsessed with hellboy and he really enjoyed
the samaritan videos thank you tom um tom said that he possessed one of the original press kits
from hellboy and would i like him to send it to me and i said
yes please this would be an amazing addition to my hellboy collection and tom just sent it
to me um i am going to reciprocate in kind with some goodies for tom rest assured um but i have
not yet practiced and i'm going to do it for the first time with you here watching yeah let's go
i these are some of my favorite videos to do where you and i
are both existing in the same mystery until i crack the thing open
oh
an interoffice memo folder dude um
what you don't know about me is that when the ipad first came out i made a leather folder for
my ipad and i had this pattern screen printed on the leather folder i thought it would be a really
awesome product i never got around to making it as a product all right we have three oh wow oh man um
so this is what the studio would have sent out to the press in advance of the film and
really a press kit is about proclaiming the important things about a movie but it's also
about like trying to capture interest right so the people putting together these press kits
they game them they think about them a lot about how to give something put something
out that someone will be like oh this is really interesting and then they'll write about the film
bureau for paranormal research and defense this is a printed uh printed envelope with an
embossed bprd logo well that's great confidential sticker it's pre-printed with bprd address newark
new jersey that's where it is in the film oh this is great let's see what we got here
oh all right
um this is funny okay dear recruit apparently i opened the right envelope first congratulations
you've been carefully selected for membership in the bureau for paranormal research and defense
the bprd is a covert organization hidden from the very society it is designed to protect make no
mistake about it there are things out there that go bump in the night and we're the ones who bump
back we're glad to have you aboard your future and that of the free world depends on it professor
broome um the the thing that i'm laughing about is that they did this beautiful emboss
um but they did it after they put the the letter in there so the letters embossed three separate
times this must have literally been probably a uh an embossing thing and they put it on a
pad and just like hammered at it or put real pressure on it that's great uh there's a cd
oh that card is just to protect it okay let's move on to again another bprd printed label
nice quality printing oh my goodness wow i don't even know what that is
the vhs tape well i possess neither of these devices i have spent most of my human life
living with a device that could play this and a device that can play this but currently bupkus
at some point does somebody make a vhs cd playing combo that's what i need i need a rosetta stone
all right well i can't look at those in this video because i don't have those pieces of equipment
oh somebody really assiduously wound this around oh no way really oh this is cool okay so
the sighting report is what it says so what i've got here is oh nifty um it's like a it's it's you
know dressed up to look like a folder from the hellboy universe so we've got oh this is great
oh wow there's oh okay i'm gonna start here on the left uh dear
recruit your bureau bprd mission papers are here you will not be alone oh you're
it's literally like you're supposed to track rasputin um excellent so
oh wow so you're supposed to actually undo these and start
to pull out the papers and go through them um
this is great this is a wonderful grainy photo that guy this is awesome this is hellboy
uh in the subway scene and it says location subway first in maine wherever that is and
then inside there's this which says agent hellboy witnesses seven location subway and oh
baby ruth it's a bit of it's it's a hellboy eats baby ruth candy bars so i guess this has been
like i don't know why bprd would be collecting this except to hide the evidence of hellboy well
maybe they didn't think too far through the narrative um hellboy profile a baby demon brought
to earth by european occultists during world war ii this is definitely yeah uh hellboy was destined
to be a harbinger of the apocalypse instead allied forces rescued him allowing professor broome
it all sounds so turgid when you write it out like this uh founder of the bprd to raise him
like a son and develop his extraordinary gifts all right here's another one is this another
baby ruth wrapper no i'm i'm going through all these envelopes this is great so like oh
this is um i'm not sure what this is i think this is it's probably the address
of the cemetery i'm gonna guess but it's a nice bit of calligraphy crumpled up like
somebody who might even be watching this video now somebody spent like some time on this assembling
each one of these coming up with a graphical format for them uh working with the studio to uh
to make it all like cohesive this is this is terrific there's a lot of of labor in
here okay all of these little envelopes are so fantastic come on come on oh what what wires
just burnt little wires
were they trying to figure out who was an alien
it's a different movie um different movie but one of guillermo del toro's i'm quoting the thing i'm
quoting the scene from the thing where they're using the flamethrower to heat up the wire to
see if the blood wants to run away oh my god you should totally see it and i happen to know that
is literally like your most favorite movie of all time um okay we've got this one this has got some
blue powder in it i wonder that's maybe some part of abe sapiens cologne or salt from salt water
after world war ii special agents would this is great they had you know little stamps made
here's a oh and now we get to meet the various here's rasputin okay opening up oh
there's nothing in this one oh wait no there is something in this one no
that one's empty rasputins is not empty what's in here
oh look at that a woodcut of rasputin and it's written in well not a language
i understand perhaps german what a weirdo yeah i called rasputin a weirdo i can take the heat
um wonderful i think we have one more one more piece yup we do uh oh no we have two more
wow this is great these are really really lovely um this is semi l
that's beautiful uh this one is also empty
and then our last one is carl cronin that one is also empty but look at this this is wonderful
ah cronin yep that's cronin right so yeah each one has its lead piece and it's this is samuel
yep and this is rasputin yeah we'll put this back this is uh that's abe sapien
that's liz sherman and i don't know if we have liz sherman oh we do yep excellent
and this is professor broome
this is hellboy oh man
this is fantastic i'm really really excited about this ah john myers there we go
i uh
i know exactly where this oh wow that'll just drop right on there whoever did this at the studio my
hat is off to you this is a lovely piece of work i i really appreciate the amount of labor time and
thoughtfulness that went into making something uh that feels this cool to handle and also my
goodness thank you most importantly to tom k for adding this beautiful piece to my collection
i will be a good steward for it um in one of the future iterations of the cave there will
be an entire hellboy uh display area and this will have a proud will have pride of place in
that display area thank you guys for joining me for this show and tell i will see you next time