hey everybody norm from tested here at comic-con 2019 check in with Steven Lane
of props tourists even how you doing this year I'm great man great seeing you
again yeah absolutely you guys have brought a
ton of stuff as always a great chance get up close to some of the costumes and
props and special effects films that we love gotta start off with some gremlins
so yeah a gizmo here how is this used in the film this is actually a lighting
stand-in version so on the back of the gremlin itself there's actually one of
the blue screen rod that comes out the back of it for a puppeteer to hold so
this is for setting up the shorts getting the lighting balances right
getting the position incorrect because it was so time-consuming for the guys
who actually have the animatronic puppets on set or have the puppeteer
puppets on set as well so this guy would be there well they're getting everything
ready and then they move them out the way bring the hero version in as well
but still a great piece of work by Rick Baker it's a great example of how film
productions make multiple versions of things not just stunt versions and hero
versions with different functional purposeful versions for filmmaking much
like the shoes here iconic shoes from Back to the Future 2 now this I've never
seen before because this has a purpose yeah so what's great about these
particular boots is that these are this is the special effects hero close-up
version so that that famous shot where the boot tightens on its own the
self-lacing it's just some guy sitting underneath the stage pulling those
excess pieces of strap from pull it tight and that is this boot for that
shot and you can see that because underneath the laces come out and there
you have extra laces you have the slack there I can't believe also see the cable
that's coming out the back better so that's for all the lighting effects on
the boot at the same time so this would all power up and light up too so a real
piece of movie history there right and from practicals or special effects that
you wear to miniatures you also have stuff from Fifth Element that is an
amazing miniature tell me about the sack seat
yeah so you here we have the studio scale korben Dallas taxied miniature
this is specifically used for the sequence after Lulu does that swan dive
off the building goes through the top of the cab and that's what you can see
there you can see the hole where she's pierced it as she's gone through and
actually if you look closely inside there is a miniature Lilu in there
crouched down used for that shot this has multi
motion control mounting points built into it so you can be shot from all
different angles it lights up as well like a Christmas tree so it has all the
lights on it and then on one side of it if you look
very closely you can see all the bullet hits that are texting on the side of it
as well from that sequence where the police cars are shooting out it's so
great great militia are used for a number of shots in the film and that's
something that's easy for you to verify because they only made so many of these
and miniatures but for something like shoes you have Forrest Gump shoes here
you actually need the screen match when he's wearing that for all different
shots in the film yeah I think the shoes are such an integral part of the story
for Forrest Gump legs shoes running it's all part of that thing and what's
phenomenal about these shoes is that we have a continuity Polaroid of Tom Hanks
sitting on the bus stop Benesch where he's telling that whole story and the
screen match to that continuity Polaroid so we know without question they would
have had multiple sets as you said previously they would have had sets
where they were brand new when he's just standing around and more weathered and
muddy but this is the shot but on that on that bench these are those shoes that
are useful and it comes with these socks as well just in case you want the socks
in case you want the socks that's something probably wardrobe department
caught off the shelf they bought a bunch of these Nikes but then prob departments
also to make the props from all sorts of things and you have the Holy Hand
Grenade you had an interesting story about the making of this yeah I mean in
true sort of British budget filmmaking style which was sort of indicative of a
lot of the Monty Python films that were being made you in that area that didn't
have a lot of money to build things so this is actually the ballcock out of a
toilet system that has been converted and modified it was painted gold
obviously that the jeweled section the pin if you like to the hand grenade is a
fully custom built but this started life as a toilet bull cock I mean how cool is
that and very appropriate of course the Monty Python yeah behind it from
Excalibur now until this is the tyrannous piece yeah yes it is a Terry
sash you've been consigned directly by Terry English to the auction so this is
Helen Mirren's breastplate this is the version that she wears when she's
seducing Merlin so I think at the time it was themed quite a risk a piece of
costuming and there are some great publicity stills of Helen Mirren wearing
this it's been signed on the inside of it by terry english as well
wonderful wonderful you've got so many stuff things here you got ghost traps
even if hand props not from Star Wars some Star Trek this year tell about some
of these phasers his happen yeah we've got multiple phases from from the
different shows this is coming to us from a couple of different collections
and I think it's a great example of some of the Tecla was being built during that
area that's been sort of reflected as the years have gone by and we've seen
those changes to them as well we've got hero functional tricorders push button
phases we've got the static version as well and actually in this year's auction
what's special about this year's auction is the fact that it's a it's a two-day
event with over 900 Lots so we moved up from 600 Lots on one day 900 Lots over 2
days so I think we've got about 30 to 40 different trek items in the auction and
that ranges from these phases and hand props right the way through to Leonard
Nimoy's spot complete costume as well from the original series which is an
amazing thing I mean every prop is a little bit of a history lesson about
fabrication about special effects of the time the the plastics that were used the
foam latex that was used to paint techniques the electronics and you have
things that are made 30 years ago 40 to go to things that were made very
recently for a rogue one you guys have an astromech this is like
maybe one of the big flagship things that's manufactured using modern
techniques for luminol yeah absolutely sir we got to cool it aluminium but
we'll go with aluminum yeah it's a full aluminum construction droid I mean this
thing weighs hundreds of pounds it's fully practical fully functional fully
remote control it has the third leg that's tucked up inside it you press a
button it drops down it rocks into the driving position the dome rotates or the
lights change it's an amazing piece of kit so this is one of the droids that
was built by the r2d2 builder's club and I don't really remember when the films
were coming out in production Kathleen Kennedy talks about how they were
involving the RT builder's club and those guys of course it's their own
personal drawing so they they went home with them afterwards and now they're
like well it's too valuable just as a fan item this is something that features
in rogue one this particular droid is seen in the Alliance hangar on the oven
for in the open row one it's also featured in the visual guide is
illustrated in the visual it's really well documented and it's
just a phenomenal thing to play with you know you get the remote control out and
just move that thing around and it's it's a it's a real full-size remote
control droid from Star Wars because it's it's you're built by fans they want
to get all the functionality in one unit they're not they're not gonna make four
or five of those one for a different shot they want everything in one and it
still works oh yeah it's still fully practical and
even has that function remember when our tutitu gets fried and all the panel's
pop open that's exactly what this droid can do as well it's an amazing piece of
kit an amazing build that's very cool this is action happening here this fall
September yes that's great it's actually as I said a two days so that's taking
place on the 30th of September and also the 1st of October at the London venue
that we always use the Odeon BFI IMAX you'll be streamed online so you go to
prop store calm for slash live auction and the catalogue will be released right
towards the end of August first week of September so keep an eye out for it then
you can't wait to see that catalog one of my favourite things come out every
year from you guys and thank you for bringing all these props maybe the
closer look at some of these pieces but it's great to see you Steven