1976's Dino De Laurentiis's King Kong Life-size prop: What happened to it?

[gusw666]

View attachment 294162View attachment 294163 I had the dress and it looked kinda plain just hanging on a hanger so I had the guys at tom spina fabricate an ape hand to cradle the dress and form and boy I think it really does it justice..

I saw that at Tom's FB page, it looks FANTASTIC!!

great thread and incredible information Gus, thank you for the time/effort. Are you sure it was destroyed? I would have thought they may have retained the head at the very least. If so, I'm interested!

- David

Yes, actually if you type on google KING KONG ARGENTINA, you will see a lot of info, even a journalist did a search to try to find it, a lot of people told him a millon different things, until he got info that the owner of the place where it was getting rotten hired some help and threw it on a dumpster near a getto in Mar del Plata over 30 years ago....so if you check the clips on youtube (its in spanish tho) it says that is long gone.

Id love to own a pice of it too.....but I guess its long gone now.

If if get to find more info I will post it here, yesterday I got in touch with the journalist that made the documentarie, he is saying that there is a 2nd part coming.....

Here it is just in case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhEvz1JfWfE

Cya


Gus

 

[Propmasters]

Such an interesting story.

Thank you.

- David