2001 a space odyssey

[Funky]

Yea i thought $2001 was a clever price but at the end of the day it is true art.

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I suppose it depends on what you consider "art". Personally, yes, I DO consider beautiful props art, but does anybody else?
Okay, I don't want to hijack your thread so I will keep this short. (Btw, MANY prop builders and collectors feel as I do) I will sell props occasionally if I lose interest in it or if I want to finance a new prop. With that in mind, I don't care HOW much I love a piece, if I don't feel I can at LEAST get back what I put into it, I don't buy it. I look at my collection as an investment. I know many collectors who say they would NEVER sell anything in their collections. Hey, to each their own. I don't pass judgment. What I can say is over the last 20 years, my collection has paid for itself. With that, as much as I love this helmet I would have never gotten $2,001.00 out of it when, at the end of the day, it's a toy. So I passed.

But it that's just me.

 

[zyote]

height is: 12.5" (rough measurement...)
width is: 10.5" (rough measurement)

couple of other measurements (more accurate measurements actually as I used a piece of string to measure on the curved services directly...)

horizontal distance on the top of the front glass visor: 21 inches
horizontal distance on the bottom of the front glass visor: 18 inches

circumference of top part of the bottom metal neck-ring: 32"

horizontal length of top of the memory module inset cut out : 14.5"
horizontal length of top of the memory module inset cut out : 12.5"

 

[Gwarguts]

height is: 12.5" (rough measurement...)
width is: 10.5" (rough measurement)

couple of other measurements (more accurate measurements actually as I used a piece of string to measure on the curved services directly...)

horizontal distance on the top of the front glass visor: 21 inches
horizontal distance on the bottom of the front glass visor: 18 inches

circumference of top part of the bottom metal neck-ring: 32"

horizontal length of top of the memory module inset cut out : 14.5"
horizontal length of top of the memory module inset cut out : 12.5"

Thank you again Zyote!

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[joberg]

I suppose it depends on what you consider "art". Personally, yes, I DO consider beautiful props art, but does anybody else?
Okay, I don't want to hijack your thread so I will keep this short. (Btw, MANY prop builders and collectors feel as I do) I will sell props occasionally if I lose interest in it or if I want to finance a new prop. With that in mind, I don't care HOW much I love a piece, if I don't feel I can at LEAST get back what I put into it, I don't buy it. I look at my collection as an investment. I know many collectors who say they would NEVER sell anything in their collections. Hey, to each their own. I don't pass judgment. What I can say is over the last 20 years, my collection has paid for itself. With that, as much as I love this helmet I would have never gotten $2,001.00 out of it when, at the end of the day, it's a toy. So I passed.

But it that's just me.

I don't see that helmet as a toy. Not with the amount of work needed to achieve a very good replica. It's part of costume, a prop sure, but a toy?...Nope!
Mass produced helmet made in China from cheap plastic: toys. Small run helmet with the same kind of technique and material as the original ones: Art.

 

[Funky]

I don't see that helmet as a toy. Not with the amount of work needed to achieve a very good replica. It's part of costume, a prop sure, but a toy?...Nope!
Mass produced helmet made in China from cheap plastic: toys. Small run helmet with the same kind of technique and material as the original ones: Art.

I almost get that, but one could argue that an Italian sports car is just a toy. :lol
I consider a toy as a luxury that you own to entertain yourself.

 

[PlasticSoul]

Not linking to the auction to stay within rules, but it looks like Global Effects has a cast of the screen used green helmet up on eBay right now. Hope it goes to someone one the board that can use it to do a run, but if not, there's plenty of photos next to a ruler to get some dimensions off of.

 

[zyote]

Are you referring to that IBM advertisement one? from Orbital-Surplace? that looks white in color? or is there another one I can't find?

If so, that one is really bad. Lots of things wrong with it.

 

[darthlaker]

Are you referring to that IBM advertisement one? from Orbital-Surplace? that looks white in color? or is there another one I can't find?

If so, that one is really bad. Lots of things wrong with it.

Agree.

Doesn't look right!

 

[PlasticSoul]

Are you referring to that IBM advertisement one? from Orbital-Surplace? that looks white in color? or is there another one I can't find?

If so, that one is really bad. Lots of things wrong with it.

That's the one. Conclusion around here last time a similar cast popped up was that it was a 2010 pull, though the origins of the 2010 helmets seem to be a point of contention, too.

 

[joberg]

Certainly not a 2001 helmet and as PlasticSoul said: even the 2010 helmet comment seems frayed with problems.

 

[ghostryder]

Have a friend looking for a 2001 helmet if anyone has any leads...?