Dark Star Costume?

[SciFirepower]

After re-watching this underappreciate film last night, I occured to me that this would be a quick, easy, and comfortable 'con costume IF I could find the patches.

Anyone have a source for patches, or other Dark Star costume reference materials? I did extensive searching & had no luck.

 

[Knightjar]

Beach ball and monster gloves?

 

[Stilgar]

Love this movie!
I remember there once was a garage kit of the 'surfer-dude' and a modelkit of the ship itself (including bomb).

Never saw other props or costumes though...

 

[CessnaDriver]

I can't help but bet that most of the patches were existing military ones, foreign and US.
Everything just screams surplus store at the time to me.

 

[phase pistol]

Well let's see... there's the standard uniform, which is just a tan jumpsuit with a few patches on it (over a black turtleneck)

My favorite tho would be the space suit... the helmet is an off-the-shelf toy (still available but it now has a gray visor instead of yellow)

Propwise there's the anesthetic dart gun..

...Boiler's emergency laser rifle

...Pinback's diary (an 8-track tape cassette)

...and the various well-read comics and magazines.

 

[Knightjar]

I remember seeing Dan O'Bannon interviewed after the film's release and he mentioned using baking trays on the space suits. I don't remember much else as I would have been around 8 or 9 (it was my Dad interviewing him).

 

[phase pistol]

Talby's silver suit has a muffin tin on the front, Doolittle's orange suit has some kind of air filter.

Here's the one shot of the jetpack

 

[SciFirepower]

Thanks for the info; it's the "sunburst" patch I'm having the most trouble with.

 

[CessnaDriver]

Found this, top row seems to have one.
Maybe you can contact him.

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/83287853@N00/51728832

 

[SciFirepower]

Thanks for the tip, I'll try to contact him.

You know, I was thinking...this movie was so low-budget, it's real unlikely they would have paid for custom patches, so it's almost certainly a found item. But found where?

 

[micdavis]

There used to be a military uniform store in Downtown LA called the Quartermaster.

They sold all manner of patches, pins, belts and buttons.

I picked up all the stuff from the original Galactica and Dark Star from this place.

That was 30 years ago, not sure it's still there. But the Dark Star patches are all military stuff.

 

[Ham Salad]

After re-watching this underappreciate film last night, I occured to me that this would be a quick, easy, and comfortable 'con costume IF I could find the patches.

Anyone have a source for patches, or other Dark Star costume reference materials? I did extensive searching & had no luck.

Most of the coverall patches are existing army and air force patches.

 

[Ham Salad]

Thanks for the tip, I'll try to contact him.

You know, I was thinking...this movie was so low-budget, it's real unlikely they would have paid for custom patches, so it's almost certainly a found item. But found where?

They just went to the ROTC at USC nd ordered them through them...they went for spacey looking actual military patches. They also ordered the name tapes and tags through them...At least that's what Brian Narelle told me. The spacesuits were actually military fire suits from a surplus store, with the muffin tins and modified toy space helmets and such.

I always wanted to make the 'laser rifle', but it was made out of a 'marx' toy m-16 and I cant find one: it's the same toy they used for BG props in THE GREEN BERETS.

 

[Ohblee]

Yes! I love this movie!! I cannot wait to see some Dark Star costumes!! I've had the idea in the past but I'm rubbish at growing a beard!

Dolittle, Dolittle!!! What the hell are you doing?!

 

[jcoffman99]

This movie has become a family joke between my parents and I for 20 years. Mom brought this home from the video store one night for dad and I. We made it up until the guy sneezed in his space helmet then decided to turn it off. To this day whenever something goes wrong we refer to it as "a Dark Star moment". I bought the DVD for them last year for Christmas. It's still in the plastic.

 

[CessnaDriver]

I first saw it at a convention as a kid and laughed my ass off.
There wasn't exactly tons of sci fi humor really at that time.
Anyways I still love this flick. Even read the book at one time which also was funny to me. The film is quirky so it will not be for everyone I know.

 

[Ham Salad]

The men on this ship do not want a happy ship. They are deeply sick and compensate by trying to make me miserable.

Yesterday was my birthday, and nobody even said 'happy birthday'. Someday they'll see this and then they'll be sorry.

 

[CessnaDriver]

The men on this ship do not want a happy ship. They are deeply sick and compensate by trying to make me miserable.

Yesterday was my birthday, and nobody even said 'happy birthday'. Someday they'll see this and then they'll be sorry.

:lol
Pinback made the film for me!

And he actually made the film too. (Dan O'Bannon)

 

[Trap Joe]

This movie has become a family joke between my parents and I for 20 years. Mom brought this home from the video store one night for dad and I. We made it up until the guy sneezed in his space helmet then decided to turn it off. To this day whenever something goes wrong we refer to it as "a Dark Star moment". I bought the DVD for them last year for Christmas. It's still in the plastic.

:lol

 

[Jet Beetle]

One of my favorite films ever! I too first saw it at a convention back when it was just a short and my friends and I were quoting it for the rest of the night. "I tried to tell him I wasn't Pinback but I couldn't get the radio helmet to work" "YOU TOLD US THIS STORY 5 YEARS AGO!!!"

True thing here - I worked on "Witch Mountain" at Disney when it was stuck in development hell - there was a speech the little girl was to deliver where she talks about the way to get to Earth from their home planet - I put a line in there "If luck is with you on your journey, you are guided through andromeda by the beautiful Phoenix Asteroids -- " - I know it stayed in for years, not sure if it's in the final film because I never saw it.