Forbidden Planet Pistols

modeleers said:
I beleive that Rich's FP Blaster replica is by far, the closest to 'accurate' that has been made to date!
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It's certainly one of the best I've seen. I have reason to suspect Fred Barton's is also pretty decent, but I've never gotten a close hand look at it.

Bruce Wegman made a blaster replica back in the `70's that, as I recall, looked pretty good. Of course, it's been ages since I've seen it (or him), and I have no idea how it would hold up against Malone's original (or, for that matter, one of Rich's).
 
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I really hope that was a joke...asking Roboman.

As I understand it he is making a cheap ripped off copy of one of mine, or he was.

Bill had some.

The rifle is oringinal as is his Robby.

I think when he made recreations he got them spot on.

I worked from his model, conside his recreation of Robby, it is much more complex and it too was spot on right.

Rich


Has any one asked that robby the robot guy ? Maybe he has one.

:lol[/quote]
 
00MrNotWrong00 said:
So just a quick recap here, No one has any proof that they have ever seen or held a real original, and no one can get high quality screen capts , and every one that makes one, says theirs is spot on. :lol
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Welcome to the world of Star Trek props, circa 2000. :lol

Well you know at Worldcon 2006, there was an "authentic screenused prop" being shown around at the FP presentation that they had. Unfortunately I missed this event, but some photos were floating around afterwards. I thought I had a bunch of pics but this is the only one I can find at the moment.

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Here are some screencaps I took but it's hard to get decent shots of the DVD. Has FP come out on Bluray yet?

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blasthero.jpg

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The publicity photos might be some of the best reference, but I don't have hires scans of original prints. :unsure
 
Yes that was kinda a joke, but I really can't believe that the people that worked on that film had no idea how special it would be, and save memorabilia from it.

Some one has to have one of these just sitting around some where.

It astounds me that after 50 years some one has not built a perfect copy, or know where one is.
 
Keep in mind also, that Forbidden Planet was an MGM picture made in the mid-Fifties, and that all the props and costumes pretty much went back into storage at the end of shooting. Then they were hauled out again and again for various films and TV shows, until about the mid Sixties.

It is odd that we don't know who designed the blaster... we know for example that Kino****a designed Robby, but did he design the blaster too? It has a certain elegance... :unsure

Somebody should get to the bottom of these things, since it was fifty years ago now, and folks won't be around forever! :eek
 
By the way it's shameful that the board software won't let me write the name of the Japanese designer of Robby the Robot without sticking those asterisks in there. It's K-i-n-o-s-h-i-t-a.

Kih-noh-shi-tah.
 
My friend said that the prop master he knew, brought home a box of the pistols (4 to 6 of them) & gave him one - Before FP was even released.
Sidenote: I went to a preview of the MGM auction & saw 2 the (C57D) ships & on a table - some costumes, plus 3 of the rifles (even held one) & 2 pistols.
 
Rich, I hate to say I still think the cap is different then we think. Take a good long look, you can see the tri-bar is higher then any I have seen, looks like it comes down on the outer ring and you can see under it.
It would make sence that it would have been a dial that could have made it shot different..Kev :confused
 
anubispro said:
I was told back in the day when I got it that it was an early RAC piece.I guess Richard can confirm this.
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Yeah, I'll be anxious to hear what Richard has to say about that piece. I know Bill Malone sold a few vac-form moldings with resin-cast tips out of Don Post in the mid-70's, but it's been ages since I've seen one.
 
MustangGTR1 said:
Rich, I hate to say I still think the cap is different then we think. Take a good long look, you can see the tri-bar is higher then any I have seen, looks like it comes down on the outer ring and you can see under it.
It would make sence that it would have been a dial that could have made it shot different..Kev :confused
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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.

I can totally see that in like three pictures. It can't just be a trick of light.

I'm going to go watch the movie again.
 
You can tell it is high in the air, and the tips curve down, not flat out like we all have seen.

That can not be a light trick...Kev:wacko
 
racprops said:
Darn my old bones, slowness and having too many projects...

I am working on getting my model cleaned up and in production and someone beats me to it.

But this model has no sound effects and a incorrect trigger...

I will keep working.

Rich
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Just a bump for any updates.
 
Well considering how very busy I am and how Don can not seem to sell even 3 units, and my price would be higher than his with the only improvment being sound and a more accurate trigger...

I can not see a upside to making a run.

Rich
 
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