Dan Efran
Active Member
I first heard about the Elfin Knights FULLCOCK Real Form TAKAGI Type M2019 Water Blaster - aka the PKD Water Blaster - aka the Blade Runner squirt-gun - when Tested mentioned it on YouTube. I figured hearing about it from Tested meant they'd sell out before I could get one, but I decided to try anyway. Thanks to inside information and direct assistance from RPF members, I managed to acquire this rare toy at a decent price from the other side of the globe. Special thanks to 829Japan who helped a lot of us get hold of these, and everyone else who researched vendors and prices.
The main RPF thread about this gun is https://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=275949 and it's a good read. Still, I like to document my prop projects with their own threads, so here I'll talk about my own take on this toy gun. To be clear, I'm a fan of the PKD blaster, but hardly an expert on it. When in doubt, that main thread's going to be my first resource, along with various older threads about other replicas of the same prop.
Anyway, on to the project. In the last two years I've picked up cheap toy versions of most of the iconic science fiction guns I care about. I'm not Mister Guns, but I like iconic props and some of those are guns. The cheap Rubies Han Solo blaster is a nice base for upgrading, and their Leia Sporting Blaster is extremely accurate - mostly needs paint - and it's dirt cheap. Et cetera. I wasn't that interested in the gun from Blade Runner, but I like it - hey, it's got LEDs! - and upgrading a squirt-gun is right in line with these other projects. Surely there would never be a cheaper way to get a nice replica of this gun. And it sure looked nice!
However, I hit my first tough choice almost immediately when I got my FULLCOCK in hand. Wait. I mean when the toy arrived in the mail and I looked it over.
It's a good problem to have, but: this thing is beautiful already.
Elfin Knights have created a real artwork of a prop replica in this squirt gun. I don't really want to mess with it. I hadn't anticipated that. I'd been looking forward to painting and installing LEDs and stuff, but I don't want to crack this open. It's too nice.
Luckily, the toy was sold in two color schemes, and I got the other one as a backup, and I don't really care about that second color scheme. So I think I'll be modding my backup instead.
I'd say STAY TUNED...but actually this project might go pretty slowly. We'll see.
The main RPF thread about this gun is https://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=275949 and it's a good read. Still, I like to document my prop projects with their own threads, so here I'll talk about my own take on this toy gun. To be clear, I'm a fan of the PKD blaster, but hardly an expert on it. When in doubt, that main thread's going to be my first resource, along with various older threads about other replicas of the same prop.
Anyway, on to the project. In the last two years I've picked up cheap toy versions of most of the iconic science fiction guns I care about. I'm not Mister Guns, but I like iconic props and some of those are guns. The cheap Rubies Han Solo blaster is a nice base for upgrading, and their Leia Sporting Blaster is extremely accurate - mostly needs paint - and it's dirt cheap. Et cetera. I wasn't that interested in the gun from Blade Runner, but I like it - hey, it's got LEDs! - and upgrading a squirt-gun is right in line with these other projects. Surely there would never be a cheaper way to get a nice replica of this gun. And it sure looked nice!
However, I hit my first tough choice almost immediately when I got my FULLCOCK in hand. Wait. I mean when the toy arrived in the mail and I looked it over.
It's a good problem to have, but: this thing is beautiful already.
Elfin Knights have created a real artwork of a prop replica in this squirt gun. I don't really want to mess with it. I hadn't anticipated that. I'd been looking forward to painting and installing LEDs and stuff, but I don't want to crack this open. It's too nice.
Luckily, the toy was sold in two color schemes, and I got the other one as a backup, and I don't really care about that second color scheme. So I think I'll be modding my backup instead.
I'd say STAY TUNED...but actually this project might go pretty slowly. We'll see.