Global Effects is cleaning out it's attic.
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orbital-surplus, on ebay
Frenzy1971
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pennausamike
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I'm wondering if any of these helmets are going to be offered. Apparently Global Effects has a number of them.
These were seen as Police helmets in the Firefly TV pilot, "Serenity", and it is one of the few remaining items I'd love to have in my collection,
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Thanks,
Mike
These were seen as Police helmets in the Firefly TV pilot, "Serenity", and it is one of the few remaining items I'd love to have in my collection,
My Firefly/ Serenity Collection
Alliance Fed Troopers Armor The Alliance Fed troopers are an example movie costume recycling, and I thought it worked quite well. Although the armor was a huge let down in Starship Troopers because, well, yunno, it was supposed to be nuclear powered armor used by small units, not massed human...
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Thanks,
Mike
pennausamike
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Gaaa! Rats! (Tho' my budget probably thanks ya'll...)
Thank you for the quick response; at least I won't sit around hoping for no reason.
Mike
andsons
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GE was able to sell you a set of tips? How did you contact them?Thanks
They were selling stuff on Ebay....thats where I got em'.
We have sent a bunch of stuff over to Orbital Surplus, and it's going on their ebay site.
Space hardware stuff (Apollo, Mercury, Shuttle)
Swords
Prop arrows from Last Samurai
Lots more to follow.
If you have items you are looking for, post them here, perhaps we have some spares or items we no longer need in the rental department.
Keep in mind, if it's a Hero piece, or an screen used item from a main stream film, it will likely show up at a Prop Store auction.
Space hardware stuff (Apollo, Mercury, Shuttle)
Swords
Prop arrows from Last Samurai
Lots more to follow.
If you have items you are looking for, post them here, perhaps we have some spares or items we no longer need in the rental department.
Keep in mind, if it's a Hero piece, or an screen used item from a main stream film, it will likely show up at a Prop Store auction.
Understanding your caveat about film pieces, just on the off-chance, might you retain anything from the now fairly obscure "Spaced Invaders" (1990), for which the website notes GE contributed props, costumes, and miniatures?
[Also known as "Martians!!!" during production, not to be confused with "Mars Attacks!"]
My brother owns the hero Martian patrol ship flying miniature, and anything else would be super cool. Thanks!
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
Did anyone save a picture of the Stormtrooper bucket parts and Y-Wing helmet from master mold? The auctions are no longer up.
I think we made that miniature ship.
I had some of the parts for the "Blast helmets" , but I think they sold or got tossed out. However, I did see the vacuum form tool for the helmet recently.
Here are a couple of the things we did, I'm not sure if this is what you were asking about.
Well how about that – I’ve been encouraging my brother to try to track down the ship’s makers, and perhaps I’ve stumbled on the answer! Below are the auction photos plus an overhead shot I took when it arrived last year. Due to the distinctive weathering, it very clearly screen-matches to most of the flying shots.
From what I gather, there were four miniature versions in the film: this resin/plastic/metal hero (with a mounting point in the right nacelle); an identical cast foam stunt for the bouncing sequence; a larger SFX model for raising the ship vertical (more closely resembling the full-scale set), and then smaller ships for juxtaposing with the command ship.
Understanding that this was over 30 years ago, any memories at all that you’re willing to share about these builds – or really any of the work you did on the film – would be fantastic. We grew up with it, so there’s a nostalgia element, but I honestly think even as an adult it’s a really fun watch and sadly underrated.
If you do have anything left over that you’d like to sell, we’d absolutely be interested. Those helmets are honestly my favorite things in the film (well, next to the duck costume I suppose), so a piece related to those would be very cool.
I’ll PM my email in case that’s preferable. Thanks so much for replying!
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