Prop Replicas you didn't know you had (sometimes until too late)

[Funky]

I had a replica batarang from the batman series but my nephew got ahold of it and he threw it into the lake by his house -.-

Are you sure you read the title to this thread? :lol

 

[obrotherracing]

I have a BOBBLBEE hard shell backpack, as seen in Charlie's Angels (getting out of the ocean) and the Italian Job (on Seth Green's luggage while he is controlling the signal lights from the airport).

We (wife and I) recently realized we have the same Pottery Barn bed spread set as seen in the hotel room on Big Bang Theory, when the group travels to Monterey to sit on the conference panel (penis talk).

Jason

 

[livdaws]

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[jk55092]

I bought my then-girlfriend an enagement ring back in 1993. Then the next year, we went to see The Crow with Brandon Lee. When they got to the scene where he regains his dead fiancee's enagement ring, and they show it in close-up, my girlfriend screamed.
It was the exact same ring I'd gotten her.

Got it from the jewelry section of Wal-mart for around $30 (I was a full time student, at the time - that was a lot of money for me.)

I don't know what happened to it after we broke up, I think she lost it.

 

[carl9149]

I had an original pack of walkies from the back to the future2 film (replicas) but they were the exact same, same packaging and everything. Just never knew what I had at the time as I was a kid. Man wish I had kept them with the original packaging
But, live and learn.

 

[Dr Tzap]

Used to have a pair of mil surplus TA1 field phones (TA-1 phone) just like the handsets used in the new Battlestar Galactica until an EX-roommate pawned 'em (and a bunch of my tools) to buy crack...

 

[CYBORG65]

LOL. I knew someone would wonder about it. Here's the screencap from the movie of the radio, same model and make I used to have:

The funny thing is that in the movie, Norman turns the radio on and off using the knob on the far left. The two knobs on the left were the Bass and Treble. To turn the actual radio on, there was a switch you slide left and right to select your option (you can actually spot it in the picture in between the knob and the first button for the tape player). If you wanted to listen to the radio, you had to slide it to where the notch was under radio. To listen to tape, you'd slide it to where it was listed for tape. To turn it off, you'd have to slide it all the way to the left.

When it began to fall apart, the first thing that broke was the tape deck, the plastic piece in the front that held the tape as it played.

I can't believe I still remember the controls after so many years.

I had that exact same radio. I got it at a flea market for 2 bucks and used it for my garage radio until it fell off the shelf too many times and quit working.

 

[Tastyburger]

My father picked up a cheap knife and scabbard from a truck stop somewhere in his travels..

Lo and behold; we were watching Spiderman 2, after it came out on DVD. As soon as Harry pulled out his knife to stab the wire bound Spidey, we realized that it was the exact same knife.

Dad won't let me have it.

Yet.

 

[Unidragn]

I still have one of these.

 

[ringa]

Back in the early-mid 70's, I used to play with my grandfather's plastic pencil case. It was orange and yellow with a sliding door. It reminded me of the Star Trek TOS communicators because of its shape. Little did I know back then that the TOS comms WERE made from these very same pencil cases!

 

[ObiWanJason]

My first ever prop was one of the Original Microflame torches. After my dad saw the original STAR WARSopcorn, he went digging through one of his many BOXES 'O' JUNK and found it. After cleaning it up, he wrapped it up and gave it to me for my birthday. That was in March of '78....And yes, I still have it.

 

[Jaedena]

I have a Herman-Miller office chair, the same model that's been used in just about every office boardroom in movie history.

 

[Montagar]

Discovered this when I watched final Battlestar Galactic (original series) episode "The Hand of God" on DVD. Much to my surprise I recognized a prop that I have had since the late '70s; A pair of hearing protectors. :lol

 

[Lightning]

I don't own it but this is a simmilar type of coincidence:
I live in New Orleans and proposed to my wife on Streetcar #922. It wasn't until a year later I found out that 922 was the actual car used in the movie "A Streetcar Named Desire". It's still running on the St. Charles Line.

 

[Ford W Maverick]

I only just found out the other day that I have one of the flashlights they used in the movie Aliens! It's been in my Mom's house my entire life and I just never noticed it in the movie till I saw a behind-the-scenes shot of Lance Henriksen holding one! Now I just have to out to my Mom's place and find it...

 

[Valor]

When I was in college in the early 90s I was watching an episode of Star Trek: TNG and there was a prop that was supposed to be a small alien bug containment device or something) that looked like a grey, hard-plastic ribbed binder. He flipped the top open almost like a modern laptop. It looked like a futuristic Trapper Keeper. I kept looking at it thinking "that looks familiar". That's because it WAS a futuristic binder that I had in the next room. I went to get it to impress my roommates, but the episode went off. Years later, I've tried to either track down the binder or find a screen grab from the episode, but have failed in both accounts.

*EDIT* HA!!! Flickr saves the day!!! Here it is, a Nintendo Power Binder:
Emma's trapper keeper | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Which is now going for ludacris money on eBay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Official-Ni...pper-Keeper-W-Highlighters-Pens-/120891209826

 

[Luke0312]

When I was a kid I had a leather and green silk coat like Sly's son wore (and had stolen) in Rocky V...

given that it was from V, don't really care that I no longer have it, ha.

 

[Michael Bergeron]

Just realized on a repeat viewing that I've got the same baby monitors they used in Arrested Development to let George Sr. snoop on the family while he was hiding in the attic.

 

[hydin]

Weird moment of the day for me.

Years ago I bought a broken (as in not functioning correctly) hourglass, and just discovered that it's also the same prop used in Charmed by Kronos (or Chronos). Kinda a weird coincidence.

Chris

 

[kingpiranha]

I had the same Ibanez guitar that Marty Mcfly uses in the audition scene in Back to the Future I. Unfortunately I didn't realized that until after I sold it