The City of Lost Children

[DMO]

In 1998 I came across the movie "The City of Lost Children" released in1995. The story and visuals caught my imagination and I eventually constructed a panel of gauges similar to those that line the walls of the laboratory. The gauges can be seen in the picture with the antagonist "Krank". I wanted a bust of him to go along with the gauges but lacked the skills necessary to produce one. Forward to 2024 with 3D printing capabilities and I found a website by Dirk Wachsmuth who was also a fan of the movie. He had designed a 3D rendering of Krank, and was extremely generous in providing the files for a 3D print. I was able to 3D print parts to build a reasonable facsimile of the headpiece Krank wore in the movie. Here are the results.

 

[Uridium]

Thats waaay cool.
I remember seeing the film at the cinema, really great film.

 

[Onkelpsycho]

I remember that I played the videogame first and was very excited to see the movie. But I never had the chance back in the 90s. So I watched it for the first time on DVD when it came out 2005. I was a little bit dissappointed from the plot, but the artwork and atmosphere of the movie were great.

But not really a good movie for collecting props or prop replicas. Nice to see some stuff from the movie...

 

[Uridium]

Am i being crazy or did the PropStore have a huge chair thing that Krank used for sale at one point?

 

[Krats]

A friend introduced me to Jean-Pierre Jeunet movies back when I was a student and showed me the City of Lost Children on a ropy VHS video. When I was eventually able to acquire a copy for myself it had a terrible dub and no option to watch subtitled. I'll have to see if a better version is available now. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, the bust looks great!

 

[EmmaInCandyland]

This movie is so nostalgic to me!
We def need to see more props out of it!

 

[DMO]

This movie is so nostalgic to me!
We def need to see more props out of it!

I thought I remembered a post with someone working on the cyclops eyepiece. I searched and it was a post in 2017 - 2018 by cbcurtis. Not sure if any stl files or completed models were ever available.

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