What ONE prop has made it into the most movies?

[nightwind1]

OH! That orange/red neon thing from Modern Props too- it had the 4 horizontal neon tubes that sequenced in a rolling motion.

"V"
"Trek II"
"Buck Rogers"
"Galactica"
Bunch of other stuff- help me out.

[EDIT] Found a pic-

-Sarge

It's been used in ST:TNG, also.

 

[Propaholic]

I found this site, I don't know how much of it is true.
FLIMSIPLASTDATABASE

 

[DBHughes]

There's this mounted laser cannon:

The Invisible Man's Sliders Prop

It's also popped up in the Dean Cain Superman series (as Prankster's weather machine), an episode of She Spies (as a weather machine), and even Nickelodeon's Ned's Declassified (as some kind of science experiment - probably about the weather! lol)

 

[NormanF]

OH! That orange/red neon thing from Modern Props too- it had the 4 horizontal neon tubes that sequenced in a rolling motion.

"V"
"Trek II"
"Buck Rogers"
"Galactica"
Bunch of other stuff- help me out.

[EDIT] Found a pic-

-Sarge

Oops I missed this. It was also in Airplane 2. That is what I was thinking of when I linked to a video.

Sent from my Etch-A-Sketch

 

[CaptainDave1701]

OH! That orange/red neon thing from Modern Props too- it had the 4 horizontal neon tubes that sequenced in a rolling motion.

"V"
"Trek II"
"Buck Rogers"
"Galactica"
Bunch of other stuff- help me out.

[EDIT] Found a pic-

-Sarge

I think it was in Airplane II....the one with Shatner in it.

 

[Melwicker1]

The comms thing from Star Trek Etc is available for a one week rental at $625. A bargain considering the amount of set dressing it provides!

modernProps | where things are.

Height: 52" Width: 73" Depth: 32"

The Skimmers are $53 each (assuming I have the right one). Hayward Skim-Master Skimmer For Concrete Pools SP10712S

The connecting bars look like they are grab bars for disables bathrooms etc.
The neon tubes look like they sequence rather than actually rotate (hard to do mechanically) anyone got the star trek TNG episode for checking?

I am thinking of building this as a wall display piece rather than doing the whole thing. Something to go alongside other mad scientist props. Might be cool to replace the neon tubes with Jacob's ladders or alternatively have some lateral movement, rings travelling along the tube.

One to go in the files for after I finish the Star Trek Captain's chair, TOS phaser, comm and moire pattern.

Awesome!

Does anyone else want to make that prop?


Funny though, the characters from "Airplane 2" were right about that particular prop...it doesn't really do anything other than look cool.

 

[Idaho Jones]

They made these on a press just like a real paper. :cool

True,

Makes me think of the old copy maker from grade school with the hand crank and the nasty blue ink, nasty thing :lol

 

[WayneVenomous]

Nice!

The Wilhelm scream wins!! (if it were a prop)

LIST HEAVILY EDITED TO SAVE SPACE!

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Sept 18, 2009)

The Simpsons "Million Dollar Maybe" (Jan 31, 2010)
Mr. Burns shoots Nazis in a WWII video game - all the Nazis scream classic Wilhelms.
Iron Man 2 (May 7, 2010) :eek

I spotted it in the kids movie Despicable Me (2010) where Gru's mother does a Karate kick and hits the guy supposedly training her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pJsDDw6LkA

Also, it was quite famously used in a spoof-edited version of the British TV Soap Opera "Coronation Street":
Coronation Street Tram Crash: Original Edit - YouTube

 

[VmpyrDavid]

The skimmer neon prop is also in the queue video for Dinosaur in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's on the background wall directly behind Wallace Langham's character. Saw that this weekend after seeing this thread for the first time.

Almost didn't get the phone out in time for the shot.

 

[allosaur176]

the wilhelm scream

This is something I really wish would.......

 

[Rik1138]

There's this mounted laser cannon:

The Invisible Man's Sliders Prop

It's also popped up in the Dean Cain Superman series (as Prankster's weather machine), an episode of She Spies (as a weather machine), and even Nickelodeon's Ned's Declassified (as some kind of science experiment - probably about the weather! lol)

That's another Modern Props creation:
modernProps | where things are.

 

[ooSuperman23]

Here are a few obvious "props" used in a ton of movies/tv shows, but I'm sure they've been mentioned already.

1. Beretta 92FS
2. 1911 .45 CAL variants
3. SIG Sauer P228/229

I'm sure I could list a ton more, but I doubt you meant gun "props" as they're basically like shoes or even food in most movies nowadays :lol

 

[EvilRocketeer]

Inflatable Godzilla Toy

used in

Big
Life with Mikey
I love you to death

 

[DocNewborn]

the pke meter was also in an episode of the fall guy. i saw it a few weeks ago on sattelite telly.

I'd love to see that full episode again. I found a fragment of it on an old VHS tape last year.

Skip to about 3:17 to see all the footage I bothered to tape back in 1989.

More Ghostbusters-on-VHS clips, part 4 - YouTube

Note the continuity error from the long shot to the closeup, when it switches hands.

Ironically, it's being used by Vincent Schiavelli... who himself played a ghost in the movie Ghost.

And here's something interesting... the pattern of lights on the wing/arms was moving sequentially, NOT in the GB1 pattern or the GB2 pattern.

Schiavelli also used another piece of equipment that looks pretty interesting.

Is that one another common rental prop?

Alex

 

[compucrap]

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[EvilRocketeer]

Inflatable Godzilla Toy

used in

Big
Life with Mikey
I love you to death

And kindergarten cop

 

[MaddMaxx82]

Morley cigarettes, used from 1963 in an episode of The Twilight Zone, with William Shatner. All the way to the X-files TV series. LOL! Gotta love Hollywood fake brands.

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[Benbot]

This is something I really wish would.......

Yeah, why do they keep using that anyway? Whenever I hear it it just pulls me out of what I'm watching and I end up laughing at how awful and obvious it is. It's not funny anymore--it's just tiring.

 

[Helo]

Of course I join up and this thread is already deep in discussion, but I was going to speak of the Starship Troopers armor (which has already been beaten up here) and the football uniforms from The Replacements. I swear I see those things in movies and tv commercials quite a bit.

the wilhelm scream

I have heard the scream before and even seen the original with my grandpa back in the day, but I never knew it had a name. I looked it up on YouTube and laughed my butt off at a compilation video of it. :lol I do agree that it's tiring and over used, but I guess it's just one of those "nod" things the sound guys do (?).

 

[Hoxtilicious]

OH! OH! I KNOW ONE! I think it is probably the best out there, no-one can beat it...


Ready...?



A cell phone.