What Would You Display If You Had A Movie Museum?

Luv4Filmz

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This thread is a discussion on the theme of "Movie Museums".

I collect movie memorabilia and I bet you do too, some of us have so much stuff that it's like a museum of collectibles.

Some of us dream of taking it a stage further, and creating an actual museum, so what would you want to display in it?

What would your "wishlist" be?

Personally, I would love a combination of movie cars, costumes, props and statues.

Museums exist already around the world, which is your favourite?
 
I live in the UK, I've never been to the US, but I've heard about Rusty's TV and Movie Museum, and when I saw a lifesize "Turtle Wagon", I had to put that on my "wishlist" of replica projects.
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With a billionaire budget?

I'd love to build huge set replicas that people could go inside.

The interior of the Millennium Falcon.
Captain Quint's boat from JAWS.
The bridge of the USS Enterprise.
Yoda's hut on Dagobah.
The Endor tree village.
The bowling alley from Lebowski.
The Ghostbusters firehouse.
The Batcave(s).
Superman's crystal fortress of solitude.
The diner in Pulp Fiction.

Etc.
 
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With a billionaire budget?

I'd love to build huge set replicas that people could go inside.

The interior of the Millennium Falcon.
Captain Quint's boat from JAWS.
The bridge of the USS Enterprise.
Yoda's hut on Dagobah.
The Endor tree village.
The bowling alley from Lebowski.
The Ghostbusters firehouse.
The Batcave(s).
Superman's crystal fortress of solitude.
The diner in Pulp Fiction.

Etc.
I 100% agree, some have displays at Comic Con like the "bridge of the USS Enterprise". Disney have a mock up of the interior of the "Millennium Falcon" as well as the ship, but the Madame Tussauds Star Wars display isn't too bad, you can sit in the Falcon's cockpit next to Chewbacca, and sit with Han Solo in the Mos Eisley cantina, and Yoda is there too.
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With a billionaire budget?

I'd love to build huge set replicas that people could go inside.

The interior of the Millennium Falcon.
Captain Quint's boat from JAWS.
The bridge of the USS Enterprise.
Yoda's hut on Dagobah.
The Endor tree village.
The bowling alley from Lebowski.
The Ghostbusters firehouse.
The Batcave(s).
Superman's crystal fortress of solitude.
The diner in Pulp Fiction.

Etc.
"The Ghostbusters Firehouse"? I like that idea, but if the whole firehouse is too much, then how about just the front of it, like a shop or something? At Universal Studios they had a mock-up of the "firehouse". Also, how about a "walk through" tour of recreated set pieces? Janine's desk, Slimer in the hotel hallway, or the rooftop with the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
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No museum is complete without "Jabba The Hutt", but how do you make him? It's all down to budget of course.

I googled "Lifesize Jabba" and found one version made of styrofoam. There are versions we see at Comic cons, also Madame Tussauds, even cardboard. You can add chicken wire, or latex, or Papier mache, then paint him.
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I think a decent GB firehouse could be done with some strategic planning. Shrink the depth compared to the real interior set. Just leave enough room for Ecto-1 parked at the front door and the office area behind it. Don't bother doing the upper floors (except maybe one small area of upper floor so people can slide down the firepole.)

Heck, you could use a shorter Ecto-1 car and kill two birds with one stone. Build it on a stock 4dr 1959 Caddy chassis instead of the rare expensive hearse/ambulance conversion. It could still look like Ecto-1 from the front & rear but it would be shorter in the middle. When it's sitting parked inside the narrow firehouse, how many people would notice that it's only 18 feet long instead of 21?



IMO it's more important for a museum film set to look realistic in photos than recreating the dimensions perfectly.

I would put up some displays with screenshots of iconic scenes. And put some marks on the ground for where the camera was placed during those scenes (read: the spots where your spouse needs to stand holding her camera phone while you are posing.)
 
"The Batcave", depending on the preference, just display the Batmobile with the Batcave made out of plaster, or styrofoam, paint it to look like rock, add some lighting, all depends on budget too. Look at model dioramas for inspiration and scale them to lifesize if possible.
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No museum is complete without "Aliens". I would love a lifesize replica "Alien Queen", but how to built a lifesize model.

It all depends on the budget, perhaps a metal skeletal frame, (from a scrapyard), then chicken wire, and Papier mache.

There is the fibreglass route, and even styrofoam, but don't forget the "Powerloader", likely to be made of wood and vacuum-formed parts.

I would have a lifesize mock-up of the APC, non-functioning so perhaps made of plywood, but bigger dimensions to allow for the interior to be like it was in the movie, (interior shots were done separately on a soundstage).

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No museum is complete without "photo opportunities" so have a selection of recreated set pieces, how about the basement set from Wayne's World? It varies from SNL and the movies, (and of course the more recent commercials), so recreate it with some artistic license.
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If I had a "Movie Museum", one display would have to be a Jurassic Park jeep with the T-rex appearing above it, a great photo opportunity for visitors.
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One project on my "wishlist" is a replica of Hot Rod from the Transformers cartoon, I'd make the replica using a modified Nova Sterling, because of the similarity with the open canopy. This would look great in any museum.
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