Your biggest prop "MISTAKE"?

[wally188]

Many years ago when i was in good shape...i Bought a huge block and rod of titanium. I made a huge warhammer I saw from Hercules the TV series. This thing weight like 85lbs. I have it on its edge putting on some runes and the thing fell over on my finger and broke it. Blood went everywhere, my girlfriend was screaming and the thing was so heavy i dang near couldnt get it of my hand. Needless to say that hammer was never again seen from.

 

[Tan Djarka]

I found a Super Max hairdryer at a thrift shop for $3 and DIDN'T buy it. What are they worth...?

 

[Vince]

Lol my first "prop" purchase....the Rubies Darth Vader costume. I kept telling myself I'd mod it to perfection but then I saw some of the helmets/armor Darth Stone was offering and I totally regret the purchase.

 

[Fluciano]

Not buying a chainsaw from evildeadchainsaws.com when I had the chance.

 

[Kingpin]

More a costume piece than a prop, a number of months back I commissioned a tailor in China (yeah, in hindsight I should've known better) to reproduce Sylvester McCoy's light grey/tan jacket from his early years on Doctor Who. I'd supplied a small mountain of reference material so between that, and the other replicas they'd done (a Peter Davison 5th Doctor frock coat and David Tennant 10th Doctor coat) I was pretty optomistic.

Upon arrival, it was the wrong colour, the buttons were black, the stitching obvious in places it shouldn't have been visible, the internal lining was naff (and transparent) and the material way too heavy.

It can probably be improved with a little modification (and could be dyed to be like his dark brown jacket, but I'd specifically wanted the light grey one).

 

[Art Andrews]

Probably our screen used spartan. Didn't really purchase it as an investment, but after seeing prices fall pretty drastically, I can't help but be a little bummed that if we decided to sell it, it would be at a considerable loss. That is what you get for buying something when it is hot...

When I am wrong, I am the first to admit it. It was just pointed out to me that a spartan, virtually identical to the one we bought recently sold for 150% what we paid for ours. Obviously that doesn't mean ours would do the same (if we were to sell it) but it sure makes me feel better about it! With that in mind, I happily retract my previous statement.

 

[Drago Lordist]

I don't buy anything (yet) because I'm a student so I make all of my stuff. the one thing I probably regret making most was a backpack made to resemble yoda in luke's blue bag. It's horribly oversized, the yoda may be the right size but he looks tiny and his face didn't turn out how I wanted at all, and I used chicken wire to give the bag its shape. I'm about ready to take it out back and burn it because I can't stand looking at it anymore but currently I use it to store my modded hasbro blasters.

I only have one thing I wish I hadn't sold - I made a "nightgown" for this girl from a stage production called Spring Awakening. I got the fabric right, got the hem, sleeves, skirt, buttons, everything was perfect - for my earliest commission I think I nailed it perfectly. My only condition with commissions is that I get to take pics for my portfolio so I can show off my work to get other commissions (you see the logic). I handed it off, and I haven't gotten to see one pic of it since I made it 4 years ago despite seeing her all the time (she's in my department of study at college). I wish I hadn't sold it so I could at least take pics of it without her...

 

[TheCollector]

I used to have a Mace Windu MR Force FX lightsaber and a Luke Skywalker green one aswell but I was broke and needed to pay rent so I ended up having to sell them both. Made 6x profit on the Mace Windu saber though though my idiot friend cracked it. I bought it brand new from Best Buy for $10. I liked that one more than the Luke one. No idea why.

 

[CTF]

The Dapper Dan and Fop tins from O Brother, Where Art Thou?

That's my only letdown, so far.

 

[brainshatterer]

Purchased a screen used Ancient Stunner (Stargate : Atlantis) from ebay from propworx2 for a ton of money only to find out the handle is foam and the production sketch (what I was going off of in term of build and quality) was far greater than the actual product. Need to do some research and cast the handle so I can remake a more accurate one.

 

[AJK001]

I would have to say one of my biggest prop mistakes was NOT buying the MR First Contact Phaser. At the time, I was only interested in TOS pieces, but I have come to really like the First Contact Phaser and really hate the fact that you can't find them any more. I have all 3 versions of the MR TOS Phaser and they are really great, still work great and feel like a real weapon in your hand.

 

[Risu]

My two biggest prop mistakes (which aren't huge by most people's standards) are markpoon's McFly 2015 shoes and a hoverboard kit. The kit was horribly oversized and weighs 30 pounds and the shoes are way too small for my feet and IMO some of the lowest quality shoes I've ever seen.

 

[kdawg1]

Selling my full size B9 Robot!:cry

 

[Yorkie Fett]

My biggest mistake was not getting a MR Falcon from Play.com when they were selling them off for a ridiculously cheap price (there would have been no import charges too!)

 

[thegreatgalling]

I vote to rename this thread the Funky Jedi.

 

[Trap Joe]

I only could regret to spent thousands of dollars for props and cast of original Star Wars parts back in the 90s, while today you spent only some little prozent of money for it.
Or all the money that went into my own projects. Like making Yoda, the reveal mask, my Darth Vader lifesize figures and my Chewbacca costume, when no other ever made one...:devil

But... no, I don´t regret it:cool

...I love the time I went through all the years with it, bringing it to it´s perfection....

 

[JLeezy23]

Wasn't an actual prop but i was workin on making a homemade talkbox for my keyboard and the knife blade snapped shut on my pinky n i had to get some stiches, blood was gushin out like crazy!

 

[Alan Castillo]

Holy Grail from Reelart on eBay.

..... but gave it a coat of brown paint & sold it on eBay for more :lol

 

[Paracord Junky]

most of the props i purchased(all replicas, btw) are ones that i've lusted after since before i was capable of actual lust, and all are top-of-the-line, so i don't regret any of my purchases.

 

[chrisd]

I would have to say just about every MR prop I've purchased. My TOS phaser stopped working last summer, the comm was way overpriced, the Tricorder was boring. The only one I kept was the First Contact phaser although it's way to heavy.