Your Indiana Jones Displays - Lets see 'em

Liberance said:
Personally I think the idol should be all metal with indented pupils in the eyes. People get hung up with this prop because of the different versions used in the movie and a fan-obsession to have whatever looks more like "the prop" as opposed to what the object is supposed to be like in the story, which is what's actually important (at least to me it is). Problem though is that there are a bunch of different versions of this particular prop and that always throws conversations about it into chaos.

The only reason there is a version with glass eyes is because of a deleted beat where the idol was meant to look haunted and follow Indy with its gaze. Remnants of this still exist in the movie but it's nothing but an abandoned idea that they didn't follow through or it'd be much more obvious and the idol design more consistent throughout the scenes. Belloq's idol, whether it actually had concave pupils at any point or painted on ones, it does have pupils, which is what matters. The painted dots however are just a cheap way to trick the camera and not what the idol would've actually looked like in the fictional world it inhabits. Bottom line, if the glass eyes are an abandoned idea and the painted ones are quick workaround, neither of them is really the right look for the object. Most likely, it was always meant to be a solid gold piece with carved in pupils, but instead, everyone always goes for behind-the-scenes concept approximations, which makes finding story-style idols much more difficult.
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I hear you. And as always it depends on what the collector wants right? Screen accuracy or idealized. In my Star Wars and Indy props, I tend to gravitate towards the former. But for comics cosplay/props, I tend to idealize. In this case, the idol I own is the Belloq and it had no pupils, which looked off to me. So I added the dots and I much prefer it, as I wasn’t going to carve pupils into it. Plus it gives me the benefit of being screen accurate to the stunt. .

The Dark Matters one has the look you want I think, though subtle.
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cjunco1937 said:
I hear you. And as always it depends on what the collector wants right? Screen accuracy or idealized. In my Star Wars and Indy props, I tend to gravitate towards the former. But for comics cosplay/props, I tend to idealize. In this case, the idol I own is the Belloq and it had no pupils, which looked off to me. So I added the dots and I much prefer it, as I wasn’t going to carve pupils into it. Plus it gives me the benefit of being screen accurate to the stunt. .

The Dark Matters one has the look you want I think, though subtle.
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Yeah I also own a Belloq with no pupils, from RelicMaker's run. I like the sculpt and the materials better than others, so I went for it and I'm quite happy with it despite the eyes. Unless someone else makes a gold-plated, metal idol with the same level of accuracy, plus the eye details, it's likely going to end up being my Belloq idol for good. I would also consider a glass eye idol and, like many others, I've been waiting to see what Restaurajones might do with his own idol project. But we'll see.

As you say, it depends on what the collector wants.
 
Darthbauer said:
You guys and your fancy Idols. I feel like that’s the last one I need to get. Here’s my current set up with my favorite Indy props.
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I'm with you actually. Crusade is my favorite set of props and they were the first ones I got too. Raiders is probably my best shelf, that movie just makes for a very good combination of items when they're all together. But in terms of the individual props themselves, very few things beat the Grail Diary, Cross of Coronado and Holy Grail. They just look like real artifacts. Not very popular and quite difficult to find a good replica, but I'd give a shout out to the Crystal Skull here as well.
 
There is no consistency in Raiders or we wouldn't have two medallions and 2-3 idols. The eye version still shows on screen even if its eyes aren't moving so it's absolutely valid. The problem is all the props I've seen don't really look like that scene and accuracy to on-screen is what I think most prop collectors care about, not some storyboard form or whatever. They want to show the scene to their friends and point to their shelf and say, look it's exactly the same as what you're seeing in the movie!
 
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Ironically it was not top on my list of Indy props and now I love them both, and is the only Indy prop I have two of other than the new darts.
 
VonMagnum said:
There is no consistency in Raiders or we wouldn't have two medallions and 2-3 idols. The eye version still shows on screen even if its eyes aren't moving so it's absolutely valid. The problem is all the props I've seen don't really look like that scene and accuracy to on-screen is what I think most prop collectors care about, not some storyboard form or whatever. They want to show the scene to their friends and point to their shelf and say, look it's exactly the same as what you're seeing in the movie!
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Well that’s what happens when you have different prop makers in different countries trying to make the same thing, probably just based on concept sketches
 
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