Weird prop crossovers

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I was watching "They Live" (with Rowdy Roddy Piper) this evening and noticed a really strange prop crossover - the alien guards were all carrying Ghostbuster PKE meters as tracking/communication devices. They looked to be exact copies of the PKE with working arms and chasing lights, not just some close-enough wannabes. There were multiples of the meter so I'm assuming these were built just for this movie (as opposed to leftovers from the GB production).[/b]
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The PKE in GB was a rented "generic" prop from a prop house, not a prop made for GB as was a few of the other props in GB... I'm sure someone will chime in with the name of the prop house... It was also used in "Suburban Commando" with Hulk Hogan

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It's kinda cool to see the sterlings in their full, unmodified get up. They actually make quite a few appearances in the older movies. I guess they were realy popular back then.[/b]
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The Sterling was the standard British Army service gun from 1953 until 1988, licensed to Canada and also India that still uses them today so yeah it was a bit popular... You will see a bunch of them used in old Dr. Who episodes
 
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I was watching "They Live" (with Rowdy Roddy Piper) this evening and noticed a really strange prop crossover - the alien guards were all carrying Ghostbuster PKE meters as tracking/communication devices. They looked to be exact copies of the PKE with working arms and chasing lights, not just some close-enough wannabes. There were multiples of the meter so I'm assuming these were built just for this movie (as opposed to leftovers from the GB production).[/b]
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The PKE in GB was a rented "generic" prop from a prop house, not a prop made for GB as was a few of the other props in GB... I'm sure someone will chime in with the name of the prop house... It was also used in "Suburban Commando" with Hulk Hogan

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That's interesting. Does it show up in any movies earlier then GB?

-Fred
 
Was watching the pilot of Eureka on Scifi last week, at the very beginning the guy Walter is working on something that looks an awful lot like a Tusken Raider vaporator canister. :lol:
 
Christian Slater in "Kuffs", wearing Indy's "Last Crusade" jacket.
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A Kenner stormtrooper blaster, minimally modified, appears as a blaster in a 4th season episode of Blake's 7.
 
I guess this is more like a weird set crossovers?
Here's a screen cap from Battlestar Pegasus (what? was that a new show? :p ) and Firefly.

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Considering firefly class freighter was sighted on Caprica.. :angel
 
Robert Vaughn's mercenary in BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS also carries a Kenner E11 repaint :lol

Several spacesuits from DR WHO were also used in STAR WARS.
 
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Christian Slater in "Kuffs", wearing Indy's "Last Crusade" jacket.
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Man that thing sort of swims on him....

What is Slater -- like 5'10"? And Ford is closer to 6'1", right?
 
Yes it is. Plus I think it was in the Matrix too (?).

SAS

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Not a "weird" one, but isn't the mini-gun the same unit in both Predator and T2?
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How about this one. Michael Knight holding a Scouttrooper blaster.

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Cheers,
Leo
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Oh man, thats a great one... :thumbsup
a few years ago, I got to go to India, and I saw a security gaurd with a real weathered Sterling locked and loaded. Impressive.
 
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How about this one. Michael Knight holding a Scouttrooper blaster.

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Cheers,
Leo
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Is that just a repainted kenner version?

-Fred
 
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Christian Slater in "Kuffs", wearing Indy's "Last Crusade" jacket.
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Man that thing sort of swims on him....

What is Slater -- like 5'10"? And Ford is closer to 6'1", right?
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According to IMDB, Slater is 5'8.5" It's not uncommon for an inch or two to be tacked onto there either. He must be of a very slight build too. I'm only 5' 8" and wear a 42, same jacket size as Harrison wore in LC. I fill the shoulders out fine on my Wested.

I saw another pic of Slater in the jacket where you can clearly see that the sleeves were hemmed. The Indy jacket had no cuff stitching, but there's a pic of Slater where the cuff is stitched. Hard to believe they permanently altered an LC jacket for that....
 
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Not a "weird" one, but isn't the mini-gun the same unit in both Predator and T2?
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Dang :p . That was the one I was going to say since that's the only one I knew of before this thread.

Pretty cool thread guys. Keep them coming :) .
 
What I've seen on ebay was a live aution of PIH with a MIB noisy cricket that was converted to a prop ray gun for Star Trek - not sure if it was Voyager or Enterprise...
 
I wouldn't swear to it, but wasn't one the the big blasters from MIB in the Eureka pilot? One looked like the three barreled thing from Blade Trinity (and a Genii episode of Stargate Atlantis) but I thought I saw another blaster that looked MIBish.
 
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