“Ordinary objects can become extraordinary treasures if one has enough imagination.” -Idk these prop designers I guess

“The Skywalker saber came from a flash handle of a vintage camera” Really takes the phrase “shoot the family, frame them, hang them all” to new level

In Germany, there is an almost 60-year-old science fiction series "Raumpatrouille Orion". The outfitters, for the command desk, have painted taps, shower heads, pencil sharpeners and irons silver. In the end it looked very "futuristic". As the saying goes >>Where there is a will, there is a way

So if you are creative and love to craft, become a set designer or props master. Lol

Hats off to the costume/set designers for being so creative!

The small medical scanners Dr. McCoy used in Star Trek TOS were really salt and pepper shakers.

what i learned today is you can appear futuristic/ sci fi just by painting everyday objects in eddgy colors

Us cosplayers do this all the time. It doesn't have to work; it just has to look like it does

That’s what makes Star Wars feel authentic it’s old and has familiar items that don’t feel out of place

Tbh, this is just creativity.

Me when we have a roleplay in schook and i need props:

Honestly, as a crafter who uses a lot of "garbage" to make things, this all makes a lot of sense. Why spend an outrageous amount of money to make something when you have junk just lying around that can do the job and look just as nice?

Geordi's Visor was a banana clip they painted gold. Picard's tea set with the cups that sat in the pot were spotted one day in a shop and the prop master bought it. Same with the pyramid clocks and some of the glassware in 10 forward. They did that a lot for ST:TNG.

Oh yes, set dressers and prop designers have to be creative, especially when they realize they are missing something for the next scene to be filmed and have to cobble something together in 15 minutes. When I interned on a low budget (but still quality) film I learned a lot about what you can bs because very few will even notice if it is done well and blended in. Also that most props often get improvised because the original doesn't work. I actually have my old phone in that film because I was the only one with a Samsung phone but the ones Samsung provided couldn't do what was needed (they were all demo units and couldn't actually make or receive calls). I also got really good at finding exactly what I needed at antique shops (I ended up in charge of seeking and buying specific prop items and set dressings since I knew the area). So yeah, you really need to be good at improvisation, building, and breaking things to be good at set dressing and prop making. Yes, you break a lot of things to make props and sets look right, it is just a matter of breaking them the right way. Aging items precisely is an art form in itself.

The coffee cup was a goof, not a prop. You can even see her holding her actual cup in the picture. 🤦

The visor Geordi LaForge wears over his eyes looks like the banana hair clips I used to have.

I'm so glad this list has Terra Nova, no one seems to remember that series, and I was amused to no end when I saw all the spray painted Longshot and Nightfinder blasters lmao

In Galaxy Quest when the crew first gets transported and the Thermians enter to examine them on of the tools is a speculum. You can see it when they’re scanning Gwen.

The support staff of the entertainment industry is really the talent. They solve problems every day and repurpose something for the projects. They follow the idea why build from scratch just repurpose with paint and spackle.

The diagnostic tools that Dr. McCoy uses on Star Trek:TOS are just futuristic looking salt and pepper shakers.

In s1-e9 of Babylon 5... the case that Deathwalker uses for the longevity serum is a fancied-up Singer buttonhole attachment case. You’d probably only spot this if you made your own clothes as a teenager, as I did!

The Smartguns in Aliens was a WWII German MG34 mounted to a steadycam harness with extra plastic mouldings to disguise the very old machine gun.

The Sci-fi gun in the Bruce Willis starring _Surrogates_ movie is built out of an old rechargeable flashlight. My grandparents owned one when I was a kid.

1:35 - This is from Star Wars: Rouge One. What you are looking at is the London Underground Station at Canary Wharf.

They are simple things but they made them look really cool!

I no longer feel bad about using a "bop it" toy to design an OC's lightsaber.

I love it when low-tech ingenuity makes it to movies and TV shows, and I think it makes it more fun (and cheaper) than making props from scratch. I loved the podracer crowd with the Q-tips, I thought that was ingenious, but I laughed out loud at the spy cam in Meet the Fockers being a pen lid, haha.

I applaud all props designers for their creativity. Their job must be the funniest work ever!

The drink ware used for the Blue Milk scene in New Hope are Tupperware.

Villaim: "And now I'll make you talk once I'm through with using my torture device on you." Me in a mocking tone: "Oh no. I hope that ceiling fan doesn't fall onto your head."

I remember in Dr. Who they often used items as props for their episodes. They essentially used whatever they could find. I remember the Doctor's "sonic screwdriver" was originally a tire pressure gauge and in the episode of the Five Doctors the device that was given to the Master to get back and forth from the field was an air fresher, one of the super-stick-up things common back in those days.

When kids who see some stick as a cool sword stay as a kid in adult body. :v

This reminds me that most of the guns you used to see in the original Star Wars movies were real guns with plastic pieces added to them. All of these here were clever.

7:36 How lucky you must be to find IG-88/IG-11's head at the beach?

One of Doctor McCoy's medical instruments in Star Trek TOS was a "futuristic" looking Swedish salt shaker. The hatches to the escape pods in Star Trek: First Contact are the lids off cargo holders for transporting skis on car roofs.

The flight stick that the Mandalorian uses to fly his ship is a generic USB flight joystick that my dad owns, and I jumped out of my seat and said something right when I saw that. It's a good flight stick too, he made a good purchase.

1:40 that escalator shot is a London Underground station, specifically the Jubilee Line platform at Canary Wharf station.

Well this makes it a lot easier to make a halloween costume

The medical instruments in the original Star Trek were salt shakers, and the Klingon command chair in Wrath of Kahn was the front seat from a junked car set in a plywood frame.

also from firefly, the containers used for bodies during the hospital heist were just cartop carriers.

this is a goldmine for cosplayers :D

A lot of the lights on the original Star Trek bridge were just Christmas lights. I love how set and props people are so creative. I once found and old camera lens canister at a yard sale and turned into the lighting canister from Star Dust. Seems that the props folk on Star Dust had done the exact same thing.

In the 1965 series I Dream of Jeannie, the bottle that Jeannie emerges from is actually a painted 1964 Christmas edition Jim Beam whiskey decanter.

Nice compilation.

I'd definitely add the Rowenta brand flat iron as spaceship's main switch in the german 1960s SciFi series "Raumpatroille". There are a few more of such Easter eggs in this series as they had a small budget and therefore had to be creative.

Wow!! Truly amazing!!

These were pretty cool !!!!

A lot of these, I didn't actually know already. But then, I don't have time to sit through full length feature films frame by frame. Kudos on keeping the segments short so I had to pause to read the caption and thereby massage the Algorithm, by the way.

The door opener button in Event Horizon is an air orbital sander that I used to use when I was an apprentice Cabinetmaker.

The WW1 English rifle grenades used to make lightsaber handles are pretty rare to begin with. Damn nerds made them more rare, tearing them up to make their playtoys

Amusing how 'futuristic' is the accurate descriptive category for something set 'long long ago'.

This is why I have two giant boxes of random junk for prop making...

I have a the Galaxy's Edge cook book (Star Wars) and they use a lot of transmission parts as plates and props to make the food look more futuristic. 10/10 for the cookbook BTW. Great recipes.

I already knew about the Mangalore bomb detonator from The Fifth Element even when the movie was new and to this day I STILL CAN'T UNSEE IT.

Star Wars takes place in the past. That makes our regular items are futuristic

Thank you! ❤️

Dang this is actually really nice, I wish I thought if this so we could do a play using only props like these for a play. To late for that now

Also the mesh corridor floors in Aliens that the marines find melted through are made from BPC. AKA British packing crates. And the underside of the facehugger when Ash dissects it in the first movie is fish guts.

Fun fact: the Moonraker laser rifle from the 007 movie "Moonraker" was made out of IMI Uzi replicas, store-bought plastic toys (made of resin and rubber).

0:48 THAT'S HILARIOUS AND AMAZING OML

Learning to see shapes and you can easily make new stuff that looks cool. Its pretty silly how easy you can change the look with just adding a few items and a new coat of paint

Dang, prop makers are creative as heck

I love how they redeemed the GOT coffee cup issue....

Not a physical prop, but in the first Terminator film when they show the Terminators view point the scrolling computer code is actually assembly language from a 6502 chip. That is the eight bit chip used in home computers like the Commodore PET, VIC 20, Apple II, BBC B and Atari 800.

I appreciate how they slapped a ww1 era rifle grenade onto Obi Wan's lightsaber

In The Phantom Menace, in Anakin's room at about the 38:38 mark, you can also find a classic Trac ball basket/launcher hanging from the ceiling and another variety is seen hanging a few seconds later.

Batman got the Jordan’s 😳

the toy collections and replicas that we buy are more expensive. We are dam gullible!

Here comes Bruce with them Jordans

It takes some real imagination to turn some of the things on here into the Scifi technology shown

In V for Vendetta he uses a device that blocks the bug from listening to their conversation and I recognized it as a book light.

I own an ikea ps 2014 lamp. It's just in my bedroom, and it's awesome.

I remember I was watching a TV show at one point and my mom recognized the printer in the background.

Yep. No technology's more futuristic than some serial killer's mask.

I love it! Shows you don't have to spend a fortune to make something COOL!

they didn't even try to hid the dial lock in 5 element bubble wrap get use alot often to give texture to wall they just spray paint them

Bro the lumber tycoon theme still hits different

2:39 Yep, a Us army mermite can Is a very regular item

Interesting...

If anyone is interested, but the escalator in the phantom menace picture is found in London's Canada Water underground station.

U should see how awful most movie props look close up, even the ones from the recent high definition era!

1:36 That escalated quickly...

Ngl I always wondered how they made the first Star Wars movies on a small budget Now I can paint old parts in chrome and sell them as a collectors item 😂

In Star Trek TNG the vast majority of the unusually shaped glasses that people drink from in 10 Forward are actually candle holders, the pyramid shaped hi tech games on the tables there are an 80s Bandai VFD game called Pair Match, some of the Padds are light boxes meant to backlight acetates or X-rays, in one scene the device Picard is using to operate one is actually a desoldering pen, and for further reading: www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/present-day-devices.htm

The music on this video was repurposed ‘music on hold’ from your ‘70’s Cable TV Company’s Support Desk...

2:49 I was wondering what Zemekis used for the Mr.Fusion

Fun fact, 95% of big guns in movies, ESPECIALLY sci-fi movies, are painted Nerf guns.

The music made it feel like a nolistalgia video

I don't know if these count, but there is an episode of Star Trek Voyager where they're stuck in the orbit of a planet that spins really fast. At the beginning of the episode, some of the planet's inhabitants are bringing an offering of alien looking vegetables to an altar. In one of the star wars movies there's some aliens handling some alien looking vegetables in a kitchen. The star trek one is called a jelly melon, the star wars one is romanesco Italia broccoli, both of which can be purchased from Baker Creek heirloom seed company.

No mention of the fact that the fur cloaks work by a lot of Game of Thrones characters are actually IKEA rugs.

great resource for cosplayers

The glassware used on the "Buck Rogers" tv series were UnCandles...

They were creative.

@4:52 - It's plain to see that Dany is holding her chalice, so no, that is incorrect. The coffee cup was a mistake that wasn't caught. It was left there by a cast member during a break in shooting. The blame for which was placed on a few cast members until one of them finally admitted to leaving it there. - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iJufjNeQr5-zenk.html

... in back to the future it was the entire joke that Mr. Fusion was a Mr. Coffee... that wasn't hidden, it was blatantly showcased...

In the show Dark Matter, they use a PSVR headset for a full dive thing.

I love how most of these are star wars related

Actually I kinda wish this was a text article

Actors hold that stuff and probably think, this is stupid.

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