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atomic-chronoscaph · 1 year

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The Future Together - V (1983)

#v miniseries #the visitors #80s tv series #80s sci-fi art #tv props #80s sci-fi #the future together #propaganda posters #nbc tv #1980s #1983

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avaantares · 6 months

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Wait, Zhao Yunlan's gun is actually a...?!

(I've never claimed production meta for @guardianbingo before, but after the amount of time and research I put in on this, I feel like I've earned the "Zhao Yunlan's Gun or Whip" square, haha)

SO. GUYS.

Maybe this is something fandom as a whole figured out back in 2018, but I, who didn't hear of Guardian until 2020, did not realize until now and I need to share the knowledge because when I finally noticed, I made an unholy sound.

I've tracked down where Zhao Yunlan's gun came from -- or at least, what it most likely started as. Not the in-universe dark-energy-maybe-uses-bullets-maybe-doesn't-device-that's-best-not-thought-about-too-long, but rather the actual fake-steampunk-revolver-that-is-best-not-looked-at-too-long-because-it's-awful prop.

Y'know, this disaster:

I was actually working on a different Guardian Bingo fill and needed to look something up for continuity, so I'd flipped through a couple of episodes at super high speed trying to find a scene. As luck would have it, one of my skips forward happened to land on the scene I screencapped above, when ZYL confronts Zhang Shi.

Normally we don't get this clear (or this stationary) a shot of the godawful gun prop. I'd assumed all along they had just taken a plastic gun, glued some extra bits and bobs on it to make it look fancy, and hit it with some dry brushing (fun fact: you can watch the paint flake throughout the series; check out the top of the barrel and the side of the cylinder in the above screenshot!) to make it look #steampunk like the abandoned aesthetic of 25% of the show (as I've said before, I have theories about what happened in preproduction, but that's another post). This sort of thing is exactly what I've done for cheap cosplay weapons or background props for film work that aren't going to be seen at HD detail range.

Anyway, since the detail showed up better here than in other shots, I paused the video to look at the random screws and hex bolts (why??) they'd glued on it, since I recalled that I had the aforementioned gun/whip bingo square to fill.

That's when I noticed a detail that had eluded me before: An inverted V shape at the bottom of the grip.

Only looking more closely, that's not an inverted V. It's a symbol that I've seen a whole series of variations of over the past 15+ years... every time there's a new installment of the Assassin's Creed video game series:

So I started hunting. The principal weapons in each game turned up no matches, but eventually I found a gun that looks almost exactly like ZYL's:

It's not a perfect replica, but the details are certainly all there: The stylized logo; the leaves and swirls on the grip; the feathers up the back; even the Victorian scrollwork beneath the barrel.

Now, what's really interesting is that this gun isn't actually from the AC game series. It's part of an elaborate fan project by artist David Paget that started as a class assignment back in 2014. Even though it gathered a bit of steam in the AC fandom and generated a couple of forum role-play groups, OCs and the like, nothing about this artwork was ever connected to a real Assassin's Creed title. So why would there be a physical version of a gun that was only someone's fanart?

This is where the smoking gun (*rimshot*) goes missing, because I can't prove any of this, and it's been long enough that digging through the archives of the internet to find answers is going to take way more time than I can afford to spend on a project I'm not getting paid for. But there are two likely possibilities:

Scenario A: Some employee in a toy factory somewhere in China got told, "This Assassin's Creed franchise is really big, so we need to be producing replicas from those games to sell. Work up some designs." So the employee Googles "assassin's creed gun," finds David Paget's very professional-looking art, and whips up a replica to mass-injection-mold without realizing it's not actually from a game. Later, someone on the cash-strapped Guardian production team needs a gun to mod, and finds a cheap toy revolver on clearance after several years of sitting in storage because there was little demand for a replica of a gun that was never in a game. They buy several, glue hex bolts on the cylinder for reasons unknown, and poof! Instant pseudo-steampunk!

Scenario B: Other fans were involved in the design. Someone did build a 3D model of David Paget's design that's still available on Sketchfab (screenshot below), and it's not unreasonable to assume that other fans could have thought it looked cool and built 3D printable models. Later, someone on the cash-strapped Guardian production team needs a gun to mod, and acquires the 3D print file of one of those models from the interwebs. They mod the file a bit, print some, glue hex bolts on the cylinder for reasons unknown, and poof! Instant pseudo-steampunk!

Personally, I find Scenario A far more likely than Scenario B, for two reasons: First, the hero prop looks more injection molded than 3D printed, especially given the technical state of 3D printing back in 2017-8. And second... Budget-challenged dramas do have a history of picking up bulk video game replicas and using them as cheap props. I made a post back in 2019 about the WoW Horde shields we spotted in a different drama...

Anyway, no firm answers about the source of the hero prop -- the world may never know! -- but we have now confirmed that in some alternate universe (possibly one of the first eighty?), Zhao Yunlan and/or Zhao Xinci is an Assassin.

Wait, wait, wait... *recalls mechanics of how the whole Assassin's Creed frame story is supposed to work* Uh... so... who wants to write a genetic memory explanation for the whole Kunlun -> [lots of lifetimes] -> Zhao Yunlan thing?

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(I did actually check the catalogue of a friend of mine who makes replicas of props from various media franchises to see if he'd done a commission of the David Paget design, since a surprising number of his custom pieces actually do end up on film and television, but while he has a gorgeous replica of a revolver that actually appears in an AC game, it appears he has not done the Zhao Yunlan gun. I didn't really think it likely, since he's in the U.S., but you never know.)

#guardian #zhen hun #c-drama #guardian bingo #assassin's creed #tv props #it's always fun when my various hats end up stacked on top of one another

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forgottenghosty · 7 months

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Did anyone else notice that Tom was just pushing whip cream around with a spork?

I thought it was a creative but funny way to make it so him and Owen were “eating” the pie during takes.

I couldn’t stop watching him play with it. Just pushing it around like a kid not wanting to finish their dinner.

I almost thought the pie was fake until Owen took a chunk out of it and put it in his mouth.

I hope if that was real it didn’t taste bad after being out on a hot set. If fake, I hope he spit it out fast or wasn’t something that’d hurt him.

Still a creative funny thing to watch when you know they don’t want to keep having the actors mouths full during takes and having them have to finish bites or take more bites for continuity.

Very likely why Tom just played with it instead of taking bites most of the time.

When you watch it again, just watch the pies.

#spoiler #spoilers #Loki #Loki series #props #tv props #Loki tv show #marvel #tom hiddleston #movie props #key lime pie

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petty-d4bblr · 3 months

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I am enjoying the poster behind Hook for 3 reasons:

1) it's behind Hook

2) Arthur Rackham was a famous book illustrator; who illustrated, amongst other famous fairytales, "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens".

3) Jack Rackham was a real-life pirate from the golden age of Piracy

Love it when shows are clever with their props!

#captain hook #ouat hook #ouat #once upon a time #tv props #jack rackham #pirate #pirates #golden age of piracy #happy nerd #arthur rakham #peter pan #killian jones

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inlovewithhisblueeyes · 9 months

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Games of Thrones Costumes & Props

Located in Action & Magic Made Here exhibit at the Warner Bros Studio Tour Hollywood

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rosalyn51 · 9 months

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⭐️𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐰 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐞⭐️ 💕 NEW 💕 gorgeous portraits of our beloved Matthew and Diana from ‘A Discovery of Witches’ One Off Auction fundraising.

Edited 📸 Bad Wolf Ltd

#matthew goode #teresa palmer #a discovery of witches #adow #matthewgoode #matthew clairmont #diana bishop #matthew and diana #all souls trilogy #deborah harkness #the blackbird oracle #portraits #tv props #charity auction #fundraising #matthew de clermont #shadow of night #goode performance

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thetreaclepeople · 10 months

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@joseph-russell-author's first encounter with Bert the Boggart!

#british tv #kids tv #the treacle people #animated tv series #animated tv show #funny tv #90s tv shows #90s tv series #stop motion #90s cartoons #Boggart #Baby #Puppet #TV Props #Cute #Growing Up British #Treacle People #Bert the Boggart #Bert

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threeawfulfruits · 2 years

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Weird fact about me: during my Intense Hannibal Era several years ago, I happened upon an online auction of some of the props from the show. Being pretty liquid at that point in my life, I decided I NEEDED to get SOMETHING. The one interesting item that stayed within my budget happened to be something used in a few close-up shots in the Mural Maker episode of S2.

I understood why it had stayed so cheap when the shipping was...expensive... and it arrived in a box as big as I was. Literally, I could lay down in it like a poor woman’s vampire coffin, nestled warmly in packing peanuts. (And often did.)

To this day, I have in my closet a pair of full-sized prosthetic human thighs mounted on a steel joint and sewn together with thread, lovingly wrapped in linen, with a Collector’s Certification of Authenticity card. My life is a strange one.

#why do I do these things #I showed Bryan Fuller and Hugh Dancy my certificate at Red Dragon Con and they were like whoa...that’s cool 😬🤨 lol #hannibal #hannibal nbc #nbc hannibal #mural maker episode #kaiseki #sakizuke #hannibal season two #prop collecting #tv props #television show props #movie props #nerd culture #red dragon con

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nateyweb · 2 years

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"Chocolate" poster by Naomi Weissman as seen in Buffy and Willow's dorm in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 4 (1999)

#buffy the vampire slayer #set design #props #tv props #tv nostalgia #memorabilia #chocolate #art #naomi weissman #1999 #90's #y2k #2000s

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spud-dud · 2 years

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Did you know you could buy a small segment of a screen-used Thomas the Tank Engine wall?

Because mine just came in the post. It's nice, it's about a cubic centimetre and glued to an acrylic display.

From the Movie Reliquary for £20, you can also buy a section of track and an offcut of the scenic bushes used on set.

#ttte #thomas the tank engine #prop collecting #movie props #tv props #tv prop #thomas prop

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rockymountainqueen2 · 5 months

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I just recently stumbled across the storyboards for Thanks To Them's opening, and well....

Turns out, Camila originally made a mom joke, lol.

Source: https://www.hayleynwong.com/work/the-owl-house-samples

#the owl house #thanks to them #toh thanks to them #camila noceda #toh camila #bisexual #coming out #props to camila!#camila appreciation post #camila noceda is an awesome mom #mom jokes #lol #disney #disney animation #disney tva #disney tv shows #disney television animation

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atomic-chronoscaph · 11 months

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The Amazing Spider-Man costume and web-shooter (1977)

#the amazing spider-man #tv props #tv costumes #nicholas hammond #web shooters #marvel comics #70s tv series #70s spiderman #CBS #superheroes #seventies #1977

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isolophilian · 4 months

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you can already see seeds Annabeth's fatal flaw in the second episode. the expressions of agreement like "yep" when Percy says "I know you're better at this than me." the way she leaves him on the cliff knowing Clarisse would be after him. the way she shoves him into the lake, knowing there's a chance she could be wrong about this guy. she knows how incredibly smart she is and is confident in it, however, she's also confident to a fault. it'll be a big source of problems for both herself and those around her. i know it's not a lot but it's there, and I'm here for it

#massive MASSIVE props to Leah for doing so much in so little time #i'm probably reaching here but i've always found everyone's fatal flaws really interesting #like it's such a good nod to the greek myths #and how it can be applied in real life #so good #percy jackson #annabeth chase #leah sava jeffries #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #pjo tv spoilers #isoceratops

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thatonedudeinthecorner · 24 days

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[putting two fingers to my head] The spirits….they….they’re telling me that…..you’re GAY….