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31 everyday items used as movie props

when movies decide to cut corners

By Nathan Johnson

Published 6 years ago in Wow

when movies decide to cut corners

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Qui Gon’s communicator in The Phantom Menace was a women’s razor.

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In Avengers, (2012) a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent uses a camera tripod as a weapon.

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In V for Vendetta, the jamming device is a book light

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The bridge of the Enterprise from the new Star Trek movies has barcode scanners on it

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In the Phantom Menace a plastic Scoop Ball scoop is used for decoration.

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William Shatner brandishes a camera tripod like a scifi gun on his 1977 album cover

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Babylon 5’s Narn fighter headrests? Abdominal exercisers.

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The reverse of a Shure 55 microphone served as a medical droid’s mouthpiece in Star Wars.

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The guns in Terra Nova (TV 2012) are spray-painted Nerf guns.

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The parasites hosed off the ship in The Fifth Element are painted bumble balls.

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Stasis pod in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is also a car roof box

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Stasis pod in the Expanse is a car roof box

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In Doctor Who, Season 8, Episode 5, they use a USB cable as a projector

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The Banthas in Star Wars were elephants the whole time.

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In Star Trek, a potato peeler was used as a scanner.

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Battlestar Galactica air tanks are boat fenders/dock bumpers

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Jedi “Food Capsules” are painted pen caps.

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Dyson Airblades in Star Trek us as an I.D. scanner.

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Amazon bike lights on Mars

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Audio interface used as torture equipment in Venom.

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Star Trek made an “exotic animal” by putting a cone on a dog

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High-tech stealth boat in “The Tick” is made partially of foam rollers

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The grappling hook from the new kim possible movie is just a hot wheels radar gun that I had as a kid

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A LEGO train speed regulator was part of a high tech control panel in Virtuosity.

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This alien transporter in Legends of Tomorrow is just a a Cyborg R.A.T. gaming mouse

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In The Fifth Element (1997), the Mangalorian bomb’s remote trigger is just a combo lock with a red LED.

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And a Plantronics wireless headset with a little coloured glass added made Scotty’s eyepiece.

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Here’s a shoe polisher turned PKE meter in the original Ghostbusters.

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This Total Recall wearable computer was just a calculator strapped to a wrist.

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In a series of unfortunate events season 3 episode 3 esmee’s octopus outfit is covered in finger condoms

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During the evacuation of Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back, a resident flees with an ice cream maker (it was supposed to be a device carrying Rebel contacts). The extra was given a name, Willrow Hood, and became a fan favorite. Now he’s a go-to for cosplays.

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