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10:03 am, October 10, 2007

Absolute Dorks Adore Fantasy Movie Props

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  • Medieval Cow said:  
    (On October 10th, 2007 at 1:42 pm)

    Well I’m not sure where this puts me, but I bought my girlfriend the Harry Potter light-up wand that lights up when you shake it or tape it on something along with the lightning bolt display. And it came with a free keychain! If it helps determine my level of dorkiness, I immediately started waving it around and saying “Lumos!” and “Nox!” as soon as we had unwrapped it and put in the batteries.

  • Ian said:  
    (On October 10th, 2007 at 3:38 pm)

    Man. It would be totally cool to get high using Gandolf’s pipe.

  • dogimo said:  
    (On October 10th, 2007 at 9:33 pm)

    I love the quote on the Eragon-replica’s site: “We hope you enjoy these movie swords as much as you enjoyed watching the movie…I know I do.” How devilishly equivocal!

    At some point, one of these CSI/Crime Drama shows is going to have to do an episode where the corpse has a big ol’ replica Narsil sticking out of it. “A Clue!”

    You know what, though – in terms of wizard’s wands, I always thought that there should have been at least one wizard in the Potterverse who kidded the concept a bit by using one of those all-black-with-white-tip straight cylindrical wands used by cheesy stage magicians.

  • Hlaode said:  
    (On October 10th, 2007 at 10:43 pm)

    I think that if I can eventually reach a point in my life, and use the phrase “but it now contains Sigmund Freud and a nun with a sword, so everything evens out” I will be a better person for having done it.

  • Erkki said:  
    (On October 11th, 2007 at 2:25 am)

    I like how Lore can make even the obvious funny and involve nuns with swords & Sigmund Freud. My day would not be the same without having read this.

    If I suddenly burst into laughter in an inappropriate situation, I know who to blame. Again.

  • darksasami said:  
    (On October 11th, 2007 at 7:36 am)

    People have noted sexual innuendo involving wands plenty of times, but whoah, check out McGonagall’s. That is a wand with a purpose if I’ve ever seen one, and I don’t mean curing dragon pox. I knew she was a disciplinarian, but … damn, sister.

  • Mark Z. said:  
    (On October 11th, 2007 at 9:23 am)

    The obligatory quote.

  • El Santo said:  
    (On October 11th, 2007 at 12:30 pm)

    Lore: we need a current and expanded update to the Geek Hierarchy. I figure the recent Harry Potter/LoTR/superhero explosion sorta justifies it.

  • steve said:  
    (On October 12th, 2007 at 4:28 am)

    My favorite replica movie prop series is the collection of “authentic” flourescent light tube light sabres. Sure the light travels along the tube – but the tube also remains, forever. The entire coolness of a stowable, extendable, sword made of light to totally lost. And the “real light sabre” noise set is not much improved from the plastic lances which actually do retract. My friend owns all four of the distince original trilogy light sabres…they stay in a box on a shelf also bearing his Crown of Aragorn.

  • ham said:  
    (On October 14th, 2007 at 12:37 am)

    The most insane replica (besides the life-size Terminator statue) has to be Sideshow’s 1933-style King Kong stop-animation armature. Weighs a ton, too.

  • Magic Flyin' Lemur said:  
    (On October 14th, 2007 at 7:25 am)

    Mark Z.: That is incredibly juvenile. Also, hilarious.

  • dogimo said:  
    (On October 14th, 2007 at 9:57 am)

    I do have to say, though, that title they saddled you with is atrocious. Worst yet, possibly. “Absolute Dorks Adore Fantasy Movie Props”? If they can’t let you title your own article, can’t they at least have someone who “gets” you do it??

  • Ryan said:  
    (On October 14th, 2007 at 9:08 pm)

    I would gladly pay $50 for Gandalf’s pipe if I could actually use it.

  • Quinn said:  
    (On October 15th, 2007 at 8:06 am)

    I at first assumed that a title that awkward had to be some kind of anagram, but unless ADAFMP has some meaning of which I’m unaware, the Wired Title Dept. has let me down again.

  • Lore said:  
    (On October 15th, 2007 at 11:34 am)

    Well, you can actually get a working pipe, but it will cost you two hundred fifty.

  • Tougi said:  
    (On October 15th, 2007 at 12:01 pm)

    Officially licensed. There’s someone who negotiated a license between New Line Cinema and TolkienTown.com so that the fiscally irresponsible could get stoned literary-style. I need to find some means of turning myself into an android, ’cause I swear I’m done with humans.

    The ability of mature male humans to actually grow facial hair like that found in today’s Bad Gods does nothing to change my mind. I, of course, use “mature” only in the sense of bodily development.

  • Ryan said:  
    (On October 19th, 2007 at 11:37 am)

    I would need to smoke a lot more to justify a $250 pipe.

  • dogimo said:  
    (On October 19th, 2007 at 9:59 pm)

    >There’s someone who negotiated a license between New Line Cinema and TolkienTown.com so that the fiscally irresponsible could get stoned literary-style.

    But doesn’t that sound like a sweet thing to be doing with one’s law degree, though??

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