34 Authentic, Set-Used Facts About TV and Movie Props

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34 Authentic, Set-Used Facts About TV and Movie Props

Frankly, I was a little disappointed to find out the Death Star was small enough to fit in a storage unit. If you’re going to build a planet-sized wrecking ball, you should actually build a planet-sized wrecking ball!

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A spaceship was repurposed as a haunted house. ALIEN CRACKED.COM The Nostromo was donated to a collector for one sweet-ass Halloween display and then sat in his driveway for 20 years until a museum took it off his hands.

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Mary Poppins's snow globe was found on a janitor's shelf. CRACKED.COM The orb in which Julie Andrews kept her tiny live birds trapped wasn't recognized until it was noticed by a Disney archivist -- the janitor found it in the garbage and just thought it was neat.

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ERASERHEAD CRACKED.COM David Lynch has never revealed how exactly he made the grotesque baby prop in Eraserhead. One journalist asked David if the baby was a calf fetus or battery-operated. Не refused to answer. His daughter is one of the few in the know, but she remains mum.

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Hugh Jackman kept stabbing other actors (and himself) with the Wolverine claws. The filming of the X-Men Trilogy needed to use actual metal claws for some of the scenes and accidents happen. One of the accidents involved a stunt double who (fortunately) responded gleefully and actually relished being stabbed by Wolverine. Jackman also has scars on his thigh where he stabbed himself with the claws. CRACKED.COM

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34 Authentic, Set-Used Facts About TV and Movie Props

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In 1976, Muammar Gaddafi's government in Libya received alarming reports of a massive military CRACKED.COM vehicle stationed near the border in Tunisia... But their investigation just turned up George Lucas' film site for Star Wars - and the Jawa Sandcrawler.

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THE FLAMETHROWER GUITAR THAT DOOF WARRIOR PLAYS IN MAD MAX: FURY ROAD WAS MADE FROM BEDPANS. Director George Miller explained, everything had to be found objects, repurposed in the post- apocalyptic world. CRACKED.COM

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After the Wizard of Oz's iconic Ruby Slippers were stolen, a one million dollar reward was offered for their return. CRACKED.COM The reward was never claimed: The story ended in September 2018 when the FBI recovered Dorothy's slippers in a sting operation.

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ROGUE ONE A STAR WARS STORY After the filming wrapped, director Gareth Edwards wanted to take the Death Star plans home, but was told that it was supposed to be archived. So he stole it. CRACKED.COM

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