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This subreddit is about props being repurposed from everyday household or commercial items, things we interact with on a day to day basis being transformed and used as something else on screen. It's fascinating on both the amazing and the absurdly bad ends, so we welcome it all here. Please do abide by the rules, though. They are there for a reason.



  1. Props Must Be Repurposed*: All props must be repurposed in some way. An airplane belt used as a belt for pants is okay. An unmodified lamp used as a lamp is not okay. We will allow exceptions to this rule only on 'Found A Prop' Fridays

  2. Be Excellent To Each Other: This rule ranges from hate speech and bigotry to off-topic slapfights, spam, and derailments. Be excellent to each other. Remember that there's a human there you're interacting with. Remember that breaches of this rule will be handled at mod discretion. And remember... to party on dudes!! #WYLDSTALLYNS

  3. Try To Avoid Reposts: Reposts are at least kind of bogus, right? I mean, some people may not have seen them before, if it's been awhile since it was posted, but recently? That's not cool, man. That's piggybacking. That's kind of a jerk move. Don't do it.

  4. No Trolling and No Spam: Trolling is bogus, too, dudes. It's even worse than reposting. And spam? Copypasta? Tired and repetitive "me too thanks" nonsense? Really? Yeah, no, none of that here. No baiting, no trolling, no spamming, no nonsense. Got it? Good.

  5. Format Your Title Correctly!: Please specify first whether your prop is from [Film], [TV], or [Other]. Then if you would please give the title and year of the work, followed by a detailed description of the prop and what it is being used as in the screenshot (in either order).

For example:

[Film] In The Empire Strikes Back [1980], IG-88's head was repurposed from a Rolls Royce Derwent jet engine.


This subreddit is about props being repurposed from everyday household or commercial items, things we interact with on a day to day basis being transformed and used as something else on screen. It's fascinating on both the amazing and the absurdly bad ends, so we welcome it all here. Please do abide by the rules, though. They are there for a reason.


The post that started it all.

/r/Thatsabooklight

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2019 episode of Dust had a brain-downloading supercomputer. I had to pause to grab mine from a box downstairs.

10 Comments
2024/04/06
15:08 UTC

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[TV] L'Trimm, Cars That Go Boom Music Video [1988], Roland TR-505 drum machine used as some sort of car stereo controller.

4 Comments
2024/04/01
02:41 UTC

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To be fair some drum machines do feel about as complex as a space ship

27 Comments
2024/03/31
22:58 UTC

3,103

Dune Costume design - Utilizing a washing machine hose / clamp

27 Comments
2024/03/20
12:09 UTC

1,280

[TV] Rifles used by police force in Continuum [2012-2015] are JG Star Dragon airsoft guns

27 Comments
2024/03/15
19:16 UTC

1,511

Air coolers are the bomb….literally.

42 Comments
2024/03/04
16:20 UTC

879

Congratulations /r/Thatsabooklight! You're Subreddit of the day!

14 Comments
2024/03/03
00:43 UTC

230

[FMV Game] Not for Broadcast - The "Flardmaster 5000" is a Nerf Raider and Stampede glued together, magazines swapped, painted black, and with a disk launcher also attached.

12 Comments
2024/01/25
09:35 UTC

462

Daisy's trippy space cocktail in Agent's of Shield was just mushrooms and dragon fruit.

18 Comments
2024/01/20
05:07 UTC

501

Airplane tow vehicle in ALIENS (1986)

19 Comments
2024/01/17
03:03 UTC

737

A bit different here but can anyone identify this “gun”

96 Comments
2024/01/16
22:54 UTC

1,156

Crown Royal Bag as Shovel Cover - Our Flag Means Death S1E7

37 Comments
2024/01/13
12:45 UTC

77

Novint gaming mouse popped up in GI Joe rise of cobra, only recognised it because I watched an LTT video on weird mice recently

3 Comments
2023/12/10
20:30 UTC

405

Trancers 3 (1992) They used an apple slicer as decoration on a time machine

14 Comments
2023/12/09
23:27 UTC

77

In Dogengers: Highschool The Secret Society of Evil's CEO chair is a Cluvens Scorpion gaming chair

7 Comments
2023/10/06
14:46 UTC

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