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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

132,228 Subscribers

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In Spectral (2016), an obviously inactive hot glue gun is used as a screw gun via Foley magic

I can't post the video I took with the sound effects added, but this one was remarkably baffling given the actor was meant to be an engineer working on electronics.

Also, as someone who has worked with hot glue guns I would never leave the power cable wrapped around the thing that heats up during use.

12 Comments
2024/10/31
01:08 UTC

327

[Film] Contact [1997] uses an Eventide DSP4000 to translate alien signals

15 Comments
2024/10/14
15:15 UTC

387

[TV] Farscape, thats a glow stick being used as brain cooling rod.

53 Comments
2024/10/10
18:38 UTC

247

[TV] Farscape, thats a lego part used as scfi detector thing.

29 Comments
2024/10/08
16:31 UTC

63

Braca thats a disco ball.

4 Comments
2024/10/07
19:28 UTC

248

In "The Expanse" (set ~300 years in the future), two characters share a bottle of whiskey "recovered from a 105-year-old shipwreck." The bottle is St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur.

16 Comments
2024/10/07
00:56 UTC

77

[Film] Is this art in The Seventh Seal (1957) an actual art piece or is it only in the film?

14 Comments
2024/10/05
02:07 UTC

291

That's a supersoaker, Dargo. (Farscape, S03 E07)

10 Comments
2024/09/24
15:33 UTC

2,081

Bomb timer in S.W.A.T. is just a TI-83 plus calculator

72 Comments
2024/09/11
05:14 UTC

342

[TV] Bel-Air 3x1 - "alarm system keypad" is actually just an iPhone in a box

16 Comments
2024/08/18
18:56 UTC

5 Comments
2024/08/12
05:30 UTC

164

[TV] Warehouse 13 2009 S01E01 - Artie Nielsen is waving around a Clear-Com RS100 beltpack.

9 Comments
2024/07/16
22:52 UTC

51

Is that.... a ice cream maker

13 Comments
2024/07/10
21:34 UTC

50

Island City 1994 Staple gun blaster

Here is a Black and Decker staple gun with some minor modification from long ago. Very noticeable as they use the stapler handle action to fire the "tranks".

0 Comments
2024/07/10
15:04 UTC

225

Sci-fi gunner chair is a Foot soaking chair and tub.

17 Comments
2024/06/12
23:00 UTC

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