The puzzle box from Hellraiser.
The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
Bo Derek
Can an animatronic robot be a prop?
A Christmas Story lamp.
There are several of them, one of the more recent ones is on display at Hollywood Casino in Tunica. It is incredibly small and cramped inside. Think I’d rather have the one from the TV series if I was gonna go for a ride.
Other cars to consider:
The Delorean from Back to the Future.
The deathmobile or whatever they called it from the end of* Animal House*.
Herbie the Love Bug
The black Trans Am from Smokey and the Bandit
If TV counts, we could add:
The truck from The Beverley Hillbillies.
The Munsters’ car from their show.
The General Lee from* The Dukes of Hazard*.
The golden idol from the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark; also the map room medallion and the Ark itself.
Idol already mentioned in post #3
Or Zebra 1 - Starskey & Hutch
Another iconic TV car is Jim Rockford’s gold Trans Am.
I think for it to be an “iconic prop” it has to be something we would instantly recognize, even out of context, and instantly say “Oh that’s the X from Movie Y!”
Example: most people would recognize this instantly and tell you what movie it is from.
Dorothy’s ruby slippers.
We had at least one game based on this concept including
Guess the movie from the props
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And perhaps others. Makes for a fun mental game to play while driving a good distance.
Firebird, yes, all of them. Trans Am, no.
I was thinking if you saw them out of context, like Spoke said. If you were in a movie prop museum, yes you’d probably recognize it and Rockford’s car. But if you walked out of a store and saw it in the parking lot…not so much.
A lot of the examples above are actually weapons. A lightsaber is a weapon (an SF weapon, but a weapon nonetheless).
We might also want to exclude vehicles, as lots of movies have memorable custom vehicles.
What about the apparatus from Contact? It’s a highly creative object (built on Earth from an extraterrestrial design) and isn’t a weapon. One could make a possible claim that it is a vehicle of some sort, but it isn’t terribly clear if it actually teleports you elsewhere (and back) or if it does what it does by linking with your brain, which never actually physically goes anywhere.
Is the One Ring (to rule them all…) a weapon?
Maybe one of the Eyes of HAL (2001…), or his CPU?
Here’s one: name the movie.
Blade Runner?
You cheated!