# What movie is this prop from? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 12, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363 "2008-11-12T16:04:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/1 "2008-11-12T16:04:30Z")
I’m reposting this from [another forum](http://forum.galacticwatercooler.com/showthread.php?t=4647). Apparently this is a photo of a prop that is currently located in a video store ([Movie Madness in Portland, Oregon](http://www.moviemadnessvideo.com/)) The owners are trying to identify the source of the prop. The only information they have is that it is **not** from _Jurassic Park_ or _The Neverending Story_. Here are the pictures: [http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3209/3011703676\_9339be53b4.jpg](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3209/3011703676_9339be53b4.jpg) [http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/3010865025\_9e297a2e0e.jpg](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/3010865025_9e297a2e0e.jpg) The best guess anyone has come up with so far is _Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend_ but that is still uncertain. I have no idea myself. So, let’s get the power of the Dope to solve this one for them. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/2 "2008-11-12T16:21:26Z")
It looks like one of the baby dragons from the 1981 flick _Dragonslayer_ starring a fuzzy-headed Peter MacNicol in the title role. There is a brief scene in which a woman who sacrificed herself to the dragon is being eaten by its babies in its cave lair and they looked like they sort of had turtle-shaped heads. I may be mistaken though because I thought the “beak” was pointier and I’m not sure the eyes were so big and “cute.” It’s been a couple decades since I saw the movie, but that’s what it made me think of. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/3 "2008-11-12T16:24:51Z")
Judging by the DVD cover and some stills I’ve found (on sites I can’t link to here), it doesn’t look like it. The face is shaped and colored differently. ETA: meant, it doesn’t look like _Baby._ ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/4 "2008-11-12T16:26:47Z")
Nevermind. I think I’m wrong. The baby dragons definitely had bigger nostrils. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/5 "2008-11-12T16:45:57Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > ETA: meant, it doesn’t look like _Baby._ It doesn’t look like Baby, as in the dinosaur character, but it could be from the movie. It could be one of those things you only see briefly. Picture a generic fantasy establishing scene in which kids are on a boat, some wonderous creature, that’s too cute to be scary, raises its head out of the water, blinks its eyes, the kids go “Wow!” and try to pet its nose. Then Uncle Adventurer points to something else like a trail that goes to the Golden Dinosaur Temple or something. Creature doesn’t appear again. Probably from some kind of “lost world” or “back in time” flick… Hm… Is there any kind of underwater adventure movie that might have a giant turtle cameo? ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/6 "2008-11-12T16:54:58Z")
It’s not from Baby, here’s a still from the movie: [http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii4/mostwanteddownloads/site%20files/98anhe.png](http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii4/mostwanteddownloads/site%20files/98anhe.png). And there’s only one dinosaur species in the movie, so it isn’t a throwaway one-shot creature. There’s absolutely no connection between the prop and Baby. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/7 "2008-11-12T17:38:22Z")
It’s a little hard to tell from the angle and lighting, but does that turtleoid have tusks? ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/8 "2008-11-12T17:41:29Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > It doesn’t look like Baby, as in the dinosaur character, but it could be from the movie. It could be one of those things you only see briefly. > > Picture a generic fantasy establishing scene in which kids are on a boat, some wonderous creature, that’s too cute to be scary, raises its head out of the water, blinks its eyes, the kids go “Wow!” and try to pet its nose. Then Uncle Adventurer points to something else like a trail that goes to the Golden Dinosaur Temple or something. Creature doesn’t appear again. > > Probably from some kind of “lost world” or “back in time” flick… Hm… > > Is there any kind of underwater adventure movie that might have a giant turtle cameo? Heh. I saw that movie in 1985 when it came out. There weren’t any extra dinosaurs in it. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/9 "2008-11-12T18:10:08Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Heh. > I saw that movie in 1985 when it came out. There weren’t any extra dinosaurs in it. As per post #6. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/10 "2008-11-12T18:53:12Z")
It bears some resemblance to, but I think it is NOT Morla, the Swamp Tortoise from The Neverending Story [http://www.neverendingstory.com/neverending-story-movie-clips.html](http://www.neverendingstory.com/neverending-story-movie-clips.html) ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/11 "2008-11-12T19:00:39Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It bears some resemblance to, but I think it is NOT > > Morla, the Swamp Tortoise from The Neverending Story As per the OP! This thing looks seriously familiar, and it’s bugging me. Are we sure it’s not from a TV show? ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/12 "2008-11-12T20:14:30Z")
Yeah, it looks familiar to me and others too but we can’t quite place it. And it could be a TV show; no one seems to know what the heck it is from. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/13 "2008-11-12T20:17:26Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It bears some resemblance to, but I think it is NOT > > Morla, the Swamp Tortoise from The Neverending Story > > [The NeverEnding Story Movie Clips](http://www.neverendingstory.com/neverending-story-movie-clips.html) I agree. But it’s so close I wonder if it was Morla for an amusement park ride or exhibit, or even one of the crappy sequels. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/14 "2008-11-12T20:17:35Z")
> [@](#): > > As per the OP! Ahhhhh! I saw Jurassic Park, but The Neverending Story was too close, and I missed it. Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/15 "2008-11-12T20:27:59Z")
Is it possibly from the Rankin-Bass 1977 picture **The Bermuda Depths**? I can’t tell from this picture, and I haven’t found a better one online. a rare live-action flick from Rankin-Bass [http://www.dangerousuniverse.com/2007/fwr/4\_10.asp](http://www.dangerousuniverse.com/2007/fwr/4_10.asp) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/16 "2008-11-12T20:36:10Z")
I think that;'s it. You can sorta see the head at the end of this YouTube clip: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71w9ABlIiis) A lot of people seem to remember this from the ABC TV Movie of the Week, but haven’t seen it since. If you search, you can find DVDs of it on the Internet. Doesn’t strike a chord with me – I’ve never seen the film. But I think this is it. ETA: Good Og. There’s a petition to get it officially released on DVD: [http://www.petitiononline.com/bermuda1/petition.html](http://www.petitiononline.com/bermuda1/petition.html) ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/17 "2008-11-12T20:48:43Z")
I can’t watch the YouTube clip, but the still on that website doesn’t look anything like the prop. Plus, that prop doesn’t look like it could survive much aquatic action. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/18 "2008-11-12T20:54:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Plus, that prop doesn’t look like it could survive much aquatic action. That depends what it;'s made of. If Papier-mache, then no. But if it’s foam or rubber, I could easily see it. And Rankin-Bass made _lots_ of rubberoid stuff for their more common animated features. It’s consistent. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/19 "2008-11-12T21:01:07Z")
The shots of the head are hard to see – deliberately, I think. There’s a brief close-up at 5:08 on that clip, but it’s hard to stop it right. It’s _really_ bad model work. _Titanic_ this ain’t, even though they drop a necklace into the sea at the end. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363/20 "2008-11-12T21:01:37Z")
Yup, little stubby tusks. That’s just the critter I was thinking of. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-prop-from/472363.md?page=2)