# What movie prop do you accidentally own? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [March 3, 2026, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-prop-do-you-accidentally-own/1028170 "2026-03-03T22:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-prop-do-you-accidentally-own/1028170/21 "2026-03-05T02:56:12Z")
This one is kind of obscure. In the movie _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ when the aliens arrived outside Barry’s house and his toys started turning themselves on, he had a record player that turned on and was playing the song “So look with care for the shape of a square…”. I had that same vinyl album as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-prop-do-you-accidentally-own/1028170/22 "2026-03-05T03:01:43Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > Apparently star wars fans like to convert the mauser pistols into prop replica. This is irritating historical gun enthusiasts as the mauser pistols themselves are now rare antiques and they don’t like that the few remaining models are being converted into Star wars blasters. There is the same conflict with antique camera collectors. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-prop-do-you-accidentally-own/1028170/23 "2026-03-05T03:03:35Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > This one is kind of obscure. Not remotely obscure, for someone familiar with the movie. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-prop-do-you-accidentally-own/1028170/24 "2026-03-05T03:14:39Z")
One I have (technically it’s in my parents attic in the UK) is the SGI Crimson workstation from the “I know Unix” scene in Jurassic Park, from when I worked at Silicon Graphics UK in the early 2000s. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-prop-do-you-accidentally-own/1028170/25 "2026-03-05T07:31:24Z")
We’ve seen our [salt and pepper mills](https://www.globus.ch/en/brabantia-pepper-mills-1059378700922) used as medical auto-injectors on a few shows, including _Dark Matter_. [https://www.globus.ch/en/brabantia-pepper-mills-1059378700922](https://www.globus.ch/en/brabantia-pepper-mills-1059378700922) We’ve paused movies to see which watch the actor is wearing. Once in a while, it’ll match one of the ones my husband wears. There’s even an ad/movie: > **[The chase for Carrera – Watch the movie – TAG Heuer](https://www.tagheuer.com/us/en/the-chase-for-carrera/popin-carrera60.html)** > > Embark on an action-packed pursuit with actor Ryan Gosling to celebrate the Carrera’s 60th anniversary. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-prop-do-you-accidentally-own/1028170/26 "2026-03-05T12:09:51Z")
I don’t own one but I‘ve used them plenty before: the smart gun body harnesses the Colonial Marines don in **Aliens** is literally just a Steadicam rig. Also, this “rocket launcher” used at the end of **xXx** is clearly just a digital camcorder the same style we all owned at the time (this looks like a Sony based on the eyepiece), painted green and had something draped over the top. [![](https://www.imfdb.org/images/4/4b/XxXcamcorderrocketlauncher-1.jpg) ](https://www.imfdb.org/images/4/4b/XxXcamcorderrocketlauncher-1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-prop-do-you-accidentally-own/1028170/27 "2026-03-05T18:02:25Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > Apparently star wars fans like to convert the mauser pistols into prop replica. This is irritating historical gun enthusiasts as the mauser pistols themselves are now rare antiques and they don’t like that the few remaining models are being converted into Star wars blasters. I have such a replica, but it was made from a replica Mauser, not an original, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-prop-do-you-accidentally-own/1028170/28 "2026-03-05T18:46:11Z")
Thought of two more. An episode of _Andromeda_ featured a planter of [Satracenia leucophillia](https://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq5530.html) (which I have grown before) as a very rare and very valuable oxygen generating plant. And an episode of _Andor_ [briefly showed a plate of Moroccan orthoceras fossils](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andor-starting-september-21-2022/971787/293), which are one of the most likely fossils you are likely to find anywhere that anyone sells fossils. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-prop-do-you-accidentally-own/1028170.md?page=1)