It’s Memorial Day Weekend in the US, and that means shopping! This year skip the clearance sales and purchase a piece of pop culture history. Heritage Auctions is holding a fantastic television collectibles sale. There are set pieces, furniture, and props. And that’s all just from the first page. Of course, some of it is pricy. I wish I could afford Endora’s signature dress, but the bidding started at $10,000. I could swing Lisa Douglas’ pink nightie if the bidding doesn’t go too high. it would be fun to flounce around in both of them.
What would you buy, Deadsplinters?
Love Alex G. Going to wander the “maker” stores section of downtown tomorrow.
Have fun!
eh…cant say theres really anything for me there as im not a memorabilia person…tho i was briefly entertaining the notion of talking the missus into wearing the jeanny outfit…but..in the highly unlikely event i’d succeed….i still couldnt afford it
welp..
cant have everything i guess… did go shopping today tho
needed new walking shoes…and whilst my wallet is now traumatized and in need of therapy….i do have happy feet
considering i walk about 20km a day i’d call that a fair trade
Good shoes are so important. I wish I had known that earlier my life. My knees would thanks me.
tbh….i think my knees lucked in with me being a metalhead… spent most of the years from my teens till now in army surplus combat boots…only recently switched to walking shoes
say what you will about army boots…. but those boots are made for walking
on the flipside tho…..i do suspect all the moshing and headbanging are related to my frequent headaches tho
tho….could also be sporting related concussions….and occasional stair related concussions
you’re not sposed to go down them headfirst or fall off the side turns out…. who knew?
I wonder what they did if/when Shatner fell asleep in his chair with a lit cigarete and a rum and coke during a long day of shooting, or if he split his pants during a fight scene.
I assume they must have had a bunch of backups, right?
Lol, if you buy a Shatner costume you might find some mending.
You are maligning one of the greatest Montreal natives of all time, and they are known for their sobriety and prudence. Just ask that distant cousin of mine who I once had to help lift off a pool table in suburban Montreal because he was so drunk and surly and it was, oh, three in the afternoon. But it was a Saturday.
Forget this small potatoes stuff. What you really want is the “Brady Bunch” house.
Yes. HGTV, whose ratings must be sinking faster than the third-class dorms on the Titanic, decided to pull this stunt where they bought an unremarkable, for its time, Studio City house that was used for exterior shots of the show, gutted its interior, and turned it into…something. Content with Baby Boomer appeal? A Paramount stage set, which is where “The Brady Bunch” was actually filmed? Is Jeff Zucker now in charge of HGTV? Is Chris Licht?
I saw that 🙂
Eh, I have a small house. Nostalgia stuff is neat but I don’t have enough attachment to the stuff to want to spend money on it.
I’m not a stuff person. It’s fun to look at these things but I’d never really buy anything I couldn’t really use.
I guess I’m horribly cynical, but I read some of the descriptions and I really wonder about the legitimacy of many of these things. A lot of stuff is from shows where everyone is dead and there’s nobody left to “corroborate” any of this, and some probably couldn’t even if you asked them. You have to wonder if somebody just made a copy of Endora’s gown or Captain Kirk’s tunic in their sewing room and passed it off as the original version. If you knew somebody who worked in production on a particular show, and they’d sign off on it (let’s face it, this is a lot of money), it would be pretty much foolproof.
Heck, cosplayers at comic conventions do super high-end work, and that’s just to have fun and maybe win a contest. If you could slap a $100K price tag on something, it would be worth the effort.
I don’t know anything about the auction company and how they authenticate. But if great artworks can be faked I’m sure any of this stuff could too.
That’s very true. But on a even smaller scale, there used to be a thriving business in faking comic book artwork. If you could pass off a hand-drawn page as original Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko artwork, you could make a lot of money. And those guys drew thousands of pages of comic art (Steve Ditko was the original Spider-man artist, Jack Kirby created oh, well, the Avengers, and Captain America, and hundreds of other characters). So unlike say, DaVinci, whose body of work is relatively small, it’s comparatively a lot easier to fake a Kirby pencil drawing and rake in $1,000. That’s what made me suspicious.
Ah, I didn’t realize there was so much of that going on in the comics world. But that makes sense and your suspicions are probably valid.