When Adam Savage isn’t busting myths, he keeps busy with a peculiar hobby: recreating props from his favorite movies. These days, his replicas often end up even more detailed than the ones seen on the silver screen.
At WIRED by Design, our recent live magazine event, Savage recounted how he fell in love with prop-making as a kid. Some of the first fictional objects he tried to recreate were gizmos from the Mission Impossible TV show. Since then, his replicas have only become more ambitious; recent projects have included the mecha glove from Hellboy, a maltese falcon, and three (three!) versions of the Harrison Ford’s gun from Blade Runner.
Savage’s current fixation? A meticulous recreation of Major Kong’s survival pack from Dr. Strangelove, complete with Cold War necessities like a Russian phrasebook, a hundred dollars in gold, and three pairs of nylon stockings (you know, just in case you need to go undercover). Like all of Savage’s cinematic recreations, the project has involved a tremendous amount of research. “It took me six months to figure out how gold would’ve been packaged,” he says. But for Savage, being able hold a piece of beloved fantasy in his hands is worth the effort.
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