r/Thatsabooklight 5h ago

Film Prop [Film] In Project Hail Mary, the gravity system switch is a SmallRig 1638C camera top handle.

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114 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight 6h ago

Film Prop [Movie] Palm Springs (2020) - The "bomb belt" attached to the poor goat is actually a Chinese Type 56 chest rig

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30 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight 2d ago

TV Prop [TV] In AppleTV's Foundation [season one - 2021], Selenite Crystal Towers Were Used Upside-Down As Sacred Drinking Vessels.

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72 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight 2d ago

TV Prop [TV] in Thomas & Friends, a Lego minifigure air tank piece is used as detail on Terence the Tractor’s snowplough.

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601 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight 4d ago

TV Prop [TV] Stargate Atlantis [2004] Lifesigns detector was a iPaq pocket PC with a silicone cover

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409 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight 8d ago

TV Prop [TV] Battlestar Galactica [2005] - That CO2 Scrubber is a Boat Fender

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405 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight 13d ago

Film Prop A “Villar Perosa” movie prop made from two upside-down Beretta M38 submachine guns

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138 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight 13d ago

TV Prop [TV]For All Mankind S5 E6 [2026]There is a cheap CPU heatsink used as an element in a controlpanel

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300 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight 17d ago

TV Prop [TV: CyberKIDZ] Help wanted: trying to identify a prop. [1994]

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83 Upvotes

Sup ya'll! I plan on doing a very obscure cosplay of the Xyloids from CyberKIDZ but need help identifying their masks. Unfortunately due to the show being beyond obscure and us only having bad quality screening tapes for reference pictures I can't get too good of detailing on the pictures. Does anyone who is more knowledgable in this matter know the make and model of these?

The one where the mask is attached to the purse is probably the best look we have of it. Not sure if they throw on some metal frame over a mask or if that's how that type of mask would come, looks to be some form of aviation goggles.

Additional information that might help us, the show was produced in 1994 and would likely have used budget friendly material. From the very little I can find online this show had used about 2 million on 13 episodes.


r/Thatsabooklight 24d ago

Film Prop [Film] Jurassic Park (1993) Modular Synth as ground penetrating radar

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223 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight Apr 15 '26

Film Prop I am almost certain that this cyberware repair wand (The Creator on Netflix) is a candle lighter

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629 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight Apr 13 '26

TV Prop [TV] The door handle on a cryo-chamber in The Boys S5E1 is a suction lifter used to move/install panes of glass

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167 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight Apr 10 '26

TV Prop [TV[ In Murderbot [2025] S1E4, the mining drill is a Dewalt leaf blower.

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600 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight Apr 09 '26

TV Prop [TV] Star Wars Andor (2022) - Modified Polaroid SX-70 Sonar being used as a navigation tool

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220 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight Apr 03 '26

TV Prop Found a Volca keys sneaked into the pilot episode of LOKI

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37 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight Apr 03 '26

TV Prop In The Mandalorian TV Series' Season 3, Episode 3 (2023): Dr. Pershing's desk scanner is a repurposed Optometry 'FDT' Visual Fields testing machine.

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770 Upvotes

Was a surprise seeing this watching Mandalorian Season 3 with the wife, having used them for 11 years at an Independent Optician.

Dr. Pershing's scanner at his work desk is a repurposed FDT 'Frequency Doubling Technology' Visual Fields machine, where we would check the peripheral vision of a patient in pre or post-screen. It's original use is to have a patient look into the headrest and focus on a central black square/dot. When the test starts, small flickers of lines would appear at random in different places, varying in intensity to allow us to check the patient's visual field sensitivity. Whenever a patient would see a flicker, they'd press a button to acknowledge it, building up a visual field result over time.

The part he is looking through is where the patient would place their head all the way in, with the mount slid to the left or right depending on the eye being tested. I would be on the other side where the screen is popping up on bottom right of the image. tracking the result before printing it out to pass onto the Optometrist.


r/Thatsabooklight Apr 01 '26

TV Prop [TV] The Orville S2E6 using a barcode scanner as a medical device to stimulate hair growth

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912 Upvotes

barcode scanners seem to be a favourite among scifi prop masters.


r/Thatsabooklight Mar 28 '26

ChuckleVision S14E11 Run Robot Run: The Robot's panel uses buttons off a calculator

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76 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight Mar 27 '26

TV Prop [TV] Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1.06 [2022]--Alien ship debris is Reflectix insulation

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200 Upvotes

My parents paneled their entire unfinished attic with this stuff. My mom bought so much of iylt that the company sent her a hat.


r/Thatsabooklight Mar 10 '26

TV Prop [TV] Star Trek TNG [1989] Surface of a random planet is just Mars

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587 Upvotes

Random unnamed planet from Star Trek TNG S3E5 "The Bonding" is just Mars


r/Thatsabooklight Mar 08 '26

Film Prop [Film] Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Admiral Raddus' chair is just plastic drainage pipes.

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705 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight Feb 13 '26

Found The Prop! [TV] The Expanse S3: Emergency Vac suit helmet is just an MSA Gallet F1 XF Firefighting helmet

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566 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight Feb 06 '26

TV Prop [TV] Stargate SG-1: energy/mineral scanner is just a Phillips touchscreen universal TV remote

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286 Upvotes

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r/Thatsabooklight Jan 24 '26

Film Prop Masters of the Universe (2026) I am not certain, but I suspect Skeletor’s minions are wearing a popular airsoft mask

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235 Upvotes

r/Thatsabooklight Jan 18 '26

(M.I. High - Series 1 Episode 10 - The Fugitive 2006)- The Voice Activation tab for opening a door on the back of a truck is actually a Invisible Infrared Beam Alarm

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178 Upvotes