Where is this movie prop from?

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#1

Hi Everyone,

Today while at my local video store (Movie Madness) I noticed a movie prop above their cash registers with a note asking where it was from. Its this turtle/monster head thats NOT from the Neverending Story, or Jurassic Park (according to their note).

I thought that I’d throw some pictures up on here in case one of you geniuses knew what movie/show it was from.

Let the speculation begin!

#2

Great. That’s going to nag at me all week.

#3

Did they say how long they’ve had it in the store? That might help narrow it down.

#4

Looks ever so slightly like the tortoise from The Neverending Story, but…not…quite. But in the second film (which stunk), wasn’t there a revisitation of this character puppet, with a little reworking, which might explain the variance?

#5

I didn’t ask, the whole store is this epic collection of movie memorabilia. I’ll try to get more details when I go to return my movies.

#6

It looks like something that would have been used in movies like Baby, Secret of the Lost Legend or Land of the Lost. Don’t remember what they used in those I haven’t seen either in a LONG time. It appears to be from a movie that used stop motion or mechanical props. And the detailing makes me think it’s not too terribly old.

#7

Found this site that might help us narrow the movie down:

http://www.dinosaur.org/CelluloidDinosaurs1960.htm

It tells what was used for the dinos…like humans in costumes, claymation, etc. Might jog someone’s memory anyways.

#8

Land Before Time?

#9

How big is it, roughly?

#10

The Land Before Time (whole series of movies) was a cartoon. I used to babysit my nephew and we always watched those. Dinos were a favorite of his…along with He-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, etc.

#11

Those figures next to it are probably 12-14 inches tall, so it’s a little bigger than that.

#12

(Pre-emptive STFU GR!)

#13

You know…

…that could be from the Dark Crystal…

#14

Is it a stand-in for the turtle dude in ‘Finding Nemo’?

#15

my first thought was the movie baby…

#16

I wondered that too, but I don’t think so. I doesn’t look right for either species that it could potentially be. (I love that movie!!!)

#17

There’s another element to consider…seeing as how it’s relatively true-to-life, and not Henson-cartoonish (even with a tip of the cap to the Dark Crystal, et al.), I wonder if it may be something other than a major motion picture prop, rather something from one of the myriad of direct-to-video or other productions that the discount bins at Wally World and such are filled with.

Having little else to do last night before the MIB viewing (which I then missed the frak party because of a 7-year old who refused to go to sleep), I scoured film and video archives to find similar tortoise characters, and came up with bupkis.

So thanks, 'Cosmos, I’m now fixated on references to half of a painted latex turtle that I can’t wrap my OCD-meets-AD/HD brain around. Greeeeeeat.

#18

Thanks for all of your thoughts, I knew that if any group of scholar-geeks could figure this out, it’s the GWCers.

I’ve spent the last few hours going through YouTube clips trying to figure this out, and I need to let my brain relax.

#19

I agree the styling is wrong for Dark Crystal. I love that movie too!

#20

The prop looks too well-crafted and detailed to have been made on a direct-to-DVD budget. I was thinking maybe The Flintstones movie? It certainly isn’t Dino, though, and the eyes are big and expressive enough it makes me think it would have to be a major character, or one of some significance.