Phil Tippett's Film Props and Special Effects Legacy

We visit Prop Store to examine the items in the Phil Tippett auction, a collection of props, artwork, maquettes, and ephemera from a decades-long career in filmmaking. From original Star Wars concept drawings to Jurassic Park animatics and full-size Robocop puppets, we get up close with the stuff that made our favorite childhood films come to life!

Shot by Joey Fameli and edited by Norman Chan

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[jvs]

I remember Phil and his then girlfriend Kim back in 1972. There were 4 of us starving artist living in an old run down empty old building (the third street building) in downtown Santa Ana Ca. We were all penniless artist. We used to share cig butts to roll into cigs and share our pot. We use to tease him about how he was going to make a living making 1950s stop motion figurines. I remember Phil coming home one day and saying he got a job up north and was moving out.
We all thought he was going to be making a low budget corny movie.
Last time I saw Phil he was moving out early part of ‘73.
Then after Star Wars came out I realized it wasn’t a low budget corny movie.
Long way from 1972-73 starving artist days

[bilawal]

Serious blast from the past. Insanely rich heritage these folks have in hand. Love it!

[Nickeyisbored]

Huge robocop fan so this is awesome!!! Especially kane! Wow!

[SeanKillblane]

These are the types of videos that hooked me on Tested. Keep them coming.

[hortiz]

Phil Tibet props should be in a Hollywood Movie Museum not actioned off just saying.

[timlandscheidt]

This felt like an episode of "white gloves of destiny" :-). Very cool.

[Rune_Fayhar]

I'd kill for those Star Ship Trooper, and Jurassic Park figures/props omg.

[cedarandsound]

I ended up winning the animation notes for the tauntaun

[davefrancis]

Peter Weller said the suit was redesigned to be more comfortable in the second movie while being interviewed on Kevin Pollak chat show. So suit prop unlikely to be from first movie.

[JurassicCollectables]

It was a great auction, thanks to Prop Store for making these pieces available to collectors

[SedimentMan]

I have that metal drawer set... Makes me like it better. Just by association.

[chrisgkhawkinsart]

How much did the RoboCop suit go for? So cool

[garybuder]

the "ed209" drawings look like a zentradi battle pod from macross/robotech

[Holgast]

Is that Draco from Dragonheart on the table? 👀

[goth]

I always wanted to go there Peter Benchley beast giant squid is there

[alioth]

I was expecting the dragon on the right to rip his head off at the last minute.

[trenititan]

What film is the white mannequin with the split lower jaw from? They didn't mention those last two pieces on the table.

[WesAscolese]

I like how Norm just HAD to point out the misspelling of the word Cantina (and it looked like he pointed to it with his finger on another page but I could be paranoid). We get it Norm, he can't spell Cantina, no need to publicly shame him :P

[Briandoesit]

I wish you would have showed more of the props and less of the paper stuff.