Adam Savage Learns about Prop and Animatronic Restoration! 

Thanks so much for coming by, Adam! It was a pleasure having you here and talking props and restoration! Folks can follow our channel to see more projects like these if they'd like :)

Loved this interview. One of the few times you can see the interviewer is just as excited and enthusiastic about the subject as Adam is. Would love to see more from this shop on Tested!

I love the chemistry when two people who love what they do get together.

What a nice genuine guy Tom seems. His passion clearly shines through.

Tom seems so passionate about his work. Its nice to see people who want to keep restoration of movie props alive.

I was always fascinated by movie make up, props, models, etc. The behind the scene stuff. It's always a joy to see these kind of videos. And I am glad someone cares so much to restore it all for the rest of us to see in the years to come.

It's like a prop hospital.

I want more of this guy... please!

Awesome to see someone so passionate about their job (Adam & Tom)

Fun fact about the white paste you see them brushing on the props: It's a material called Cabopatch. It's Cabosil mixed with Pros-aide. It dries clear, so they mix it with acrylic paint to see where they need to paint.

Awww, Gremlins! I used to have a toy record player with a Gremlins record and follow-along story book. I miss the 80s...

Great piece, Tom Spina's shop is amazing!

This guy's enthusiasm for practical effects is fantastic. We need more like him in the movie industry.

We need to build a museum the size of the pentagon, a keep all these beautiful works behind glass where they can be preserved for future generations to go and appreciate. Think of it as a mega museum for movie props, models, puppets, miniatures and costumes.

This is a video to watch if you want to feel a little bit more happy then before. Amazing work.

The story about the baby reminds me of the instructor who taught us cpr. He had a dummy with a simulated pulse. He didn't tell us that. Scared the hell out of a few people.

Oh, I'm calling click bait on the super hot gremlin bikini shot. Cheap trick Tested! (Just kidding, love this show!)

So glad you've shown Toms work. I've been admiring his companies restoration work for a couple of years now and it's been a mystery how to keep latex and foam from degrading further. Superb.

They're doing gods work. Great to know there's people out there restoring old props.

Lovely how they restore those iconic special effects like that. There's a true magic to old effects like modelling, animatronic and puppetry. Really good on the folks who do it, bloody wonderful 😄😊🥰

I am sure Adam knows all there is about most aspects of prop making ... an inspirational man ...

You can really tell when someone has a true passion for their work.

the memories! my childhood was built on these characters

He's doing good work, preserving history and art...

It's so cool seeing the actual gremlins. Happy to see they're still being cared for

So awesome to see a person saving these items

Love the batman mask just looking ominously in the background

I've never really been interested in props too much (though I've always recognized a certain coolness about them), but this video has sparked a little interest! I want to see more videos of this guy and his team restoring these amazing pieces. Hell, that could be a tv show! "Puppet Hospital", or "Puppet Doctors" or something like that:D

Being in Bob's basement was amazing. That werewolf looked fantastic!!!

loved this video. would love to see more of this shop

The whole time I’m watching this I’m just waiting for the Gremlins to jump up and start attacking people.

Great interview Adam! what a lovely passionate guy

These two are so fun together! I'd really enjoy thinking that they're actual friends in real life now haha. Their energy is great.

This is just great. What a fantastic guy Tom is, and an amazing team

I see Fluffy, from "The Crate" segment of Creepshow. Tom Savini was one of my idols growing up and Creepshow is one of my comfort movies. It's sad to see Fluffy in such a state, but since he's in the shop, I hope he's getting restored. This is so cool! Thank you for sharing!

I loved that guy he's awesome

So passionate!

Hoggle puppet from Labyrinth just had a restoration recently after being found in a suitcase which was in lost property at an airport.

Yas! Tom is the man! This video is so fascinating.

The passion in these vids make me want to start some new projects

The start of this, looked like a Gremlin autopsy. Love these types of videos! Always fascinating

I would love to see more videos out of the shop!

I was just listening to The Full of Sith podcast with Tom. Great episode. It’s cool to see his/teams work.

Tested is now most definitely my favorite channel on RU-vid. Major props to you guys, pun intended. Also, anyone else think the badass closing statement handshake at the end between Adam and Tom was pretty much the nerdy equivalent of the Dutch and Dillon ultra-shake in Predator? It was like, *boom*. Happy Thanksgiving, Tested and friends!

Tom seems like a pretty cool dude

Good to see Rich Vos is restoring props.

The museum term for items that are self-destructive over time is "Inherent Vice"... also a great name for a metal band! \^^/

Loved this video, It would have been nice to see up close a finished piece .

these animatronic videos are the best!

i love watching geeks, geeking up about stuff!

I always wondered how restorations were done. This was a great video!! Thank you Adam.

This has nothing to do with the video , but somewhere on earth there is a gizmo puppet and I want it😁😂💕

Gremlins III, want to see!!!!

You da man Tom!👍

I would have liked to see a piece before and after. That was the only thing missing.

Thats a real handshake.

Does tom have a youtube channel with restoration work ? if not could you get him in to show a restoration project ?

Natural latex not only rots by UV light but also by air pollutants like ozone. So it would be best to store it in a sealed glass showcase with oxygen-free protective gas atmosphere (e.g. nitrogen). However some poorly mixed latex compositions just decompose by themselves. I meditate with latex inflatables, and while some are decades old and still intact (stored in the dark, usually in PE/PP bags or fridge boxes against ozone), others (often translucent colours) grow pimples of brown sticky spots (likely expelling sulfur into sulfuric acid/ liver of sulfur state) like the black on an old banana and nothing can be done against it. Also incompatible materials (like certains metals, fats/oils or plasticizers) can dissolve rubber. E.g. phthalate or copper from PVC cables and technical parts inside an animatronic may eat itself through its latex skin.

Greta Gremlin is the holy grail of movie props for me. I clicked on this video so fast! I am horribly jealous of who ever owns this piece. It looks awesome!

These guys fixed up my run over Critter prop.

I'd love to see the animatronics duplicated (and functional) for that with-skin/without-skin comparison display, but that would probably be easiest with the most deteriorated props and on the worst ones it might even be feasible to construct a non-moving skeleton based on the animatronics for the outer shell to be transferred to, though that would have to be weighed against potentially doing more damage to it. Interesting stuff!

Such enthusiasm! I love it! So inspiring :3

Damn such a nostalgia trip

I bet he loves his job, amazing 🔥

A most excellent video! Cheers.

as a random Chewbacca mask just chills behind Adam....

This is such a cool video! Thanks for making this!!!!

I've seen so many videos about collections both private and museum, but I'd never thought this kind of industry was behind the scenes on this scale. I figured some touch ups here and there sure by professional individuals, but a whole company dedicated to it I didn't think was a thing. There is probably enough demand to support a small industries worth. You hear so much about things lost to time. Some of the most iconic memorabilia in the world just disappears. Hopefully going forward companies like this can help preserve history that little bit further.

Tom is the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’d love to work there

Do they document the restoration? Museums try to document everything they do to the artifact so people in the future know what is original and what is new.

This is why I desperately wish practical effects had continued to be used in media. You cant get the same kind of feeling of believability in watching a movie with cgi, the same way these practically done pieces brought to its viewers. The 1982 The Thing movie scared the daylights out of me when I first watched it because of how real the victims and monster looked. Bevause it was real, in the sense of it actually being with the characters in the room. Beautiful props like this is why I live to watch movies that came out long before I even existed. CGI is great but practical props are wonderful

I would love to work there

the poor fluffy monster 0:10 he's seen better days!!!

Now I want a gremlin.

they turn into zombie gremlins. that makes them more awesome.

I love gremlins

Soo cool I had to like it twice 😹😹😹

0:46 the monster from creepshow

Watching Tom and Adam trying to come up with the word why foam deteriorates was painful. They could've just said "dry rotting", the same way speaker foam rots after many years.

Very cool

Would love to hear about ONE case from soup-to-nuts, including costs involved. Which, I know, is unlikely but that's what I wish.

10:43 oh Adam 😛

I want a mogwai.

Adam Savage knew WTF a Plamp was.

You still have to visit Laura Kampf´s workshop in Köln ... at least it would be nice to see ... sooooooooo?!? ;-)

Watching two nerds talk about puppets... Im ok with this

If they make a new gremlins with actual puppets i will shit my pants

Was this where RedLetterMedia got their shift eye gremlin from?

I've known about Tom Spina for over a decade. I still believe most of these props belong in a museum and not in the hands of private collectors.

wait? Ethafoam? wooo! where i work, we make that!

What MATERIAL can replace FOAM LATEX MATERIAL? GOR RESTORATIONS?

Aww poor Fluffy!! He looks so beat down. Makes me sad bc Creepshow is awesome sauce

I'm so upset, I live on Long Island and he's on Long Island and I've always wanted to meet Adam :( so close yet so far

*heehee* the Gremlin in a "Tina Turner" getup X)

Film heroes 👍🏼😊

7:23 😍😍😍😍😍

Nice NECA Alien figures in the background.

That rotted Fluffy the Crate Beast from Creepshow is a sad sight.