Phil Tippett's Film Props and Special Effects Legacy 

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

I hope Phil Tippett made enough money to give a smile on his face. He needs a smile. & a hug. Thank you Phil Tippett for being you.

At a talk Phil gave in 2004 he pretty much confirmed that the raptors in the kitchen scene was go motion with puppets. The hype of the film was that all apart from close up animatronics were cgi but the raptors were puppets.

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

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

I've been at Prop Store quite a bit lately and fortunate enough to see these things in person. There are loads of cool pieces in the auction that didn't make it in this video. Definitely worth checking Prop Store's page to see the rest.

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

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

seeing some of my new collection pieces before I get them is making me want them even more to preserve and display.

In a few hundred years, archaeologists will find this place and wonder how many crazy creatures existed in our time xD

Such a wonderful auction to hear about. A WEEK AFTER IT STARTS.

This is why I love tested!

How cool is that.

The Tauntauns maybe had about two minutes of screen-time. Yet so much thought-process went into making them. Film is truly a strange business.

I'd love to own those 3 Starship Troopers prop Bugs.

Love the tauntaun work!

Awesome! We love Phil!

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.

you guys are my inspiration

I ended up winning the animation notes for the tauntaun

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

The "Tauntaun Animation Cycles" shown at the end look more like they were traced (first clue, tracing paper...) off of a projector or rotoscope platen. So at that point, they had made everything physical, set up the mini stage or greenscreen (or was it blue?) did several walk cycles on film and *then* analyzed them. I think then, those pieces were done in either the beginning of or in the middle of -- "go motion!" Now that's some cinema history. Hard to display but worth every penny.

such a great video

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

It's sad that all this art is going to go in someone's collection and won't be seen again.

1:16 "You're coming with me, Cain..." No, really, I want that fullscale prop like I want air.

if your phone goes off, redo the shot

not even a star wars fan, cannot deny that the chess monsters are some of the coolest monsters and sequence in film

Phil Tippett is a prop wizard! :)

So ED-209 started out as a Zentraedi Battle Pod.

Wonder if that Predalien is up for sale

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

King Kong is probably reference to the stop-motion animation style.

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

How much did the RoboCop suit go for? So cool

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

you can buy happiness... its just expensive.

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

Nice.

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGS ! do you want to know more ?

the draco!

It's kinda weird to think that Kane torso is now just hanging out in somebody's living room and freaking out visitors.

Stonecutters t-shirt. :D

You had one job Phil!

that Draco us gorgeous

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

Is that Draco from Dragonheart on the table? 👀

How can you have Draco just sitting there on the left of the frame and not show him in detail

Why is it even called Adam Savage's Tested, when it is always this other guy?

I want the creature (forgot the name) from starship troopers.

how can you keep in shot Draco from Dragonheart and not talk about him? The best dragon that has ever been on film but you keep on going on and on about some tonton drawings from star wars =/

"how cool is that"

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

all i wanted to see was the xenomorph

#abNorm

I think that I will draw for the cinema industry lol

russian sailors?1 Mikey Forrester? What are you guys on about?!

I might be able to help identify the suit I Was intimately involved with the suits for close to eight years and Rob Botin studios. My initial impression is that this is a knock off of some sort possibly built from real pieces and cast. But it is nowhere near the fine finish we put into the later generation suits. It could Indeed be a television suit. I have less interaction with the TV stuff. I went up to Toronto to go work on it but that didn’t work out LOL.. In truth of anybody has a suit it was obtained illegally probably. I have mostly heard of parts being stolen, but never a full suit. We have pretty tight control of the suits.. I can tell you the fate of the real suits. But not now.If they want to reach me I just live in Granada hills California so probably I’m not too far.. sorry I didn’t notice this was from two years ago. Since you don’t need me to authenticate the suits I would suggest they probably were not since used in the movie possibly the TV show. The paint job does not look authentic. It looks very rushed which leads me to believe it could’ve been used in the TV show. Although people have cast up partsThat like I said we’re probably stolen. And because their second generation they would be inferior quality. We had the suits kept in storage containers and boxes inside of Rob Bottins Studio and due to an agreement with the studio where we either had to keep them or destroy them by cutting them up and a little 5 inch squares at one point I would say most of the original suits and parts of Suits from the first movie were destroyed. . Rob Had some high-quality suits of armor made up in premium quality and put into acrylic cases in his living room to full-size RoboCops posed. Unless Rob gave Phil Tippit a suit directly I doubt he had an or truly authentic suit.

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

I like how the auctioneer was obviously annoyed and just wanted to get done with this so he could sell the things he has absolutely no clue about, while tested is just being oblivious for the video

Next time, maybe Mute the Phones.. That 'Blopp-Bling' is utterly confusing.

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

Please, do not forget to say "HOW COOL IS THAT"... ffs

One of these days Norm will knock off an invaluable piece with all those unnecesary hand gestures.

the guy said good semen

u aint 10th st berkeley sk8

Is one a midget or the other one a giant?

manipulating without gloves on!!! not professional at all.