Blade Runner Blaster - Collection Tour + details!

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This is a quick tour of my Blade Runner blaster collection. Fellow sci-fi addicts will understand. These props were a lot of fun to build, and I hope this tour helps you out!

PROPS FEATURED:
1. PKD Enforcer (snub) - Kit by Rick Ross
2. Coyle C&S Metal - Kit by Richard Coyle
3. Tomenosuke - Modified (world-con)
4. Tomenosuke - Modified (early run, blued)
5. Tomenosuke - Modified (idealized version)
6. K's Blaster - Solid resin kit
7. Takagi water pistol - Heavily Modified, repainted
8. PKD Blaster - Resin kit w. moving triggers
9. Police Blaster (black) - Resin kit
10. Tomenosuke - Police rubber stunt variant
11. 2049 BluRay Blaster - Cut from stand, Heavily modified
12. "That Gun" - Blade Runner / Fallout custom

Special Thanks to PropSummit, and the RPF!

propsummit.com
therpf.com

*WorldCon Blaster Photos by Karl Tate

If you're into science fiction, but not Blade Runner, I don't know where you're at!
Blade Runner is classic 80's science fiction, so good. It inspired so many movies over the past 40 odd years. Rick Deckard's (Harrison Ford's) blaster is so iconic, and it's influences continue to be felt in prop designs today.

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BLADE RUNNER 1982
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Blade Runner is a 1982 neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, depicting a dystopic Los Angeles in November 2019.

The screenplay, which was written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The film itself features: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James, Joe Turkel and Joanna Cassidy; lead designer: Syd Mead, soundtrack composer Vangelis.

The film describes a future in which genetically manufactured beings called replicants are used for dangerous and degrading work in Earth's "off-world colonies." Built by the Tyrell Corporation to be 'more human than human', the Nexus-6 generation appear to be physically identical to humans — although they have superior strength and agility — while lacking comparable emotional responses and empathy. Replicants became illegal on Earth after a bloody mutiny. Specialist police units — blade runners — hunt down and "retire" (i.e., kill) escaped replicants on Earth. With a particularly brutal and cunning group of replicants on the loose in Los Angeles, a reluctant Rick Deckard is recalled from semi-retirement for some of "the old blade runner magic."

Blade Runner initially received polarized reviews from film critics, some who were confused and disappointed it didn't have the pacing expected from an action film, while others appreciated its thematic complexity. The film performed poorly in North American theaters while achieving success overseas. Despite poor early ticket sales, it was adored by fans and academia and quickly attained cult classic status. It gained such great popularity as a video rental, partly due to the film's ability to reward repeated viewing, that it was chosen to be one of the first DVDs to be released. Blade Runner has been widely hailed as a modern classic for its immersive special effects and prefiguring important themes and concerns of the 21st century. It has been praised as being one of the most influential films of all time because of its detailed and original setting, serving as a postmodern visual benchmark with its realistic depiction of a decayed future. Blade Runner brought author Philip K. Dick to the attention of Hollywood, and numerous films have since been based on his literature.

Have plans to retire a few replicants on the loose in some dystopian futuristic city anytime soon? Well, if it happens to be raining at the time, just stay in for the evening, crank up the Vangelis music, grab a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label, and pour a double into this cool new Blade Runner Whiskey Glass. Yep, this is the exact same CiBi Double Old Fashion crystal glass hand-blown and -cut by Italian artisans at Arnolfo di Cambio that Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) drinks from in the movie Blade Runner.

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It features the same square design with the unusual diagonal cuts at the angles. Even better, when you pass out after a drunken night of analyzing photos on the Esper Machine, you'll probably dream of unicorns and electric sheep.