Foot Soldier Screen Used Prop Mask.....
 

Listed to start July 7th, 2010 @8am

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=261241942435

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I've had A LOT of inquiries on this mask over the last 5 years with offers. I have forgotten everyone who asked. I have some bills I really want to pay down and I think this will help accelerate the effort.

I actually don't have much room for a lot of the things I own sitting in climate storage. It's time to sell one of my movie prop babies, my 1989 TMNT Foot Soldier mask that I got from Propstore.

I did some work preserving the integrity of the original mask and also created a display collar to bring it out better.

http://www.ryanczaplinski.com/images/foot_001.jpg

http://www.ryanczaplinski.com/images/foot_005.jpg

http://www.ryanczaplinski.com/images/foot_006.jpg


It will come with COA from Propstore and the placard it came with. I should have it up near the end of the week or early next and will update this thread with a link to the auction.

UPDATE: Unfortunately Ebay only offers 10 days max on auctions. This listing will end on July 17th, the day before SDCC.

Thanks very much!

I've always loved the way you have it displayed.. it really looks good.
Should be a interesting auction to watch...thanks for the heads up

I will be watching closely. I have been looking to add screen used props to my collection for a while. Can't wait to see it.

Best of luck. It's very pretty.

Listing has been linked in 1st post. Starts at 8:00am PST and ends July 17th. eBay only allowed for a 10 day auction and couldn't extend it.

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Because it hasn't started yet...

Gotcha. It was 8am here (est not pst).....thus I was confused.

I got the same message, and just assumed that it hadn't started yet.

Why do I need to buy an engagement ring? Our love would be so much stronger with this mask.

UP TO 2000 already! Thats something!

From a bidder with 3 feedback... hope its legit.

3 bids from one guy, who knocked it up to 2 G's and has virtually no feedback.

If that's not shill bidding I'll be damned. :ohwell:

Good point fellas- I didnt even think to look at the bidding. Why would someone bid it up like that- whats pros? Especially if they don't end up paying?

How can he up his own bid...was their a reserve??

Yes there was a reserve.

I'm watching this item, too. Man, this movie costume is so cool! I find it weird that he could up his own bid too. That's not his max bid is it?

Well at least we know what the reserve price was now.

I have to comment that I was very surprised to see the reserve met just 2 hours after the opening of the auction. I additionally had a message asking how much it would cost to end the auction now (I have received several of these requests from different people).

I'm going to let the auction run its course. Looks like the person has purchased a TMNT item recently and has a feedback history. I have a minimum positive history requirement that they have purchases under their belt before they can bid at all, so we'll see.

I think it was perhaps a bit early to lay that amount down though... and I didn't notice the bid was outbid by himself... :teek:

It could be someone who has one trying to inflate their value, I would imagine that there are at the very least a handful of these in circulation, as there were A LOT of Foot Soldiers in those movies.

No doubt there were a lot of Foot Soldiers in the film, but who knows how much of it was destroyed vs. stored? I'm a bit confused to know one person upbid their own bid twice. It makes no sense.

You can upbid if the reserve isn't met. That's the most likely reason for doing so. If the reserve is not met, then the seller has no commitment to have to sell the item to the highest bidder.

I have actually corresponded with the person who destroyed most of the costumes from the movies.
After #2 was finished they put her in a room and it was her job to shred and destroy everything.
I will try to find her e-mail and ask if that included Foot costumes...I assume it did

Holy cow. What an utter shame! I wonder if it was something required by the studios or some protection order? Or maybe there was no space and no one wanted it so they destroyed it. Wow that would just be tragic being any of those pieces are such a great piece of film history. Or maybe back then no one knew the wiser that there was any value to those pieces.

Probably one of the coolest things I saw up close was from TMNT II or 3 up at the EMP museum in Seattle. Paul Allen owns and had on display a full perfect complete Ninja Turtle with a remote animatronic control. It was in beautiful shape. To him it was probably like spending $10, haha!

I believe if memory serves me, the Planet Hollywood here in Chicago has a full costume of Movie II Don. However, since they went out of business I'm not sure where it would have ended up?

I've heard the same, but had always assumed it was just the leftover Henson material that was destroyed. I could be wrong, but I believe Henson did just the creature work, not general costuming.

Ahh Planet Hollywood......I remember driving down there during the holidays to get the blackened cajun chicken sandwich and gawk at the Donny costume.

Daniel Pesina, the Foot Soldier who got roundhoused by Donnie in the Vanilla Ice club scene (he was also Johnny Cage if you ever played Mortal Kombat in the arcades), told me that the Turtle/creature costumes, specifically, were destroyed after filming wrapped. Before that happened, "one of the British prop girls" as he called her (I assume from Henson) gifted pieces as mementos to crewmembers. He received Donnie's elbow pad, Mikey's knee pad, and Raph's arm, the last of which he gave to Ho-Sung Pak (Raph's stuntman). Tokka and Rahzar's claws and arms were saved as well and given away. Daniel was able to keep his complete Foot outfit afterwards, too, but unfortunately some of it was lost over the years.

Really the one used in the movie?

Just a friendly bump... Under 2 days left! Thanks for watching!

Down to the last 16 hours!

$2,740.00 was the final price. Shredder would be proud.

lol...I know

So I finally found her e-mail and asked if the Foot costumes were destroyed also..and..she said "NO" most of them were sent back to wardrobe, as far as she could remember. So its surprising to me more don't show up from time to time.

It is a massive shame, considering how many were made! There are very few props from these films out there...

what an awesome prop and piece of tmnt history! a pretty impressive fetching price too :teek: