Icons Blade Runner Deckard's Pistol And Badge Prototype

This is the, never before seen, Icons prototype for the Rick Deckard's pistol from the movie Blade Runner. 

The gun is a static piece (no moving parts) as it was molded off a production / stunt gun (owned by Jim Latta at the time).

The badge is also molded off an original prop and is polished cast metal.

And finally, I think that all of you will recognize the display backing which was molded off an original Ennis House tile, issued from the home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

That piece was bought in the Spring of 2003 by Eric, a dentist from Indiana. I'm really grateful to him for sharing that beautiful piece with us here, on the Museum.

 



Icons Hellraiser Puzzle Box Prototype

Here are two Hellraiser Cubes, displayed with the Icons plaque Art.

On the bottom, is a test casting for the Hellraiser Le Marchand's puzzle box, featuring the Lament Configuration, taken off of an original used in filming, with computer scanned graphics of the etched brass panels in the background.

On the top is the unfinished wood prototype. This is the very first one made. Mike Moore probably made 2 sets of wood components. That one, and Hemdale (the Licensor for Hellraiser at the time) certainly got the second and completed one.

Icons Jurassic Park Claw "Master"

 This is one of Icons Jurassic Park claw master. It was given to a friend of mine by Mike Rogers, one of Icons co-founders. It is in pretty good shape. Displayed with regular Icons JP claw base.

These two COAs are Icons Jurassic Park Velociraptor Claw and Egg COA prototypes. You can see on pic that they were supposed to wear Director Steven Spielberg's signature....Finally, Icons ended-up with another design for those COAs, parting with Spielberg's signature :-(

Lucasfilm Archives Star Wars Icons First Announcement / Teaser Concept Advertisement (1996)

Conceptualized 29 years ago by Icons Jim Latta & rendered by Daren Dochterman, these are early concept designs for the first announcement of Icons licensed line of Star Wars prop replicas. Icons was the first collectibles company to be granted a license by Lucasfilm LTD. to produce 1:1 scale Star Wars prop and miniature replicas (1995-2000), after LFL had received over 1,000 proposals.

Interestingly, Icons preferred the open wood door ad concept (above) with the illuminated eyes of C3-PO and a Jawa peaking out, and Darth Vader's lightsaber glowing in the darkness, but Lucasfilm felt the wood door concept appeared "too unsecure and could lead to break-ins by fans", so a bank-vault style door was created by Dochterman as requested by Lucasfilm. The Icons wood door version of this advert has never before been shown until posted here on this blog.

Stormtrooper's guarding the vault door (above) were added to feature more of a Star Wars theme to the advert but eventually Lucasfilm chose the simple bank-vault door design. Variations on this theme were rendered by Daren, before the final design appeared in a 1996 issue of the Official Star Wars Fan Club publication - "The Star Wars Insider".

Icons Glossy Collector Postcards (set of "4" - 1998)

The beautifully designed and printed, glossy Icons collectors postcard set (of "4") which were published and mailed-out to customers 27 years ago in 1998. Designed and rendered by freelance graphic designer Noel Martin. Designed to promote the Icons Predator, Terminator and Star Wars replica lines.

Icons Jim Latta recalls - "The Icons Collector Postcards were intended by me to be almost like jumbo trading cards. Noel Martin was an incredible talent. When I was introduced to him in 1998,  he was working full-time at the Southern California Gas Company as serviceman. I was blown-away by his gifts as a graphic designer and at the time, our in-house graphic designer was overwhelmed with all of the work that was needed. So we retained Noel to work on a few campaigns and he designed and rendered these postcards after a little discussion on what I had envisioned for them graphic-wise. He hit it out of the park in my opinion".

Interestingly there was a "5th" Collectible postcard designed by Noel for an Icons Star Trek full-size Captain's Chair replica. But it was never printed.

Icons Star Trek Ads

This is an ad for the Icons Star Trek Klingon Commemorative Collection....Finally, Icons grants all Star Trek fans their greatest wish !! A full line of 1:1 scale authentic props and miniatures based on the Star Trek television series and the motion pictures Each accurately reproduced from originals used on set and prototyped and supervised during manufacturing by actual Star Trek prop and miniature makers ! Icons Fabrication and Design Group craftsmen have worked on five Star Trek feature films as well as Star Trek's The Next Generation, Voyager and Deep Space : Nine.

This ad shows the Classic D7 Klingon Battle Cruiser, limited to only 950 units, precisely mold-casted from an actual filmed miniature used during the making of classic Star Trek (1966-1969) and currently archived at The Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. and the Klingon Disrupter Prop Weapons Set, limited to only 1966 units, molded off original props used during filming, all are incredibly detailed and custom finished.

The following is an ad for the "Star Trek Captain's Chair". This awesome 1:1 scale entertainment furnishing replica was supposed to be one of the finest limited edition collectibles of all time. Icons Fab & Design constructed helm set piece replicas for the Star Trek : Deep Space 9 cross-over episode "Trials and Tribble-ations". Including the Captains chair. 

Icons new woodshop staffed by skilled furniture craftsmen have created this amazing reproduction of the Captains chair seen in all three seasons of Classic Star Trek. 

I think only two were made. One finished prototype and one unfinished, sold on eBay in 2006. 
The final retail price was supposed to be about $3,500 and the edition limited to only 500 pieces !!

Icons Han Solo Blaster

The Han Solo blaster WAS in fact licensed. The Star Wars Insider magazine (LFL fan-club) was willing to sell it as an exclusive to try and help Icons. The piece was already tooled and ready for production. But it was not permitted to be manufactured or shipped. Icons had invested a ton of money into the tooling and it was ready to be produced. A total of 78 Han blasters were produced.

Only "3" APs were made at Icons in 1998-99. "1" went to LFL, "1" went to Steve Sansweet, "1" to Icons co-founder Mike Rogers.

An additional "75" Han APs were made at a new shop in 2000, owned by one of Icons co-founders / investors after the company closed its doors in March 2000, with original Icons parts, so that he could recoup financially.

"200" AP samples were supposed to be sent to LFL for Christmas 1998 but only a few were finished, with display case and numbered plaque (no packaging nor paperwork yet !!).

Note : I have heard that the goal of the aluminum grill in the background of the display case was to look like a piece of the Millenium Falcon.

Icons Han Solo Blaster Ad :

This ad shows the very rare Icons Han Solo blaster replica (which only a handful were made) and the Planet Of The Apes Gorilla Infantry Rifle (nothing was made but Icons acquired the license and had direct access to numerous originals. No drawings. The rifle was scheduled to be molded and was at Icons. The rifle pictured on "The Vault" was of a screen-used one).

The following are never before seen images of some of the original reference studies referred by Icons Fabrication & Design Group, which were referred to by during the research / machining phase of the Icons 1:1 scale Han Solo Blaster prop replica. The first ever produced under license by Lucasfilm Ltd.

These are blow-ups of photo-images of a screen-used blaster. The original images provided by Lucasfilm to Icons. At the time, the Han Solo blaster used on screen's whereabouts were unknown.

The notations were hand-written by Icons prototype fabrication artisans Mike Moore, Steve Horch or Brian Bero.

That one is a progress report, for Icons Han Solo blaster customers, explaining why the production of that replica was delayed !!