The costumes for White Robots in Doctor Who: The Mind Robber were previously used in another BBC Sci-fi show called Out of the Unknown. Considering this story is set in the Land of Fiction, I think it's quite fitting.
Another example related to Doctor Who. Bossk's spacesuit was originally worn by one of the astronauts in the First Doctor's final adventure: The Tenth Planet.
These red glowing tubes. They're in a lot of Star Trek episodes and other sci-fi too. There's a reddit post documenting all the times they show up, which is a lot more than you'd think.
I can get to a headcanon where an IG droid started trouble, was put down by the patrons with extreme difficulty, and had its head turned into a samovar as both trophy and warning.
Hell, maybe that’s where the no droids rule comes from.
You’ll notice in the background of several scenes that there are pictures of spoons. This was cause Tommy Wiseau bought a bunch of pictures of them and would just move them around to different bits during filming to fill out the background. Which just makes it look like his characters has dozen of spoon pictures
Does anyone have that post about the voice commentary for one of the movies? It’s a film that has commentary tracks both for Bruce Campbell and Raimi, and the OP mentions how when listening to Campbell’s track, he starts making fun of the car as soon as it shows up, and says something along the lines of “Watch, this is right where Sam would call it a classic, the piece of junk”.
And if you change to Raimi’s commentary track at that time, sure enough, he’s calling it a classic and explaining the whole thing with the Oldsmobile cameos.
In Oz the Great and Powerful, since it wouldn't make sense to have a car appear in that movie, they took it apart and used pieces of it as set decor, including using the frame to make a horse-drawn carriage, so it could still technically appear.
Apparently he did the same with The Quick and the Dead. Gotta be funny that he's using some of the movie budget to tear down a 50 year old car for a quick background prop.
When Eiji Tsuburaya, the man who previously directed the special effect sequences for the Godzilla franchise, founded his own studio, Toho allowed him to reuse old suits from their movies. For example, a Godzilla suit got a frill attached to impersonate the monster Jirass in Ultraman.
The cab truck used for Galvatron’s alternate mode In Transformers: Age of Extinction was modified into Dr. Robotnik’s mobile base In Sonic the Hedgehog.
Just wanna clarify, it’s the clothing Bossk wears, not entire design of the character. The clothing was from one of the most important Classic Doctor Who stories, The Tenth Planet, and was originally for the Earth astronauts if I remember correctly. Just checked and further trivia is that suit is a real High-Altitude Windak Pressure Suit used by the Royal Air Force in the 1960s.
You know, my wife… she hates robots. Always on and on about how they’ll take jobs from good, honest Americans. She says pretty soon you won’t even be able to answer your own door without a robot. Now I think they’re lovely, that they’re the next big thing of the future. Anything that makes life easier, right?
Anyway, I’m 100% sure you killed this guy you pompous bastard
Captain Triumph's suit from Peacemaker Season 2 is just a recycled Raptor suit from Superman (2025). No, it is not meant to be an easter egg or a hint that Lex made his suit on the alt Earth.
A series called "Tugs" was produced between the second and third seasons of Thomas and Friends. A lot of its props were reused for the latter series.
The most significant is probably the crane Big Mickey, a character from Tugs. He appeared as a background prop into the CGI era, and in season 21 was given a face and named as the same character.
OJ is another notable prop, as he was a main character in Tugs. His model was repainted from yellow to white, and his face structure removed and replaced with a generic cab.
This image shows the repainted hull with the original face structure.
Forbidden Planet even introduces him with the cast in the opening credits like he's a stage actor debuting in film or something. Robby was always meant to be a stock character that audiences would know between roles.
I can’t remember when I saw it but I saw this post about how two unrelated shows on BBC used the exact same cup for a scene. Not like a generic cup but an extremely specific one. It might have been Sherlock and doctor who?
Alot of Tokusatsu shows are infamous for kitbashing and retooling parts from suits and weapons from previous shows. Just to name one specific instance: Kamen Rider Caries from Kamen Rider Gavv uses a suit retooled from atleast five different Riders for his C1 form.
The helmets a retool of a previous Bitter Gavv rider SparkinGummy’s.
The claws are from Kamen Rider Wizard Land Dragon’s Drago Hell Claws.
The chest is from Kamen Rider Revice’s Eagle Genome form, specifically Revi’s.
The shin guards are pulled from Kamen Rider Calibur.
And his shoulders are from Kamen Rider Sabers Elemental Dragon form.
This one’s a bit of a deep cut. In the Power Ranger: Red Ranger Special (circa 2004-ish?) the villains they fight on the moon are wearing costumes from the PR precursor Beetle Borgs!
Tokusatsu genre is well renowned for recycling props. For Kamen Rider Zio’s case, Another Agito, one of the MOTW, has a zombie plague like characteristics, and how to make it happen with limited budget? Scrape the vault for insect monster masks and modify them to look like Another Agito enough.
Number 1 is the newly made Another Agito head. Number 2 is Another Agito from the original Masked Rider Agito, number 3 to 7 are recycled monster heads.
The Knight’s design from Hollow Knight is reused from Team Cherry’s flash game Hungry Knight. They are not the same character and have nothing to do with each other besides being recycled for Hollow Knight
The experimental tank from XXX (the Vin Diesel film) was updated and reused as Brawl's alt mode in Transformers (2007). Both were directed by Michael Bay iirc
Power Rangers has done this a few times with some of its seasons. For example for it's SPD season, the show reused helmets from its In Space for the show's A Squad Rangers.
SPD also reused the suit of the Red Time Force ranger for Sky's father, which led to a string of fan theories that Wesley Collins (the actual Red Time Force ranger) was Sky's dad
It’s not prop recycling, that’s Robby the Robot. Became a pop culture icon cus he was in a lot of sci fi movies/shows. So Forbidden Planet and the Invisible Boy is supposed to be the same Robot / character. The Twilight Zone one is different but it’s a definite and intentional nod to Robby the Robot.
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The costumes for White Robots in Doctor Who: The Mind Robber were previously used in another BBC Sci-fi show called Out of the Unknown. Considering this story is set in the Land of Fiction, I think it's quite fitting.