Screenworn Crias costume

Screen worn Crias costume, the honorable Titan. This costume was worn by Crias played by Edward Campbell seen in the episode from season 1 “The Titans” filmed between August-September 1995. This costume includes Crias fabric vest, belt with gold accents, gauntlets, armbands and a kind of sandals toppers. Are missing the grey pants and sandals to complete this wardrobe.

General view.

 

Sometimes these things give you satisfaction, be able to gather a character wardrobe that had been separated for around 21 years ago after the show ended. Is this case, the vest was in a NZ container with the stunt double one, and in other container was the rest of the accessories: gauntlets, armbands, belt and boot toppers.

When the 2001 Auction occurred many huge lots of costumes and props were sold all around the world, others never left New Zealand and many costumes and accessories were separated by people who organized the containers. From what I understand is that the batches were similar, mostly all huge batches had some roman costumes, warlords leather armors, some fabric costumes, a mix of different gauntlets, prop weapons, some women costumes (mixed of amazon, peasants, Nordic style costumes) and sometimes  were included some hero costumes of a guest starring actor or a recognizable wardrobe from the series, is the case of my Brunnilda (guest starring Britney Powell) costume that was stored with plenty of other costumes in a container.

 

Front and back close-ups.

 

Belt and gauntlets details.

 

Boot toppers detail.

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Screen worn Morloch costume

Recently arrived directly from New Zealand the Morloch screen worn costume worn by Prince Chesnik Bloodicarr Morloch played by Sandy Winton, a Australian actor who played the hunter of the amazons during the episode “Dangerous Prey” from season 6. I recently discovered that Lucy and Renée had several problems with this actor because of his ego and not recommendable behavior in the set, however this costume is really impressive.

General view

This wardrobe includes:

• The leather vest with real metal plaques in front and back in mint condition.
• Leather double pants made of black leather.
• Amazing belt with metal details.
• Pair of gloves made of leather a metal pieces.
• Pair of elbow pads made of leather and big metal pieces.
• Pair of gauntlets, well the gauntlets weren't used by Morloch, were used by other character but matches with the rest of the costume.
• Pair of kneeguards in this case there was a mistake here, the seller bought in the 2001 Auction a huge lot of props and costumes and they didn`t match properly the knee guards of this wardrobe, is a kneeguard from Morloch and the other from Raczar (Craig Hall).
• Fabric / leather cape is stunning, one of my favorite pieces of the wardrobe.
• Black leather boots.
• Original actor hanger with a tag that is written "MORLOCH X10 SANDY WINTON"

 

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Screenused Hercules/ Aphrodite/ Chimpules costume

Recently I have received this screenused Hercules costume. Well, it is a 4-pieces costume that includes: Hercules Hero stunt double vest used after by Aphrodite stunt, Hercules Hero belt, Chimpules fabric pants and Chimpules gauntlets (never worn on screen).

 

The main piece is the suede vest, it has a long history: It started as a Hercules stunt double costume from the Hero main costume, during season 3 it was modified for Aphrodite's stunt double (Sharon James) in the episode titled "Love Takes A Holiday". And then, in season 4 was used by the chimpanzee in the episode titled "Yes Virginia There Is A Hercules" for a few seconds.

 

In my opinion, the most impressive pieces of this wardrobe is the yellow suede vest used by Hercules stunt that is in mint condition and, without doubt, the belt with an original leather pouch that hangs from the belt with a bead as a closure. Maybe Hercules kept his dinars inside.

The gauntlets were never used on screen although they have a tag inside that is written "H EP 11 CHIMP." As I know, the directors have many problems with the Chimpanzee even for filming a short sequence, and probably they decided to remove the gauntlets to avoid the animal would feel uncomfortable with them. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci originally pitched Chimpules as a full episode when Kevin Sorbo was unavailable during season four. The idea eventually became Porkules.

The back of the costume is also amazing, the belt is a real thick leather with sheep fur behind.

The pants are a small size ones, the chimpanzee was a small specimen so the size was right for him, although is unable to wear by an adult man or woman, sadly.

Doing a bit of search of this wardrobe I have found that this costume was framed by his previous owner and was sold in Ebay in Dec 2013 for $175 and a few years after was auctioned in the Auction webpage Icollector and sold in Nov 2014 for $150 a really cheap price for this type of wardrobe.

Ebay photo auction (Dec 2013).

  

Icollector photos from the auction (Nov 2014).

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Xena November 18-20 Convention & Auction

This year the Xena 25th Anniversary Convention happened on November 18-20 in the Hyatt Regency  Los Angeles Airport. I couldn't go but I lived that weekend with great enthusiasm and joy. As we all know, it's a time to meet up other xenites, enjoy, share feelings, meet the main actors from the show, get some autographs and definitely, had a great time all together.

During the whole weekend there were plenty of Xena fans wearing their Xena cosplays, even a few screenused wardrobes, it is the case of Boris, he worn the screenused Ares costume worn by Kevin Smith himself.

In this photo we can see Joe, in the left side, UK friend wearing Ares cosplay costume with an Ares scabbard he ordered to me a few years ago. In the middle, Emily, UK friend too, she trusted me to make her a Xena leather dress and all the leather pieces from the armour. She wore it like a real warrior princess! And in the right side is the man who worn the screenused Ares complete wardrobe, including sword, scabbard and jewelry. Many people was really surprised and they photographed him.

Many Xena fans were on the stage during the Xena costume contest happened during the weekend. There were really such a good costumes there: Tamy, worn her handcrafted Xena evil costume, really screen accurate, I really love the result and she is a really kind and enjoyable woman. In her left side is Deborah, wearing Xena shamaness costume from season 5 handling the Xena Argo saddle bags. The wardrobe is stunning, without a doubt. The centaur and the male Xena and Gabrielle versions are quite funny, isn't it?

Lucy Lawless was really kind as always and Renée is a loving person, both are awesome women. What else I can say about them...

Well, in my opinion, the interesting thing happened on Sunday. An auction that wasn't properly advertised happened during the Ted Raimi photo op session. Mostly all Xena fans were in the getting photo ops done or awaiting in the Renée and Ted lines. Sadly, it was bad timing on the schedule.

There was auctioned some really interesting things:

• Lucy’s season 5/6 hero leathers and a pair of her screen-worn greaves sold for $4700. 
• Gabrielle complete season 6 velvet costume was sold for $900.
• Xena Creation Entertainment metal sword replica was sold for over $6000. 
• Gabrielle sais were sold for an unknown price.
• Xena balanced chakram was sold for an unknown price.

 

Photos taken from Zak twitter (https://twitter.com/Zuhkaree)

So, really jealous! But, I wasn't there, I had no options to bid although there were online bidders as I knew a few days after. I will have killed for the Xena leathers and probably I would had loved to see Gabrielle costume and sais although I already got those screenused pieces.