So many people talk about it. These guys are actually doing it. David and Ryan welcome on former Stuff guest and Star Wars uber-collector Gus Lopez as well as Star Wars collecting legend Steve Sansweet to discuss their diabolical plans to construct a Star Wars museum for fans -- by fans.  Museum-building is a notoriously impossible task (cost being one of the most insurmountable hurdles), but join Gus and Steve as they unveil their years-long labor of love and their plans to combine four of...

David and Ryan are joined for an enlightening and extra-nerdy conversation about Batman’s various conveyances by the very man who designed them. No, not Bruce Wayne. Julian Cadlow, the illustrator, conceptual designer and storyboard artist who began his career on Tim Burton’s classic, Batman ’89. Join the guys as they pepper Julian with questions about his illustrious illustrating career, covering everything from Batman to Aliens to Judge Dredd and painting the wall yellow! SDAMO - Instagram...

These are a few of our favorite things!  It's auction season yet again and the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of has all your delicious and nutritious coverage of the big event in London. We have full-size power loader arms, James Cameron's Aliens script, Batman costumes, Dirk Diggler paintings, the Costumi D'Arte collection, including Cleopatra and a bunch of spaghetti Westerns, Maximus gear, Marauders Maps, ceremonial staffs, McGinnis paintings, full-size Kurgans, a Princess Bride archive, Yoda...

In the event you missed our live broadcast from Sunday, September 29 (what’s wrong with you), you can catch all the fun and live performances of your two favorite podcasts hosts here. Join David and Ryan as they comb through Heritage Auctions’ massive, 900-lot Game of Thrones Auction. They discuss their favorite swords, props, eggs, costumes, armor, helmets, gowns, take audience questions, and pick the worst Prometheus prop in the auction. Valar Bidaeris! Link to catalog PDF to follow along:...

The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of is back for a whole new season, and it begins with a once-in-a-lifetime auction: HBO and Heritage Auctions' official Game of Thrones auction.  In this first of two episodes covering all the auction action, David and Ryan page through the massive catalog and pick their top 10? 15? 20? favorite things from the over 900(!) lots on offer.  Join the guys as they pore over Valyrian steel, faceless faces, shields, banners, thrones (melted and unmelted), famous...

David and Ryan are joined by friend of the podcast and current reigning-champion guest host Rob Klein to discuss a long bandied-about topic on The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of: the great lost props. Props going missing is, of course, a fact of life in our corner of the collecting world, but this episode highlights the biggest of the bigs -- the Yeti, the Second Gunman on the Grassy Knoll, the Loch Ness monsters -- of missing props. That is, those truly iconic "collection-in-one" props that...

It's a change of pace on The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of as David and Ryan class up the joint by sitting down with actual journalist and actual author Chris Nashawaty to discuss his brand new book The Future Was Now, which covers that brilliant 1982 genre summer and the eight science-fiction (and fantasy) masterpieces that came out of it. Especially Conan the Barbarian -- but also The Wrath of Khan, Blade Runner, The Thing, E.T., The Road Warrior, Tron, and Poltergeist. Join the guys as they...

It's a guest-free episode of the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of as David and Ryan discuss what can be one of the most difficult topics for collectors: how to go about slimming down your collection. Collectors spend so much time agonizing about finding and winning this stuff that it can be hard to let go. To help, the guys discuss their individual philosophies on how to know when it's time to move stuff on, how to choose what you're moving on, and maybe how to prevent from ending up with too much...

On a very special episode of The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of, we have one of the producers from House of the Dragon AND the props lady from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul -- and they're the same person! David and Ryan welcome Trina Siopy to the podcast to tell her story of how she climbed the film ladder. From falling out of trucks as a stunt woman to cooking (fake) meth for Breaking Bad to being an on-set producer on House of the Dragon, you're in for quite a tale. And yes, she kept stuff! ...

Another auction has come and gone, so it's time for David and Ryan to do some Monday-morning quarterbacking. Join the guys as they dig into the details of the latest Propstore auction, discussing what they won, what they lost, the big sales of the day (oh my, that Indy hat!), the surprises, the misses, one very (un)fortunate "absentee" bidder... and that new buyer's premium. Did David win the Biker Scout? Does Ryan need to build an addition on his house to display a flying 6-foot logo?...

It’s almost auction time, and The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of is covering all of Propstore’s August EMLA action! David and Ryan are joined by Propstore co-head-honcho Brandon Alinger and Emperor of Marketing Chuck Costas to talk about the auction AND reveal the Season 7 winner of the Dave10/Ryan10 contest. They talk everything from 2001 patches to Tombstone hats including the world’s greatest Stormtrooper blaster and the Biker Scout helmet you definitely should not be bidding on! Join the guys...

The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of dives headfirst into another great Propstore catalog. This one has giant studio-scale models like the '89 Batwing and the Nostromo, American Graffiti license plates, Handbooks for the Recently Deceased, Deckard shirts, Bonnie & Clyde shirts, books stitched together in human skin, Harry Potter wands galore, screen-matched Indiana Jones fedoras!, Men in Black suits, Shining parkas, Douglas Trumbull collections, a screen-matched 60s Trek tricorder, a Biker Scout...

Your favorite props podcast has made it to its landmark 100th episode and the guys are still married. We think. In classic entertainment parlance, 100 episodes means syndication and the real money will start rolling in any minute now! Or at least that's what we're told. Join the guys for a free-wheeling episode that covers everything from the Heritage Auction postmortem to San Diego Comic Con to comic art collecting to Ralph Bakshi-inspired Hummels. Oh, and for the first time, your dashing...

It's HOT-D week on The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of. David and Ryan are joined by Caroline McCall, the S2 costume designer for House of the Dragon. She tells all about the life of a costume designer, including her creative process and what goes into the making of a Targaryen costume. She then goes on to answer all the nerdy questions that the guys can throw at her AND the nerdy questions you listeners threw at her. Fire and Blood! And thread! SDAMO - Instagram...

It's another (taped) live episode for those who missed the live stream on Sunday (what's wrong with you). Catch up on all Ryan and David's final thoughts before the auction begins on Thursday, July 25! That means more Y-Wing and Blade Runner art talk and hand-wringing! The guys also talk Hanukkah letters, Sundance Kid bowlers, Carl Barks (not Banks) art, original Universal horror screen stories, Greg Jein spaceship builds, T2 art, Leia Bikinis, Home Alone costumes, Mandalorian helmets,...

A mere week after The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of's triumphant return to your streaming devices -- there's another auction catalog to comb through! This time, it's Heritage Auctions' July 2024 multi-consignor entertainment memorabilia auction. Join the guys for a deep dive on their "Favorite Things..." There are Orson Welles Letters, John Ford Oscars, Greg-Jein-built Excelsiors, Save the Whales Paintings, full R. Crumb satires, Conan swords, post-war Wonder Woman pages, Star Wars art, Thor...

Your favorite movie props podcast is back! It's Season 8, and we've almost done 100 episodes of this thing. Our wives are so impressed. Tuck in to another delightful hour (plus) with your beloved hosts as they talk about their plans for this season, new acquisitions, their brewing unboxing video cold war, upcoming auctions, whether Dave needs another expensive Star Wars model, their differing-but-increasingly-similar approaches to collecting, Taylor Swift, and yes, even some HOUSE OF THE...

Dave and Ryan answer listeners' questions such as, “When is the season finale?” and provide answers such as, ”This IS the season finale.”  They discuss where they've been this season and what's happening next, and even have the scoop for a big piece (for Dave AND Ryan) that is going under the hammer this summer.  Will this summer finally see the first episode the guys record TOGETHER -- like, in the same room?  Stay tuned, nerds.  Ta ta for now, but we won't be gone fishin' for long. SDAMO -...

David and Ryan are joined by the dazzlingly talented Chris Barton, creature FX artist, artist-artist, and indispensable collectible-display-making artist. Chris talks about his first career making movie-creature-magic, starting with the Henson company (Muppets! Witches! Ninja Turtles! More Muppets!) and going all the way through the Fifth Element, Star Wars, and Harry Potter. He then talks to the guys about his second career: making hundreds and hundreds of prop and costume displays for...

David and Ryan are joined by fellow writer-collector (director-collector?) and Blade Runner obsessive (and expert!) Steve Loter, the executive producer and director of Marvel's Emmy-winning animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur!  Steve talks with the guys about his 40+ years of movie madness and collecting that began at age 11 when he saw Blade Runner for the first time and identified with the ennui of the tired, drunk, and disenfranchised Rick Deckard.  He tells them all he knows...

David and Ryan delve into a topic that sits at the very core of movie memorabilia collecting -- does anyone have ownership rights to this stuff?  Most of our pieces, particularly the classic material that this podcast most often focuses on, were, in the most generous interpretation, dare we say... "liberated" from the sets that they worked on.  Some things were gifted.  Other things were taken.  But does "taken" necessarily mean "stolen?"  It depends.  To illustrate this sticky issue, the...

Much to the delight of at least three people, David and Ryan are back on the mic spittin' truth about fake props. They have returned with new information, new insights, and some proactive thoughts regarding what can be done about the most insidious activity going on in our beloved hobby right now. In pursuit of educating the public, the guys go all the way back to the beginning of The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of and their first topic: "How do you know this stuff is real?" Bonus: how private...

If you missed the last LIVE episode, here it is: a lot later and not so live. David and Ryan cover the three crazy March auctions: Propstore, Planet Hollywood, and the final Greg Jein auction. The guys interact with the pod's most devoted (and least busy, apparently) fans regarding their takeaways from the auctions (C-3POs!), big surprises (Titanic doors!), a great collecting story (whips!) their wins and losses (you have to listen to find out), and what they're thinking about as they go into...

The Stuff Dreams are Made Of figured they'd switch things up a bit and talk about Star Wars for once. So David and Ryan are joined by self-professed "TIE Pilot Lunatic" Jay Swkarlo to talk all things TIE Pilot! This TIE triumverate digs deep into the nerdy chasm of knowledge and answers all the questions you and your mom might ever have had about the TIE Pilot: who made it, how it was made, how many were made, where are they now, what matches, who has them, and will Dave ever complete his TIE...