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Questions tagged [object-identification]

For questions asking for identification of a science fiction or fantasy object. Please include an image of the object, or a link to the object, with the question, For identification of a character use [character-identification] instead and for identification of a story use [story-identification] instead.

Questions about identifying objects in various sci-fi and fantasy. An example would be What are the orange plates on Picard's desk?

The orange plates on Picard's desk from the example question

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What is the bottom left object in this picture of fantasy items?

Recently I found it this picture on facebook. My friends and I have tried to figure out what is the object (or weapon) that appears in the bottom left corner of the picture under Gandalf's staff. What is that object?
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Old fantasy image depicting a kid in a space suit building sandcastles on the moon

I'm looking for an old image seen in the 1980s. Stylistically, it looks like it could have been by Boris Vallejo or Julie Bell (both famous for heroic fantasy covers and pictures), but as far as I know they are not the artists. It did depict a kid…
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This sculpture in google maps looks very familliar - what is it?

I spotted this sculpture on google maps. You can see it slightly left of center behind the weeds... Who or what is it? Update: Here is a new photo 19-Sep-2016:
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What ships are on this T-Shirt?

I came across this T-shirt mentioned on Facebook, with a link to where you can order it from, and got a higher quality image from it. Now, I know most of them: A. Top left : Star Fury - B5 B. Central back: A Stargate - Stargate C. Top right:…
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What movie or fandom is this jewelry from?

My question is about these Bracelets I got at a Garage sale about 3-4 years ago. (because i just liked the way they looked.) But now that I've been looking at them more, I'm wondering if they are from something like a movie. Two of them had like…
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Looking for details on this 'creation': Monod with his Ego-Puppet

Graphic artist Wayne Barlowe published a book Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy, wherein he depicts various creatures and characters from a wide range of fantasy works by different writers including Clive Barker, Michael Moorcock, Robert Howard and…
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Need help in identifying this action figure

I was going through my old toys when i came across this - I remember getting this around 2016-2017 from London, can somebody please help me in identifying this character? I am pretty sure we can rule out Ben 10.
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Triceratops head action figure?

In the early 80s, there was a series of toys that I recall were similar to Masters of the Universe (although probably lower quality). I think that many of them were based on Greek mythology. The one that I had had a triceratops head. I think that…
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What are those robots from?

I found these toys but not sure from where they are from. My guess would be something from Gundam but I'm not sure:
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Can anyone identify the powered exoskeleton in this image?

While cataloging some of my sci-fi assorted images, I found this image that I have in my ‘sci-fi dioramas to-do’ folder. If one considers its appearance, the artwork looks like a sketch of some (nonsense) sort for a sci-fi movie. The only references…
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Can you help identify these ships?

Was browsing the web for a picture of "Highness Ser Armaduke" and stumbled upon this picture. There are Star Wars ships, Star Trek ships, W40K ships, Babylon 5 etc. Can these ships be identified by class? If possible can the Universe the ship hails…
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Language in the Jinx fantasy series

In the Jinx series by Sage Blackwood, there is a language where to speak a sentence, you open the first word in half, insert the second and split in half. Repeat till your sentence is finished. I believe the name of the language starts with…
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Names of all the spacecrafts on the art by Philippe “Manchu" Bouchet

I just saw @retroscifiart's tweet with a neat illustration with lots of spaceships from different movies. Art by Philippe “Manchu" Bouchet. Some of the spaceships are familiar for me, but not all. I would like to know about all of them. To make it…
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Film within a film dinosaur movie in Scarecrow and Mrs King

I remember watching the spy series Scarecrow and Mrs King in the 80's. A few times during the series there was like a dinosaur film being shown on TV screen, big lizards fighting each other. It wasn't one million years BC but seemed the same kind ,…
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Identify a sci-fi painting of a man in a space suit flying just above a horde of aliens

I remember a painting in a book from when I was a child. I think it was an anthology or encyclopaedia of sci-fi or something like that, and it was very large. There were several paintings in the book, but the one that really stood out was of a man…
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