Adam Savage Meets MacReady's Hat from The Thing!

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[@nateharder2286]

Oh come on, man, you didn't show the inside of the hat!!! What's on the tag!!

[@Thomas_Esson]

@@nateharder2286 All the listing describes is a size tag reading 7 1/8.

[@xnonsuchx]

The thumbnail confused me because I was like, “Isn’t that Sark’s helmet from TRON?”

[@JosephDavies]

Same here.

[@Veldaren]

Yeah man, I was like: "waaait..."

[@davidmorgan7057]

Lol, same

[@TheChangB]

It was the only reason I clicked on the video. 😂

[@nathanbabiuk6286]

No

[@VFRSTREETFIGHTER]

I like how Stephen asks about the style and origin of the type of hat and Adam is so excited he doesn't even come close to answering him.

[@eugenevictortooms4174]

Haha, I noticed that. The hat is a mix of an American cavalry hat and a Mexican sombrero. I have been trying to get a good replica of this hat for years, but as far as I can tell, nobody can get the band right.

[@Holeyguagaamoley]

I worked in the Arctic for 3 years and let me tell you in that isolation you do what the hell you want to stop from going crazy. People wear tropical shirts and straw hats to remind themselves of the sun. McReady’s hat equals isolation,great detail from Carpenter.

[@jinstinky501]

Still, you gotta keep your head warm. He's wearing that hat 24/7.

[@anonymes2884]

"A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything." :-)

[@willmfrank]

Shiny

[@artfx9]

Not a thing

[@KatieWilliams1990x]

Everyone here is going mad for the MacReady hat, yet here I am exclusively geeking out over the Tron helmet. Don't try to change me.

[@flyingardilla143]

I first saw The Thing at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. I thought it was a weird VHS to have laying around there until I started watching it.

[@AlexDiesTrying]

Tron may have some silly bits but boy, it's one of the forever milestones of my life. Few movies ever have been visually as unique.

[@Nebulous6]

Sark's helmet looks super-fragile. Amazing that it's still intact. Such a neat design.

[@donaldneill4419]

David Warner was an awesome villain. And when that movie came out, it blew my teenaged mind. And yes, '82 was the greatest year ever for movies.

[@brewmasterbscribz]

The MacReady hat is a standard campaign hat that would be common in military and law enforcement environments, aka the Smokey bear hat. In MacReady’s case the front and back brim have been creased up over time, which makes sense for the hat of a helicopter pilot, shoving it on and off in a cockpit over time. If you want the real deal, Dave at DbarJ hat company is the guy who made it for the film (as far as I’ve been told) and takes custom hat orders

[@willyk882]

I think the brim is much wider than a campaign hat

[@kendrashepard6624]

I ADORE THE THING it's my FAVE movie ever and this is soooooooooo frickin cool!!!!!!!!

[@ezioauditoredafirenze8352]

Let's shout more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@DenisRyan]

I love the casual friendship between Adam and Stephen in this video.

[@JawsBites]

The hat was made in San Antonio Texas from Paris Hatters. I talked to the owner and they got a work order from Universal Studios.

[@korrupt5196]

Love how there is Red Dwarf props in the opening credits 😎

[@WonkoTheSaneUK]

Not just any Red Dwarf prop - That's "Ace" Rimmer's ship from Dimension Jump!

[@korrupt5196]

@WonkoTheSaneUK yes it is... the best of his spaceships imo, pity his wig hasn't been found yet lol 😆

[@daveco1270]

I saw the MacReady hat in the auction catalogue and thought "there's no way Adam doesn't do a video about this one."

[@ZiddersRooFurry]

1982 was also the year my all-time favorite film came out-The Secret of NIMH. :) I was eight years old.

[@AlexDiesTrying]

NIMH has its moments for sure... and a very beautiful soundtrack.

[@alexstewart839]

Summer 82 was crazy for good movies! The Thing and Blade Runner came out on the same weekend in June and ET had only come out two weeks prior. Then Secret of Nimh was like the week after those.

[@BROON71]

3:07 Macready's hat is based on the US Army's 'Campaign Hat' from the early 1900's...

[@hurricanexanax]

And I just watched some bits of the laserdisc commentary where Carpenter and Russell and laughing HARD over how silly the hat was

[@BeatenAtv]

That movie still gets me. Such a great movie.

[@andrewirving4743]

Now I am going to be going and rewatching tron!

[@shubinternet]

@3:12 - Steven asks what kind of hat this was originally. To me, it looks a lot like a Boy Scout hat we used to wear way back when, which I believe was called a “Baden Powell” hat. But our brims had to be kept perfectly flat, whereas this one obviously has had the brims turned up. So, I’m not sure what this might have started life as.

[@Jerhevon]

Rewatching the movie and commenting how video game design speaks of character silhouettes so you can recognize them at a distance. That hat, as unique as it was, and the other character costumes too. Even all bundled up in the artic darkness at a distance and you can tell who's who.

[@denialdesign]

I'd say either a scout hat, like in Indy and the last crusade, or a RCMP Mountie hat.

[@weezercollector]

We welcomed David Warner into our full sized TARDIS replica a few years ago when he was a guest at Big Finish convention - he was absolutely lovely and spent time with us, posing for photos and signing our TARDIS. A class actually. 😁👌

[@eckharteric]

This is such great timing! My partner and I watched the thing last night, and as soon as we finished I showed them your MacReady cosplay video.

[@tested]

Awesome!

[@terencem8795]

The Thing with Kurt Russell, is by far my favorite film of that genre.

[@Kris_A]

1982 absolutely was the best year for films. Hands down.

[@nbsmith100]

here just for the Sark's helmet XD

[@Bayan1905]

My favorite horror movie to this day. I first saw it in 1982-1983 when I was 6-7 years old with my father. I was never scared but I loved it and still do.

[@ftumptch86]

@ 0:06 if it isnt Ace Rimmer's Lightship. What a guy.

[@rococoblue]

🎩 Adam knows his hats.

[@TeeJMultipliedBy17]

I love the Shawn of the Dead costumes in the background

[@colinodonnell7264]

Ace Rimmer's ship from Red Dwarf at 0:06!

[@mooferoo]

And a Starbug in the cabinet next to it at 0:17

[@_evildoer]

Dude was nervous as fuck with Adam waving his hands millimeters away from the model

[@xtraflo]

Great - now I'm going to have to watch The Thing again !

[@gorequillnachovidal]

1982 had the best special effects ever: tron, the thing, blade runner. period

[@billthomas2652]

I think I spent almost as much time looking at the behind the scenes photos of Tron as I did looking at the actual movie! So, no, that helmet looks exactly like it's supposed to to me. Now I need to go watch Tron again.

[@Joe3pops]

Kurt's role as MacReady, the helicopter pilot, with suggested Vietnam War past experience was superbly done. His and doctors excursion to the other camp, Kurt wielded that M-37 Ithaca riotgun, exploring the decimated encampment, like he knew this long gun intimately. The hallmark of a combat veteran.

[@tex4586]

I've heard that McCready hat was in "the three amigos" movie you get a good look on the " plethora" seen. So when Kurt Russell said it was a "Sombrero" it was that. With a few changes added by wardrobe for "the thing".

[@billbucktube]

Hats, helmets, props!

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@davidrefo8716]

How about showing a still or clip from the movies showing the prop/ costumes in use? Context.

[@jerryjohnson4618]

The Thing is my favorite scary movie of all time.

[@anime0dude]

i 100% did the pointing meme when i saw the tron helmet

[@captlazer5509]

The crumpled up sombrero, dumping booze into a computer, calling Norwegians "Swedes" ...one of the best establishments of a don't give AF hero character for a horror movie ever.

[@lacrossed55]

Oh wooooow!! Love it. Love this hat. Our replicas are pretty accurate Adam!!!! I need you to fix up my "chin strap"

[@8zone256]

That’s epic omg 😱

[@pieps2220]

Love your videos adam

[@traumgeist]

It’s the prototype of the Urban Sombrero from J Petermans.

[@danielmkubacki]

Wow! So cool!

[@jphellify]

Just watched again last night

[@sonnieandjacob]

😮😮😮😮😮😮. You signed my macready hat in kc. As well as keith david same day

[@KrisGoble]

Yes!

[@nathkrupa3463]

Great video sir ❤😊

[@reyluna9332]

That's a nice picture of McReady's hat.

[@TRCFL]

I got this feeling that guy was getting annoyed at Adam’s over enthusiastic handling of that Tron prop. Near the end when he’s rotating the prop and that thin side detail starts bending, even I was cringing. I’ve said it before, but Adam’s penchant to “hand talk” is going to accidentally damage something.

[@Chef_Alpo]

I guess they don't vote on whether to risk another Adam visit.

[@falconwind00]

I imagine, you break it, you buy it. And Adam could probably afford it even though he’s not “rich”. It’s also probably insured.

[@sethfg]

Having been a hockey player. I had the same helmet they used in Tron. So as a kid it was an early intro to props in movies that were often everyday items that passed simply because the majority of the audience didn’t know what they were. Biggest example being the lightsaber. Which I didn’t know the origin of until way into adulthood. Wish I could think of some of the other obvious ones… pretty sure the X-wing “pilot” gloves are just welding gloves. Also remember an episode of Dr. Who where a glue gun was a laser gun. That one seemed lazy, but those were so cheaply made that it was lead into gold level alchemy.

[@variouscheeses]

"Nobody's gonna laugh at me the next time I make a Sark helmet out of paper towel rolls!"

[@londonkiltmanreview1955]

The full headdress second piece looks like the headdress from chronicles of Riddick, the bad guy monster half dead leader looks the same style of headaches

[@joeepicgamer_]

Gotta love the nostromo shirt.

[@HoLd_My_Beer_Thanks]

Sark’s helmet….WOW!! 😮 - Tron was my ALL TIME movie as a boy in 1982 👍

[@benink6521]

i think MacReady’s hat is a campaign hat or boss of the plains blank that was coustumed up for the film. thats just a guess :)

[@Twisted_Logic]

If I had to guess, it looks like it's a Stetson with lemon squeezer creasing on top, and I have no idea what to call the creasing on the brim.

[@Sonofdonald2024]

7 seconds? Was that Ace Rimmers ship from Red Dwarf?

[@JJHewable]

I need this.

[@Oldtanktapper]

First thought was it looks like the frontiersman’s hat from Blazing Saddles, but it’s not quite right. Could be an unfinished hat that’s been on the basic mould but not yet had its brim cut and formed, and then been ‘customised’. Or, as someone above mentioned, a Boy Scouts hat that’s been modified.

[@blahorgaslisk7763]

That helmet from Tron... I saw it and I said to myself that it was the helmet the bad guy had in Tron. But surely that couldn't be it, I had to be wrong. After all it's forty years since I saw that movie once at the cinema. How could I recognize it? And it turned out I was right... I loved that movie back when it was released, but have never seen it since. Strange that it stuck so well in my mind.

[@paulshouse524]

I always thought that the hat was entirely practical for an ex-USMC helicopter pilot who needed protection from the sun but also needed to look straight up overhead. And that in itself informs the character.

[@mojolycan2148]

I always wanted that hat

[@savage1469]

My favorite movie 🍿

[@TALON80s]

Why does the thumbnail not match the title?

[@DW-indeed]

[@bbb462cid]

MMMMmmmmMMmmm welllll...if you were a fan of the Thing from the get-go despite the reviews in '82 and now you've seen how it's more universally acclaimed.....it's easy to argue it's a complete movie.

[@anthonylockwood1879]

Holy s*** holy s***, holy s***Holy shit, that is awesome.

[@ajlacostewm]

Where's a photo of him wearing the hat?

[@mikejackson3028]

I wondered if it was some brand name hat originally like a Stetson? There seems to be some sort of brand in the inside?

[@Thomas_Esson]

All the listing describes is a size tag reading 7 1/8.

[@mikejackson3028]

@@Thomas_Esson That's disappointing to know. I wonder what Adam used to make his? From scratch or what? I guess I could go look it up in the RPF if I cared enough. Things about film props are often funny. Like the Keaton Batman suit - so much money put into those on the cowl and capes and I saw one at a Warner Bros store and the 'boots' where just a upper grieves or whatever you call that shin part over Reebok sneakers painted black - which makes some sense that no one is really looking at Batman's feet and the Reeboks would have been a zillion times more comfy than leather boots. So it was a money-saver too that they didn't have to have custom made boots and the shin upper parts were just made of black vinyl over whatever to look plausibly boot-like. And they had the 'grappling gun' prop too he uses to lift him and Vicky Vale who lies about her weight which was hilarious in the film. It looked FANTASTIC on screen, but in person was clearly kludged together out of random bits of metal junk and looked awful behind glass. But on screen they totally got away with it. The sequence in the film is of his belt I think where he pulls it off, asks Vicky how much she weighs, then a down shot of him firing it into the sky, a closeup of the hook grabbing something and then an actual off-camera winch or maybe a bunch of union guys on ropes pulling them up out of frame and PRESTO - grappling gun illusion! And I feel sure someone has reverse-engineered how to make that non-working prop actually a real reel thing because it's how prop nerds think. All those scifi props make nerd go to Life imitating Art!

[@Thomas_Esson]

@@mikejackson3028 Adam's came from The Last Best West.

[@williamr3840]

Isn't Eli Wallach wearing a hat like that in The Magnificent Seven? Also one of the characters in one of the spaghetti westerns starring Clint? :0)

[@creato938]

Adam, you gotta buy that hat.

[@GearboxEnt]

Was Stephen doing some light drywalling or plastering right before getting on camera?

[@rong1924]

A man wears a hat like that you know he's not afraid of any thing.

[@Luka1180]

You should be careful not to touch your face and then the prop….

[@Veldaren]

while me here is thinking about all the spit that may drop on it from talking

[@peterkallend5012]

I'm sure they know what they're doing.

[@richtheobald4390]

Adam was talking so close to it. I was thinking they should be wearing masks as well 😅 For some reason, he always makes me worry about the prop when he is close to it even though I know he has the greatest respect for them all!

[@johanstahl1497]

Kurt Russell called that hat as sombrero. And he hates it at first. 😆

[@jiubboatman9352]

I want to see more of Ace Rimmers project Wilfire ship (Stoke me a clipper) from Red Dwarf.

[@Thomas_Esson]

You can see multi-angle high-res images in the catalog linked above.

[@electroniclids8266]

amazing

[@grimmer2005]

I wonder what they could do with the TRON original film (before effects) if they put modern technology into it today.

[@TheGreatAtario]

Put that Sark helmet in a case with the right lighting and you could almost replicate the film's effect

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

it's smaller than i expected (partial snake pliskin pun;-) )

[@MrDarthT]

Sark's helmet from tron reminds me a bit of the male Quarian helmets from Mass Effect.

[@0525loki]

Both of these should be in a museum, not sitting in a private collection.

[@Thomas_Esson]

Lots of incredible film artifacts are in museums, in a large part thanks to private collectors. But there aren't enough presently to accept (let alone display) everything, and the market continues to drive new discoveries. If you'd like to see more in museums, your best method of influencing that is to frequently visit current museum collections and encourage others to do so. In my experience over the years, I've found prop and costume exhibits to be rarely swarming with visitors to the same degree as more mainstream fine art.

[@videoviewr]

0:06 Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!

[@JAAGen01]

Concerning MacReady's hat. It could be a widebrim campaign hat like some people have said. The same style of hat you'd see a Park Ranger or a Drill Sergeant wearing for instance. Based on the size of the brim and that grass band though it might be a working felt sombrero, a lot of them have that same distinct pinched 4 corner crown like the campaign hat. I live in South Texas and very occasionally you'll see an older ranchero walking around in a hat very similar to that. That being said I've never seen either of those styles of hats folded like that though. Probably a character thing they did for the movie.

[@jeanmalo7173]

With Alien, 1979 was the year of the movie revolution...nobody had seen anything like that movie up to date...stay safe everyone!

[@GeorgeSweet]

It's a campaign hat. My dad said Mac got in Vietnam or at least that's what he's always inferred from it.

[@iowa_don]

MacReady's Hat!!! WOW!! How did Kurt Russell let that get away??

[@Irish39100]

When is the Spider head thing part showing up ,that creeps me out big time.

[@dannyortman5125]

It’s a Sombrero!

[@purefoldnz3070]

Bring in the logic probe!

[@bbb462cid]

First Goddamn week of winter

[@sQuEeZyMaN13]

“Whaaiiit, I neeed thaaat!”

[@Trufriend61]

David Warner probably whinnied at some point wearing that headpiece! It looks too much like a funky bridle! ~Chris and Brian

[@415s30]

Just watch the making of Tron, it was fucking insane.

[@francissobotka8725]

In the mandelorean they used a toy helmet as abprop.