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Interview with FX legends Phil Tippett, Jon Berg and Dennis Muren

We’ve added a great video to our Youtube channel where Tom sat down with legendary FX artists Phil Tippett, Jon Berg and Dennis Muren for a length chat about their work, their inspirations and stop motion FX. It was originally recorded to discu...

Mandalorian inspired T-Shirt Cannon for Star Wars Celebration

Turning a t-shirt cannon into a Mandalorian inspired t-shirt launcher for the Star Wars Show live at SWCC! A couple of years ago our friends at Lucasfilm asked us to create a Star Wars inspired t-shirt cannon to be used by The Star Wars Show live for...

Pics and Video from Star Wars Celebration!

Pics and Video from Star Wars Celebration Chicago with our sister company, Regal Robot! What an incredible show Star Wars Celebration Chicago was! In addition to the Regal Robot booth, Tom was invited as a guest and was seen on three panels and sever...

Lifesized Rancor Costume for Magic Wheelchair

Lifesized Rancor Costume for Liam – a very special project with Magic Wheelchair and their Epic Star Wars Event! We were honored and excited to be asked by Magic Wheelchair to be one of their builders for this year’s San Diego Comic Co...

Alien Mask and Costume rentals for Nerdist’s Lando Gambino Video

Some familiar looking alien mask and costume rentals! In honor of the highly anticipated Solo film, Nerdist created a video tribute to everyone’s favorite smuggler and one of the coolest characters in the Star Wars universe. “Lando Gambino �...

Tom at X, the Moonshot Factory (formerly Google X) for May the 4th!

Tom Spoke at X, the Moonshot Factory (formerly Google X) for Their May the 4th Event! X, the Moonshot Factory held an outstanding Star Wars Day event this year.  Tom was invited to be a keynote speaker along with Lucasfilm’s Pablo Hidalgo, pro...

The Star Wars Show Visits the TSD Studio!

The Star Wars Show Visits the TSD Studio! This week, The Star Wars Show visits the Tom Spina Designs studio! Host Anthony Carboni gives viewers a behind the scenes look at our shop and some of our Star Wars aliens and creatures, as well as the lice...

VIDEO Mark Hamill cantina with our costumes on the Late Show

VIDEO – Mark Hamill cantina scene, featuring some of our costumes on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert! We’ve been lucky to work with the great folks over at the Late Show with Stephen Colbert several times now (some examples can be fou...

VIDEO – Adam Savage at our sister company, Regal Robot

NEW VIDEO – Behind the Scenes at our sister company, Regal Robot, with Adam Savage! When Adam was here shooting a video about our movie prop restoration work with Tested.com, Tom also took him behind the scenes of our new sister company, Regal...

VIDEO Adam Savage Visits Our Studio to Talk Restoration

In this video Adam Savage stops by our studio to talk with Tom about our work restoring original props and creatures! Tested has a great series called “Maker Spaces” and in this video Adam Savage came by our studio to talk at length with ...

Paintball Blaster Props for the Star Wars Show

Paintball Blaster Props for an EA Battlefront 2 “In Real Life” Episode of The Star Wars Show! After we had so much fun converting a t-shirt cannon into a Star Wars-style launcher weapon for our friends at The Star Wars Show, we were thr...

Tom a guest on The Adam Savage Project Podcast

Tom was a special guest on the Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project where the trio talked prop restoration and Stranger Things 2! While out in San Fransisco Tom stopped by “The Cave” to chat with our friends Adam Savage and Norm Chan o...

Tom featured on the Star Wars Show

Tom featured on the Star Wars Show! The June 21st episode of The Star Wars Show featured Tom as a guest for a great interview with the show’s cohost, Andi Gutierrez.  The pair discussed our company’s work restoring original props for c...

Chewbacca Mask for Adam Savage

Making a Chewbacca mask for famed Mythbuster, Adam Savage’s costume at Silicon Valley Comic Con Tom and Adam have known each other for some time, tracing back to the RPF prop forum.  Adam’s mentioned our studio’s restoration work ...

Star Wars Prop T-Shirt Cannon for the Star Wars Show

Turning a t-shirt launcher into a Star Wars prop t-shirt cannon for the Star Wars Show live at SWCO! UPDATE – May the 4th, 2019 – we’ve added a new video below of a montage from Star Wars Celebration Chicago where lots of additiona...

Appearances at Star Wars Celebration Orlando!

Star Wars Celebration Orlando was a whirlwind of activity for TSD, Tom and our new venture, Regal Robot! Tom was once again invited as a guest to Star Wars Celebration this year.  The show was a flurry of activity for our crew, as Tom did interview...

Helping bring Grand Moff Tarkin back to Star Wars

Lending a hand… and a head… to Rogue One, A Star Wars Story. Peter Cushing lifecast helps recreate Grand Moff Tarkin. ABC news today ran a great story about pioneering effects company ILM’s efforts to bring Peter Cushing back to Sta...

Gonk Droid Costume for the Star Wars Show

A custom, wearable Gonk Droid costume made for the Star Wars Show’s Holiday Special. We were contacted by our friends over at the Star Wars Show to create a custom wearable gonk droid costume, for one of their most recent (and hilarious) Holida...

Stephen Colbert Fencing Mask for The Late Show

A custom Stephen Colbert fencing mask created for his duel with US Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad on The Late Show. We recently had an amazing time creating our Sammy the Salmon puppet  for a segment on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. When the...

Sammy the Salmon Puppet – Late Show with Stephen Colbert

A custom sculpted realistic salmon puppet for a comedy news segment on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. We are all huge Stephen Colbert fans here at TSD, so when our friends at CBS’s the Late Show contacted us about creating a latex rubber s...

SNL Undercover Boss Adam Driver Star Wars Kylo Ren Skit

Did you catch the SNL Undercover Boss sketch with Adam Driver? We had fun dressing Adam Driver in his original Kylo Ren costume for a hilarious Star Wars skit on Saturday Night Live. We’ve become known for our work creating Star Wars alien cos...

Alien Mask and Costume rentals for TBS Samantha Bee Show

Some familiar looking alien mask and costume rentals! You may have seen our aliens in this TBS promo playing in theaters along with Star Wars, the Force Awakens.  Shooting in New York City’s La Caverna, a wonderfully cave themed bar, our ali...

Star Wars Alien Costume Rentals for Toy Commercial

Star Wars alien costume rentals for a cantina commercial for Box Busters. Our custom Star Wars alien masks and costumes were featured in this great toy commercial from Spin Master Toys features their wonderful “Box Busters” toys.  The co...

Rick Baker Auction Conservation & Display for Prop Store

The Prop Store Rick Baker Auction: Conservation and Display Work “Rick Baker is my hero. It’s as simple as that. That goes for most of our crew here as well. To be given the opportunity to help preserve and prepare a large number of items...

Alien Costumes for Star Wars Celebration Cantina Video

We provided cantina alien costumes for Star Wars Celebration! When Lucasfilm and their sponsor chose the Mos Eisley cantina as their stage set for their live feed, they knew who to call for rental of alien costumes for Star Wars Celebration!  Our S...

Interview with StarWars.com at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim

Interview with StarWars.com at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim We were excited that Tom was invited to the huge Star Wars Celebration Anaheim this year.  A host of our cantina alien masks and custom costumes used for a variety of videos and interview...

Cantina Costumes May the 4th Lucasfilm & Youtube Videos

Our cantina costumes and masks make an appearance on May the 4th! Lucasfilm and Youtube hired us for a large group of Star Wars cantina costumes and mask rentals and to be a part of three new videos created by three top Youtube channels to promote &...

Star Wars Alien Costumes for Nerdist “West Coast” Cantina Video

Star Wars Alien Costumes and Masks for Nerdist Our Star Wars alien costumes and custom made masks brought us back to the famous Mos Eisley Cantina with Nerdist Industries for a music video. This time, we created 18 aliens (masks, hands, costumes), wi...

Video Interview from Sideshow Collectibles

Video Interview from Sideshow Collectibles Want to learn more about exactly what we do here at Tom Spina Designs?  Or about our approach to restoration or displays? Or if you want to hear more about our favorite projects from the man himself. Then c...

Star Wars Cantina Commercial – Costumes for Super Bowl Ad

Helping fill the bar at a Star Wars Cantina commercial for the Super Bowl! Our alien masks and costumes help a return to the Mos Eisley cantina!  When Volkswagen followed up their wildly successful “Vader kid” commercial, they did it by...
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