Rimmer's V Costume Up For Grabs
Just a quickie Prop Store article - but we thought this was a bit special. Firstly, the odd few bits: Cat's Purple Costume from Justice is going for £779; and Kochanski's Silver Costume from Pete is going for £625. If there's one thing we've learnt about Officer BB from all this, it's that she loves Miss Selfridge's stuff.
More interesting is this - Mrs Rimmer's Letter from the start of Dimension Jump. Now, I've slagged off The Prop Store for being sloppy with their descriptions before, but I'm incredibly impressed that they've gone to the trouble to find out about the Space Corps heading on the letter when it's supposed to be from Rimmer's school (GNP explain it away as a mistake from the prop guys). The date "23rd April 2590" is exactly the kind of thing to upset the continuity people, as in IV the crew is supposed to have hailed from the 23rd century. And I'm sure "Yours smeggingly ROGER MOORE" will enter my phrasebook for life.
But here's the corker. Fancy a classic Rimmer Red Uniform, as seen throughout Series V? Do you? DO YOU? I fucking well do, and I hate costumes normally. And what the smeg's this? £1095. And you had the front to borrow money off me, to buy me a birthday present? And all that malarky. The worst thing is, you could probably pull at Dimension Jump by wearing that.
Hooray!
Comments
John Hoare wants Rimmer's series V costume so that he has something to wear in bed while his pyjamas are in the wash, he said.
Posted by Lavish Menus at February 17, 2004 10:12 PM
Well i love the uniforms, no not that nurses one, the Red Dwarf ones have some superb style and looks it's a pity that you don't get all the badges and pips that originaly were on them, we can't have it all can we? a great item, and maybe just maybe it will be mine..;)
Posted by Drumjay at February 17, 2004 11:14 PM
Fun fact: Rimmer's badge is the badge from the Golgafrinchan B-Ark captain's hat in Hitch-Hikers, turned upside down.
Posted by Ian Symes at February 17, 2004 11:41 PM
And THAT was one of several badges from the hat of the Rancid in episode 4 of the Doctor Who series "Inshapelies Goil", turned sideways. So there.
Posted by Vanity Fairline at February 18, 2004 11:36 AM
I'm quite shocked that Ace's letter isn't given any added detail, though we never saw the letter, we didn't even see Lister's apology in "Kytie TV" and it was given more detail...Strange concidering most people prefer "Dimension Jump" over "Krytie Tv"!
Posted by MJN SEIFER at February 18, 2004 04:12 PM
Rimmer had some great costumes. I want them all.
Posted by Tanya Jones at February 18, 2004 06:08 PM
And his willy, too.
Posted by John Hoare at February 18, 2004 06:13 PM
Another couple of uniform interesting facts. The uniforms in the episode The End were made before the electricians strike, and because of the delay between filming, they either got lost or remade, if you have a look at the second technician badge on Rimmer's costume the braiding changes from green to gold in the first couple of scenes, and if you like Crimetraveller like I do, Chloe's caretaker has the exact same uniform as Rimmer does in the very first scene of Red Dwarf...
Posted by Drumjay at February 18, 2004 06:21 PM
Excellent factoids!
Posted by Cappsy at February 18, 2004 06:24 PM
But The End was shot along with all the other shows; no shooting took place before the strike...
Posted by John Hoare at February 18, 2004 06:37 PM
Drumjay, haven't *you* got the uniform Rimmer wears in the first scene of Red Dwarf?
Posted by Ian Symes at February 18, 2004 07:02 PM
Yeah I have Ian, it was originally sold in the Bonhams auction in 1993 and I wore it in the costume comp at last years DJ and I still didn't win! Apparently some naked bloke was in it ;) And John is right, it must have been another reason, maybe he got some major nuclear explosion all over it...
Posted by Drumjay at February 18, 2004 10:09 PM
To be fair, you're supposed to make your own costume for a fancy dress compo...
I can't remember who won. Was it Gannon? Again, it's not much of a costume.
Posted by Ian Symes at February 18, 2004 10:24 PM
This is an excellent trivia thread. Far better than "DONA DI STEFANO WAS KOCHANSKI IN STASIS LEAK!!!!!!!!!".
Posted by John Hoare at February 18, 2004 10:35 PM
Not OT:
Hattie Hay has just spoken about Jim Davidson in Channel Five docu.
Trying to find tape to record end.
Posted by Blake at February 18, 2004 10:53 PM
Bugger - looks like I missed her.
Nevermind eh.
Posted by Blake at February 18, 2004 11:00 PM
No, Ian I didn't win. Simon Smith as Kryten won. A girl called... ok I can't remember what she was called got second prize for being a Psiren, and I got third prize, for being naked (well donning a pink thong to cover my bits). Well, I suppose that would make me 'a' winner.
I spoze I won the greatest prize of all - being featured on the DVD :)
Paul Gannon, aka Paul (TRD)
Posted by Paul at February 19, 2004 12:54 PM
To be fair, you're supposed to make your own costume for a fancy dress compo...
Yeah it was a bit naughty really, but it was good fun to do, the costumes were of very high standard, hard to beat anyway, Paul had the balls as it were to do it so he deserved a prize, the winner Simon in the Kryten costume was from Red Dwarf the other movie and was really well made...
Posted by Drumjay at February 19, 2004 07:26 PM
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