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A gremlin puppet from Joe Dante's Gremlins with a restored face. Chaos ensued after Billy Peltzer's (Zach Galligan) mogwai, Gizmo, multiplied and transformed into mischievous gremlins. While puppets from the sequel remain in some private collections, surviving puppets from the first film are exceedingly rare.

Dante won the Best Director 1985 Saturn Award® for a film whose depictions of violence helped spur the creation of the PG-13 rating within the Motion Picture Association of America's system, and also inspired various films within the subgenre dealing with antagonistic small monsters.

This puppet, made of foam latex cast in the shape of a gremlin's full body over a metal armature, is painted brown with stripes, with red and orange acrylic eyes and pointed yellow teeth. Following production, the puppet underwent sympathetic restoration to rebuild areas around the face where the foam latex had crumbled away with age. The face, which had disintegrated to the extent that little more than the eyes and teeth were left, also had new face skin created based on a 3D scan of another surviving original puppet. Additional minor patching was performed on its chest, shoulders, and wrists. The pupper exhibits minor paint wear from use and age. It is stored flat and cannot stand on its own Dimensions: 25" x 19" x 6.5" (63.5 cm x 48.5 cm x 16.75 cm)

From the collection of Planet Hollywood.

Estimate: $25,000 - 50,000