Hey peeps,
I'm on the hunt for the Brinkmann 6in1 torch that Ripley and Bishop used in Aliens and there is only 1 place I can find it where the person is asking £520 for it plus £95 postage which I think is ridicolously high for what it is. Does anyone have a source for one at all? I know they are difficult to find but hoping someone can help me out.
Cheers,
raiden58237

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Colonial Administrator
"Tell him as far as I'm concerned, if he finds something it is his"

Pretty sure someone printed one over on the RPF [I think]; might be worth asking them if they'd sell the file / the print. I'll have a look later and see if I can find the thread.

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Cpl Aron "septic" Williams
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I checked RPF unless I missed it. Might have been shown under another thread. I will have to dig into this to see what I can find.

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Colonial Administrator
"Tell him as far as I'm concerned, if he finds something it is his"

They are an incredible brittle plastic unlike torches today… I have one… I love the way they adapted these for the film… a wiring adjustment I believe to ensure that the fluorescent light was on at the same time as the torch… and a powerful bulb as well (as the original would be so weak a moth would struggle to find it).

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"Errr... Roger that's a 2-1-6..."

Found it, but apologies; it's not a print [I could remember some of pics of the torch sitting on a printer bed ... ]
Thread is here, just as an FYI, as is very good/detailed re re-wiring the torch.

Good luck with your search (and again, sorry for the 'false hope' re an available model).
You could try and contact James Forder; if you're on Facebook, join this group and make an interest/request post re the colony torch (I'll @ James for you in the post).

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Cpl Aron "septic" Williams
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Looks like the prop maker has put a lot of work into their replica and it's really good. Sadly I'm a bit lazy and would prefer to try and buy one that doesn't require as much work but we'll wait and see lol.

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Colonial Administrator
"Tell him as far as I'm concerned, if he finds something it is his"

I'm also interested in one, but I'll settle for "close enough" and/or "damaged" as I plan to use it as (of all things) a work light/flashlight.

So I won't pay $500 for one.

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Assistant Superintendent Leach,
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I have two of these brinkman lights One is a 5 and 1 The other one is a four in one which has the strap bracket broken both work did not know they made a 6 in 1

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I may be synthetic, but im not stupid.

In the torch community are they considered rare/valuable or is it just us nerds pushing the prices up?

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I’m presuming it’s the connection to ALIENS… they’re a brittle plastic torch and are not as rock and roll in real life as they appear in the film. They had spotlight bulbs in them and likely (?) a suped up power source and they were required to have multiple lamps lit such as the strip light as well as the flashlight…

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"Errr... Roger that's a 2-1-6..."