Gremlins Prop Head on eBay: Resurfaces in the Marketplace

This is an update to the previous Gremlins articles:

As a summary, a prop head from the film Gremlins was listed on eBay in February by eBay seller “slimerhead13” that was marketed as “used in the movie gremlins” that was “acquired directly from Warner Bros”:

Gremlins Movie Prop Horror (eBay Item #120219110301)

Full Auction Archive: eBay Listing slimerhead13 – “Gremlins Movie Prop Horror”

This item appears to have been purchased by eBay member “ovie86“.

eBay seller “ovie86” then appears to have listed the same Gremlins Prop head again early this month:

AUTHENTIC Screen Used Gremlins Head Prop Puppet RARE!!! (eBay Item #220217619870)

Full Auction Archive: eBay Listing ovie86 – “AUTHENTIC Screen Used Gremlins Head Prop Puppet RARE”

This auction was ended early, and apparently sold off eBay.

“ovie86” has subsequently had his eBay membership status changed to “Not a registered user”.

Searching the item number on eBay currently returns the following result, less than three weeks later:

This listing (220217619870) has been removed or is no longer available.
If the listing was removed by eBay, consider it canceled. Note: Listings that have ended more than 90 days ago will no longer appear on eBay.

The Gremlin prop head resurfaced on eBay again yesterday, from “gizmowarrior“, a collector who said he acquired the piece from “ovie86“:

Gremlins (1984) Screen used Prop or Replica Head? (eBay Item #180236098509)

Full Auction Archive: eBay Listing gizmowarrior – “Gremlins (1984) Screen used Prop or Replica Head?”

Note this collector listed the prop in both the “Reproductions” as well as “Original” categories on eBay, and openly questions its authenticity in the very title of the listing (“…Screen used Prop or Replica Head?”).

This is the text from the marketing description:

This Was sold to me as a (screen used gremlin prop from the Snow white movie scene), but just to be safe I’m going to list and sell this as a (replica or a unknown prop) rather then just saying it is infact original because I have my doubts , BUT i’m not 100% sure, so this could be real or it could be a replica. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO TELL ME THIS IS REAL AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO TELL ME THIS MIGHT BE FAKE, so I’m not really sure what to list this as …

I’m not sure who made this or where it came from . I was told it came from a hollywood auction, but i’m not going to say that is true.

The prop Or (replica prop) came with a tag and a photo with A prop Id number … that is all I have that came with the item.

If you’re looking for a one of a kind replica or a great version Of the Original, then this would be the item for you!. Since i’m not sure is this gremlin head is real, then I can’t come out and directly say this was ( film used in gremlins), but if you think it is, then feel free to bid .

I’m going to start this auction at a very low price .

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Thanks,

and good luck on the auction.

In any event, the auction was ended early today with the following reason noted:

The seller ended this listing early because the item is no longer available for sale.

Jason De Bord