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Electronics => Projects, Designs, and Technical Stuff => Topic started by: calexanian on April 05, 2014, 05:01:47 am
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My Apologies if this has already been mentioned.
Just noticed while watching Iron Man 3 that tony stark uses (Dare I say prefers) the Weller WES51station. In the scene where he is making his little impromptu arsenal he has a WES51 iron he is using left handed in his motel room.
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Clearly they got something else wrong in the movie. I'm sure in the comics he prefers Hakko. >:D
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Well at least its not some no brand super cheap china export, you usually get from hardware store when making these sort of movies where electronics construction is part of movie plot..
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Well at least its not some no brand super cheap china export, you usually get from hardware store when making these sort of movies where electronics construction is part of movie plot..
I hate when they do that. Apex Electronics is a place where many production companies rent stuff to use as props. Dave has a video there. I shop there monthly and have a chuckle at the expence of the movie people when they are in there. Watch daves video of the place. Priceless. Tony Stark strikes me as a Metcal/OKI man. Lots of tech in one of those. Actually I would have rather seen a big old Simpson or Triplet meter than that non auto ranging DMM in the avengers. At least that would have been retro cool. I saw a HP 200 generator in the background of a movie recently. We need to offer our tech movie set design review services. O0
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Bruce Wayne had what looks like a Weller WTCPN in the second Batman movie.
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Sure those two multibillionaires could afford a Metcal. I can barely conceive spending $25 per tip and changing them often, but I'm no Batman nor Iron Man.
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:-DD
And in Battleship there is Anritsu spectrum analyzer :)
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Just noticed while watching Iron Man 3 that tony stark uses (Dare I say prefers) the Weller WES51station. In the scene where he is making his little impromptu arsenal he has a WES51 iron he is using left handed in his motel room.
It's called product placement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement)
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Well duh. What do you think Captain America would think of a Hakko?...
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I seriously doubt Weller paid Marvel to use their solder station over another brand.
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I seriously doubt Weller paid Marvel to use their solder station over another brand.
The practice in this case they would use a generic non branded prop.
Product placement is a service they sell and they typically don't want to give it for free.
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Proof that product placement works: this thread exists. People notice.
Thank you for giving in to every minuscule demand they make >:D
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product placement is a big business. Even though I only knew what it was is because, well, I know what it was, and they know that. I am sure a few dollars changes hands. The green light was even blinking so it was on and hot! Not so obvious like a coke can on a desk (Always my favorite over obvious product placement) but people in electronics will obviously recognize it for what it was. Fun fun fun...
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Bah, I thought for sure he'd be using some sort of steered plasma soldering tool or a prototype sonic screwdriver.
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Just noticed while watching Iron Man 3 that tony stark uses (Dare I say prefers) the Weller WES51station. In the scene where he is making his little impromptu arsenal he has a WES51 iron he is using left handed in his motel room.
It's called product placement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement)
I've always wondered on specialty products if that is the case. No doubt, when you see Coke in a movie, Coke paid for it. But if you see a Beretta instead of a Glock, or the other way around, is that a product placement? I don't know. Did Desert Eagle pay out it's ass to have the Matrix Agents armed with those things, or did the The Wachowskis just think they looked really, really cool?
Subway's annoying and very obvious product placement saved 'Chuck' for at least two seasons. Small price to pay... If you don't like it, don't buy it.
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i loved the specturm analyzer scene in battleship!
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In this case I think it was good. There are some far worse choices out there than that iron. As long as Microsoft does not try to make Jarvis we are fine. Or google for that matter.
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In this case I think it was good. There are some far worse choices out there than that iron. [...snip...]
You can say this out loud. The movie "Gravity" had a budget of approx. US$ 100 Million, and still they could not afford better soldering tools than a ZD-931; as seen here in the "Making Of Gravity: Space Tech" featurette. (The panels shown in the picture are meant to be parts of the instrument panels of the Chinese Soyuz-based Shenzou capsule depicted in the movie.)
(http://i.imgur.com/yE2eIED.jpg)
Or, is this a case of 'cheap' product placement for cheap products? ;)
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Bah, I thought for sure he'd be using some sort of steered plasma soldering tool or a prototype sonic screwdriver.
Hmm, probably no good for ESD. Of course, plasma torches will become very popular by the 24th century or so. ;)
Tim
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Bah, I thought for sure he'd be using some sort of steered plasma soldering tool or a prototype sonic screwdriver.
Hmm, probably no good for ESD. Of course, plasma torches will become very popular by the 24th century or so. ;)
Tim
its all hyperspanners and phase inverters if startrek tng and ds9 is to be believed.