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Can overlap with [[Whole Costume Reference]] if the costume is recycled from an earlier work.
 
If it's a real item, then it's [[Off -the -Shelf FX]]. For when video games reuse "models" of the polygonal kind in the same work, see [[You All Look Familiar]].
 
Compare [[Stock Footage]], [[Palette Swap]] and [[California Doubling]].
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== Films -- Animation ==
* The folks at [[Pixar]] are fond of resusing props, sets, even whole characters from their previous movies ([[Early -Bird Cameo|and even from their upcoming ones]]), usually as a [[Shout -Out]], as well as for practical measures. The most famous example is the Pizza Planet delivery truck from ''[[Toy Story]]'', which has found its way into almost every film. Other popular props include the yellow ball with the blue stripe and red star from "Luxo Jr.", as well as both Luxo lamps from the same short.
* Two vehicles from ''[[One Hundred and One101 Dalmatians (Disney)|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'' actually made a reappearance in ''[[The Aristocats (Disney)|The Aristocats]]'': The Baduns' truck (as a milk truck the cats ride in at one point while heading back to Paris) and the moving van (as the truck that comes to pick up Edgar and take him to Timbuktu at the end of the film). These were actual physical props, painted white with "outlines" drawn on the edges, that were filmed in front of white backgrounds and photocopied onto the cels in a manner similar to [[Rotoscoping]].
** Cruella de Vil's car also made a brief cameo near the beginning of ''[[The Rescuers (Disney)|The Rescuers]]'' as the car Madame Medusa used to drive to the airport.
 
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* ''[[Alien (Film)|Alien]]''
** The sets to Axis chemical factory in ''[[Batman (Film)|Batman]]'' were from ''[[Alien (Film)|AlienS]]''.
** Another reused prop from ''[[Alien (Film)|Alien]]'' is a console in the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "Earthshock".
** The griddle-like corridor panels have shown up in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (TV)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'', ''[[Blake's Seven (TV)|Blakes Seven]]'' and ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' ''at least'', and probably in various other productions.
* Old Tucson Studios. Built initially for the movie ''Arizona'' in 1939, its buildings were used as the sets of countless [[Western]] television shows and movies, including episodes of ''[[Gunsmoke (Radio)|Gunsmoke]]'', ''[[Little House On the Prairie (TV)|Little House On the Prairie]]'', ''[[Bonanza]]'', and ''[[Have Gun Will Travel (TV)|Have Gun Will Travel]]''. It is also a tourist attraction, though most of the original sets were lost in a fire.
* Defied by ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (Film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'': all the original props were unavailable for the sequel ''[[Two2010: Thousand Ten theThe Year We Make Contact (Film)|Two Thousand Ten the Year We Make Contact]]'' because Stanley Kubrick deliberately destroyed them all, along with any design notes, after filming was completed, specifically to avert this trope. The prop department for ''2010'' had no choice but to make replicas of everything from scratch based on examining what was visible in the film.
** In spite of which, the audio commentary for ''[[The Phantom Menace (Film)|The Phantom Menace]]'' claims that one of the original ''Discovery'' EVA pods can be seen in Watto's scrapyard on Tatooine. More likely it's the EVA pod built for ''2010''.
* [[Roger Corman]]'s ''The St. Valentine's Day Massacre'' re-used sets from ''[[Hello Dolly (Theatre)|Hello Dolly]]'' and ''[[The Sound of Music]]''. Corman actually had the resources of a studio behind him, and probably could have built new sets, but stuck to cost-saving measures out of habit.
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** The soda fountain seen in the pilot episode ("Where is Everybody?") is also seen in "Walking Distance".
** The series made also multiple use of props from ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'' (see above) including the uniforms, the spaceship and Robby the Robot. One of the VFX models of the ship even turned up in the episode "The Invaders" as a miniature spaceship that threatens a woman ({{spoiler|well, actually a full-size spaceship from Earth that a giant woman mistakes for a threat, but that's the [[Twist Ending]]}}).
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' has several examples of this. [[The BBC]] has large amounts of props and costumes in storage, so the original series has quite a few examples of prop recycling, both in show, and across other BBC series.
** Not all of them were BBC originals in the first place; for example the BBC bought a load of ex-Gerry Anderson props in the early '70s, so one sonic screwdriver prop was from the movie ''[[Thunderbirds]] Are Go'', and various control panels from ''[[UFO]]'' turn up occasionally up to the mid '80s.
** This is most prominent in the late 70s and early 80s between ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[Blake's Seven (TV)|Blakes Seven]]'', where the shows shared an excessive amount of props and costumes. Romana I and Servalan wore the same white feather cloak, the guards in Frontios wore the Federation guards' helmets from B7 and certain idiosyncratic wall panels show up ''all the time''. Of course, the series shared writers and producers as well and Terry Nation even planned a real crossover at one point.
** Several sets constructed in Italy for [[HBO]]'s ''Rome'' were reused for the episode "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 E2 The Fires of Pompeii|The Fires of Pompeii]]" in the new series.
** Also, the {{spoiler|Sontaran cloning table on which Martha was held}} in "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 E4 The Sontaran Stratagem|The Sontaran Stratagem]]" is obviously made from a Cyber Conversion Unit.
** The spaceship set used in "The Lodger" showed up again, slightly modified, in "Day of the Moon", with no clear connection between the two uses. Some fans believe that they are meant to be the same, but this is not stated in the show.
* The duck lamp seen in Newman's appartment in some episodes of ''[[Seinfeld (TV)|Seinfeld]]'' comes from the little-known 1980s sitcom ''The Duck Factory''.
* The Vogon spaceship interiors in the TV version of ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (TV)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' are from ''[[Alien (Film)|Alien]]''.
* A phone from the failed ''[[Global Frequency]]'' pilot was [http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=3124 recycled] in ''[[Smallville (TV)|Smallville]]''.
* ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'' re-used spacesuits from ''2010''. They didn't realize where the costumes were from at first, and did what they could to disguise them, but ultimately, they were what they were. Ironically, the second time ''Babylon 5'' needed the ''2010'' spacesuits they weren't available, so they had to make new replicas anyway.
* [[Stargate Verse]]
** An episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1 (TV)|Stargate SG-1]]'' reused the cockpit from the execrable live-action ''[[Gundam (Anime)|Gundam]]'' movie ''G-Saviour''.
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** The Ancient space suits from ''[[Stargate Universe (TV)|Stargate Universe]]'' originally appeared as power armor used by the {{spoiler|rogue Asgard}} in one episode of ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]''.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''
** The CIC set for the Battlestar Pegasus in the 2000s ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' was originally built as the bridge of the Jupiter 2 for an unaired pilot of a ''[[Lost in Space (TV)|Lost in Space]]'' remake directed by John Woo; the set was put in storage, and underwent only minor alteration for its use on ''BSG''.
** ''Galactica'' itself averted this trope by auctioning off a huge number of props, uniforms, set pieces, and curios to raise money for ''[[Caprica]]''. [[Shaggy Dog Story|Which was canceled after less than one season.]]
** The 1970's series of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'' used the botanical ships from ''[[Silent Running]]'' as part of the rag-tag fleet fleeing the Cylon tyranny.
** Scenes from ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'', including use of the ship, the shuttle, and Vipers were all re-used to make the movie ''[[Space Mutiny]]'', which was then parodied by [[MST3K]].
* ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]''
** The Federation transporter pads in the various series all use parts of the original one from ''[[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', usually flipping it or swapping out decals. This sort of thing was done fairly often, using parts of one show's sets for the ones that follow.
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