This gave the blaster its chunky, slightly retro lines and enabled it to fire blanks similar to weapons used in ‘Star Wars’. 44 Special revolver from US company Charter Arms. The actual ‘Blade Runner’ blaster prop was an ingenious disguise for a modern firearm the relatively mundane ‘Bulldog’. Modern cartridge firearms are just too efficient, reliable and cost-effective to be replaced anytime soon. Known to aficionados as the ‘ PKD’ (Steyr Pflager Katsumata Series-D Blaster or the ‘LAPD 2019’) the ‘Blade Runner’ blaster was designed and crafted for Harrison Ford’s weary future detective/enforcer Rick Deckard in the celebrated science fiction movie ‘Blade Runner’.Īfter decades of fanciful directed energy weapons (lasers, phasers, and energy-based ‘blasters’), it was the first of a series of more realistic, gritty movie firearms guns that looked like they were from the future, but were actually an extrapolation from existing firearms technology and didn’t depend on as-yet undreamt-of power sources.Īs an aside, we are a LONG way away from effective, portable directed energy weapons, let alone weapons capable of creating quantum singularities batteries are just one problem in this respect. As we eagerly anticipate the sequel of the science fiction cult classic ‘ Blade Runner ‘ (1981), we reacquaint ourselves with its iconic ‘blaster pistol’ with our Curator of Firearms, Jonathan Ferguson.
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