The original ET the Extra-Terrestrial animatronic figure, used in Steven Spielberg’s eponymous film, found a buyer this weekend for $2.6 million (2.45 million euros), according to the organizers of the sale . The highlight of the auction, spread over two days and held by Julien’s and Turner Classic Movies, was presented with 1,300 other movie props, from Robert De Niro’s boxing gloves in Raging Bull to Thor’s hammer. one of the most famous characters in pop culture and science fiction since the release of the hugely successful ET in 1982. Almost the entire figure is articulated: his googly eyes, his long neck and, of course, , his luminous finger that he shines in the film before pronouncing his cult line “AND home phone”. A model of the brown alien was also sold for 125,000 dollars (117,000 euros), slightly more than the one of the bicycles used in the final scene went for 115,000 dollars (108,000 euros). the Red Sea in two in The Ten Command ments ($448,000, approximately 422,000 euros) and the Nimbus 2000 broom from Harry Potter found in the eponymous saga ($128,000, approximately 120,000 euros). See also on Konbini
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