6 foot tall Titanic ship ..... or something.

[Russell C]

Well, it came in pieces and I had to put it together.

Surfed across this on eBay where the seller had lousy photos of a couple of its parts, and I remembered vaguely how spiffy these looked in stores, so at the end of the auction when it still had 0 bidders at only $9.99 (+ $18 or so for shipping), I put one bid on it and won the auction. Came in the original Paramount Studios box which was messed up by the post office tape that stuck to the studio wording. No instructions, so it took me over 3 hours to figure out how it went together, with some assistence partway through from an internet photo of an assembled one, since I could not remember exactly what it was supposed to look like.

Edited January 24, 2022 by Russell C
got a better photo link

[LittleDrummerBoy Aka LDB]

*Celine Dione music starts to play in the background*

[unclescott58]

I'm confused. Is that a model your showing? Or the box the model came in? No offense is meant by this. I just can't tell by the photo you posted what it is.

Scott

[Harry P.]

I think what he has there is a movie theater display piece.

[Russell C]

On 7/29/2014 at 2:40 PM, unclescott58 said:

.....Is that a model your showing? Or the box the model came in?...

Legitimate question, since I'd cropped the photo above last year in such a way that basically the only things to judge the scale are the bedroom closet door hinges off to the right. This pic below shows the box it came in, the "Titanic Standee" lettering is barely readable in the upper open section of the USPS tape. Not a movie theater standee, but instead one for retail stores right when the VHS cassette was being released.

Edited January 24, 2022 by Russell C
fixed busted photo link

[unclescott58]

OK.

[EriDavis93]

Hi! I work at an antique store and the owner has the same display, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to put it together. Is there any chance you remember the steps and could tell me? We're tying to do a Titanic display for Valentine's Day. I have looked everywhere online for the instructions.

[Russell C]

On 1/24/2025 at 3:28 PM, EriDavis93 said:

... I cannot for the life of me figure out how to put it together. Is there any chance you remember the steps and could tell me? ...

Thanks for asking! No doubt you found this page after a reasonably extensive internet search. Backstory to the one I got is how it had no instructions with it, and even though I'm a model builder who ignores the instruction sheets in model vehicle plastic kits (that's a standing joke in this model car community), it took me forever to figure out how to assemble this giant "kit." A year or so later, I saw how another eBay bidder won one of these auctions which showed that it came with instructions, and that was back in the day when eBay let people see who the account winners were. So I PM'd the person who turned out to be in Italy, and the guy was glad to share a photocopy of his instructions (spoke better English than I speak Italian) . . . . which I can't find now tonight. But that photocopy is around here somewhere. Less than a decade ago, there was a Titanic movie memorabilia website which I also found that had online photos of the same instruction sheet. Sadly, that site went offline, and even though the Internet Archive has preserved many of the site's pages, the particular one with the photos you could click on - in the "Light Thief" section here - didn't manage to preserve those photos. What I can do, if I can't find the larger photocopied instructions the Italy guy sent to me that were larger and more clear images, is use tomorrow's bright sunlight is get good closeup smartphone photos of the old paper printout I made from the website's instructions images, and then share those with you in a PM.

**January 27 edit -- assembly problem solved for the above commenter with better images of the page below PM'd. Glad to help out in the situation!

Edited January 28 by Russell C

[Faust]

A cardboard model! 

Nice!