Sci fi and fantasy guns

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Originally Posted by Vangelis

But that wasn't my point. My point was, when it's surrounded by extremely heavily modified firearms, there is going to be natural curiousity as to whether it is also one.

Heh once again when they see what the weapon does it should be very obvious to the viewer that it is fake.

You're ignoring what I'm actually saying. I'm not suggesting the BFG is the world's first blank-firing plasma gun, just that there's potential, especially given what it's surrounded by, to think it may be a non-firing prop built on top of a real gun. You seem to be ignoring the idea that a non-firing prop gun could be made to appear to be firing anything; that just means it's not really firing, the conclusion that it therefore isn't built on a real gun is a non sequitur.

Why would it be built on top of a real gun if it doesn't fire blanks?

Well, MPM seems to disagree with you over that; according to him, he has been questioned as to whether it's real. It's certainly ridiculous to think they constructed a man-portable railgun for a movie, but people are fond of believing incredibly stupid things.

I don't know if I'm quoting him correctly but he also thinks those people are idiots.

You're splitting hairs here. Either trivia is allowed or it isn't, putting it on a seperate page is an issue of organisation, not content.

Well trivia of that matter is not a big deal as it relates to a film that has real guns in it and is not the focus of the article but just a small piece.