What are your thoughts on Grenade images on movie pages?

[MoviePropMaster2008]

I've noticed that on movie pages and the Grenade pages, we have images of the actual real grenades, complete with correct arsenal markings and such .... but we don't use those in movies & TV shows. Nobody does. We use dummies and trainers, which actually look different. I have NEVER seen anyone use 100% perfect Grenade Ordnance in a movie, nor does ANYONE use live ordnance.

I have photos of the dummies that people are MOST likely to see, however, IMFDB seems to have fallen into a habit of listing it as the real thing, not a dummy made to look like the real thing.

Now I understand having perfect images of the REAL grenade, but shouldn't we have actual shots of the fakes that we use in the movies? I mean that's what people are actually looking at on screen.

I look forward to your thoughts on this.

[AdAstra2009]

I guess that would be appropriate.
Of course then we would have to relabel all the M-67 grenades as M-69 training grenades...or would we

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by AdAstra2009

I guess that would be appropriate.
Of course then we would have to relabel all the M-67 grenades as M-69 training grenades...or would we

Well M67 is what they are supposed to be, by they aren't. They're FAKE M67 grenades (just like we list "Fake Uzi" or "Fake M16A2") and then we have to list what they actually are. But those can be done on a page by page basis. It's funny. ALL explosive ordnance in movies & TV are obviously NOT the real deal. No one uses land mines for real in shows. No one uses actual real grenades (and usually the SFX guys make them into 'nuclear grenades' in that their explosions are way too big than they are in real life).

It just seems to go against the grain of what we do for firearms.

[Spartan198]

I think it's fine to picture the prop and describe it as standing in for the real thing. Or we could split the difference and picture both the prop and the real grenade for comparison purposes.

[Ace Oliveira]

I think we should use the Prop pictures. However, we could use a picture of the real thing to show people the diferences between the real thing and the prop. Basically, what AdAstra said.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Ace Oliveira

I think we should use the Prop pictures. However, we could use a picture of the real thing to show people the diferences between the real thing and the prop. Basically, what AdAstra said.

I concur. This is IMFDB. We want what movies use, not necessarily what's used in real life, if differences apply.