Summon Your Own Friendly Aliens With This ‘Close Encounters’ Mask

You’ll have to construct your own Devils Tower out of mashed potatoes (or garden dirt, depending on how much room you’ve got), but an authentic Close Encounters of the Third Kind alien mask is going up for auction, and it’s equal parts cool, cute, and creepy. It’s part of Propstore’s auction of items from Planet Hollywood’s extensive memorabilia collection (see the whole catalog here), kicking off May 21 and running through June 11. There’s a Gremlins puppet, Ghostbusters miniatures, Spock ears from two different Star Trek movies, and lots more, but the Close Encounters alien—complete with “functional eye mechanisms”—is the standout pick. According to Propstore’s listing, the climactic Close Encounters sequence in which the musically inclined aliens land their ship at Devils Tower “was achieved by dressing dozens of young girls as the friendly Grays. Multiple versions of their extraterrestrials masks were built by production, including a number of tests and prototypes, while two vers ... Read full article.