Bespoke props, legacy-grade collectibles, and craft made by hand for brands who know the quiet name to call — and collectors who want the real thing. Twenty years of making memories tangible.
Paul Pape Designs has narrowed its focus. Fewer things, made better — and a twenty-year back catalog of designs for the makers who'd rather build than draw.
Bespoke builds for brands that trust the work to speak for itself. Most of my corporate clients would rather you didn't know they hired me — that's the point.
Capabilities →Four screen-accurate prop replicas I make on repeat, in limited runs, to museum-quality standards. Ships worldwide.
See the Props →Twenty years of files, patterns, and print-ready designs. License them for your own shop and build what you've been wanting to.
Browse Catalog →These are the pieces I make on repeat — each one a screen-accurate replica of a moment collectors still hold onto. Every piece is hand-finished in my workshop and shipped worldwide.
Hand-bound crimson leather with gilded crest, pressed ornament, and matching heart locket. The one I make more than any other — twenty to thirty shipped a year to collectors in eight countries.
Hand-finished pewter staff in aged silver, cast from the original reference and weighted for display. The most requested piece in the entire catalog — over thirty made every year and still climbing.
Three configurations of the on-screen set: the Immortality Elixir vial, the Egg & Ankh ceremonial box, and the Wood & Dagger master box. Build your collection piece by piece, or commission the full set.
The collapsible puzzle-box key, hand-aged and engraved in patinated bronze. A collector's piece with real mechanism — opens and closes like the original.
For two decades I've been the maker behind props, premieres, brand activations, and unreleased product reveals for companies whose legal teams would rather you didn't see their names here. Disney. Universal. Nickelodeon. The Tonight Show. And the ones I can't tell you about.
If you're looking for someone to build the thing your team can't source, design the piece nobody else makes, or deliver the moment that stops the room — that's what this part of the shop is for.
Patterns, 3D print files, leatherwork templates, laser cut designs, build guides — the back catalog of two decades of working props and collectibles, available for personal or commercial license.
I'm Paul Pape. With degrees in Scenic and Properties Design, I turned a theatre background and an obsession with building impossible things into a 20-year career behind the scenes for Disney, Universal, Nickelodeon, The Tonight Show, and clients I'm not allowed to name. Fluent in leather, metal, wood, silicone, 3D print, and the dark arts of "we need it by Thursday."
Somewhere along the way people started calling me the Santa for Nerds. I kept the nickname. Today I design, prototype, and build a smaller number of larger things — and I teach the business side of being a creative at my other shop, Gamify Business.
Whether it's a corporate commission, a piece from the Hero Collection, or a design you want to license — tell me what you're building and I'll tell you if I'm the right person to help.