Elf costume worn by Will Ferrell sold for over…
The well-known inexperienced and yellow elf costume donned by Will Ferrell in the vacation movie “Elf” sold for over $319,000 at an public sale just exterior of London on Friday, alongside a swath of other props from hit motion pictures.
Propstore, an public sale home based in Hertfordshire, England, featured the enduring Christmas swimsuit donated by “Elf” producer Jon Berg’s personal assortment in its Winter Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction.
Will Ferrell’s “Elf” costume sold for roughly $319,000 at an public sale just exterior of London. Propstore / SWNS
Buddy the Elf’s signature costume — that includes a inexperienced, fur-trimed jacket with gold embroidery, yellow tights and a inexperienced triangular hat — sold for roughly $319,300 — or £239,400.
In the movie, Buddy, performed by the 6-foot-3 Ferrell, wears his conventional elf uniform from the North Pole for the majority of the film, save for his transient stint working in the mail room at his father’s publishing company.
The costume got here from the movie’s producer’s personal assortment. AP
The costume sold at public sale was particularly worn during the scene where Buddy presses every single button in an elevator because he thought it regarded “like a Christmas tree,” according to the public sale home itemizing.
The 2003 film “Elf,” Ferrell’s first since departing “Saturday Night Live” the yr prior, follows a man who was raised as an elf after he was mistakenly introduced to the North Pole as a child. Once he learns that his organic father, a crotchety writer performed by the late James Caan, is on the naughty checklist, he travels to New York City in hopes of righting his household’s wrongs and studying about his parentage.
Today, low cost replicas of the costume are often worn by pedicab drivers in the Big Apple during the vacation season.
“Elf” follows a man named Buddy as he tries to reconnect with his father, a grinchy writer who is on Santa Claus’ naughty checklist. ©New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection
While the public sale did boast props from celebrated Christmas movies, including “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Mickey’s Christmas Carol,” there was no obvious theme.
The heavy hitters in the public sale hailed from some of Hollywood’s most profitable franchises. A fedora worn by Harrison Ford in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” sold for just over $437,000 and bounty hunter Boba Fett’s EE-3 carbine blaster from “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” went for around $613,000, according to the public sale home.
In 2021, another copy of Buddy’s elf costume sold to an nameless purchaser for $296,702.
In November 2003, Santa’s sleigh went up for public sale just one week after “Elf” was launched in theaters. The sleigh seems in the tail-end of the film when Buddy helps a marooned Santa evade the police in Central Park.
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