Dagbladet Information has published a feature on Danish actor and comedian Jonas Schmidt and his collection of replica film props, centered on a copy of Rick Deckard’s blaster from “Blade Runner.”
The interview appeared on September 20, 2026, in the newspaper’s series “Monggaard og samlerne,” written by Christian Monggaard. As Information reports, Schmidt was visited in an annex in his backyard north of Copenhagen.
The small building was once home to his eldest son, who has since moved out. Schmidt has filled it with a television, soft furniture and film memorabilia, with the blaster in the place of honor.
Schmidt is known from the satire series “Politiets IndsatsStyrke,” or P.I.S., and as the man inside the angry hippo puppet Dolph. He has appeared in Danish films, television series and entertainment programs for the past 25 years.
According to the interview, Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” from 1982 is his favorite film. He saw it at the age of 14 and was drawn to its dystopian universe and its questions about what it means to be human.
From plastic copy to Japanese replica
Information reports that Schmidt’s first blaster was an Off-World Blaster, Model 2019, Blade Runner Unit Special Issue. He bought it online from the United States roughly 20 years ago.
The package was held at customs, and he had to collect it at the airport and unwrap it. There he demonstrated that the object was not a real firearm, he told the newspaper.
Schmidt later found the copy too plastic-like, with incorrect text on the side and a broken diode. As stated in the interview, that started a search for a better version of the weapon.
Through YouTube videos by the American effects builder Adam Savage, known from “MythBusters,” he learned that the Japanese company Tomenosuke had produced a close replica. Savage has built his own version of the prop.
Prices and details
Schmidt told Information that early Tomenosuke units cost around 20,000 kroner and were hard to obtain. After a later reissue, he found one in Japan priced at 8,000 to 9,000 kroner.
He ordered it through the Copenhagen shop Faraos Cigarer, because he did not dare place the order himself. The blaster ended up costing 13,000 kroner, he said.
Per the interview, the screen-used prop combined a Charter Arms Bulldog revolver with a Steyr rifle part mounted on top. The replica cannot fire, but includes dummy cartridges and working diodes.
Schmidt received the blaster in 2015, the same year he got married. A friend later arranged a custom leather holster for it, priced at 1,500 kroner.
Information notes that dedicated collectors of prop replicas are found especially in the United States and Asia. The television host Dan Lanigan owns an original hero blaster from the film.
