T2 Trainspotting fans fork out for host of bizarre movie props including Begbie’s prison loo
One flush punter shelled out £550 for the stainless steel lavvy featured in the Trainspotting sequel’s opening scenes
MOVIE buffs forked out for a host of bizarre T2 props - including Begbie’s prison loo.
One flush punter shelled out £550 for the stainless steel lavvy featured in the s opening scenes.
Buckie bottles, blood-soaked T-shirts, muddy wellies and washing machines used by the actors were also among items that went under the hammer at the charity auction.
One of the top sales was a panel of steam train covered wallpaper from Renton’s bedroom which fetched an astonishing £2,200.
The bar from the Port Sunshine boozer run by Jonny Lee Miller’s character Sick Boy sold for £1,200, while his sofa went for £880.
Donald MacLeod, owner of Glasgow nightclub The Garage, bagged the boozer’s horseshoe-shaped feature.
He said: “It will be great fun to recreate Sick Boy’s bar for this year’s freshers’ week.”
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Collector Glen Carroll paid £950 for the bloodied tops star Ewan McGregor wore when Renton was slashed by Begbie.
Broken pool cues were also flogged for £750 in one of the most hotly-contested bids.
Gavin Kyle, of Glasgow’s East End, spent £550 on the jail table used by Begbie — Robert Carlyle — to blast his lawyer.
He said: “I knew I had to have it. I have the perfect spot in my living room.”
Fans also spent £320 on the muck-splattered boots worn by Renton and Sick Boy in the farm scene.
The thousands raised at Glasgow’s Mulberry Bank Auctions will be split between city rehab charity Calton Athletic and Edinburgh youth charity The Junction, which has Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh as patron.
He tweeted yesterday: “Get in! Anybody fancy sha****g in Renton’s bedroom or drinking in the Port Sunshine?”
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