This Week’s Hollywood Prop Auction Is Selling a Real Batsuit, Travolta’s Disco Suit, and Uma Thurman’s Pulp Fiction Dress to the Highest Bidder

·

·

Propstore’s four-day Summer Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction opens August 26, 2026 at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, putting more than 1,400 film and TV lots up for bid, according to Propstore’s own auction listing. Among the headline pieces: Michael Keaton’s Batsuit from Batman Returns, John Travolta’s white three-piece suit from Saturday Night Fever, and Uma Thurman’s Mia Wallace costume from Pulp Fiction.

Vintage black and white film projector

Key Points

  • Michael Keaton’s screen-worn Batsuit from 1992’s Batman Returns, designed by Steve Wang and Jose Fernandez, carries a pre-sale estimate of $60,000–$120,000, per auction coverage from Collectors Hype.
  • Travolta’s custom three-piece white suit, made by Leading Male of Brooklyn for 1977’s Saturday Night Fever and inscribed by hand by the actor, is estimated at $200,000–$400,000.
  • Uma Thurman’s Mia Wallace costume from the Jack Rabbit Slim’s dance scene in Pulp Fiction — a white button-up shirt and Agnès B kick-flare trousers — is estimated at a comparatively modest $15,000–$30,000.
  • Other lots include the Frank the Rabbit costume from Donnie Darko ($100,000–$200,000) and Jack Nicholson’s stunt axe from The Shining ($50,000–$100,000).
  • Day one is live and in-room at the Petersen; the remaining three days run via online, phone, and absentee bidding through Propstore’s auction platform.

The sale isn’t just costumes. Propstore’s own listing describes over 300 additional lots of autographed sports and entertainment memorabilia running alongside the film and TV pieces, with Time Out Los Angeles noting the combined catalog spans everything from a Golden Snitch replica to Michael Jackson’s prosthetic teeth from the “Thriller” video shoot.

Every item ships with a certificate of authenticity and a lifetime guarantee, standard practice for Propstore’s live sales, and a buyer’s premium applies on top of the hammer price. Registration for phone and online bidding is handled directly through the auction house’s own platform, with approvals typically processing within a business day, and the full sale streams live at propstore.com for anyone who just wants to watch the numbers climb.

Holding the opening session at the Petersen Automotive Museum rather than a traditional saleroom fits the tone of the catalog: a space built around car culture and design history, hosting costumes and props that are themselves industrial artifacts of a different kind — hand-built, one-off pieces made to survive a single shoot and, improbably, still holding up decades later.

Vintage black and white film clapperboard

Prop auctions like this one have become their own kind of nostalgia economy, turning wardrobe department leftovers and stunt gear into six-figure trophies. A disco suit that once got tossed in a costume bin after a wrap party, or a rubber-and-foam Batsuit built for a single sequence, now competes for attention with fine art and classic cars — proof that what audiences remember from the screen often outlives the movies themselves.



Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *