Kim Kardashian gifted her older sister, Kourtney Kardashian, the ultimate piece of film memorabilia for Christmas!
Kourtney, 46, took to her Instagram Stories on Saturday, December 27, to reveal that she is now in possession of Pee-wee Herman’s iconic red Schwinn bicycle from the 1985 hit movie Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.
“If anyone’s still looking for peewee’s [sic] bicycle… I have it,” the Poosh founder wrote over an image of the bike. “Coolest Christmas present,” she added, tagging Kim, 45.
On Sunday, December 28, Kourtney shared another close-up of the bike, this time showing off a gold plaque that reads, “Property of Pee-wee Herman.”
The red bicycle is an integral part of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, starring the late Paul Reubens, and even appears in the iconic poster for the movie. In the flick, Pee-wee’s bike is stolen, and he journeys to The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, to find it after consulting a fraudulent psychic.
In fact, there were a total of 14 Schwinn DX stunt bikes made between 1946 and 1953 used in production, the movie’s prop master, Steven Levine, told Los Angeles Magazine in July. Two of them recently fetched over $125,000 at auction.
It’s not clear whether Kim was among the lucky auction winners.
In March, auction house Propstore sold one of the bikes for a reported $145,000. Another sold via Van Eaton Galleries for $125,000 in April, per People.
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In July, CBS Mornings revealed that the Alamo had purchased the bike sold in April. It went on public display for a limited time in August to mark the Tim Burton-directed film’s 40th anniversary and, from 2027, it will have a permanent home inside the Alamo Visitor Center and Museum.
Three more bikes used in the movie are on display around the United States: one at the Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen, Ohio, one at the Hollywood Museum in Los Angeles and one personally donated by Reubens’ estate to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which went on display in August.
While Kim’s Christmas gift to Kourtney was graciously received by her sister, another of her holiday gifts was recently criticized.
The All’s Fair star revealed in an Instagram Story on Thursday, December 25, that she had presented each of her four children with their own pet puppy. (Kim shares North, 12, Saint, 10, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 8, with ex-husband Kanye West.)
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“Each kid got a puppy,” Kim wrote alongside footage of the new pets.
“Puppies are not plushies, and it’s a damn shame that Kim missed the chance to be a spokesperson for shelter pups,” PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk said in a statement to the Daily Mail on Saturday, December 27. “Ignoring the homeless animal crisis is inexcusably callous.”
Newkirk urged Kim “to call PETA or a local shelter the next time they want to bring an animal into their home,” and suggested she send her “kids to volunteer at a local shelter” or pay “for a local shelter adopt-a-thon or at least one spay day to help stop the growing homeless puppy crisis.”
Kim has yet to publicly address the backlash. Us Weekly reached out to her rep for comment.
