Ogg and Khachardoorian have collaborated on projects since the 1996 comedy Jingle All the Way and would later man the propshop together in films such as Inspector Gadget (featuring Rene Auberjonois and Andy Dick). Ogg has since served as KOW FX's propshop foreman on such films as Planet of the Apes (2001, featuring Erick Avari, Anne Elizabeth Ramsay, Freda Foh Shen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and David Warner), The Island (written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and featuring Ethan Phillips), and Transformers (also written by Kurtzman and Orci).