Prop from 2001

What was the prop from 2001 in TPM? Was it the pod? I think it might have been.

when QGJ and Watto are walking in the junkyard, there is this droid that is shaking two bars in the background, that's the one

Thanks yerrs. Though I have another question. When the hell was that prop used in 2001?

I would've liked it better if it was the pod. With a skelton of Dave Bowman on the inside. That would be kind of funny. Or maybe a consol of HAL 9000 collecting dust and covered in junk.