Original lightsabre sale brings big, big bucks Luke Skywalker’s original lightsabre has sold at auction for around $56,000 (£37,000/€41,000) more than the estimated guide price. original_lightsabre Mark Hamill's lightsabre sold for $240,000 The lightsabre, which was used by actor Mark Hamill in both Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, was bought for $240,000 (£160, …
Imagine parting with 240 grand for a Light Sabre only to discover it's something somebody cobbled together out of old flashgun parts. It's like your worst eBay nightmare come true.
Hopefully the seller is putting the cash to good use by buying plutonium for his DeLorean based time machine.
I had the joy of seeing the Star Wars exhibit when it came to the museum in my town. Was pretty cool. I was struck though by how cheap and junky everything looked up close. The cockpit light in the Millennium Falcon was a cheap, bulbous LED that had been hastily and badly soldered (although in 76' when it was built, admittedly LEDs were pretty new tech), and I thought the lights on the Darth Vader costume looked like someone's home-brew electronics project from the 70s as well. Of course the props were only part of the magic of the movie's special effects, which turned these objects which could have been made by an industrious high-schooler into the slickest thing we'd ever seen on film in 1977.
And like Gilbert Wham said, I'd have to say that a Nostromo crew jacket would be pretty cool to have.
.... bought one of the pulse rifle props from aliens at auction back in the day when such purchases weren't too madly expensive. He then had a bit of a whizzo idea and made up a mould and recouped most of what he spent churning out fibreglass replicas that film buffs stuck on their walls. He worked with film props a lot, and it was easy. A quarter of million dollars though for this prop ? Wow ! He's either really, really a big time rich star wars geek or he's going to have to run off an awful lot of unauthorised replicas......
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