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LucasFilm Auctioning Star Wars Memorabilia
Captain Chad writes: "LucasFilm has donated some items to eBay's "Auction for America". They include a lightsaber used by Ray Park (Darth Maul) and a stormtrooper helmet used in The Empire Strikes Back and in Return of the Jedi. Check out the list of auction items! I think some of the bids will get astronomical. Would anyone be willing to give me a few hundred thousand dollars so I can get the lightsaber?"
Sounds great and all... but why not donate some of the revenues from the films (which we already pay a hell of a lot of money to go see anyways) to these charities... why auction off only one or two things which can only be attained by the rich?
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that memorabelia is sold for such exhorbent prices. how can the media create SO much hype about a SINGLE trilogy that plastic toys from it sell for hundreds of THOUSANDS of dollarz!!!!!
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I wonder how much a land speeder would cost.
Certainly would cut down on the time to commute!
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Maybe Check and really cool?
So how much of your income from Win32 driver dev. job do you donate???
For a night in the sack with Princess Leia.
Would've been $220, but shes getting a bit of a hag now., and you'll need that extra 20 bucks for some lube.
could be enough to pay for how much the first one cost to make.
... $10
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They have a ZERO (0) feedback rating on ebay. How do we know they won't take the money and run???
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Yeah! I've already bid on the 5th amendment... From now on, all you clowns have to incriminate yourselves, but not me... moooahhaha
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I personaly think that the storm trooper helmet will reach a much higher price than the light saber. Simply because the helmet is from one of the originals that have essentially become classics. The light saber will be expensive but not as high because episode 1 was not as popular as the original 3.
I was disappointed to see that the models up for auction were assembled from kits. Not that I could afford even those, but I was imagining some actual models used in the films. The money generated by those would be astronomical...but wouldn't go into Lucas' pocket.
Ok -- for no logical reason, I sure wouldn't mind having an authentic Stormtrooper helmet, but come on. They've already bid it up for over $8k. Sweet charity, or no -- $8,000 for a movie prop is impossible to comprehend.
Well that -- and the armor never seemed to protect the actual stormstrooper from anything. Not even a damned Ewok with a rock.
Isn't what items are up for bid, but what's currenlty in the lead..
The Storm Trooper helm is currenlty recieving an 8,865$ bid. Where as the second Item is the Darth Maul stunt light-saber, weighing in at 5,101$
I'd rather have a stick I could swing around and hit people with, wrather then a helmet that's going to suffocate me.
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$8000+ for a stormtrooper helmet. No thanks.........
But where's Carrie Fishers gold bikini?? I'll start the bidding at $5000.....
<p><i>What's next... auction off the Constitution?</i></p> ;)
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Oh, you missed that one, huh?
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For those of you who don't know, or are too lazy to find out, Ebay's auction for america is a method of raising money for various charities, such as the September 11th Fund, The New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund, The Twin Towers Fund and the American Red Cross.
Ok, I've never watched Star Wars, but I'm still rather confused by this.
Why is the Stormtrooper helmet currently $3000 more than the lightsaber?
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First, a bunch of movie props are a bit less important than the Constitution.
Second, it's already been auctioned off.
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Really, this is amazing, we've Slashdotted eBay.
...Do you know how much money I'd pay to get my own fully-functional Death Star? He's about to make a mint.
(Of course, I'd want the first one, as we all know the second one is not yet fully operational.)
just the server that hosts the pics (208.55.221.157). try harder guys! :)
keep it simple.
If someone gave ME a couple hundred thousand dollars, I'd buy or build something slightly more badass AND more usefull than a NON-FUNCTIONAL lightsaber. Besides, every burgler within a hundred miles would be gunning for your house if word got out that you had an item like that :P
This probably won't last much longer, but there's a Vader helmet (used in Empire) going for a fraction of what the Stormtrooper helmet is up to now. ($1,700 vs $8,865)
That's the power of a direct link from Slashdot's front page!
They include:
- ILM
- Universal Home Video (they sold props from The Mummy Returns, including the Book of the Living, the Book of the Dead, and the Scorpion Bracelet... unfortunately most of the auctions have since expired but there were at least 20 pages of props up for bidding)
- 20th Century Fox
My feeling on these auctions is hey, it's all for charity, so if you have money to burn, why not do it for a worthy cause instead of for yourself?
Everything else seems to be a professionally-built kit model. They all come with certificates of authenticity, but what they authentically are doesn't seem to be to be all that unique.
It should be remembered that for the newer movies, authentic models will be rare indeed since they're using a great deal fewer of them in favor of CG.
And the brethren went away edified.
That's 'cause Lucas messed up the value on the Vader helmet by scribbling on it.
OTOH, maybe a lot of guys are like me, and couldn't sleep with that thing in the house.
-Peter
I'd bid for a jar of ewok pâté.
Why would the Navy do that? Are they so strapped for cash that they're willing to sell the oldest commissioned warship afloat?
Vader: What is thy bidding, my master?
Emperor: My bidding is on your helmet, and I won. Hand it over.
Vader: But I need this to liiiive...
Dear Mr. Lucas,
We will give you 5,000 now -- plus 15 when we reach Alderan.
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The one thing I've always wanted to know what happened to is Jabba's favorite decoration: The carbon frozen Han Solo. Where is this thing? I've always wanted to hang that on my wall and _really_ freak out the neighbors.
Rich
Probably because the Vader helmet is a duplicate, not the real deal. The Stromtrooper helmet was worn by one (possibly more) extras in two movies. The one is a neat looking mold that I don't think can even be worn. And the the other is a piece of movie history that you coul wear on Halloween. See the difference?
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The ability to port swamp small servers is neither defining nor impressive...and fry cook with a wap phone can do that.
We'd have Muslims killing themselves hari-kari style and it would look cool when they do it.
If only princess leia's golden bikini were on the list, i'd have to mortgage my first born and sell cowboyneal's soul to microsoft just get get my hands on it. Anyone know what happened to that peice of..uhh...metal ;)
christian.
...you do know that the lightsabre's aren't real, don't you?
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Anyway, the Death Star didn't really need to be tough, it was supposed to engage capital ships at long range. The Empire didn't consider small, one man fighters to be any threat, or they'd have had a tighter defense mechanism.
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I remember when you could mail order these Darth Vader helmet replicas. They sold for $2,000 each, as I recall. Not signed by George Lucas though, unless I'm mistaken.
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Checking Sourceforge...
GNU lightsaber: Nope.
KDE front-end for hyperspace navigation: In alpha release.
O'Reilly's "The Force In A Nutshell": Delayed.
PHP/MySQL admin interface for Death Star: Again, no dice.
And you people still wonder why the Empire runs on Microsoft?!?
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Speaking of death star..... its already available
Get a job.
What's with all this 'model' crap? I want my own Millenium Falcon!!! How else am I supposed to make that Kessel Spice run at the end of the month?
Think outside the... Hey, where'd the friggin' box go?
George Lucas is known for being the first filmmaker to make big money with merchandising rights. Before the original Star Wars, merchandising was just to promote the film, not a moneymaker in its own right. Lucas owned the merchandising rights to the original Star Wars, but not the movie itself. Merchandising made him enough money that he was able to own and produce all his later films. Today, some films seem to be more oriented towards shipping merchandise than selling tickets.
How the fsck am I meant to make a beowulf cluster of these?
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Just search Goggle for "Don Post" "Star Wars" helmet, you'll see a variety of Star Wars helmet replicas that you can use for your next Halloween costume (I have Boba Fett's helmet in my collection).
Reminds me of the 'old' adage about Bill Gates: that if while on the way to work in the morning, he stopped to pick up a $100 bill lying on the sidewalk. He'd actually LOSE money, because he makes more in those few seconds than the bill is worth. As to why he's walking to work in the first place...
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Some of these items are just a standard model kit painted by an ILM technician. Give me a fucking break.
this site sucks big fucking dick.
Auctioning all that memorabilia off?!
It belongs in a museum!
Wait... wrong Lucas franchise...
Ok....I can understand things going for a lot of money if they're authentic. But people bidding a couple thousand dollars to get a really nicely painted AMT/Ertl model that you can buy in any Kay-Bee Toy Store is quite funny.
I mean there is a certain thing to be said for them to be painted & detailed by actual ILM modelmakers, but the least they could have done was actually have them be authentic ILM models and not the historically-badly-made-and-badly-manufactered AMT kits. I have a few of the Star Trek kits that AMT makes and they are so badly done that there are actually entire websites devoted to giving instructions and selling parts so that the pieces will actually fit together properly!
Sheesh.
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I don't think many people would pay in the thousands for a defective lightsaber. What is the use if it doesn't cut? http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/viewbo.cfm?uc_ful l_date=19990602&uc_comic=bo&uc_daction=X
Since Ashcroft has deleted the fourth, and mangled the first, I suppose it would have to be marked down somewhat....
Ya know, once apon a time our rights WERE more valuable than 3000 dead Americans.
After we've given up our rights, what will we be fighting for?
Like the /. poll I realise that we aren't supposed to complain about the lack of choice here but I was hoping for an authentic imperial guard uniform (the guys in red that follow the emperor around). For that matter why are they auctioning off helmets without the rest of the uniform - there seems to be little point in holding onto stormtrooper uniform without the helmet. Not only do they not protect against anything, you can't even communicate with the other troopers.
Fucken Canucks
through the official lucasfilm ltd store. the price is something like $5k (US). i'm crazy over star wars (can pretty much whip through the sw trivial pursuit game in one shot), but i'm not about to shell out that much cash for a life-size han solo in carbonite replica....
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But the Death Star admins leaving their ports open in the first place was pretty stupid. Of course, we all know that the Empire relied on "Security Through Obscurity". When the secret blueprints were captured by the Rebel Alliance hackers, the weakness was obvious.