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LucasFilm Auctioning Star Wars Memorabilia

Posted by chrisd on from the these-are-not-the-auctions-you-are-looking-for dept.

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?"

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  1. hmmm... by Quasar1999 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:hmmm... by Cato+the+Elder · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It makes perfect sense to me. By offering items for auction, Lucasfilm forgoes a source of potential profit to funnel money from people with enough disposable income to buy collectibles to the needy.

      Lucasfilm can't really donate "some of the revenues from the films", I'm sure almost all of that money has already been spent. Sure, they could donate some proceeds from ongoing liscensing--"Buy a Jar-Jar Binks doll to Help America"--Bleck. I think it's much cooler to offer relatively unique items then to be yet another company funneling off pennies here and there.

  2. So.... by DAldredge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So how much of your income from Win32 driver dev. job do you donate???

    1. Re:So.... by Quasar1999 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      So how much of your income from Win32 driver dev. job do you donate???

      To American charities? None. I do however volunteer my time and services to local charities (here in Canada), when I have the time.

      And what difference does it make if I donate a million dollars or none at all? Donations are one thing, but buying something where part of the proceeds goes to a charity is something totally different. You benifit and the charities benifit.

      I rather like the idea when a corporation announces that a certain percentage of the profits on a product or on a certain day are donated to a charity. It lets lots of people participate, while still getting something out of it (since deep down, we're all selfish).

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  3. Expensive by TMacPhail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  4. Re:Huh? by Party+Remover · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Doesn't surprise me much. A lightsaber prop sitting on a shelf or in a display cabinet doesn't necessarily look like anything special (especially if it's not part of a larger collection on display). You might even think it's a flashlight or something. But it's pretty tough to mistake a Stormtrooper helmet for anything else. :-)

  5. Re:Forget about the Sith Lords by astrotek · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The images are hosted off site. The slashdot affect is on lucasfilm I think. Ebay is serving pages just fine.