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?"

Comments

hmmm...

[Quasar1999]

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?

So....

[DAldredge]

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

Warning!!!!

[DAldredge]

They have a ZERO (0) feedback rating on ebay. How do we know they won't take the money and run???

;->

$8000+ for a helmet?

[dmarcov]

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.

Auction the right to choose Jar Jar's future

[Helevius]

If Lucas were a genius, he would auction the right to decide Jar Jar Bink's future in the next or third Star Wars movie. He could bring in a lot of money by guaranteeing the high bidder's way to eliminate Jar Jar would appear on screen. Perhaps an AT-AT would step on him, or he could be rolled over by a sandcrawler? (Yeah, those are tame.)

Helevius

Forget about the Sith Lords

[Wintermancer]

#include "heavy-breathing.h"

#incluide "voice-distortion.h"

"Princess Lea, now you will see the true nature and power of the Dark Side of the force."

"No, Lord Vader! We are just a peaceful planet of granola eaters and tree huggers!"

"Yes, watch as the Empire unleashes the ultimate weapon....the Slashdot effect!"

Really, this is amazing, we've Slashdotted eBay.

Lucas, You Genius

[Murdock037]

...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.)

Mostly Just Kit Models...

[CaptainCarrot]

...Which is kind of too bad, but I suppose they couldn't just auction off all their original props. The Stormtrooper's helmet was used in the filming of Eps 5 and 6, and Darth Maul's lightsabre was the prop Ray Park actually used in the fight scenes. The Darth Vader helmet was cast "from an original used in the filming of The Empire Strikes Back," which seems to be saying that the original molds were lost and a new one was made from an old hemlet. Not quite the same as an original by a long shot, but Lucas has autographed the thing, so I suppose it has more cachet than some of the other items.

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.

Re:Make your own lightsaber?

[susano_otter]

...the more mechanically inclined among us could just turn their own on their garage lathes and bolt a bunch of gewgaws to it to finish the look.

Are you talking about these guys?

Or these guys?

Or possibly even these guys?

You want to see MY identification?

[whovian]

Dear Mr. Lucas,

We will give you 5,000 now -- plus 15 when we reach Alderan.