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Star Wars Props Up For Auction
innocence18 writes "Auctioneers Profiles in History are set to auction off a number of Star Wars props from the original trilogy movies. Fromthe collection of Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz, the pieces on offer include Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader's lightsabers as well as various costumes and masks." While I can't imagine wanting to wear Luke's X-Wing flight suit, I think that light saber is pretty sweet. Although I bet it goes for the price of a new car.
Will it come with a guy that will make sound effects out the side of his mouth when you wave it around? Cause that's the part that I always get tired of making when I play with lightsabers.
I want the floating car.
The new version from the Special Edition that really floats.
This is cool and all, but what I'm really interested in is the auction for the props for episodes I through III...I'm curious as to how much Jake Lloyd will sell for. ^_^
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the stiff, lifeless George Lucas himself...
Why not wear Luke's X-Wing flight suit? I'm wearing his underwear.
Oh wait, I am Luke.
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While I can't imagine wanting to wear Luke's X-Wing flight suit, I think that light saber is pretty sweet. Although I bet it goes for the price of a new car.
If by new car, you mean a fully equiped Rolls-Royce, you're right.
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I think that light saber is pretty sweet. Although I bet it goes for the price of a new car.
Do not underestimate the power of the geek side. I suspect it'll go for considerably more money. And I wish I had the kind of money so I could. Or was that my insanity? Nah, geekiness, must be it.
Kjella
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Of all the Star Wars props I'd want, I think that Queen Amidala's throne from The Phantom Menace would be thing I would want more than anything else from the series. It is huge, regal, studded with rhinestones, and *doesn't* scream, "Hey, I'm a Star Wars nerd!"
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I'd like to think that in my lifetime I'd be able to accomplish something as phenomenal as Lucas' Star Wars series. Lucas will go down in history, remembered among the greats such as Poe, Thoreau, and Seuss. Unfortunately, no one seems interested in my stuff.
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http://www.profilesinhistory.com/Gary_Kurtz.asp
I gotta get my hands on Han Solo in the Carbonite. Simply the best prop in all the films.
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Does it include the gun Han Solo used to shoot first ?
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make their own lightsabers -- they don't buy someone else's.
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Forget it, guys. Getting this gear will not make you a chick magnet.
...my very own Tauntaun appliance???
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scary!!!
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they use Star Wars props creatively
True geekness is coveting a droid from the franchise. Of course if you can't buy one you could always build your own http://www.robotbuilders.net/r2/
Getting the lightsaber would really upset me. Taking it from the auctioneers, holding it for the first time, and then the heart explodingly bad feeling when no, the light saber doesn't work, no matter how badly you want it too. Some dreams are better left unpurchased.
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What ever happened to the full sized prop of the Millenium Falcon? It was built in Wales and then brought to the set in Elstree...but then what? [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_we st/4555455.stm%5D
That would be a kickass prop to have in the backyard - geek or not, it would be the shit to have friends and neighbors over for beers-n-burgers lounging around the MF.
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RTFA
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Film historian Jason Joiner met Gary Kurtz in 1993, and in 1996 they created the Kurtz/Joiner Archive to preserve Star Wars history for future generations. As part of their on-going work, Mr. Joiner has interviewed over 200 members of the original cast and crew over the past ten years who worked on the trilogy or were closely associated with the production. Since its inception, the Kurtz/Joiner Archive has collected and currently maintains hundreds of thousands of original production artifacts and memorabilia from Star Wars and other Gary Kurtz films.
To help fund future acquisitions and for the restoration/preservation of various pieces in the archive, certain items have been selected for de-accession. The following artifacts have been culled from the Kurtz/Joiner Archive for that very purpose, and their sale will ensure that many more pieces in the archive are preserved for future generations.
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It seems to me they have especially picked items that they have multiples of. At least the snowspeeder SFX model and the lightsabre are hardly oneoffs - I'm quite sure they had multiple copies of these, and are auctioning one each to get funding for the effort to preserve the rest.
I wonder who's going to go way out on a limb and purchase Princess Lea's gold slave outfit.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
While I can't imagine wanting to wear Luke's X-Wing flight suit, I think that light saber is pretty sweet. Although I bet it goes for the price of a new car.
You highly underestimate the buying power and number of Star Wars ubergeeks out there.
And you equate this with charity?
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Can Natalie Portman be categorized as a prop? Mmmmm?....
I want that golfball retriever....
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A team of geeks recently bought R2-D2 from an auction, it took them 16 hours to get it to run linux.
They probably should have done this auction before they released episodes I-III. It would have probalby been worth more.
Conveniently, I'm not taking into account how much more unnecesary commodities you're using in real life.
God, wouldn't it be great for people to walk in your house and come face to face with a carbonite frozen Han Solo?
Way to fight the stereotype, Slashdot!
(Note the "Bought tooth brush on eBay once used by Ewok stunt double for six hundred bucks.")
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I'd take a proper car and I'm sure quite few go for a heck of a lot more than this. Some cars can cost a few quid these days....
Is it available? Because, if I remember rightly, it should have a full clip.
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Because if he would have RTFA he would have realised the money generated from the auction was going not to line the pockets of George Lucas, but rather to preserve the rest of the props and other pieces of memoribilia from the original Star Wars movies. It's an independant project and they need funding to get it going.
And how the f*ck is an auction with a few props going to "rob you blind"? Don't go and don't bid if you aren't interested. That's why he's modded troll (And for once... good job mods)
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Man, that would be so cool!!1one!!
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There is no price too steep.
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-Tom
Am I the only one that thinks it would be cooler to own the "around the world" mileage sign post used throughout the M*A*S*H television series than any of the Star Wars stuff? Oh. I'm that uncool?
It'd be pretty damn hard to sell off 3-D graphics. I often wonder if ANYTHING was real in the most recent movies... the clothes... I dunno there was something a little off about them...
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While I agree with everyone that it would be very neat to own a lightsaber like the one used in Star Wars, I'm a bit worried about the dangers. What if you turn it on by mistake while sitting in the window seat of an airplane? You could punch a hole in the fuselage and all of the air would go rushing out? And what if your kids picked it up by mistake? The thing could be much more dangerous than, say, an Uzi. There are only about 30 shots in an Uzi clip, but the lightsaber keeps on blasting.
And how do we know the bidders won't be members of al Queda? Or what if Jedi-gone-to-the-dark-side guys buy it? I would feel much better if the light saber went to a museum where it could be protected from bad people.
...when they ask me to pay taxes, I can just give them the finger.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
The CEO of the company I work for has one. (there were several used in the movie) It sits in his office, and is quite imposing. But what a conversation piece.
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OK - you got me. I'm a Sith.
Scared of flying, pointy things snce 1979!
is Burt Ward's tights from Batman. (Toward the end of the third .pdf catalog part).
Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!
To me, it looks like a barbeque lighter + cigarette lighter + and some heat sinks.
But I know that I'm wrong.
So you crazy star wars fans.. what's it made out of?
Treat me like a marketing stat, and I'll treat your movie like a series of ones and zeros
1. Buy green paint
2. Buy green cloth
That's it.
Slagborr
So that the pieces hold their value 25 more years and can be sold for even more!!!!1! Muaha-ha-ha!!!
GTRacer
- Not that geeky
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
I know the primary reason for collecting these items has little to do with actual investment value. But I do have to wonder... Will these items ever be more valuable than they are now, at the height of the SW I, II, and III hype. With ROTS putting what most consider to be a fitting end to the story line (albeit in the middle of the story line), will there ever be as much SW hype as there is now?
Inflation will add to the price over time, but I can't imagine that ever again there will be as much interest in these itmes as there is now. Hard time recooping the money, the purchaser will have.
If that "Tie Fighter" shaped hairdo of hers was a wig, then I would buy that...so my wife... um yeah... so my wife could wear it.
I definately think the Tie Fighter design was a tribute to that hairdo by Darth Vader.
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You're not the only one to be less impressed by the Star Wars stuff, anyway. Kirk Douglas' armour from Spartacus is far more amazing.
Still, at least I didn't want Angela Lansbury's outfit from Bedknobs & Broomsticks. That would just be weird.
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yup, proper old skool British car. Rolls-Royces: too common. Bristol don't have any dealers, just one showroom in London, and rumour has it that if they don't like the look of you they just won't bother opening the door to let you in. I have to admit I really don't like the design of most of the last thirty years, but some of the 40s and 50s ones were superb.
I can't imagine wanting to wear Luke's X-Wing flight suit
You've obviously never been to a Star Wars movie premiere...
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> Am I the only one that thinks it would be cooler to own the "around the world" mileage sign post used throughout the M*A*S*H television series than any of the Star Wars stuff?
It went the way of all ephemera. Remember in the final episode, when everyone went up to it and pulled off their sign to take home? That was the real prop, so you'd just be buying a post.
Sorry.
Virg
It was when ep1 first opened. I was at a theatre in toronto(well scarborough) and it has some stars wars stuff. Then I saw the vader suit in a glass case. I thought 'cool' and walked up to it. Then I read on the bottom 'this is the suit that David Prowse wore in empire strikes back'. I'm not a collector of any stuff like that but I remember wanting to grab the whole hulking case and run out of there like a stir crazy geek. heh. I wonder if thats up for auction.
I'm giving 10 to 1 odds that Mark Cuban end up with it.
Finally, once I get Luke's Lightsaber, I'll have something to put fluorescent tubes filled with petrol on!!!
I imagine Paul Allen will end up purchasing a healthy amount of these items, and that they will end up in his Science Fiction Museum, which is really just a showcase of his crazy personal collection anyway. Hey, at least he's sharing it with us, though. Even if it is for the low-low price of $12.95 per visit.
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So either
1) these items are authentic and the identical ones I've seen in various Planet Hollywoods are fakes.
2) these items are fakes and the ones in Planet Hollywoods are fakes.
3) they are all fakes.
4) they are all probably genuine but all involved are conveniently leaving out the fact that there are several (sometimes dozens) of copies of props, costumes and other items produced for a production.
Not to be confused with Walter Kurtz.
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Ptttth...a REAL Jedi makes his own lightsaber.
Poser.
Bemopolis
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Sheesh... the one costume that attempted to transform the sex-less, boring, midwestern house wife lookin' Carrie Fisher into something more desirable for Harrison Ford?!?
It was the highlight of the trilogy!!
Just went and checked - it is one of these. I know that he told me it was an actual one used in the movie. I had never noticed the plaque at the bottom, but his is indeed a replica. Busted.
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Your wasting electricity posting on slashdot you insensitive clod!
Is he rich?
Most slashdotians don't allow you to say anything positive about the prequels. Apparently poor graphics and Deus ex Machina weaknesses in small moon sized objects are teh cool here.
This guy are sick.
Now i wouldnt mind having Lukes training orb. You, know...the orb that Obi Wan used to train Luke to use the force while going to Alderan on the Falcoln. Blindfold the girlfriend, and have her swat at that a few times, while it scoots around a zaps her in the ass. Now thats entertainment :)
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Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
One would think that if they are planning on producing Episodes 7-9, that they would want Luke's original lightsaber as a prop. That's exactly the type of geeky - artsy - fartsy type thing Lucas and friends would want. So perhaps this is a good indicator that, as Lucas said recently, they will not be making the sequels.
I also can't believe that Lucas wouldn't have this thing sitting on the mantle in his living room - the ultimate status symbol of his power and reminder of the movies that made him millions (billions?).
Dan East
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I can't help but point out that while the title of the auction says "screen-used" the Certificate of Authenticity says that it is an item for which he has a duplicate, and that he certifies that it is from his collection, and that it was a prop from Star Wars, not that it was on-screen, nor even that Mark Hamill ever touched it, or that it was ever on the set.
Not to be a wet blanket, but this isn't The Lightsabre, because there isn't any one lightsabre. It is still pretty cool though. I'd like to hold it once.
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Man, just what I want to have my family and friends look at; the "original Darth Vader head scabs". Collect the whole set!
Also, it was just creepy looking at all the Yoda "kibbles". He was a 900+ year old Jedi master that tried to save the galaxy after he had all but one of his fellow Jedi wiped out, but I got his foot! Woohoo!!
I personally would like to have the empty bottle that Carrie Fisher finished off before singing in the Christmas Special.
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Dude's been making childrens' movies since THX 1138.
I hope he gets on with his life and makes something interesting now.
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"The lightsaber being sold is not an actual functioning weapon; rather it is a silver-coloured tube with a black handle. The blade of light was added after filming by means of special effects."
Well, what's the fun in that?
I took a one week long Photoshop class a few summers ago, the instructor worked as a mask painter on a little film made in New Zealand called Lord of the Rings.
As he explained it, There are three levels of detail for props and masks. The most detailed are Heroic (regardless of good guys or bad guys), obviously they take the most amount of time to do. The next two levels (whose names I don't recall) have less detail as they will never be seen in closeup.
FWIW.
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Only Geroge's brain is encased in carbonite.
There is a lot of people lusting after the bikini so I thought I would share the link.
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They include directions on how to make one for all you do it your selfers. Now all you need is a woman willing to wear it. *good luck*
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The Profiles in History page linked from the summary only has about four of the couple-hundred props that are being auctioned off. There is a full catalog of all Star Wars memorabilia being auctioned off HERE (pdf file), on pages 2 through 37.
:)
You can buy everthing from Yoda's latex body parts (though badly deteriorated) to a stormtrooper's blaster, and everything in between.
Oh, and Luke Skywalker's flight suit and lightsaber (which incidentally was fabricated from an old Graflex flash gun from the 30's) are expected to fetch from between $60,000 to $80,000 each... yikes!
You can get an orange jumpsuit for free, however... just go rob your local liquor store.
I think you'll be happy to see that Barf's outfit is up for auction in this!
Very nice.
Actually, there are a huge number of VERY cool props in this auction... including the original 12 foot long Alien spaceship model as used in Alien and Aliens, now THAT would be cool.
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BASIC did not "compile", it was an interprter.
Hey, you ought to know. Cock is apparently your specialty. Right?
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Actually, information would like a turkey sandwich.
That depended entirely on the platform, but you're correct for most of the microcomputing world (although I did make extensive use of IBM's BASIC compiler in about 1982 or so.)
John