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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.
the stiff, lifeless George Lucas himself...
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.
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
I gotta get my hands on Han Solo in the Carbonite. Simply the best prop in all the films.
"Plans are for fools! Oglethorpe, the plutonian (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
make their own lightsabers -- they don't buy someone else's.
John Maynard Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"
With or without the grits? They're extra.
"Plans are for fools! Oglethorpe, the plutonian (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
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/
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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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.
Can Natalie Portman be categorized as a prop? Mmmmm?....
A team of geeks recently bought R2-D2 from an auction, it took them 16 hours to get it to run linux.
God, wouldn't it be great for people to walk in your house and come face to face with a carbonite frozen Han Solo?
There is no price too steep.
"Hi Honey, look what I bought you today!"
-Tom
1. Buy green paint
2. Buy green cloth
That's it.
Slagborr
The light saber that Ben Kenobi gave Luke in Episode IV was nothing more than a flash handle from a 1930's era Graflex camera. See:
http://www.racprops.com/issue1/howto_lightsaber/
The Science center in Chicago has an exibit with a ton of movie props, with several from Star Wars. The most interesting was a cardboard box with a bunch of Q-Tips dipped in pastel paint. Under the box, an oscillating fan moved air past the bottom of the Q-Tips so the tops bobbed a little. With this rig, the producers made the pod race crowd scenes in Star Wars.
As for the rest (masks, guns, cars), they look much less impressive in person. I guess the art of prop making involves understanding the loss of fidelity that occurs when filming/photographing. The huge difference in detail between the close-up props versus the ones designed to be in the background was amazing.
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.