Lightsaber for $240K

[MA-Caver]

Luke Skywalker light saber auctioned for $240,000 (AP)

Source: AP 4 hours, 6 minutes ago


LOS ANGELES - Luke Skywalker's light saber has been on Star Wars fans ' Christmas lists for more than 30 years.
On Thursday, one fan spent $240,000 to get the real thing: the prop that Mark Hamill used in the first two movies in the original "Star Wars" trilogy.
The light saber highlighted several Hollywood memorabilia sold at an auction in Los Angeles by Profiles in History. The auction house said it sold about $3.5 million in memorabilia.
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org-luke-skywalker-light-saber-auctioned-240000-ap

Two hundred and forty thousand?? ... and the damned thing doesn't even work? Please!

 

[KempoGuy06]

itll go great on my wall right next to my Storm Trooper outfit and life size C3PO

B

 

[BrandonLucas]

Two hundred and forty thousand?? ... and the damned thing doesn't even work? Please!

You, sir, are obviously not a dedicated fan...

 

[Bob Hubbard]

240k for a fricken flashtube? Right.

 

[MA-Caver]

240k for a fricken flashtube? Right.

Not this fan.

You, sir, are obviously not a dedicated fan...

I USED to be. Loved Star Wars... until Lucas fubared the whole story line with that stupid Anakin little boy no father pregnancy spoiled brat teenager "Nooooooooo!!" frankensteinesque change the story line to attract little kids marketing ploy idiotcy he tried to pass off in the prequels.

Mesa kin definitely say wesa hates whatsa hesa done wif it.

 

[clfsean]

Two hundred and forty thousand?? ... and the damned thing doesn't even work? Please!

Needs new batteries... where's the Bunny??

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Needs new batteries... where's the Bunny??

Wasn't that EP 2 Padme?

 

[MA-Caver]

Wasn't that EP 2 Padme?

Either her or one of the hand-maidens. :uhyeah:

Thing is... true fans or not, die-hard fans or not... to pay THAT much for a simple prop... used in only two films (or even sometimes with other props once)... I dunno... Yes it represented the beginning of Luke's passage into manhood and his growth to become a Jedi and all of that... still. It's nearly a 1/4 of a million dollars for pete's sake. $2500 I could see... maybe even $25K but .... sigh.

Like Indiana Jones said when he was a kid and later as an adult ... "It belongs in a museum!"

 

[Bob Hubbard]

It's not like it's Kirks command chair after all.

 

[The Last Legionary]

Didn't Paul Allen buy that for his sci fi museum?

 

[Bob Hubbard]

It's there
http://www.empsfm.org

 

[MA-Caver]

It's there
http://www.empsfm.org

Cool. I never realized it had wooden arm rests... something never noticed.

Even has Rachel's outfit worn by Sean Young in Blade Runner. Yowza.