The original movie props for Star Wars are either locked away, or sold long ago, especially the "hero weapons". That "Boba Fett blaster" is a repro using a genuine Webley flare gun as a base (just as in the movie), and then adding stuff to it, based on a frame-by-frame analysis of how it was modified. Then they made a resin model, and the models sell for $650!!!!
$650 still buys me some respectable shootin' hardware, and not just a lump of plastic.
Heh, $650 does buy respectable shooting irons, even today. But the ebay auction I was refering to was for a ‘Decker Blaster’ and it went for nearly $1500. Parts for a working model according to the blogs would be near that.
Sub caliber sleeve’s popularity seem to ebb and flow. The one I recall best was the Savage 410er. I knew a couple of folks years back that had them for their kids. Slide in the .410 adapter into the 12 guage single shot (or double I suppose) and it was kid size recoil wise. Cabella’s still has a version of it, and some high dollar skeet sets offer a whole line of barrel sleeves.