Posted on 09/12/2022 7:53:36 AM PDT by marktwain
The prop used by the character Han Solo in the original Star Wars movie was lost for decades. It was recently rediscovered, re-assembled, and sold at auction at Rock Island Auction Company. The price, as bid, was $900,00. With the buyer’s fees, the total amount came to $1,057,500.
The following video shows the bidding at Rock Island Auction Company. It is fast. It is pricey. It only lasts two minutes and 59 seconds.
Interested bidders from all over the world were willing to pay a lot of money for this iconic movie prop.
The history of the prop is fascinating. Director George Lucas did not want flash and shiny. He wanted something described as a “used future,” meaning props and devices in the movie should appear to show wear and appear cheap. The original Star Wars did not have a big budget. The video below tells the entire story of how the prop was made from a surplus Mauser 96 pistol. They were still cheap in England in 1976. A scope mount, flash hider, and other items were added to create a unique DL-44 Heavy Blaster.
While the Solo DL-44 Heavy Blaster movie prop netted over a million dollars, it is only the tenth highest item that has been sold through Rock Island Auctions.
The top price was for a cased pair of Remington New Army model revolvers owned by President Grant. They are percussion revolvers and sold for $5,170,000 dollars. They were presented to General Ulysses S. Grant when he was commander of the Union Armies before becoming president.
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I’m saving my money for when the original Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator goes up for auction. There’s supposed to be a ka-boom.
One reason I liked the new Battlestar Galactica series. They paid attention to the details. As did the latest Expanse series. Unless you are on a spaceship...it makes no noise.
It always amazed (irritated) me that in Star Trek TNG, the exterior shots of the Enterprise were accompanied by a low frequency "rumble" noise. Where did that come from? Same question for the exterior the visual. Where, in interstellar space, does the light come from that illuminates Enterprise soooo beautifully.
As for Battlestar Galactica, as a radiohead, I loved the sound of their ship-to-ship comms. Clearly identifiable as sideband communications...those that send triple the power with no carrier wave...where audio needs to be "clarified" or tuned to be understandable. Nice touch.
Ah, but Star Wars is just as big with kids now as it was in the 1970s.
I’m sure you’re a lot of fun at parties.
“I’m sure you’re a lot of fun at parties.”
Yes. Parties with real people not behaving like fictiomal charcters, as children like childrem do.
Who goes to parties with people behaving like fictional characters?
#6 FLNittany never saw Star wars?.... !!
My uncle never saw Gilligan’s Island!
For you there is still time. Watch the first two and a half movies then skip the rest.
May the Force be with you!!
As a prop, it was altered to shoot blanks.
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