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LucasFilm Auctioning Star Wars Memorabilia 144

Posted by chrisd from the these-are-not-the-auctions-you-are-looking-for dept.
Captain Chad writes: "LucasFilm has donated some items to eBay's "Auction for America". They include a lightsaber used by Ray Park (Darth Maul) and a stormtrooper helmet used in The Empire Strikes Back and in Return of the Jedi. Check out the list of auction items! I think some of the bids will get astronomical. Would anyone be willing to give me a few hundred thousand dollars so I can get the lightsaber?"
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  • hmmm... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Quasar1999 ( 520073 ) on Friday December 07, 2001 @08:50PM (#2674278) Journal
    Sounds great and all... but why not donate some of the revenues from the films (which we already pay a hell of a lot of money to go see anyways) to these charities... why auction off only one or two things which can only be attained by the rich?

    • So.... (Score:4, Insightful)

      by DAldredge ( 2353 ) <SlashdotEmail@GMail.Com> on Friday December 07, 2001 @08:53PM (#2674292) Journal
      So how much of your income from Win32 driver dev. job do you donate???

      • Re:So.... (Score:2, Insightful)

        by Quasar1999 ( 520073 )
        So how much of your income from Win32 driver dev. job do you donate???

        To American charities? None. I do however volunteer my time and services to local charities (here in Canada), when I have the time.

        And what difference does it make if I donate a million dollars or none at all? Donations are one thing, but buying something where part of the proceeds goes to a charity is something totally different. You benifit and the charities benifit.

        I rather like the idea when a corporation announces that a certain percentage of the profits on a product or on a certain day are donated to a charity. It lets lots of people participate, while still getting something out of it (since deep down, we're all selfish).
        • Donations are one thing, but buying something where part of the proceeds goes to a charity is something totally different. You benifit and the charities benifit.

          Which is exactly what's happening here. What's your problem with it?

    • I agree. I'd rather not line George's ego coffers any more than they already are. Why should he get more support for the monostrosity of marketing that he is? Further, all of the "Auction of America" items have to be paid for by eBay Billpoint. This has already irked a majority of people who don't want to promote eBay's (more expensive) alternative to other payment methods.

      Give to charity under your own name, with the amount you can afford. Don't be led in by this garbage.

    • Perhaps you weren't aware that LucasFilm is simply complying with the industry standard [theonion.com].

    • Re:hmmm... (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Cato the Elder ( 520133 )
      It makes perfect sense to me. By offering items for auction, Lucasfilm forgoes a source of potential profit to funnel money from people with enough disposable income to buy collectibles to the needy.

      Lucasfilm can't really donate "some of the revenues from the films", I'm sure almost all of that money has already been spent. Sure, they could donate some proceeds from ongoing liscensing--"Buy a Jar-Jar Binks doll to Help America"--Bleck. I think it's much cooler to offer relatively unique items then to be yet another company funneling off pennies here and there.

    • Sounds great and all... but why not donate some of the revenues from the films (which we already pay a hell of a lot of money to go see anyways) to these charities... why auction off only one or two things which can only be attained by the rich?


      So you would like to donate to charities, and you'd rather have the burden placed on the general populace rather than a rich elite few? I take it that you're not in support of graduated income tax brackets either, are you?


      So a few rich people grab up the uber-cool light saber. Big deal. At least that money is going to be used for some good, rather than sitting in their bank account. Or at the very least, these are the kinds of people who might pay millions for a baseball or something - you might as well use their money, and it's obvious that they're more than happy giving it away this way.

      • So you would like to donate to charities, and you'd rather have the burden placed on the general populace rather than a rich elite few?

        I'm not saying exclude the rich charity donators, I'm simply saying include the not-so-rich (general populace, as you called it) donators as well. I don't know how many movie tickets to starwars episode one were sold, but I'm sure if even just $0.05 of each ticket went to a charity, it would end up being a hell of a lot more money than what 2 people buying 2 studio props for say $100,000 could raise. Do you see my point? I'm not saying get rid of the option to spend an insane amount of money on one or two things (for the rich), but you can raise a lot more money if you take in very little from a whole lot of people.

        I'm not rich, hell I usually live pay-check to pay-check... I can't donate lots of money to charities, but I'm quite happy parting with $0.50... It would however, cost more for a charity to process my $0.50 donation than its worth. But if that small donation comes from hundreds or thousands of people at once, through a corporation taking a small percentage off of a ticket (or product, or whatever), then the charity gets to tap into people like me who can't donate a lot, but still are quite willing to donate a little. And there are a lot of people who will glady donate a little.

    • By that logic, I guess everyone should give everything they make to charities.

      Or is Lucas a special case in some way?

    • this way there is no cost to LucasFilm - why did you think?
    • Oooooo! I could spent lots of money on Ertl (read: available through retail stores) models put-together by people I don't know. And George Lucas is going to tell me they're important because those people made models for HIM.

      Not. This is all second-hand crap, not history. The history is in someone else's private collection.
  • I wonder how much a land speeder would cost.

    Certainly would cut down on the time to commute!
  • could be enough to pay for how much the first one cost to make.

  • never thought i would see... (Score:3, Funny)

    by BigBir3d ( 454486 ) on Friday December 07, 2001 @08:54PM (#2674298) Journal
    ...a page on ebay slashdotted :-)

    good work people!
  • You know, it'd be cool to have a lightsaber from the Star Wars series, but it strikes me that the more mechanically inclined among us could just turn their own on their garage lathes and bolt a bunch of gewgaws to it to finish the look. Anyone done this, and how did it turn out?

    -nateo http://www.jesush.com/nateo/

  • Warning!!!! (Score:4, Funny)

    by DAldredge ( 2353 ) <SlashdotEmail@GMail.Com> on Friday December 07, 2001 @08:56PM (#2674306) Journal
    They have a ZERO (0) feedback rating on ebay. How do we know they won't take the money and run???

    ;->

    • They have a ZERO (0) feedback rating on ebay. How do we know they won't take the money and run???

      Interesting philosophical question: Do you read ACs?

      • Another interesting (nearly) question ... perhaps /. karma could be displayed in the same way? We all know that high karma means the comment poster is more trustworthy, therefore it will be so useful to know it.
        -
        Karma 50 (38)
        • That's a good point. I guess you sometimes know what someone's karma is close to, if you see what the post started at, but it would be useful to know this. I'm sort of surprised that they don't allow one to view it.
        • We all know that high karma means the comment poster is more trustworthy, therefore it will be so useful to know it.

          hello, Mr. Karma 49 here with an exciting offer for you... earn up to $5000 a month working at home!

  • Expensive (Score:3, Insightful)

    by TMacPhail ( 519256 ) on Friday December 07, 2001 @08:56PM (#2674308)
    I personaly think that the storm trooper helmet will reach a much higher price than the light saber. Simply because the helmet is from one of the originals that have essentially become classics. The light saber will be expensive but not as high because episode 1 was not as popular as the original 3.
  • I was disappointed to see that the models up for auction were assembled from kits. Not that I could afford even those, but I was imagining some actual models used in the films. The money generated by those would be astronomical...but wouldn't go into Lucas' pocket.

  • $8000+ for a helmet? (Score:5, Funny)

    by dmarcov ( 461598 ) on Friday December 07, 2001 @08:59PM (#2674322) Homepage
    Ok -- for no logical reason, I sure wouldn't mind having an authentic Stormtrooper helmet, but come on. They've already bid it up for over $8k. Sweet charity, or no -- $8,000 for a movie prop is impossible to comprehend.

    Well that -- and the armor never seemed to protect the actual stormstrooper from anything. Not even a damned Ewok with a rock.
  • Isn't what items are up for bid, but what's currenlty in the lead..

    The Storm Trooper helm is currenlty recieving an 8,865$ bid. Where as the second Item is the Darth Maul stunt light-saber, weighing in at 5,101$

    I'd rather have a stick I could swing around and hit people with, wrather then a helmet that's going to suffocate me.
  • For those of you who don't know, or are too lazy to find out, Ebay's auction for america [ebay.com] is a method of raising money for various charities, such as the September 11th Fund, The New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund, The Twin Towers Fund and the American Red Cross.
    • The New York State World Trade Center Fund, The Twin Towers Fund, The WTC Fund, The Tallest Building In The World Fund, The Tower 1 Fund, The One World Trade Center Plaza Fund, The Families Who Worked in The World Trade Center Fund, The Families Who Worked in The Twin Towers Fund...

      Ok - so its a bit cynical - but why arent people still talking about the fact that the red cross has more money than they know what to do with...

      I'll bet that if we looked at how much money was raised for those families (who many were well to do investment types) they have enough damn money already (especially now after all this)...

      What about the insurance for the WTC - has anyone stated what that covers...

      Why dont we actually do something that will have an impact with all this money that we are raising? Where is it going - some monument? how much could that possibly cost? Who is keeping an eye on the people collecting this money?

      I know that I for one will hear about the millions upon millions raised in the name of terror relief - but I can assure you that i will not see any effect this money may have.

      (I have sympathy for the people who have suffered due to 9/11 - however I have no compassion for people who take advantage of these tragedies for greedy unscrupulous causes)
      • What about the insurance for the WTC - has anyone stated what that covers...

        Insurance? Some of the papers I read at the time seemed to indicate that only one of the two towers was insured at all. Never heard anything else about that, though - perhaps the gov't supressed the media again.
    • It may be me, but I never understand why such rich countries as the US need to get money from the public. They have _billions_ to spend. Same goes for other disasters like train accidents in the UK, exploding factory in France, fireworks in Holland. Those governments have enough money and should pay all expenses!! I mean, earthquakes in Turkey or flooding in Bangladesh is something completely different. They don't have the money. But here in the west... Let them filthy rich governments pay themselves. --Ivo

  • Huh? (Score:1, Redundant)

    by cperciva ( 102828 )
    Ok, I've never watched Star Wars, but I'm still rather confused by this.

    Why is the Stormtrooper helmet currently $3000 more than the lightsaber?

    • Re:Huh? (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Party Remover ( 131980 )
      Doesn't surprise me much. A lightsaber prop sitting on a shelf or in a display cabinet doesn't necessarily look like anything special (especially if it's not part of a larger collection on display). You might even think it's a flashlight or something. But it's pretty tough to mistake a Stormtrooper helmet for anything else. :-)
    • Well, the lightsaber needs a whole load of special effects to look authentic - the helmet doesn't :)
    • The stormtrooper helmet is from a good movie.

      The lightsaber is from a crap-fest.

      Tim

  • Auction the right to choose Jar Jar's future (Score:5, Funny)

    by Helevius ( 456392 ) on Friday December 07, 2001 @09:24PM (#2674361) Homepage
    If Lucas were a genius, he would auction the right to decide Jar Jar Bink's future in the next or third Star Wars movie. He could bring in a lot of money by guaranteeing the high bidder's way to eliminate Jar Jar would appear on screen. Perhaps an AT-AT would step on him, or he could be rolled over by a sandcrawler? (Yeah, those are tame.)

    Helevius

  • Forget about the Sith Lords (Score:5, Funny)

    by Wintermancer ( 134128 ) on Friday December 07, 2001 @09:28PM (#2674370)
    #include "heavy-breathing.h"

    #incluide "voice-distortion.h"

    "Princess Lea, now you will see the true nature and power of the Dark Side of the force."

    "No, Lord Vader! We are just a peaceful planet of granola eaters and tree huggers!"

    "Yes, watch as the Empire unleashes the ultimate weapon....the Slashdot effect!"

    Really, this is amazing, we've Slashdotted eBay.

    • no we didn't (Score:2, Informative)

      by thopo ( 315128 )
      just the server that hosts the pics (208.55.221.157). try harder guys! :)
      • The Problem with the images is that they are just too many of them for a normal responsive download. The slashdot effect really isn't to blame. I saw this story on wired several days ago and went to check it out and even then on my dial up service got tired of waiting for the images to load.
        There are a toal of 15 graphics associated with most of the auction items.
        The only image necessary for this auction is the one that has the actual picture of the item which is the one below that is not named with a number. For this particular auction it is 41KB in size while the total of the rest of the unnecessary images are 98KB of useless junk and this doesn't even count the rest of the page
        • http://208.55.221.157/auctions/starwars/11.gif
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    • The images are hosted off site. The slashdot affect is on lucasfilm I think. Ebay is serving pages just fine.

    • Really, this is amazing, we've Slashdotted eBay.

      Actually, not eBay. The only problem on the site was with the images of the auction items, which are *not* hosted by eBay. They are hosted at http://208.55.221.157 , which seems to be owned by Transrow [transrow.com], an auction company services company. They are responsible for verification of bidders.

      Taken from the Darth Maul lightsaber description:

      To help ensure a smooth auction process for all participants, Lucasfilm LTD. requires verification of bids. TransRow, Inc, an auction services company, will contact bidders at the telephone number listed on the bidders eBay registration form. If you bid and are unavailable at that number, or you are uncertain of the number you registered on eBay, then it is your responsibility to immediately contact TransRow via e-mail at verify@transrow.com or toll-free at 1-800-652-4440 (for international callers, 001-818-886-5345). If you are registered in Germany, please email to TransRow your contact information at Verify@TransRow.com.

      Once contacted, a TransRow representative will request a valid credit card number. The representative will also make inquires that are designed to confirm your identity and your intent to complete this transaction. This information is requested for your protection and to maintain the integrity of the auction for all participants. If a bidder cannot be verified within 30 minutes of the bid, the bid may be removed. Bidders who wish to place first bids during the last 24 hours must contact TransRow directly so that they may be pre-verified to bid. Please be aware that at any point in the auction, it may be necessary to limit the bidding only to those bidders who have been verified. Therefore, verifying prior to bidding is the only way to be assured that a bid will be received.

      This verification process is designed to give additional comfort and security to those serious bidders who are intent on purchasing this item. We sincerely hope that you appreciate the efforts we are taking to provide the highest level of integrity and security in this auction. Good Luck and Good Bidding"



      So, eBay was able to withstand the /. effect! :-)


    • Yeah, the popularity of Star Wars items is limited to /. Of course. I can see that... NO ONE else is looking at eBay right now...

      -Russ

  • Lucas, You Genius (Score:4, Funny)

    by Murdock037 ( 469526 ) <tristranthorn@hotmail. c o m> on Friday December 07, 2001 @09:42PM (#2674387)
    ...Do you know how much money I'd pay to get my own fully-functional Death Star? He's about to make a mint.

    (Of course, I'd want the first one, as we all know the second one is not yet fully operational.)
    • You obviously fell asleep before the climax of RotJ. Surely it was due to all that Ewok nonsense.

      Anyway, to catch you up, the Emperor surprised Luke with the fact that his friends were walking into a trap, since the battle station was "fully armed an operational". I'm not sure what that badly animated leech or whatever it was on the side of the Emperor's face had to do with it.

      Anyway, Han was a little behind getting the shield down, and Lando realized that it was a trap, since the Rebel's sensors were being jammed. He was too late though, and a lot of brave rebels died at the hands of the Empire with their big green blaster. (BTW, the colors of the blasters always seemed wrong to me. The sabers made sense. Bad guys red, good guys blue, youths green. What gives with that?)

      Fortunately, Han got the sheild generator down and Lando was able to blow up the second Death Star just as Luke escaped with Vader's (now Anikin again) body.

      You should watch it again. It is on VHS now, so you can fast-forward through all the cutesy Ewok crap.

      -Peter
    • >Of course, I'd want the first one, as we all know the second one is not yet fully operational.

      (tongue inserted firmly in cheek) No way. That first one had that clearly-labelled 'self destruct' button on it. Version 2.0 eliminated this design flaw, the subsequent failure of ground-based security through gross management incompetance was the only reason for its destruction.

      This new weapon system represents the most awesome destructive power in the universe. Fortunately, they put a button right here that will blow the whole thing up!

      How will we find this button, sir?

      That's the best part! They built a trench that leads right to it. Just drop in, fly to the button and fire. You can't miss!

      But why would they build something like that?

      Beats me! Isn't is great, though?
      • It wasn't a self destruct button, it was a small thermal exhaust port, just below the main port (how else were they going to cool the reactor?). The port was even ray shielded, meaning that it could only be targeted with photon torpedos Besides which, the shaft leading to the reactor was only two meters wide, so narrow as to be considered impossibe to hit, even with a computer.


        Anyway, the Death Star didn't really need to be tough, it was supposed to engage capital ships at long range. The Empire didn't consider small, one man fighters to be any threat, or they'd have had a tighter defense mechanism.

    • Speaking of death star..... its already available [sell.com]

  • Act now! Vader helmet cheaper than Stormtrooper's! (Score:3, Informative)

    by zsazsa ( 141679 ) on Friday December 07, 2001 @09:47PM (#2674402) Homepage
    This probably won't last much longer, but there's a Vader helmet [ebay.com] (used in Empire) going for a fraction of what the Stormtrooper helmet is up to now. ($1,700 vs $8,865)

    That's the power of a direct link from Slashdot's front page!
  • They include:
    - ILM [ebay.com]
    - Universal Home Video [ebay.com] (they sold props from The Mummy Returns, including the Book of the Living, the Book of the Dead, and the Scorpion Bracelet... unfortunately most of the auctions have since expired but there were at least 20 pages of props up for bidding)
    - 20th Century Fox [ebay.com]

    My feeling on these auctions is hey, it's all for charity, so if you have money to burn, why not do it for a worthy cause instead of for yourself?
    • The one by ILM (user lucasdigital) was actually organized first by the employees and consisted of crew items. A CG supervisor at ILM was the front man and he really busted his chops doing that, especially since he is also in the middle of prodction. They did auction more than the stuff that is listed on that link (which only shows last 30 days). I was trying to decide how to donate some more money and found the ILM auctions suited me best. Some really amazing items. Got 4 for myself. Hopefully they will be able to put out more stuff out.

      As far as the kits go, Lucas has always been one that has kept all sorts of props and stuff from ILM with him for preservation. He doesn't want them to be either lost or hidden by some collector.

  • Mostly Just Kit Models... (Score:4, Informative)

    by CaptainCarrot ( 84625 ) on Friday December 07, 2001 @09:55PM (#2674424)
    ...Which is kind of too bad, but I suppose they couldn't just auction off all their original props. The Stormtrooper's helmet [ebay.com] was used in the filming of Eps 5 and 6, and Darth Maul's lightsabre [ebay.com] was the prop Ray Park actually used in the fight scenes. The Darth Vader helmet [ebay.com] was cast "from an original used in the filming of The Empire Strikes Back," which seems to be saying that the original molds were lost and a new one was made from an old hemlet. Not quite the same as an original by a long shot, but Lucas has autographed the thing, so I suppose it has more cachet than some of the other items.

    Everything else seems to be a professionally-built kit model. They all come with certificates of authenticity, but what they authentically are doesn't seem to be to be all that unique.

    It should be remembered that for the newer movies, authentic models will be rare indeed since they're using a great deal fewer of them in favor of CG.

  • Yummy (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I'd bid for a jar of ewok pâté.

  • Heh. (Score:3, Funny)

    by DelyApple ( 322505 ) on Friday December 07, 2001 @10:19PM (#2674479)
    Vader: What is thy bidding, my master?

    Emperor: My bidding is on your helmet, and I won. Hand it over.

    Vader: But I need this to liiiive...

  • You want to see MY identification? (Score:5, Funny)

    by whovian ( 107062 ) on Friday December 07, 2001 @10:19PM (#2674481)
    Dear Mr. Lucas,

    We will give you 5,000 now -- plus 15 when we reach Alderan.
  • .. isn't on that list.

    The one thing I've always wanted to know what happened to is Jabba's favorite decoration: The carbon frozen Han Solo. Where is this thing? I've always wanted to hang that on my wall and _really_ freak out the neighbors.

    Rich
  • If only princess leia's golden bikini were on the list, i'd have to mortgage my first born and sell cowboyneal's soul to microsoft just get get my hands on it. Anyone know what happened to that peice of..uhh...metal ;)

    christian.
  • ...you do know that the lightsabre's aren't real, don't you?

  • Checking Sourceforge...

    GNU lightsaber: Nope.

    KDE front-end for hyperspace navigation: In alpha release.

    O'Reilly's "The Force In A Nutshell": Delayed.

    PHP/MySQL admin interface for Death Star: Again, no dice.

    And you people still wonder why the Empire runs on Microsoft?!?

  • What's with all this 'model' crap? I want my own Millenium Falcon!!! How else am I supposed to make that Kessel Spice run at the end of the month?
  • This is so George Lucas.

    George Lucas is known for being the first filmmaker to make big money with merchandising rights. Before the original Star Wars, merchandising was just to promote the film, not a moneymaker in its own right. Lucas owned the merchandising rights to the original Star Wars, but not the movie itself. Merchandising made him enough money that he was able to own and produce all his later films. Today, some films seem to be more oriented towards shipping merchandise than selling tickets.

  • Just a single light saber?

    How the fsck am I meant to make a beowulf cluster of these [krayup.com]?

  • Signed collectibles (Score:3, Funny)

    by freeweed ( 309734 ) on Saturday December 08, 2001 @02:23AM (#2675029)
    You know, Lucas signed the Darth Vader helmet (which took approximately 3 seconds of his time), and suddenly it's worth hundreds of dollars more.


    Reminds me of the 'old' adage about Bill Gates: that if while on the way to work in the morning, he stopped to pick up a $100 bill lying on the sidewalk. He'd actually LOSE money, because he makes more in those few seconds than the bill is worth. As to why he's walking to work in the first place...

    • Kind of a stupid adage, then, since the money Bill "makes" in those few seconds is really just an average of what he makes in the course of a year, divided into second-long segments. In other words, since he's not actually earning anything for walking to work, he'd be wise to pick up the bill, if only to blow his nose with or whatever it is he does with $100 bills.

      -Legion

      • Why is this wise, when is only 0.000000001 of his net worth? Considering the amount of germs, on that it's cheaper for him to blow his nose on a real piece of tissue.
  • Auctioning all that memorabilia off?!

    It belongs in a museum!

    Wait... wrong Lucas franchise...
    • i know you're joking but i do want to ask why we insist on clinging to "memorabilia"

      the original trilogy belongs in a museum, if we were ever to lose that, then a fairly significant bit of 20th century pop culture would be lost, but as to the pieces of plastic used to make the movie? who cares? i understand the coolness for fans, but i can't see justifying putting darth vader's helmet in a museum.
  • Ok....I can understand things going for a lot of money if they're authentic. But people bidding a couple thousand dollars to get a really nicely painted AMT/Ertl model that you can buy in any Kay-Bee Toy Store is quite funny.

    I mean there is a certain thing to be said for them to be painted & detailed by actual ILM modelmakers, but the least they could have done was actually have them be authentic ILM models and not the historically-badly-made-and-badly-manufactered AMT kits. I have a few of the Star Trek kits that AMT makes and they are so badly done that there are actually entire websites devoted to giving instructions and selling parts so that the pieces will actually fit together properly!

    Sheesh.
    • >But people bidding a couple thousand dollars to
      >get a really nicely painted AMT/Ertl model that
      >you can buy in any Kay-Bee Toy Store is quite
      >funny

      Ummmmm....it's an "Auction for America" - a *charity* auction. They're *donating* these items for a good cause, and people are buying in the spirit of *giving* to a good cause.

      "You're nuts Mr Leno, that's just a cruddy motorbike - paying several thousand dollars to do the same thing any public transport system could do for fifty cents is really funny".

      Sheesh.

      DD.
  • Where is Natalie :(
  • I don't think many people would pay in the thousands for a defective lightsaber. What is the use if it doesn't cut? http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/viewbo.cfm?uc_ful l_date=19990602&uc_comic=bo&uc_daction=X
  • Like the /. poll I realise that we aren't supposed to complain about the lack of choice here but I was hoping for an authentic imperial guard uniform (the guys in red that follow the emperor around). For that matter why are they auctioning off helmets without the rest of the uniform - there seems to be little point in holding onto stormtrooper uniform without the helmet. Not only do they not protect against anything, you can't even communicate with the other troopers.

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