Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Wanna Own Dr. Vader’s Actual Lightsaber? Well, Now You Can

How’d you like to own Darth Vader’s actual original lightsaber? Well, now you can...but you better have deep pockets.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Even many casual movie fans and collectors are aware that
just acquiring an original toy made for the first Star
Wars trilogy can cost you a lot, so imagine what
it might run to own a real lightsaber used in
the making of the films and Darth Vader's. Nonetheless, for
the first time in history, one of the lightsaber props
from the first three films is up for auction, and
the fact that it belonged to such an iconic character

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is only adding to the hysteria, with auction House Prop
Store estimating it's going to sell for between one and
three million dollars, given only a few of them still exist,
so three million might sound high, but some experts predict
it could go for far more than that. They point
to the sale price of a Model X Wing Fighter
that George Lucas used while making the first Star Wars movie.

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That twenty two inch miniature went for two point three
million bucks, So once in a lifetime chance for a
fan to own Darth Vader's primary weapon may cause for
a bigger bidding of Frenzy. The auction is in September
in

Speaker 1 (00:59):
LA that's direct from Hollywood,