C-3PO’s Head From ‘Empire Strikes Again’ Bought for a Cool Million

In case your standards for Star Wars memorabilia embrace that it have to be very rare, display-ready (and moveable), and immediately recognizable, you simply missed out on the chance of a lifetime—but additionally saved your self 1,000,000 bucks. C-3PO‘s light-up head utilized in 1980’s The Empire Strikes Again has simply fetched an enormous worth at Propstore’s newest entertainment-themed public sale.

That’s properly over the auction house’s estimate of $350,000 to $700,000 and speaks to the worth of the merchandise; in line with a Propstore press launch, it’s “the one recognized instance of Threepio’s head from the second movie to seem on the collector market.”

Granted, $1 million is kind of a bit lower than the just about $4 million somebody paid for Darth Vader’s lightsaber final yr. Nevertheless it nonetheless means the protocol droid’s disembodied noggin has entered the uncommon air of film props which have offered for over seven figures (the precise sale worth was $1,058,4000).

In the identical public sale, and previously covered on io9, have been some extremely prized Jaws props, extraordinarily uncommon holdovers from the film’s famously chaotic production: Quint’s harpoon gun, case, and accompanying “customized VFX shark dart,” which offered for $327,600; and Quint’s fishing rod and reel, which offered for $239,400. We already made the “you’re going to want an even bigger pockets” joke in anticipation of these costs.

You may take a look at all the main points concerning the public sale, which runs by in the present day, March 27, at Propstore.

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