Screen used ANH Star Wars Stormtrooper Helmet

SiMan

Quite possibly.

Too Much Garlic

So that's what I'm smelling?

C5FILMCOLLECTOR

Thought the same thing.

iceman

There are exceptions however, my favorite story (from memory, so don't crucify me if I get some details wrong !)
is when Brandon (Alinger) was poking around up in Oregon, and contacted one of the local construction guys that worked on ROTJ, and it turned out he was using the fiberglass wall panels (that were used to make the shield generator bunker) to fix a hole in his fence !

xmr1

LOL :-)

voice in the crowd

Yup - Kinda get the feeling you have been there, seen it and done it on that front Simon

Too Much Garlic

Well, if it works... better to use it then to just have it sitting around doing nothing but collect dust and take up space. + it probably made a killer fence filler.

Too Much Garlic

Still no pictures. Beginning to sound like the guy who's father had an original RotJ Vader helmet cast sitting in his garage that we also never heard from again.

I'm sorry, if OP really has what he says... cool... seems more likely not.

apollo

Yeah I'm calling BS on this one!

Although I am sure he will be back sometime

VaderArmor

I think everyone scared him away...If I owned such a item I would be posting pics all over! and bragging about it but..................sounds more to me like vapor-ware.

asemblyrequired

you have to figure the vultures where hitting his in-box pretty hard trying to get information, images and to buy it. It would scare anyone.

-James

rosskow

now we'll never know...

voice in the crowd

I thought the same but it was pointed out to me that the owner hasn't been on the forum since his last post.

Nobody else think that possibly he may have been enjoying the time runnng up to Christmas with family and friends and not that bothered about some Sci-Fi forum

If he returns and pics appear then bonus.

gizmo

I hope so too.

Ben

apollo

Hey I thought he was trying to get some quick X-Mas money!

Stormtrooper

There will be a crazy stampede of all the naysayers, to edit their "Wot a load of BS" posts, before their 'new best friend' discovers that people were doubting his honesty!

I however would be very surprised if it turns out to be an original Stormtrooper bucket. Even if the guy isn't trying to mislead any of us deliberately, it may well be that he's unaware of what is and isn't an original prop.
I had someone tell me that they had an original Stormtrooper helmet, and they knew it must be authentic because "It even has a stamp on it, saying Copyright 20th Century Fox..."
Well when I finally saw a pic of this 'hidden treasure' it turned out to be an old, beaten-to-crap Don-Post mass-market replica Stormtrooper helmet from the early 1980's! .......

I reckon about 90% of the movie-watching public have a VERY POOR concept of what a screenused Prop or item of Wardrobe would actually look like.
Sadly there has likely been dozens of old, HDPE trooper helmets, with flaking paint, roughly screwed together and with crude hand-painted detailing.... taken to the rubbish tip/ Charity Shop or Car-boot sale, simply because their owners couldn't believe that these are all traits and characteristics of a genuine screenused Stormtrooper helmet!

Though this guy does say his Dad worked for 20th Century Fox around the time of Star Wars.
But then I don't think a Publicity Executive would be showered with original props or wardrobe.
It wouldn't be the first time that a member of a movie's Crew had been gifted an original piece from filming... but it's usually a member of Crew such as Cameraman, Audio Technician, Lighting Technician or suchlike, - all positions in the Crew who were present on the set(s) when the movie was being filmed. Not as with Publicity Execs, whose involvement with a movie usually begins long after filming has wrapped, and closer to it's release in the cinema / theater.

But hopefully I will be proved wrong and the OP will return with some photographic evidence.
I'll be first to tuck in my bib, and eat my words! I would gladly see and hear all about another ANH Stormtrooper helmet, even if it means I have to blush a lil' bit!

Whoah... long post! Sorry guys, in the time it's taken me to write all of this, the OP has probably posted pics of his helmet and someone has positively screen-matched it to one onscreen in ANH!

Cheers,
John
john@manicminer.plus.com

jedimaster

Ya know, everytime someone posts something like this everyone jumps on them , bombarding them with a BAZILLIAN questions.... That's why I'll never post pix of my screenused stormtrooper buckets..... Your all animals!!!! No PM's please I'm not showin em!!!

voice in the crowd

Awwwww

apollo

Not this time!

I made him a nice offer and it now sits in my black-hole of Screen-used Props from which never a photo is made, except for insurance purposes!

The Boogeyman

I was initially suspect of this thread when I saw the author's forum name...last time I saw that name similar was a character in Dream a Little Dream (1989).

asemblyrequired

just call you the Thomas Crown of Stormtrooper helmets.



-James

apollo

Malphas

There happen to be a link or pics to this. I'd like to see it.

xenomorph

It's a wind up.

His name says it all - P. S. dumb@$$

iceman

Here you go :

Return of the Jedi Endor Bunker - Star Wars Collectors Archive