This should be advetsised as closet replica you can get to the original lost prop but has the original scope! It would still sell for very good money. Ahhh honesty.
Han Solo ANH Blaster From RIA, Prev on Pawn Stars
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I've given them a piece of my mind in the comments too, as well as reinforced some of the other skeptical comments there. Funny, I think I can recognize a few of you fellow RPFers there from your writing style... I need to get out more! 
Kinda makes you wonder how many times that dude rehearsed that 'speech'
beforehand in the mirror? haha..
P.S. Note the lack of mention towards Gary Kurtz, who I consider the real mastermind behind SW. Lucas is a front-man who gains far too much credit, in my opinion.
-Carson
Lee.... Kirby
Roddenberry... Coon
Kane... Finger
Lucas... Kurtz
Scott... O'Bannon
joberg
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Well, if he agreed to re-build it "In the Spirit" of the original one...then; anything can be re-build and be screen-used
joberg
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Disney...Iwerks
Vanitas
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From what I recall this image was in the code of Bapty's website; at the beginning of 2022 I was looking through the site after seeing the infamous Pawn Stars episode. To this point I hadn't realized that Bapty had a website, as I was under the impression that they were defunct. Bapty's images were not able to be downloaded/saved as, so using Inspect Element I was looking through the code with the intention of saving any relevant images I found. Since then it looks like the website has been entirely revamped.
This image was (I think) not one displayed in their gallery but was still in the code, so I saved the image directly and posted it to one of the discussion threads without much hurrah other than a "Huh, that's weird". I suppose it is possible that it might have been some kind of backup/stunt prop given the unusual design, but who knows at the end of the day?
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Some of these are debatable. I don't think you have Marvel Comics without both Kirby AND Lee. And people seem far too eager to give anyone and everyone BUT George Lucas credit for STAR WARS, despite his very clearly being the lead idea-man and creative overseer.
The reality is that these things are collaborative, and, yes, while some people got screwed out of the proper credit (Bill Finger absolutely being # 1 on the above list), it doesn't mean that the people who got the credit weren't also a part of these properties being successful. STAR TREK was still Roddenberry's baby, although Coon was instrumental in fleshing it out and making it work. ALIEN would have just been a B-movie without Ridley Scott's obsessive attention to production design and cinematography. And so on.
People always want to break these things down into black/white or good guy/bad guy, but the reality is usually far more complicated.
Oh yeah, not in disagreement, just seems there is only room for the public to populate credit with a single name.
Yeah, absolutely. On the flipside of what I was saying, people tend to latch onto a single name as the sole auteur of a successful property. Not to say that there aren't actual auteurs out there, of course. Kubrick, Cronenberg, Lynch, etc.
deadbolt
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Hi, brand new here. Figured I might as well join after getting moderately up-to-speed on this auction lot thanks to all of your impressive expertise. In case it's at all helpful for communicating to any outside audiences the portions that are claimed to be original vs. the consensus on here, I put together a little color-coded diagram. Hopefully it's at least roughly accurate to the discussion, but by all means please correct me if I've mischaracterized anything. Thank you all for what you do in maintaining such a consistently-reputable resource; I wish more journalists would use it.
I’m so happy you saved this. Granted, like the lightsaber threads, sometimes we have little to go on, but we never got an explanation officially as to why they went with one forward mount post for ESB. I guess it looks clean, and the scopes had small footprints (m19, m32) and if I’m remembering correctly, this gun had a single screw in the mag well just like ESB. Except it had a weird long scope that barely looked like a hensoldt. If this had any weight, my best guess was it was mocked up either between ANH and ESB or it was mocked up after ESB (at any time) using stuff made for multiple films.
Thank you! That is a very well done infographic and welcome lol not all of the community is this turbulent I promise.
Two of mine are now mysteriously missing as well. And one of them was just quoting a line in RIA's own website's blog post:
“There has been endless speculation as to the whereabouts of Han Solo’s blaster from A New Hope, and Tony Watts ends that with a letter of provenance about the Mauser C96, its scope, and the blaster’s history.” (July 28)
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Vanitas
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Ministry of truth hard at work, I see!
No contest compared to yours, though!
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