Luke ESB Blaster to be Auctioned

[Curmudgeon]

I saw this article and I'm surprised there isn't a thread about it yet!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l-300-000-Mark-Hamill-gave-Star-Wars-fan.html

The prop, which is 12 inches long, is made from grey, silver and brown-colored fiberglass and was used by Hamill for all the non-firing scenes.
In The Empire Strikes Back - the fifth instalment of the Star Wars series - Luke holds the weapon aloft as he cautiously makes his way through the corridors of Cloud City which has been taken over by Darth Vader.
The actual design of the blaster was based on the German Mauser C96 pistol.
Hamill gave the prop to an eight-year-old British boy named only as Daniel when he appeared on BBC's Jim'll Fix It show in 1979 having a picnic with 'Luke Skywalker'.

What do you guys think? To me it looks just like the Han blaster that was auctioned a few months ago.

 

[veektohr]

Looks like a ROTJ blaster to me.


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[veektohr]

With ESB flash hider. Weird.


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[Welsh Pirate]

What do you guys think? To me it looks just like the Han blaster that was auctioned a few months ago.

It's mostly the same parts, I think, but the scope mount is different and the greeblies are shuffled around.

 

[E Williams]

Looks like another copy of the ESB stunt / Muppet Show blaster?
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=233164&highlight=muppet+blaster

 

[thd9791]

It is, its another one-off cast of the Muppet Blaster with less detail, including missing the FH set screw. I can imagine there were a few on set.

For newcomers, the upper of this gun is a cast off the ANH Hero Han blaster. The bottom might be too, but we don't have any proof. It's likely they tried to use an M19 and use the already drilled ANH holes spaced at the front and rear of the gun. It looks like they cut up an ESB mount to create this weird shape, and thats the shape they based the ROTJ blasters off of.

 

[DL 44 Blaster]

Just read about this over at Screen Rant and naturally the next stop was the RPF! :cool

 

[Scott D]

The prop, which is 12 inches long, is made from grey, silver and brown-colored fiberglass and was used by Hamill for all the non-firing scenes.
In The Empire Strikes Back

I'm nit-picking, but Mark never fired a shot with his Blaster in ESB.

I saw some of that "picnic" video on the internet a few years ago. Kinda creepy. :lol

 

[matty matt]

The article is a little misleading. Does anyone know if this blaster makes it onscreen?

 

[mortifactor]

It should be pretty easy to spot due to the difference between the resin and metal flash hiders. When looking up pics for the bobadebt run assembly I only ever saw the metal "hero" one, especially when "aloft in cloud city". It might have been a belt hanger when luke is duelling and gets blown out the window and his stuff is on the ramp (can't fully recall the scene)

 

[thd9791]

The original or a better resin copy is seen on Dagobah when he's in the swamp, unpredictably during the crash scene and some shots later on. Here are some pics of an identical blaster out of the same molds.