Luke's ESB Blaster - Model 57 or DL-44?

[elro2k]

The truth is that we really never know. The blaster may be meant to be the exact same in all movies and they never expected fans to get so wrapped up in the details. Remember that Solo's bunker blaster is very different in those scenes from his hero blaster in ROTJ, not to mention smaller variations in stunt props and the same in the other movies including the Greedo Killer differences. At know time in ROTJ do we assume he switch blaster before and after he left the bunker.

An argument can be made that Han would require a new blaster after he left his old one on Cloud City. But one could argue that it was later retrieved some way the same as it appears Luke's X-Wing Helmet and ship somehow made it back too. Even if you believe that the one blaster in ESB was left behind and never retrieved, the idea might be that his replacement was to be perceived as the exact change. In short, what the prop people wanted you to think may be very different from what is actually observed.

It would be really cool if they made a bunch of short stories in the new canon explaining how and why all the props change through the movies lol. It does get complicated when you think about the greedo killer and the bunker blaster though.

 

[newmagrathea]

I've always thought of Han as the kind of guy that would have several and depending on the conditions he might favor one over another. For example the Hoth blaster is modified to work better in cold conditions.

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

It would be really cool if they made a bunch of short stories in the new canon explaining how and why all the props change through the movies lol. It does get complicated when you think about the greedo killer and the bunker blaster though.

I think that is a slippery slope. I often ask and ponder such questions but then I remember the old EU. IMHO, I felt a lot of stories mucked themselves up in trying to define and explain things that we saw in the movies. Often the explanation was made a lot more complex than it needed to be. One of the things Lucas did purposefully when directing Star Wars is that he instilled in the viewer the understanding of what they saw. He did not need to explain droids, blasters, lightsabers, light speed. He simply included them in the movie and assumed the viewers would understand. This enabled them to just enjoy the story instead of a lot of technobabble.

I've always thought of Han as the kind of guy that would have several and depending on the conditions he might favor one over another. For example the Hoth blaster is modified to work better in cold conditions.

I think that is totally plausible. As I stated early on in this post, I also theorized a lot of attachments for a single blaster.

However, the old west romantic in me likes the idea that his blaster is special to him (think The Rifleman and his rifle) and that he might even risk injury to retrieve it (think Indiana Jones and his hat).

 

[RustBelt]

As an example of "pre HD props and how the prop people would build to a certain level of detail. In this case lack of detail.

 

[mtotin]

There is a new model of Greedo on the market that is holding a blaster that isn't very close to screen accurate. But it is exactly a copy of one of the fan made guns you'll see if you google Greedo gun. Which brings up the question, who labelled it and from what reference?