The Parts of Star Wars - Found Part Fridays - ROTJ E-11 NEW discoveries!

[James Kenobi 1138]

"My reward for saving the Princess is twenty-thousand.....plus..... 2 umbrella stands".

 

[eethan]

ahah, that's a cool one!

 

[Ridire Firean]

Hey Conqueror_Worm ! GREAT EYE!

That's a find that will make everyone with a patio say "DUDE, my family used to have one of those!".

It was probably available at Kmart, Sears, Ace Hardware, Aco Hardware, etc.

 

[Wavey]

They are good for Swing-Ball too, Han and Chewie's favourite competative sport - when the Falcon is on auto-pilot of course. It's a bit like a training remote for the non-believer.

 

[Conqueror_Worm]

"My reward for saving the Princess is twenty-thousand.....plus..... 2 umbrella stands".

 

[Vaderman]

Well, absolutely a great ID!
However, if we added that to a room display at Celebration, for example, we’d be accused of not cleaning up. Plus, everyone would say, “hey, why are these patio umbrella bases sitting here?”
I wonder if they cut the cover off or used them as-is? As I recall they are just a giant block of concrete.

 

[MastahBlastah]

Not a complete ID, but I just noticed this-
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lol this is incredible. I love the creativity.

 

[MastahBlastah]

Well, absolutely a great ID!
However, if we added that to a room display at Celebration, for example, we’d be accused of not cleaning up. Plus, everyone would say, “hey, why are these patio umbrella bases sitting here?”
I wonder if they cut the cover off or used them as-is? As I recall they are just a giant block of concrete.

These are probably made to be filled with sand, or water. You can see the hole where they would be filled. That means they'd be easy to ship!

 

[Conqueror_Worm]

Found parts Friday!

So here you go…

I have been able to match a real world found part to the section of the ESB Snowspeeder cannon.

That found part is a slide tray from a slide machine (Remember slide night, children of the 70’s?). The tray i have found that appears to be a match is the Hanimex Rondex 120 Slide Rotary Carousel Magazine. It is possible other makers made the same size tray in various countries.

I think these may have been used on the Death Star too:

 

[eethan]

gosh, I have been looking for those trays for a long time for the death star walls and I didn't even realize when I saw that post for the snowspeeder last time!
awesome!

 

[Vaderman]

Well, okay, fair enough. Now, how to match the slides inside each one?!?

 

[Halliwax]

Thought it was Friday… dang

 

[russellsch]

Quick!! To eBay, before they become thousands of dollars!

 

[SlyFox]

We're currently working on super accurate 3D models all measured directly from real parts.
These models will be released in some form in the near future.
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I’m looking for accurate digital models of these parts, are they available or just the 3D prints from Shapeways?

 

[mgoob]

I’m looking for accurate digital models of these parts, are they available or just the 3D prints from Shapeways?

Shapeways
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E-11 Prop Greeblie - ROTJ by Mr_Sparkle on Shapeways

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[SlyFox]

If you've been following us over on Facebook, you know The Parts of Star Wars is doing a feature called Found Part Friday.

I can’t seem to find your Facebook page anywhere, what happened? Please tell me it’s not gone, your page was like my favourite part of that whole site.

 

[lonepigeon]

I can’t seem to find your Facebook page anywhere, what happened? Please tell me it’s not gone, your page was like my favourite part of that whole site.

Unfortunately Facebook removed the site or "unpublished" it as they say.
The only reason given was that it "violated community standards". I'm guessing because there were guns on the page.
I've objected and requested a review of the decision - so a real person is supposed to look at it instead of a 'bot.
That was several months ago and nothing has changed.
It's still scheduled for review (which may never happen).


Chris

 

[Anakin Starkiller]

Unfortunately Facebook removed the site or "unpublished" it as they say.
The only reason given was that it "violated community standards". I'm guessing because there were guns on the page.
I've objected and requested a review of the decision - so a real person is supposed to look at it instead of a 'bot.
That was several months ago and nothing has changed.
It's still scheduled for review (which may never happen).


Chris

It would be great if you could host the articles you wrote for you Facebook page on your website. There's so much great info in them

 

[JoeG]

It would be great if you could host the articles you wrote for you Facebook page on your website. There's so much great info in them

Agreed. It'd be really sad to lose all that info.