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Keep us apprised what this fetches at auction. I can imagine quite a bit.

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I just saw this prop at the Star Wars Celebration, it's amazing to see something that wasn't meant to survive the movie shoot, let alone forty five years and still look good...I forgot to take a photo of it but this exists so I can always watch it again.

Estimate of $500,000 - $1,000,000, a bid of $500,000 is already down.

R.i.p i didn't know that..thats so sad 🥺😥😢

A true artist , his legacy will continue on for many years to come ✝️🇺🇸🤙🏻🅰️

Is that where it came from maybe?

@@cookingwithjesus Lucas always said the initial design came from Ralph McQuarries concept art same as a lot of other OG designs.

Whether he died or not he left a great legacy. I have never even seen a single film of star wars and I totally get it. Sad that 'sometimes' we have to lose something to realize how great that something was e.g Colin

Oh man you know it! Even I was like, Don't touch that!

I was sweating the whole time

I know he wasn't going to damage it, but the perfectionist in me was for sure thinking, "Adam, step back dude!"

Right?

I totally noticed that too!! I was like, Damn his hands are kinda out of control....

i'm surprised it lasted at all with Adam waving his hands around like that

The Force is strong with this one.

Definitely the Wing Gundam effect at work in this model.

According to Hollywood Reporter, the final sale price was: $2,375,000

HAHAHAHAHA!!! I was about to make the same observation. Adam's Savage hands were making me cringe! I was waiting for some Leslie Nielsen Naked Gun destruction to happen at any moment... Gloves are not good enough. Handcuff this man next time, Props Store.

ITS MORE AMAZING THAT HE REFERRED TO THE LASER CANNONS AS RADAR DISHES!

he's just all over the place ain't he? the other dude stands there with his hands clasped, just praying.....lol

@@jessicaregina1956 He's referring to the blast suppressors just behind the barrel. It's possible that the model makers used parts of radar dishes from military model kits to build these.

Same: saw it in the theater when I was 9! 🔥

so true! i was 10 years old

Yes, it's a cool looking craft, but I have always been skeptical of the "wings". They are squared off, they have no airfoil properties , they do not provides lift. technically, they are not "wings", they are just mounting posts for the weapons. Star Wars tech really doesn't make any practical sense. But, oh yeah, the ship looks cool af.

There are two types of people in the world. People who think the X-Wing is the most beautiful ship ever... and people who think TIE fighters are. xD (Tie Interceptor for me :p )

@@kes-3d I do like both ;) hehehe

@@MrFireSpy As do I. Y-Wing aswell tbh. I love how skeletal it almost looks with all its panelling ripped off.

The TIE Interceptor is my favorite Imperial starfighter design (the Defender strikes me as too fan-fictiony with its overwrought design and ridiculous power creep). The B-Wing is also a very cool if strange ship with its gyroscopic rotating cockpit, while the A-Wing is like a mini sports car (super fast but just as dangerous to the pilot as its targets).

haha very cool. I didn't know how to build with materials when I first saw Star Wars but I did make ships out of plasticine. I got quite good at it but the temptation to play with it always took over and the models would end up getting trashed. But you're spot on that everything we did then had to be from memory. There was no way to go and see the movie again once it had run for a few weeks. Years would pass before you got another movie. There was no Internet go look up the designs. Much like you I'm still chasing the same dream only now I do it with 3D printing / painting.

How many partially completed X-wing replicas are stashed in attics and basements around the world? I started constructing one from sheet polystyrene SO MANY years ago. I got a couple of wings, some engine assemblies and ion cannons completed before abandoning the project. I wanted to go with about an 18" wingspan, but I bit off more than I could chew.

I liked the Imperial Star Destroyers. After driving home from Detroit, I went home and drew top, bottom and side views. I have the EMI kit built and packed away. Yes, I built most of the kits but only the Star Destroyer survives.

Probably has nothing to do with the $1M predicted sale price :)

@@Miketz 1mil? That accurate? I would have assumed more.

@@Daltwan_Kenobi predicted price is 500k to a mil. Already one absentee bid for 500k on the site.

@@Daltwan_Kenobi probably would have been more than a million before disney got their hands on the franchise

@@JediSentinal 500k ay, if someone gets that for that price. I personally think that’s a steal for a piece of moving picture history.

Agreed! The prop guy is so nervous. Adam needs to keep his distance and slow down.

The whole video I was just waiting for him to snag one of the cannons. 😬

I had the same initial reaction until I realized it wasn't suspended in the air xD

I was thinking the same thing. If it was me waving my arms that thing would have been sent flying and if I was the other gentleman I'd be kind of gently nudging Adam away a bit farther from the podium.

@@BruceMusto Well given his background as a model maker, I'm sure he's learned to be quick and conscious. I mean how else would you get these things built in the time required! So maybe just old habits eh?

Another one for the One Day Build list: "One day, I'll build this!"

I'm constantly adding things to an all ready hundreds long list of props and builds I would work on if I had my own shop.

The Model Kit from Bandai is both nice and cheap FYI, especially the OG series version!

because even Adam doesn't want to drop $500k to $1m on this - it sold for $2+million

Guy built an AT-ACT kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qathoNVpzqnacWw.html

Not many films were made with that mutch of realism back in the days. Maybe space odyssey but it's pretty mutch it. When I saw the first shot of new hope ( it was called just star wars back in the days) my young self was blown away. You had the impression to be there with them in space.

Marcia Lucas role in theses films production is quite underrated. She's the reason why the films are so well paced. I think she's personally responsible for as mutch as 40% of the films success. Not many people know she won with Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew the best montage Oscar. We rarely see any documentary about her on KZfaq.

And red ten’s close up cockpit explosion shot is not red ten, but another unknown pilot.

"lost for words" ... dude, it's a 13 minute video. He seemed to find his words just fine!

Me too! I was sure that the turrets were just one sweeping gesture away from being snapped off. 😆

davidf2281 I know man I was like please get him away from this model before he destroys it ! Damn the gloves put him in a straight jacket

I was thinking "bull in a china shop."

Happy Birthday man, MTFBWY!

Best gift ever! Happy birthday 🥳🎉🎉🎉

Thank you 🥹

Google is always listening...

You are so lucky to have such understanding wife. A woman who understand her man. I love my wife but whenever i bought any model kit, I keep it hidden for several months. Suddenly the thing pop up , she would ask if that is a new toy....and I would always say....naaah. i bought it so long ago and i got it cheap.

Hold my milk aunt beru...this is priceless!

I had that same rocket, sometime in between ep IV and V.

That was a problem with the CGI in "The Last Starfighter". It was too perfect.

That's why I'm a firm believer in doing practical effects first, (where possible) then use CG, to either lightly fill in, or if there's no reasonable way to do the practical.

Yep, MPC's 1/25th scale model of the General. And it was set in to the bottom of a tank turret, perhaps a Sherman, given it sits on a Sherman's hull top; creating a relationship is doubly interesting since the locomotive was in Georgia on the Western & Atlantic RR and used by the Confederates and Union General Sherman did the "march to the sea" through Georgia & the W&A began at Atlanta and Sherman's march began ant Atlanta.

I didn't know that thank you for the info

I wonder where the Millennium Falcon is...i mean from the first movie. Im sure many were made later

yep good point the other guy is hands away. Adam seems like he wants to own the piece with his gestures.

Im more concerned with his spitting all over it

No issue, just a one day build is all!

Can you imagine referring to the wingtip mounted equipment as RADAR DISHES??????

This guy has flailed his hands and painted so many iconic objects I wasn’t worried.

Please! You’re aging me! It wasn’t THAT long ago. You all have been lied to and told it came out in the 70s. You all are about 10 years off. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. 😂

From a commercial standpoint, Crazy Glue (and CA based adhesives in general) have been marketed since the late 1950s and were in wide distribution by the early 1970s... But I'm guessing that perhaps most of that was industrial use and it wasn't a widely used / known solution in the modeling hobby??

So true. I recently rewatched Star Trek TNG... and pretty much every model short of the Enterprise looks pretty rough after the recent remastering to 4k... Not throwing any shade on the model makers, they were under deadlines and the models were only ever designed to hold up under standard definition broadcast when most people were watching the show on 24" CRTs. The Romulan Warbird really stands out.. the paint scaling / orange peel is clear as day in certain shots. As far as this model, its especially rough as it's just a foam shape taken from a mold with paint work and minor greeble detailing. The hero X-Wing models hold up much better.

Mine bent

The studio models were built to look good on screen, not to look good up close and in person.

@@kevinnelson66 Oh I thought it looked very good. My X-Wing toy looked almost the same as this model. I just thought it was weird the cannons were bent on this one and the toy's cannons bent over time also.

I had a tie fighter from empire strike back. It was really well made too. I think my cousin still have it.

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Make sure to make those 4 RADAR DISHES larger.

Yep, my favorite SW card series was orange. Had a few model shots.

Yeah, that was a groan.

2.375 million in the end... wow.

Really? I’ve gotta a few I want. Especially that ball flashlight in the Dark series.

Current bid is at $500,000...

I made a resin kit of the studio scale X-Wing that I used to sell for $400.

They’re foam?

Why would you think that? The world has a problem with too much plastic waste that can sit around a landfill or in the ocean for decades and never disintegrate or decompose. Yet here you are assuming that a plastic model kept in a controlled environment would warp, turn brittle, and fall apart.

@@MrRobarino And yet it does happen. Though it is not disentigrating, in the closet in the other room is a 1980s unbuilt Monogram 1/72 scale Space Shuttle with tank and boosters where the kept in a box in a closet in a climate controlled home white plastic has noticeably yellowed. And you will find plastics manufacturers talking about the inherent brittleness of styrene, aka polystyrene, for instance: "According to The Essential Chemical Industry, a non-profit website run by The University of York, it's possible to take regular old brittle polystyrene, the same stuff used for CD cases, and turn it into" ...; and, "What Are The Different Types of Polystyrene? Three major types of polystyrene include polystyrene foam, regular polystyrene plastic, and polystyrene film. Amongst the different types of foam are expanded polystyrene (EPS) and extruded polystyrene (XPS). EPS includes the most well-known and common types of polystyrene to include styrofoam and packing peanuts. XPS is a higher density foam typically used in applications like architectural building models. Some types of polystyrene plastic are copolymers. Oftentimes homopolymer PS is fairly brittle and can be made more impact resistant if combined with other materials (known in this form as the copolymer High Impact Polystyrene, or HIPS). Polystyrene film can also be vacuum formed and used in packaging applications. Films can be stretched into oriented polystyrene (OPS) that is cheaper to produce (albeit more brittle) than alternatives like PP."