Hollywood props auction Heritage Auctions
Some of Hollywood's most iconic movie props, including Luke Skywalker's lightsaber and Willy Wonka's top hat, are going up for auction through Heritage Auctions. #LukeSkywalker
Transcript (en)
As the summer blockbuster season kicks into high gear, I need to borrow your hoverboard. Many of the items from cinema's biggest hits ever are now going up for auction. For example, the hoverboards from Back to the Future Part 2. We basically have one of every configuration hoverboard that you saw in Back to the Future 2. Brian Chanis from Heritage Auctions gave me a virtual tour of some of the biggest pieces of movie history that you can now bid on over the next week or so. Well, my little pretty, I can cause accidents too. After the wicked craze of the last few years, maybe you fancy one of the hats the Wicked Witch of the West wore on screen in The Wizard of Oz. When the first Wicked came out, Heritage helped sell a pair of Dorothy's red ruby slippers for $32.5 million and another of the witch's hats for around $3 million. Come with me and you'll be. And speaking of headgear, how about Willy Wonka's golden top hat in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? Right now, it has a bid for more than a quarter of a million dollars online, even though this is where the hat was hiding. It was from director Mel Stewart. He saved it. It was in his garage. And then we had since photo matched it. It is useless to resist. But an item expected to go into the millions is Luke Skywalker's lightsaber and more from perhaps the most quoted scene in the history of our parent company, Disney Star Wars. I am your father. Just before he is informed whom his father is, Luke's hand is slashed off by Darth Vader. And Heritage has the lightsaber, the fake hand, and the rig that Mark Hamill squeezed for the fake hand to fall into the depths of Cloud City. So guys, the auction begins Monday at Heritage Auctions headquarters in Dallas. You can also start bidding online now. At last glance, Luke's lightsaber and hand. Oh, have a bid for $1 million dollars.
