I'll give you 60 thousand now plus 60 thousand when we reach Alderaan.

And it doesn't even light up, vibrate or make noises when you use it?

Will it still work after all these years?

That's ridiculous I could almost build my own light saber for that.

You don't want £120,000. This isn't the lightsaber you think it is. I can buy it for £20. Let us go about doing business.

Rubbish. It's far less clumsy and random...

"And it doesn't even light up, vibrate or make noises when you use it?"

If that's your requirement, you'll be wanting this (allegedly NSFW) Register article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/25/erotica_2008/

Why is this up for sale, who is selling it? This is a historical treasure, is George Lucas short of money?

A more civilised age?? Not if you've seen the first three movies, plus the Clone Wars kids cartoon it wasn't!

Eh? All you need is a fluorescent tube and some petrol.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4575291.stm

I always wondered what Obi Wan meant when he said blasters were "clumsy and random".

It fires an energy charge in a straight line out the barrel. How can that be random?

Does it come with Luke's hand as well? Surely it will be a bit battered after falling all that way...

Mine's the coat that jumps to me when I hold my hand out....

did they find it on the rubbish heap on cloud city? does it come with the severed hand still attached?

That's really my son's own lightsaber?

I find your lack of fakes disturbing.

Is it Mac compatible?

Did anyone else wonder why, when after his hand and lightsabre fell, they werent waiting for him at the bottom when he also came to a halt ???

/mines the one that ISNT the one you're looking for

It's being reported in collectors forums this sabre is not screen used or even production used. Possibly put together from spare parts years later. Some sucker will buy it though.

"I always wondered what Obi Wan meant when he said blasters were "clumsy and random"."

Well they never seem that effective. Not when you can avoid being killed simply by moving sideways to avoid a beam travelling at the speed of light.

Senator Palpatine's just about to give a trillion dollars to the unemployed, (that's 333,333 pounds each.) With 3,000,000 people all holding 333,333 pounds for nothing, I'm sure it will make more than 120,000 pounds.

Why doesn't he just pay off everyone's mortgage? If he did this, I'd be happy to pay a bit more national insurance. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5128220.stm

With elegantly pop-riveted fins around the base. Quality!

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Cheaper and fully functional... sort of.

Did anyone else wonder why, when after his hand and lightsabre fell, they werent waiting for him at the bottom when he also came to a halt ???

/mines the one that ISNT the one you're looking for

IIRC Luke falls & "forces" (Sorry) himself into a ventilation shaft, then stops on a trap door which opens & drops him to Cloud Citys Freeview aerial.

I always imagined the hand\weapon being picked up by one of Vader or his lackeys.

Severed hand FOR.

I'd buy that for a dollar!!!

/Yes yes mines the one with the baby food in it....I need to eat to you know

Well, even perfectly good blasters become random when stormtroopers are doing the shooting...

No... wait.... it's GOT some nail clippers stuck on the side! We're doomed!

We're in a credit crunch, businesses folding left, right and centre, the housing market is collapsing - and they expect someone to have £120,000 for a single movie prop?

I'm in the wrong line of work.

Hello There !

Showing the true depths of my geekiness here, but in one of the expanded universe books, it transpires that the saber was picked up by Imperial forces (complete with attached hand).

The hand was then used some time after the timeline of the movies by an evil clone Jedi called Joruus C'Baoth to create an evil clone of Luke Skywalker, (apparently named Luuke Skywalker), who ended up using the saber.

You don't need to see my identification - Move along...

Everything you ever wanted to know (and a lot more) about light sabres can be found at

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber

If you were truly geeky you'd know that it was mentioned in Timothy Zahn's heir to the Empre trilogy of novels :)

Yes, the hand was used to clone Luke, and the lightsaber was given to the clone, Luuke, after Luke defeated him he gave it to Mara Jade (an Emperor's Hand) who had been tasked to kill Luke by the dying Emperor via some fomr of remote Force communication. Worked out in the end though, Mara and Luke get married down the line.

To paraphrase Qui-Gon, "There's always a bigger geek".

Mine's the orange one with the Rebel X-Wing Pilot helmet.

I was just thinking that. It was on the telly a couple of weeks ago and I'm pretty sure the one Obi gives Luke has a big red, sticky out, awkard looking button on it, unlike the one pictured. This is going to annoy me now, can anyone put my mind at ease