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Background Report: This C-3PO Head From 'The Empire Strikes Back' Just Sold for More
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Based on source story: This C-3PO Head From 'The Empire Strikes Back' Just Sold for More Than $1 Million at Auction from Smithsonian Magazine
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Smithsonian Magazine gives a fuller on This C-3PO From 'The Empire Strikes Back' Just Sold for More Than $1 Million at Auction. The prop was likely the only C-3PO from the 1980 film to appear on the collector market. It features working light-up eyes, including one with.
Did you hear that? C-3PO asks at the beginning of the first movie in 1977. At Propstore, material continues to resonate with collectors, and the C-3PO from The Empire Strikes Back was a real highlight of the day, Brandon Alinger.
The fittings that hold the two halves of the together were also updated as the films progressed, the says the lot listing . The neck bolts and forehead antenna had threaded connectors on the Episode IV pieces, whereas this features the more advanced quarter-turn versions.
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