{"id":145681,"date":"2018-06-24T09:20:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T09:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/han-solo-blaster-fetches-550000-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2018-06-24T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T09:20:47","slug":"han-solo-blaster-fetches-550000-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/han-solo-blaster-fetches-550000-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Han Solo &#8216;blaster&#8217; fetches $550,000 in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Han Solo&#039;s blaster\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/117AD\/production\/_102179517_mediaitem102179516.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  AFP\/Getty<figcaption>Image caption                                      The prop is mainly made of wood                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A &quot;blaster&quot; used by Harrison Ford&#039;s character Han Solo in the film Return of the Jedi has sold at auction in New York for $550,000 (\u00a3415,000).<\/p>\n<p>The weapon, made mostly of wood, had previously spent more than 30 years in the possession of the film&#039;s art director James Schoppe.<\/p>\n<p>It sold for more than a lightsaber used by Mark Hamill in the first two Star Wars films, which fetched $450,000.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Schoppe was nominated for an Oscar for his work on the film.<\/p>\n<p>He put about 40 other items up for auction, including an Ewok axe and plans for Jabba the Hutt&#039;s ship.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  AFP\/Getty<figcaption>Image caption                                      Han Solo brandishing the blaster in Return of the Jedi                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ewok axe went for $11,250 and another blaster prop fetched $90,624, Julien&#039;s Auctions said.<\/p>\n<p>The most expensive piece of Star Wars memorabilia was an R2-D2 droid used in several Star Wars films. It fetched $2.76m in Los Angeles last year.<\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p051yjn5.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionWhy your Star Wars memorabilia could be worth a fortune<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFP\/GettyImage caption The prop is mainly made of wood A &quot;blaster&quot; used by Harrison Ford&#039;s character Han Solo in the film Return of the Jedi has sold at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}