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Darth Vader’s Lightsaber Sets New Sale Record at Sci-Fi Movie Auction

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-08 07:27:24

How much would you be willing to pay for Darth Vader’s lightsaber from Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi? For at least one lucky fan, the answer was more than $3.65 million. The lightsaber sold for a cool $3,654,000 on Thursday—a record for a Star Wars item sold at auction. It sold as part of the first day lots of Propstore’s Los Angeles Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction and is the only hero lightsaber across the two films “with verifiable screen use ever” to ever come to public a

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Darth Vader’s lightsaber is up for auction

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-10 07:11:45

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Darth Vader’s lightsaber is about to become someone’s prized possession. It’s up for auction alongside a bunch of other iconic movie props, as spotted earlier by The New York Times. The auction is hosted by the memorabilia company Propstore, and it estimates tha

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Get an Extremely Close-Up Look at Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man Costume

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-29 14:00:36

Spider-Man 2 is widely considered one of the greatest comic book movies of all time—if not the greatest—and now you can own a piece of Hollywood history, or at least admire it in some very up-close new photos, thanks to an upcoming auction offering Tobey Maguire’s screen-used Spider-suit. As a bonus, the suit was also used in the much less-beloved Spider-Man 3, so it’s also got some genuine Hollywood notoriety attached to it, too. The suit is yet another jaw-dropping addition to Propstore’s upc

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Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches $5.3M at auction

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 08:01:22

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday. But a rare young dinosaur skeleton stole the show when it fetched more than $30 million in a bidding frenzy. The 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock named NWA 16788 was discovered in the Sahara Desert in Niger by a meteorite hunter in November 2023, after having been blown off the surface of Mars by a massive asteroid strike and traveling

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The Bad Batch Returns In a New ‘Star Wars’ Novel

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-04 06:25:39

It’s been over a year since Star Wars: The Bad Batch ended, but it was a given Clone Force 99 would eventually live on beyond the screen. Next month, we’ll check back in with the team in their first novel, Sanctuary. Written by Lamar Giles (Ruin Road), the tale takes place towards the end of season two after the episode “Pabu.” Now that they’re working with pirate hunter Phee, the Clones—Hunter, Omega, Wrecker, and Tech—are on resource gathering duty after the planet’s recent tsunami. That lead

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Fyre Festival’s Brand Rights Get a Fire Sale on eBay

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-01-13 05:50:02

Seems a little steep, but sure. Fyre Festival, the doomed-from-the-start music festival that never was, is one of the most notorious failures of the internet era. And now it can be yours! Well, it could have been if you got in on the eBay auction that sold off the rights to the Fyre Festival brand in Billy McFarland’s latest bid to pay back the $26 million in restitution that he still owes to the people he defrauded. Unfortunately for McFarland, his plan to monetize the Fyre Festival name is b

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You can own the GameStop stapler that broke Nintendo Switch 2 consoles

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-23 09:58:48

GameStop has been specializing in making pretty wacky headlines in recent years, and its latest follows in that grand tradition. After employees at the retailer stapled Switch 2 receipts to boxes in a way that punctured some of the consoles' screens , the company promised that it would "make things right" for those customers. In addition to giving replacement Switch 2s to those people, GameStop has decided to turn the whole viral event into a publicity stunt for charity. Today, it posted on X th

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‘American Empire? What American Empire?’ You Can Ask With This Reagan-Adjacent Stormtrooper Helmet

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-02-09 14:30:33

To be a kid in the 1980s meant absorbing the last years of the Cold War through pop culture that played into fears about a World War III everyone assumed was coming—think WarGames, Red Dawn, and “99 Luftballoons.” Somehow that script got flipped when President Ronald Reagan announced the “Strategic Defense Initiative,” a system intended to protect the U.S. from missiles that quickly acquired its own pop culture nickname: “Star Wars.” While Reagan’s Star Wars never actually got off the ground, i

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Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-12 02:39:03

Anne Wojcicki has been declared the winner of a bankruptcy auction for 23andMe, the genetics testing start-up she founded, prevailing over a rival bid from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. TTAM Research Institute, a non-profit public benefit company also founded by Wojcicki, won the auction with a $305 million bid for the 23andMe assets, which will not come with any company liabilities attached. 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March after rejecting several go-private offers from Wojcicki in recent y

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Make-A-Wish is auctioning off the chance to become an NPC in The Elder Scrolls 6

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-11-10 00:47:00

In a nutshell: Bethesda has remained mostly radio silent regarding The Elder Scrolls 6 development since announcing the project in 2018. The silence ended on Monday when the studio revealed it would be developing an NPC based on the winner of an auction to benefit charity. In a partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Bethesda has agreed to "immortalize" one fan as an NPC in The Elder Scrolls 6. As part of a charity event, the chance isn't free. Interested fans must participate in a silent

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