{"id":625535,"date":"2026-10-09T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625535\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:20:10","slug":"lightsaber-darth-vader-used-in-i-am-your-father-star-wars-duel-up-for-auction-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625535\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightsaber Darth Vader used in \u2018I am your father\u2019 Star Wars duel up for auction | Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the duel where he tells Luke Skywalker \u201cI am your father\u201d is going up for sale at Heritage Auctions next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Vader saber, also used in Return of the Jedi, is expected to fetch at least $1m. It is one of more than two dozen lightsaber props that will be up for sale at the auction that spans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/starwars\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars<\/a> Episodes I through IX and other films and TV shows from the universe George Lucas created.<\/p>\n<p>A lightsaber used by the character Darth Vader in the film The Empire Strikes Back. Photograph: Heritage Auctions\/AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Others include dueling lightsabers wielded by Ewan McGregor\u2019s Obi-Wan Kenobi and Hayden Christensen\u2019s Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith that are expected to go for at least $10,000 apiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">In July, a lightsaber with Luke Skywalker\u2019s severed hand from The Empire Strikes Back sold for $3.75m at auction, the highest price ever fetched for a prop used in a Star Wars film according to the auction house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">An EE-3 carbine blaster wielded by Boba Fett throughout The Empire Strikes Back is estimated to bring in more than $100,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Also included are a Yoda puppet hand used by Frank Oz in the character\u2019s original appearance in The Empire Strikes Back, C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels\u2019 signed, personal third-draft screenplay for the original 1977 Star Wars and a TIE Fighter pilot helmet from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the duel where he tells Luke Skywalker \u201cI am your father\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-625535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}