Pictures from an Exhibition

[krpalmer]

As it turns out, I was able to come up with a somewhat more interesting "anniversary" post. A while back, I had posted about going to a small exhibition of Star Wars memorabilia, and wound up receiving a comment that in the end left me wondering about going back to it, but this time with my digital camera. I made the return visit last weekend. Unfortunately, a lot of the display lights were turned off and I wasn't allowed to take flash pictures, which meant I couldn't record the case of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader action figures or the "Early Bird" set, but I did manage to capture a few things for posterity, and got around to uploading them online.

The placard explaining the exhibit.
A somewhat understated "Star Wars: The First Ten Years" T-shirt and a "Celebration I" T-shirt.
An early announcement of the movie shows an early version of the Star Wars logo.
A handbill announcing the local premiere of the movie shows a more familiar version of the logo.
A comparison of a flash holder and the lightsabre handle it was turned into.
Action figures in the Death Star playset...
...and as I mentioned before, Han had an insecure grip on his blaster.

The full set of pictures is here.

Comments

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

That's it...I'm going to set up my collection as a museum and get tax-exempt status!

[krpalmer.livejournal.com]

The newspaper articles that pointed me to the exhibit mentioned how the collector had put his collection together recently by spending a lot of money on eBay. I'm sure that if he managed to put a show together here, you could do the same where you live... although admission was free (which is why I went back), so I can imagine some degree of caution being needed with the impression of "making money from it." On the other hand, one of the articles mentioned the collector getting an offer for his stuff...

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

He had some great vintage pieces...I'm sure he blew a lot getting all of it in the first place.

[krpalmer.livejournal.com]

I went back and checked the newspaper articles. One said the collection is "valued at $15,000," and the other said it "cost him about $20,000 in total." Of course, those could be figures in Canadian dollars, but that is worth more than it was a few years ago... Hopefully, he didn't spend all of that at once.

One odd yet interesting thing about one of the articles was that it mentioned the collector had seen Revenge of the Sith four times in the theatres (which puts even me ahead of him as far as that goes) and once on pay-per-view, but the way it was phrased left me wondering if he had watched it since then on home video... (The exhibit included a DVD case from the pan-and-scan trilogy release, though.)