Han Solo Blaster: 2025 Studio auctions / Goldin auctions

[Tommy]

I have a feeling auction houses with desks and break rooms and weekly meetings do not think online forums know what we’re talking about. I get the feeling it’s a self validation thing

Even then, that would be acceptable if they performed solid independent research. Or I suppose in this case, any research at all.

Though what frustrates me more is that news agencies with desks and break rooms and weekly meetings - and journalists - seem to be equally ignorant and dismissive of any voice or resource outside of an auction house when it comes to props. I emailed so many major outlets in 2022 about blindly-parroting coverage of RIA's claims, and got nowhere. Despite this latest example being such an open-and-shut case as to demand zero DL-44 familiarity, I suspect that had it made it to TV, newspapers and magazines, we still would've run up against the same intransigence.

 

[thd9791]

YES! If you're going to act like you know how to properly verify claims, then you've gotta actually do that.

 

[ghostryder]

Hang it in the Louvre.

Like, I don't get boasting you just caught a fake while in the act of auctioning exactly that.

Has he addressed this publicly at all?

 

[ID10T]

A snorkel is needed to get air from above that bull stuff.

 

[Tommy]

Like, I don't get boasting you just caught a fake while in the act of auctioning exactly that.

Plus again, as far as I could gather, the fake he was boasting about catching was one he'd just auctioned. Even in isolation, it's a poor look.

Has he addressed this publicly at all?

Haven't noticed anything. Seems they're taking the (unfortunately traditional) approach of "pretend it was never advertised in the first place."

 

[Gregatron]

 

[Rexermus]

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"...Roger Christian...considered by many to be the foremost expert on Star Wars props."
Excuse me?!? Like 90% of the senior members of this forum are better experts on Star Wars props than Roger Christian. What an absolute joke

 

[Tommy]

"...Roger Christian...considered by many to be the foremost expert on Star Wars props."
Excuse me?!? Like 90% of the senior members of this forum are better experts on Star Wars props than Roger Christian. What an absolute joke

I think you misread; the "foremost expert" line refers specifically to Jason Joyner. Not saying I agree; just how the sentence reads to me.

EDIT: But a fair sentiment on Roger Christian, regardless.
2ND EDIT: "Joyner" is likely a careless spelling error intended to reference Jason Joiner, but not 100% sure.

 

[chubsANDdoggers]

One thing that wouldn’t MOST certainly help is pining kpax and deadbolt amazing hero thread so it’s easy to find. It would also give it some gravitas as well. Not that it needs it but to the lesser informed it would certainly show the info with in is highly respected.

ANH Hero DL-44 Discussion - Three ANH Greeblies Found

This thread is to discuss the accuracy and details of the DL-44. Any ideas, finds, reference, or any information at all is Welcome! A HUGE Thanks to Everyone that has contributed to this Research, this Blaster is going to be understood better than ever by the time all of us are done with it...

www.therpf.com

Is there a petition to sign somewhere on here to get that to happen!? I Don’t understand why it hasn’t happened already to be honest. It would be extremely helpful moving forward to anyone who needs to clarify or learn about this beautiful prop. Halliwax I believe is one of the people who can make this happen in a snap.

Snap away brother!

 

[Halliwax]

I don’t have that kind of power

 

[scarf man]

One thing that wouldn’t MOST certainly help is pining kpax and deadbolt amazing hero thread so it’s easy to find. It would also give it some gravitas as well. Not that it needs it but to the lesser informed it would certainly show the info with in is highly respected.

ANH Hero DL-44 Discussion - Three ANH Greeblies Found

This thread is to discuss the accuracy and details of the DL-44. Any ideas, finds, reference, or any information at all is Welcome! A HUGE Thanks to Everyone that has contributed to this Research, this Blaster is going to be understood better than ever by the time all of us are done with it...

www.therpf.com

Is there a petition to sign somewhere on here to get that to happen!? I Don’t understand why it hasn’t happened already to be honest. It would be extremely helpful moving forward to anyone who needs to clarify or learn about this beautiful prop. Halliwax I believe is one of the people who can make this happen in a snap.

Snap away brother!

There is a link to that thread in the first post of the pinned DL44 guide, if it needs to be pinned as well hit the report link in the first post of the “ANH hero discussion” thread to ask the staff for a pin.

 

[chubsANDdoggers]

I don’t have that kind of power

My bad. With great power comes.. well… great responsibility…. maybe u should.

 

[chubsANDdoggers]

There is a link to that thread in the first post of the pinned DL44 guide, if it needs to be pinned as well hit the report link in the first post of the “ANH hero discussion” thread to ask the staff for a pin.

Within in ur dl-44 thread that’s already pinned correct? That’s truly awesome as it is and very helpful but I do think it needs its own pinning for it to carry its own legit weight of respectability. It IS the thread that one should turn to with regards to this amazing prop and all its details.

For EVERY auction house moving forward it should be required reading.

 

[Gregatron]

Hang it in the Louvre.

Like, I don't get boasting you just caught a fake while in the act of auctioning exactly that.

Has he addressed this publicly at all?

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Within in ur dl-44 thread that’s already pinned correct? That’s truly awesome as it is and very helpful but I do think it needs its own pinning for it to carry its own legit weight of respectability. It IS the thread that one should turn to with regards to this amazing prop and all its details.

For EVERY auction house moving forward it should be required reading.

The double-edged sword of this, of course, is that the uncovering all of those fine details makes them easier for scammers to convincingly replicate.

 

[chubsANDdoggers]

The double-edged sword of this, of course, is that the uncovering all of those fine details makes them easier for scammers to convincingly replicate.

Yes very, very true. But another detail that is very hard to overturn (and VERY sad) once u understand this prop is.. it will never be whole again.

So if anyone comes out with a claimed legit hero in the near future and because of that Hero thread ur already familiar with and its details/history… u know it’s a 99.999% chance it’s 100% a fake.

 

[Tommy]

A minor step might be to include links to the ANH Hero Discussion and the DL-44 Guide in the opening post of related threads. Unfortunately, the OP of the Pawn Stars / RIA thread appears to be gone, but Halliwax could consider adding them to the beginning of this one?

Yes very, very true. But another detail that is very hard to overturn (and VERY sad) once u understand this prop is.. it will never be whole again.

Just to press this point, a key word being "it."

If a match to the known C96 is presented, this group's experts will indeed have to cross that bridge and get out their fine-toothed combs to detect a sophisiticated scam. Otherwise, we're still at the stage where some auction houses can't distinguish between the hero and the Greedo Killer, so the real major takeaway is simply the dearth of evidence for anything beyond that one, which should imply a hefty burden of proof to justify another's existence, let alone "authenticate" any given example. Despite the Tony Watts claim weaving its way into the conventional record, the fact remains that (to our collective knowledge) an unambiguous, first-hand, 1977-associated, public reference to more than one has never surfaced.

[And to Rexermus's fair sentiment, a sudden recollection from Roger Christian doesn't count. All respect to Christian's work on the film, but the value of his memory for ultra-specific details is well-and-truly forfeit.]

EDIT: Initially wrote "the" key word rather than "a."

 

[chubsANDdoggers]

Saying it will never be whole again was ment more so to the fact the mount itself has been butchered and what’s left of it is with the actual scope itself but on another “replica” in a private collection.

The Hero as we know it is no more. The mount will never be whole again no matter what happens in the future. That’s an unfortunate fact sadly.

 

[Tommy]

Saying it will never be whole again was ment more so to the fact the mount itself has been butchered and what’s left of it is with the actual scope itself but on another “replica” in a private collection.

Understood; sorry if I stepped on your point in leading into another. I should've said "a" key word. To your point, certainly the most that could be (theoretically) legitimately claimed in our fully-informed view would be the miraculously-uncovered C96 and flash hider. It's just that that logic only holds weight if auction houses (and in turn, the market) acknowledge there's only evidence of one C96, one flash hider, one scope, one mount, etc.

 

[chubsANDdoggers]

Well.. Good Luck with that. Clearly they (auction houses/market) have zero clue as a whole.

 

[Halliwax]

My bad. With great power comes.. well… great responsibility…. maybe u should.

If I had any power I’d run this place into the ground in a week