Skywalker's lightsabre sells for $240,000

Paul Taylor | Dec 16, 2008 7:56 AM

Luke Skywalker's lightsabre, together with a whole lot of movie memorabilia was flogged at a Hollywood auction last Friday evening.

The star of the auction, the lightsabre used in the first two movies (Episodes IV and V) was sold for the tidy sum of US$240,000, while C-3PO's helmet from Return of the Jedi, making some Star Wars fanboi a very happy camper.

Jor-El's tighties were flogged for US$72,000 while some leather fetishist dropped US$90,000 for Wolverine's black leather battle-suit in X-Men. Either of these sound pretty kinky, if you ask us.

Hollywood memorabilia is fetching a pretty penny on the market today, maybe because there are way too many 30 year-olds with too much time and disposable income on their hands.

We'd have paid a year's salary for Lord Dark Helmet's, err... helmet.