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Roaring

Success

Fans make like a
Wookiee for a change

ay 4th 2018 saw fans
M sharing their fi nest
Wookiee roars on social
media in support of Star
Wars: Force for Change, in the
#roarforchange challenge.
Posting, liking, and sharing
videos of furry outbursts helped
the campaign raise $1,000,000
for UNICEF U.S.A. in just over
24 hours, enabling the charity to
deliver Ready-to-Use-Therapeutic
Food packets to children currently
suffering from malnutrition.
Star Wars: Force for Change
continues its mission to promote
change through inspiration, stories
and meaningful partnerships to
bring out the hero in all of us,
and you can donate at any time at
forceforchange.starwars.com.

Bids All In For

Rare Blaster

Han Solo’s Return of the Jedi DL-44 sold!

f you had around $500,000 rare movie ephemera came courtesy
I burning a hole in your of The James L. Schoppe Star Wars:
pocket on June 23, 2018,
Return of the Jedi Production Archive.
then the Las Vegas Planet Schoppe, the art director on the classic
Hollywood Resort and Casino was movie, built the prop and was gifted
the place to spend it. If not, then the the iconic weapon by Property Master
chance of owning Han Solo’s screen- Peter Hancock following the end of
used BlasTech DL-44 blaster hero prop production. It has remained part of his
(one of three non-firing props made memorabilia archive ever since, along

for Star Wars: Return of the Jedi) has with production photos, blueprints,
passed you by. script pages, call sheets and other
The headline item in Julien’s unique items, also part of the auction.
Auctions’ Hollywood Legends sale Solo’s weapon of choice was expected

of costumes, film props, and other to fetch a six-fi gure sum.

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