Join the Rebellion With This Extremely Rare Empire Strikes Back Pilot Helmet

Carefully elaborate cosplay is ever impressive—but what if your Star Wars ensemble included an existent prop made for 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back? The film’s costume designer, John Mollo, won an Oscar for his enactment connected 1977’s A New Hope, and helium brought that level of trade to its sequel, including this Rebel Pilot helmet made for the film’s Hoth conflict scenes.

Propstore volition beryllium showcasing the item, inactive successful its archetypal and unrestored condition, successful an auction this September. As you mightiness expect it won’t travel cheap; the eye-watering estimated merchantability terms is betwixt $200,000-$400,000. According to a Propstore property release, it’s being sold from a backstage collector, but was primitively owned by Patricia Carr, adjunct accumulation manager connected the archetypal Star Wars trilogy.

Further details: “This helmet was custom-made specifically for The Empire Strikes Back (1980), with these helmets worn successful the film’s iconic Hoth conflict sequence, wherever Rebel snowspeeder pilots cogwheel up to instrumentality connected Imperial walkers. It boasts distinctive features, including a yellow-tinted visor and a heavy foam liner custom-fitted to the interior. Only 2 helmets with this archetypal liner are known to beryllium successful backstage collections, making this portion highly uncommon and highly sought-after.”

The COO of Propstore, Brandon Alinger—also the writer of Star Wars Costumes: The Original Trilogy, which helium wrote with the information of the Lucasfilm Archives—is understandably excited astir the upcoming sale.

“Rebel Pilot helmets are 1 of the astir sought-after artifacts from the archetypal Star Wars trilogy,” helium said successful the release. “Only a fistful of archetypal helmets beryllium successful backstage collections, and this helmet—with specified exceptional provenance—is a superb helmet. These helmets were made successful acold smaller numbers than Imperial helmets specified arsenic stormtroopers and galore were discarded astatine the extremity of production. The endurance of this piece, unrestored and linked straight to The Empire Strikes Back, makes it a existent treasure for collectors.”

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