You Can Own Darth Vader’s Lightsaber If You Have a Spare $3 Million Lying Around

Some props are cool. Some are legendary. And then there's Darth Vader's actual lightsaber - the hero prop from The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, now going up for auction with a starting estimate of $1–3 million. That's right, not a replica, not a background version, but the very lightsaber held by David Prowse and duel-slashed by stunt legend Bob Anderson. And it's not alone. This auction is a geek fever dream, also offering Indiana Jones's whip and belt, a close-up neuralyzer from Men in Black, and Sauron's helmet from The Fellowship of the Ring (pause for a full-body scream).

Sure, it's an absurd amount of money. But it's also the first time a hero lightsaber from the original trilogy has ever been up for grabs. So yeah, we're watching. We're drooling. And we're slightly bitter that our bank account balance has a decimal in the wrong place. Perhaps as Indy would say, "It belongs in a museum." Or, more realistically… in a private collection that we will stalk on Instagram forever.