Originally published at: Bidding for the rediscovered movie prop "Red Leader" X-Wing fighter starts at $400k | Boing Boing
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This might be a little silly to post here, I imagine most visitors to this thread are well-read connoisseurs, but the wikipedia article is pretty fun, and list the original X-wing designer as Colin Cantwell and describe the different models and props they built.
also this fun tidbit:
In 2018, a number of Star Wars starfighters had their aerodynamic abilities tested using the Autodesk Flow Design virtual wind tunnel program. When tested, the classic T-65 X-wing design had a drag coefficient of 0.45, which is only slightly better than the coefficient of a sphere.
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If I had $400K lying around, I’d snatch this up in a heartbeat. Sadly, I’m about $399.95K short.
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Advertise a fund raiser on gab where you need to get some filthy* X content that was shown to children by hippies in the 70s off the market so children aren’t exposed
* It’s got to be pretty dusty after all this time, right?
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Well, you could console yourself with this somewhat cheaper Cylon ship model:
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Guess you’ll always just be Red Two…
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how ever did the x-wings become battle scarred? the darn things blow up after a single hit
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I wonder how much a box of debris from the Red Ten or Red Twelve X-wings would go for at auction?
Actually, Red Leader got blown up too. Did they painstakingly glue the model back together for this auction?
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I can tell you from first-hand experience that they can survive damage to their hydraulic lines.
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Holy shit that would be amazing to have…
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I imagine they didn’t want to blow up one of the fancy servo-controlled models just to get the explosion shot. Plus the mechanisms inside probably would have ruined the pyrotechnic effect.
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The attack scenes from the movie 633 SQUADRON which influenced the attack scenes in STAR TREK - even down to the R2D2 on each X-wing.
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i don’t understand. where is the beastie boys song?
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It also has the same drag coefficient as a 1990 Range Rover.
It’s also slightly worse than a 1980 VW Type 2 
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I hope this ends up in a museum rather than some billionaire’s private hoard.
A place like MoPOP would be perfect for it.
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Over there, in a box.
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Han Solo would tend to agree…after a fashion…
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scarring their squad mates with debris?
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actually… yes. all questions answered.
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The droids have definitely seen some shit.
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