Costumes & Props / April 30, 2005

Celebration 3, Lucasfilm Archive Display

The Lucasfilm Archive display was right at the top of my Celebration 3 ‘must-see’ items. And so, as soon as we were in the doors, we headed straight for it… amazingly, we got there before the line to get in had even started to form, and there were very few people inside the exhibit itself. This meant I could rush around and ensure I had at least one clear photo of each of the displays. That state of affairs didn’t last long – there were metered queues to get in from that point onward, as crowd control stormtroopers tried to make sure the exhibit pieces were well protected as people were gradually let through.

The full array of displayed items, as listed in the Celebration 3 program, is as follows:

Darth Vader EP3 costume
Padme Amidala EP3 costume
Obi-Wan Kenobi EP3 costume
Mustafar volcano scale model
AT-TE production model
Wookiee shield prop
EP3 Wookiee blaster (2 versions)
Chewbacca’s EP3 bowcaster prop
Chewbacca EP3 costume
Tarfful EP3 costume
Salporin EP3 costume
Yoda Saga puppet/maquette
Millennium Falcon production model
Han Solo saga costume
Princess Leia Organa EP5 costume
Wampa puppet
Imperial Star Destroyer EP4 production model
Darth Vader’s original trilogy lightsaber
Anakin Skywalker’s EP3 lightsaber
Luke Skywalker’s EP4/5 lightsaber
Obi-Wan Kenobi’s EP3 lightsaber
Luke Skywalker’s EP6 lightsaber
Darth Sidious’s EP3 lightsaber
Darth Maul’s EP1 lightsaber
Count Dooku’s EP3 lightsaber
Bail Organa’s EP3 blaster pistol prop
Zam Wesell’s EP2 Kisteer 1284 projectile rifle prop
EP3 Jedi A99 aqua-breather prop
EP3 Utapaun blaster rifle prop
General Grievous’s DT-57 annihilator blaster prop
original trilogy DH-17 Rebel blaster prop
EP5 Hoth macrobinoculars and case props
EP3 Jedi holoprojector prop
EP6 thermal detonator prop
EP4 Sandcrawler production model
EP4 Landspeeder production model

(Also included in the gallery below is the ILM R2-D2, although that was on display up in the R2-Builders room).

Although ‘Revenge of the Sith’ props and costumes dominated (this was not a bad thing!), there was a good collection of EP4-6 items for fans of the Original Trilogy. A good balance was also achieved between small, handheld props, production models, and full/life-size costumes.

It’s mind-boggling to think that the Lucasfilm Archives are jam-packed with all the saved spaceships, armour, blasters, and more, from the six Star Wars movies. All the hard work from the creature shop, costumiers, and model makers that drove our childhood imagination (and still do), stored away in a warehouse at Skywalker Ranch. But it’s also good to see them made accessible for public viewing, from time to time. All-in-all, the Celebration 3 Lucasfilm Archive exhibit was a thoroughly adequate way to take in one’s required daily dose of Star Wars.