This lightsaber could slash through your life savings.
The iconic red lightsaber prop that Darth Vader wielded in “The Empire Strikes Back” is slated to go under the hammer next month at Heritage Auctions in New York City.
In the 1980 “Star Wars” sequel, the Sith Lord had used the crimson laser sword to sever Luke Skywalker’s hand, shortly before uttering the immortal line: “I am your father.”
Coincidentally, the rebel leader’s hand — and the blue lightsaber in its grasp — was auctioned off for $3.75 million in July, marking the highest price ever fetched for a “Star Wars” prop.
Meanwhile, the auction house predicts that Anakin’s amputator, also used in “The Return of the Jedi,” will go for upwards of $1 million when the bidding war goes down on November 12, AP News reported.
In 2025, the same lightsaber went for $3.6 million — a record that was later shattered by the Skywalker saber over the summer — at the Propstore in Los Angeles.
The auction house described the prop as an “extraordinary surviving artifact of two of the most consequential confrontations in motion picture history.”
The Vader saber is one of more than two dozen lightsaber props hitting the auction block at the event, which features memorabilia from “Star Wars” Episodes I through IX as well as other spinoffs set in a galaxy far, far away.
Lightsabers not your cup of tea? Not to fear.
Also up for auction are the Yoda hand puppet Frank Oz used in the character’s first appearance in “The Empire Strikes Back,” C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels’ signed, personal third-draft screenplay for the original 1977 Star Wars, and a TIE Fighter pilot helmet from “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”
“Star Wars” die-hards even have the opportunity to land the authentic EE-3 carbine blaster toted by intergalactic bounty hunter Boba Fett throughout “The Empire Strikes Back.”
The production weapon is estimated to go for more than $100,000, so here’s hoping it offers plenty of bang for your buck.
