This lightsaber could slash through your life financial savings.
The iconic purple 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.”
This image launched by Heritage Auctions on Thursday, October 8, 2026, reveals the prop lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the movie “The Empire Strikes Back.” Heritage Auctions via AP
Coincidentally, the insurgent chief’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 public sale home predicts that Anakin’s amputator, also used in “The Return of the Jedi,” will go for upwards of $1 million when the bidding conflict goes down on November 12, AP News reported.
In 2025, the same lightsaber went for $3.6 million — a report that was later shattered by the Skywalker saber over the summer season — at the Propstore in Los Angeles.
Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker cross sabers in “Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back” in 1980. ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
The public sale home 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 public sale block at the occasion, which options memorabilia from “Star Wars” Episodes I through IX as properly as other spinoffs set in a galaxy far, distant.
Lightsabers not your cup of tea? Not to concern.
Also up for public sale are the Yoda hand puppet Frank Oz used in the character’s first look in “The Empire Strikes Back,” C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels’ signed, personal third-draft screenplay for the authentic 1977 Star Wars, and a TIE Fighter pilot helmet from “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”
“Star Wars” die-hards even have the alternative to land the genuine EE-3 carbine blaster toted by intergalactic bounty hunter Boba Fett all through “The Empire Strikes Back.”
The manufacturing weapon is estimated to go for more than $100,000, so here’s hoping it affords loads of bang for your buck.
