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- Hey, guys.
It's AJ.
And we are once again invited back to the secret bunker
at Lucasfilm, where Madlyn hides all of the wonderful props.
And she is going to show us some really cool stuff from "Star
Wars, The Rise of Skywalker." - Hi, AJ.
- Hey!
Thank you so much for inviting me down.
- No problem.
First order of business, going to make sure--
- Yes. - --you have a pair of gloves.
- Yes.
I don't want to get banned like Anthony Carbone is.
- A lot of the props that we're going to take a look at today
are more familiar if you've already seen the film.
One of the things we have is the Medal of Yavin.
- Wow.
For me?
For doing such a good job during this segment?
- I mean, we just-- - Thank you!
- --started, AJ.
So this is actually forged out of brass.
The direction to the prop makers was, make it look precious,
make it feel authentic, but also make it look like it was
cared for for a very long time.
- Even just the ribbon--
- Mm-hm.
- --seems kind of worn and lived in.
And it has different gradients of color.
It has some good weight to it.
- Mm-hm.
- I would be very excited if I won this.
- The next prop we'll pull out here--
- Ooh.
- Can you guess based on the shape?
- I can see-- - Can you feel it?
- --the shape of it.
- So this is a Sith wayfinder.
There's a couple of different versions of this prop.
Some of the more practical props actually have liquid inside--
- Oh, OK--
- --in order to give it sort of that--
- --so you can have that little effect.
Yeah, yeah. yeah. - Exactly.
And then on the bottom, which you
don't really get to see a whole lot, that there's a stamp.
- Which is amazing, because from afar,
not many people probably saw these little details
right here.
But it being there just gives it a little bit more
of that feel, which is really cool.
- This is Jannah's bow.
Like a lot of her props and costumes
that we've seen before, her bow is
meant to look like it's been created out
of foraged, scavenged parts.
And then the other cool thing about her bow, which is sort of
like a combination bowcaster/rifle/blaster
sort of thing, but it's also ambidextrous.
It's designed to be made so that you--
- OK.
- --could be right-handed or left-handed,
and you can use it either way.
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We have a couple of new lightsaber designs
that debuted in "The Rise of Skywalker."
- Yep.
- This one made quite a hit--
- Yeah.
- --at D23 in 2019.
This is the dark side Rey double-bladed lightsaber
that we're holding here.
This piece in the center actually--
- Oh!
- --gives it, like, a really good, solid foundation in which
to then snap into place.
- Yeah.
- And then when it's not in its open position,
there's actually magnets here to kind of--
- OK.
- --connect the pieces so that they
won't just open up randomly.
- Yeah.
- So that gives them a little bit more control when
they're trying to choreograph-- [WHOOSHES]
--how she's going to be holding this.
This shape in particular on this lightsaber?
Darth Vader's main lightsabers actually has this shape--
- Oh, OK. - --on it.
So it kind of gives you that dark side feel.
- And then, obviously, the double-bladed
reminds you of Maul.
They're definitely pulling from stuff that you've seen before,
but making something new.
- So I probably say this every time,
but this might be my favorite prop, possibly, of all time.
But this is Leia's lightsaber.
- Yeah.
- Really beautiful materials.
It's kind of different from any lightsaber we've seen before.
It has mother of pearl inlay.
It has a copper color throughout.
The design of Leia's lightsaber is inspired by the Art
Deco movement of the 1930s.
- Holding this is more than gaining a medal.
I need a moment. I'm sorry.
- [LAUGHS]
- Seeing it here and being this close to it,
all the details of it are just beautiful.
- But wait, there's more!
These are some pretty special props.
These are props that are all surrounding
the character of Oma Tres, which is the character
that John Williams played.
The props team was basically tasked
with creating a unique prop that would look like it belonged
in the Star Wars galaxy, but that the proper
itself is actually a reference to a prop
from a John Williams film.
So we have a number of recognizable props
here that while they're in the Star Wars style,
you probably can identify a couple of them.
- A couple of them for sure.
- Yeah?
- This one is extra special to my heart.
It's a Time Turner-- - Yeah.
- --from "Prisoner of Azkaban," Harry Potter.
- Yes, Harry Potter.
And it actually works.
This one's actually super cool.
So this has an hourglass in it that you can see the sand
move, which is really special.
Another set of Harry Potter props that we have here,
so these are meant to look like wizard wands.
- These ones, also-- - Yeah.
- --very good.
- Those are miniature versions of the yellow barrels
from "Jaws."
Another fun one, at least from my childhood, this is an iron,
and it is meant to be a reference to the iron in "Home
Alone," which is a beautiful--
- That famous, like-- - [INAUDIBLE] soundtrack.
- Hits him right in the face. - Exactly.
A couple of other things here.
We have a fiddle and a bow that is from "Fiddler on the Roof,"
just Star Wars-style.
We have a modded open reel tape deck
with some real quarter-inch tape reels inside.
This is actually supposed to be an homage to the film "Nixon."
- Oh!
Let's hear what it has to say.
It's got nothing. - It's got nothing?
- It's got nothing. Nothing.
- Right here we have a set of pilot wings.
These are from "Catch Me If You Can."
And actually, in our [INAUDIBLE],,
we have the letters T, W, and A for Trans World Airlines.
- They still put this much detail and this much heart
into this, which makes that scene even a little
more special.
- And then, of course, Star Wars fans, I suspect,
may be interested in a couple of other ones that we have here.
- Yes, we have a few from "Indiana Jones,"
this beautiful whip here-- - Yep.
- --which looks like it would hurt--
- It does. - --a lot more.
We have the Sankara Stones, which
is really cool, because they even put the line details--
- Mm-hm.
- --on there, too.
And this isn't everything.
- This isn't everything.
Yeah, so they made around 40 different props--
- Oh, wow.
- --from 40 different John Williams films.
- Very cool.
Thank you so much for letting us back down here to check out
some of these beautiful items.
- No problem.
Any time, AJ.
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