Star Wars C-3PO prop sells for more than $1 million at auction sale
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A light-up C-3PO head which was used as a prop in a Star Wars movie, has sold for more than $1 million in the US.
The prop is part of a big film and TV auction taking place at Propstore auction house in Los Angeles.
The golden robot head belonging to the famous droid C-3PO, was used in the 1980 movie Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back.
It is thought to be the only known prop of C-3PO's head from this particular movie to go up for auction, and it sold for a whopping $1,058,400 (around £795,000).
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Actor Anthony Daniels (right) played C-3PO in the Star Wars series
C-3PO was played by actor Anthony Daniels in the Star Wars movies, who wore the full-body golden suit during filming.
This particular version of the costume was made by taking plaster casts of his body and sculpting it by hand, before building it from gold-painted fibreglass sheets.
In the past other C-3PO props have sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
This famous sword prop from the Lord of the Rings movies was also up for grabs
In total 250 movie and tv props went up for sale in the big auction, raising around $6.5 million (£4.9 million) in a single day.
Some of the other props include the broken pieces of the sword Narsil, used in The Lord Of The Rings, which sold for $252,000 (around £190,000).
As well as a golden ticket from the 1971 film: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory which sold for $107,100 (around £81,000).
