£75,000. That's how much it will cost to buy your own Tie Fighter.
It's times like this that I wish I were made of money, because then I could literally give my right arm to buy it. I admit it - I'm a geek, and as such I would love to buy a Tie Fighter. I just can't help myself.
The Tie Fighter is just one lot in a huge auction being held on August 1st by Live Auctioneers. Other items up for sale include the axe used by Jack Nicholson in The Shining, Marty McFly's hoverboard from Back To The Future II and III, a pair of stone tablets as held by Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments, and, get this, the pistol from The Outlaw Jose Wales, a .44 calibre Colt Walker in its original holster. Oh, and Ben Affleck's costume from Daredevil, which I personally would buy just because it's from a film that contributed to the death of Affleck's career. I would worship it like a shiny leather God.
Actually, there aren't many things in the auction I wouldn't buy. Of course, I would then be bankrupted and living in a house full of largely useless crap, but at least I'd own the sword used by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian. It squirts fake blood. Who could ask for anything more?