It’s probably no surprise to find something from “Star Wars” on the list, let alone as the most expensive entry. It is an extremely popular series worth billions at this point, after all. Technically speaking, this edition of “A New Hope” sold for $95,000, which was the winning final bid, but ended up at $114,000 due to the Buyer’s Premium fee. Either way, it’s still quite the price for the movie that kicked off a decades-long franchise.
Before you get too excited, know that this particular edition of the original “Star Wars” was one of the original 1982 “big box” releases, still sealed and sporting its original studio logo (in this case, Twentieth Century Fox) watermarks. It’s also supposedly one of 27 known versions, making it exceptionally rare. It was also graded at an overall 8.0 and an A- seal rating by Beckett Collectibles.
The odds of getting a hold of a similar VHS version of “A New Hope” may not be 3,720 to one (in either direction), but you probably have a better chance of hitting a two-meter-wide thermal exhaust port from a moving snub fighter.
