Star Wars Helmets

39. Did You Know: George Lucas was paid by Twentieth Century Fox to write the screenplay for Star Wars: A New Hope? He earned only $50,000 for writing the screenplay. Once the film was shot, Lucas invited his friends Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Brian DePalma to screen the final product. Scorsese and DePalma were certain the film was going to be a major flop. In the end, Lucas laughed all the way to the bank, after Star Wars grossed $100 million in three months. Three decades later, Lucas is a billionaire.

52. Did You Know: The sound of the crashes you hear in Episode I: The Phantom Menace were perfected thanks to NASCAR? That’s right. The team in charge of special effects for the pod races spent hours studying footage of NASCAR crashes in order to make sure the pod race crashes were as accurate as possible.

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C-3PO Collector's Helmet A fussy and worry-prone protocol droid, C-3PO was cobbled together from discarded scrap and salvage by a nine-year old prodigy on the desert planet Tatooine. C-3PO and his counterpart R2D2 played a major role in the downfall of the Galactic Empire.The C-3PO collector's edition helmet comes in an official Star wars box and is made from injection-molded plastic. More information about C-3PO Collector's Helmet