Star Wars LED Canvas - "Death Star"

Item Number: 2036
Time Left: CLOSED
Value: $300
Online Close: Dec 17, 2011 9:00 PM PST
Bid History: 0 bids
Description
The ultimate gift for the Trekkie in your life...This auction is for a printed canvas of the Death Star... complete with animated LED lights integrated into the artwork. It is just about the coolest thing we've ever seen.
What may seem to be a tricky trap to catch feral Star Wars fans in their way to a convention is actually a beautiful piece of art that people are snapping up left and right from SFRP parent-owned Oberon Design in San Francisco. Just plug it in and go back in time to 1977.
For non-trekkies: The Death Star is a fictional moon-sized space station and superweapon appearing in the Star Wars movies and expanded universe. It is capable of destroying a planet with a single destructive super charged energy beam.
Although particular details, such as the superlaser's location, shifted between different concept models during production of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the notion of the Death Star being a large, spherical space station was consistent in all of them.[1] The buzzing sound counting down to the Death Star firing its superlaser comes from the Flash Gordonserials.[2] Portraying an incomplete yet powerful space station posed a problem for Industrial Light & Magic's modelmakers for Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. [3] Only the front side of the 137-centimeter model was completed, and the image was flipped horizontally for the final film.[3] Both Death Stars were depicted by a combination of complete and sectional models and matte paintings.
Special Instructions
Winning bidder to take home from the Winter Rock Prom on December 18, 2011, or to arrange a time to pick up from San Francisco Rock Project.