Star Wars Missing X-Wing Model Up for Auction After Being Found Decades Later

Back in the 1970s, when George Lucas was making the first Star Wars and it was time to work on the attack on the Death Star, ILM built four models of the 'hero' ships that would spread their wings forming an X -- what we now know as the X-wings. Over the years, one of those four original models went missing... Until now.



VFX historian Gene Kozicki was recently part of a four-person team tasked with cataloging two-time Oscar nominee Greg Jein's collection, after the artist passed away last year, when they came across the fabled model inside a cardboard box. Kozicki spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about the finding:

The 'missing X-wing' will now be sold at a Heritage Auction on October 14-15 in Dallas, starting at $400,000. The beginning of the description for the item reads:

What's even more interesting about the story is that Greg Jein never worked on Star Wars, so it's currently unknown how he came into possession of the item. But as Kozicki speculates, it was probably because of the overlapping between the teams working on Lucas' film and Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, for which Jein was nominated for an Oscar. Said Kozicki:

You may find the entire catalog for the auction here.



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