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This is something I almost forgot about since it's been nearly 4 years since this story happened, but there's been a recent little development that has bought everything back to the surface for me so I thought this cool little ( and very random ) story might interest some guys on here, and I have nothing else to do today so here it is. Nearly 4 years ago I sold a pair of metal gold plated dice to a guy on ebay ( June 2014 ) and when posting them off I noticed the 'art dept.' 'Pinewood Studios' address, so out of curiosity and not being able to help myself because of being a hardcore Star Wars fan I messaged him to ask if he was working on the new Star Wars film ( The Force Awakens ). He messaged back and said.. "I'm not allowed to say, but what I can say is have you ever noticed a pair of gold dice hanging in the Millennium Falcon's cockpit?" ( exact quote ), obviously suggesting that my dice will be used for the film.
At first I thought he was pulling my leg, the Falcon's dice was something i'd completely forgotten about so I googled it and rediscovered that there was indeed gold dice hanging from the cockpit in ANH then it suddenly came back to me, I also googled the buyers name and he was the head of the Art & Props dept. at Pinewood, then of course it suddenly clicked that this guy bought my dice to use as a prop for filming of TFA. I couldn't contain my excitement one single bit :lol: and thought wouldn't it be awesome if there was a little story/caption in the paper mentioning this, so the first thing I did ( whilst pissed as a fart lol ) was email The Sun to briefly tell them about all this, I 100% wasn't even expecting them to reply back at all but they responded in 2 mins saying they're very interested in it. If I remember right this was not long after Ford injured himself on the Falcon set and there was a lot of news and hot gossip coming out about filming TFA at that time, which is why they almost took my arm off for this story.
So The Sun journalist phoned me up on the Saturday and I told them all about my sale with Pinewood Studios, then on Monday morning just 2 days later my dad phoned me up saying my story is in the paper which I really didn't believe because I thought he was taking the piss with me, then sure enough I went and bought the paper and it was bloody smack bang on page 3 next to a nice pair of boobies. :lol: ( RIP Page 3 ).
I've never felt such a fanboy buzz before, I was actually involved with the contribution of a Star Wars film in just a tiny little way but it was a massive deal to me, of all the things my item got used for in a film it just happened to be involved with my all-time favourite spaceship and movie, I could not believe it. I actually had a box full of another 30 or 40 sets of these same dice so In the weeks following my story coming out in the paper, I sold the rest off on ebay along with this backstory and that buyers will be owning dice taken from the same box of dice as the ones I sent off to Pinewood to use for Star Wars, I received quite a lot of messages from SW fans telling me how excited they were that they were buying them from the same guy who supplied them to Pinewood. :lol: I may have even sold some to a couple of you guys on here.
I was also happy as **** to learn that same year that my dice had made it into the Falcon's cockpit along with all the main actors for a photoshoot in Vanity Fair magazine...
And here is Harrison Ford in this same photoshoot apparently grabbing my dice.... :lol:
So in Dec 2015 TFA came out and to my surprised disappointment my dice were not shown in the actual film, nor were any other similar dice used whatsoever which I found weird, but I still had the booby prize ( no Page 3 pun intended ) of somehow being involved in a tiny way in the process of the film's production, so I was still a happy little fanboy and the whole thing was now in the past.
Fast forward to this week and to the reason why i'm posting all this now, I bought The Last Jedi on Blu-Ray on release and have just got around the watching the bonus disc this weekend, and watched the behind the scenes documentary called 'The Director And The Jedi', There's a clip of a guy showing all different props laid out in the props dept. and to my complete amazement there's my dice clear as day being held up with a chain that they've attached to them.
Here's a screenshot of it..
But in TLJ these still aren't shown in the film, they used completely different dice that they made themselves with symbols on it instead of dots, so I reckon what they must have done is used my dice as a prototype concept just to show what they will look like, and/or used them to make a direct copy of, or maybe they originally intended to use them but just changed their minds and made another pair with a different design. Because at the end of the day it makes more sense not to use familiar 'earth looking' dice with the dots on them, and instead use more 'Star Wars looking' dice.
But what slightly puzzles me is I sent my dice off to Pinewood well before TFA release, and now 4 years later they instead randomly appear on TLJ bonus disc??? :? :lol: so they either still had them during TLJ's production, or parts of this documentary were maybe filmed way back around the time when TFA was just finished when they still had my dice. Either way it's still an exciting thing for me that something iv'e held in my hands has made it into the falcon cockpit at some point, and onto a Star Wars Blu-Ray even though it's not in the film itself.
And here's my treasured personal pair of dice that iv'e kept from the same batch I had back in 2014.
Thanks for reading, I hope it was obscure and interesting.
At first I thought he was pulling my leg, the Falcon's dice was something i'd completely forgotten about so I googled it and rediscovered that there was indeed gold dice hanging from the cockpit in ANH then it suddenly came back to me, I also googled the buyers name and he was the head of the Art & Props dept. at Pinewood, then of course it suddenly clicked that this guy bought my dice to use as a prop for filming of TFA. I couldn't contain my excitement one single bit :lol: and thought wouldn't it be awesome if there was a little story/caption in the paper mentioning this, so the first thing I did ( whilst pissed as a fart lol ) was email The Sun to briefly tell them about all this, I 100% wasn't even expecting them to reply back at all but they responded in 2 mins saying they're very interested in it. If I remember right this was not long after Ford injured himself on the Falcon set and there was a lot of news and hot gossip coming out about filming TFA at that time, which is why they almost took my arm off for this story.
So The Sun journalist phoned me up on the Saturday and I told them all about my sale with Pinewood Studios, then on Monday morning just 2 days later my dad phoned me up saying my story is in the paper which I really didn't believe because I thought he was taking the piss with me, then sure enough I went and bought the paper and it was bloody smack bang on page 3 next to a nice pair of boobies. :lol: ( RIP Page 3 ).
I've never felt such a fanboy buzz before, I was actually involved with the contribution of a Star Wars film in just a tiny little way but it was a massive deal to me, of all the things my item got used for in a film it just happened to be involved with my all-time favourite spaceship and movie, I could not believe it. I actually had a box full of another 30 or 40 sets of these same dice so In the weeks following my story coming out in the paper, I sold the rest off on ebay along with this backstory and that buyers will be owning dice taken from the same box of dice as the ones I sent off to Pinewood to use for Star Wars, I received quite a lot of messages from SW fans telling me how excited they were that they were buying them from the same guy who supplied them to Pinewood. :lol: I may have even sold some to a couple of you guys on here.
I was also happy as **** to learn that same year that my dice had made it into the Falcon's cockpit along with all the main actors for a photoshoot in Vanity Fair magazine...
And here is Harrison Ford in this same photoshoot apparently grabbing my dice.... :lol:
So in Dec 2015 TFA came out and to my surprised disappointment my dice were not shown in the actual film, nor were any other similar dice used whatsoever which I found weird, but I still had the booby prize ( no Page 3 pun intended ) of somehow being involved in a tiny way in the process of the film's production, so I was still a happy little fanboy and the whole thing was now in the past.
Fast forward to this week and to the reason why i'm posting all this now, I bought The Last Jedi on Blu-Ray on release and have just got around the watching the bonus disc this weekend, and watched the behind the scenes documentary called 'The Director And The Jedi', There's a clip of a guy showing all different props laid out in the props dept. and to my complete amazement there's my dice clear as day being held up with a chain that they've attached to them.
Here's a screenshot of it..But in TLJ these still aren't shown in the film, they used completely different dice that they made themselves with symbols on it instead of dots, so I reckon what they must have done is used my dice as a prototype concept just to show what they will look like, and/or used them to make a direct copy of, or maybe they originally intended to use them but just changed their minds and made another pair with a different design. Because at the end of the day it makes more sense not to use familiar 'earth looking' dice with the dots on them, and instead use more 'Star Wars looking' dice.
But what slightly puzzles me is I sent my dice off to Pinewood well before TFA release, and now 4 years later they instead randomly appear on TLJ bonus disc??? :? :lol: so they either still had them during TLJ's production, or parts of this documentary were maybe filmed way back around the time when TFA was just finished when they still had my dice. Either way it's still an exciting thing for me that something iv'e held in my hands has made it into the falcon cockpit at some point, and onto a Star Wars Blu-Ray even though it's not in the film itself.
And here's my treasured personal pair of dice that iv'e kept from the same batch I had back in 2014.
Thanks for reading, I hope it was obscure and interesting.
