The sand-colored jeans worn by Mark Hamill in the original Star Wars have gone up for auction! You might reasonably wonder why you should spend the expected 70-100,000 dollars for them, especially if you don’t happen to have a size 29 waist.
And really, it was the pants that made the movie such a global phenomenon, wasn’t it?
But that would be because you haven’t thought it through. Just consider all the things you can do with them!
You can walk around randomly yelling, “I’m wearing Luke Skywalker’s pants!” Sure you could yell it anyway, but these say “Mark Hamill / 10490 Luke / Star Wars” on the tag, so people won’t think you’re crazy.
No one’s guaranteeing anything, but there’s a chance you’ll become a Jedi if you wear them. Then once you’re a Jedi, you can use a Jedi mind trick to make someone else pay double what you paid.
Any time someone asks you to do something, you can whine, “But I was going to Toschi Station to pick up some power converters!” Then spend 15 minutes explaining the joke.
You’ll be one step closer to having a Luke Skywalker Halloween costume that blows away any competition. And who doesn’t get tired of the endless “Who’s-got-the-best-Luke-Skywalker-as-he-was-dressed-for-the-majority-of-Episode-IV-costume?” bickering every Halloween?
You haven’t seen it. It’s… it’s really bad.
Perfect for the collector trying to expand their collection of memorabilia connected to the cast of Corvette Summer.
They’re Levi’s, and you could take them to a Levi’s store and say you want another pair just like them. Then you can all just laugh and laugh when they realize.
Pick up lines for the next Star Wars/Comic-Con convention. “Hey, baby, how’d you like to get in Luke Skywalker’s pants?” and so forth.
Hey, everyone needs pants, right?
The Byronic Man 
May 23, 2013 at 4:22 am
Personally, would rather get into Han Solo’s pants, but hey, I’ll take what I can get.
May 23, 2013 at 6:20 am
Poor Luke… always second choice. First Leia ditches him on some flimsy “turns out you’re my brother” hooey, now this.
May 23, 2013 at 6:22 am
Mark Hamill once said “One girl in the entire universe and SURPRISE she’s your sister.” That would have to suck.
May 23, 2013 at 4:34 am
I think maybe I had a pair of pants like that back in the 80’s!
May 23, 2013 at 6:21 am
Thank God Star Wars didn’t come out a decade later – they might have been acid-wash.
May 23, 2013 at 4:48 am
I’m waiting for the can of Patrick Stewart head wax… “Make it so!”
May 23, 2013 at 6:22 am
I’m a big fan of the Patrick Stewart knitting line, “Make It Sew.”
AHHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, man I JUST made that up!
May 23, 2013 at 7:57 am
Dude, there’s an awesome meme in that…
May 23, 2013 at 4:50 am
Before I make a bid, I’m going to have to see this masterpiece called Corvette Summer pronto.
May 23, 2013 at 6:15 am
Just do a google image search first, to see what you’re in for.
May 23, 2013 at 4:55 am
I think you should set up a donate button on your site and try to raise enough money to own them yourself…..
May 23, 2013 at 5:28 am
HA. You’ve just changed my entire reason for blogging with this comment, Andrea.
May 23, 2013 at 6:57 am
would be a great hook… “click Like and donate to help me win Princess Leia’s wig!” “Lets all band together to get this Faberge egg out of circulation!”
Turn around and resell.
May 23, 2013 at 7:22 am
I’m in favor of pretty much any plan that involves people sending money my way. “Click here to donate to the ‘Help Byronic Man Live A Life Of Incredible Luxury’ fund.”
May 23, 2013 at 5:30 am
Every time ANYthing like this goes up for auction, I start obsessively thinking about whether or not the item has been properly washed, and about all of the people hoping it hasn’t been. I just picture those pants being so crusty and gnarly that they could get up and walk away on their own.
…Just me?
May 23, 2013 at 6:17 am
I wonder that immediately, too. And if they gauge their response on the person asking it. “Have they been washed since Hamill wore them?” “Yyyyyyy – no.” “I bid 90,000!”
May 23, 2013 at 7:21 am
I would be that person. I would want them dirty. I once caught Jake E Lee’s towel at an Ozzy concert and it was so awesome because it was all dirty and covered in eye makeup. Eventually my mom washed it.
May 23, 2013 at 7:22 am
I knew someone who got her jeans signed by all of The Ramones.
Then mom washed them.
May 23, 2013 at 7:32 am
NOOOOOO!
May 23, 2013 at 9:55 am
NOOOOO x2!!!
(P.S. – You’re both welcome for not making a REALLY terrible Ramones-lyric pun right now.)
May 23, 2013 at 10:03 am
More NOOOOOO!
May 25, 2013 at 7:47 am
I would want Mark Hamill’s jeans washed and Harrison Ford’s jeans dirty. Also? I get every single joke and reference in this post. Including the whining about the Toschi Station. I STILL quote that line when I don’t feel like doing what I’ve been told to do.
May 24, 2013 at 8:00 am
That brought to mind the episode of Big Bang Theory when Penny got Sheldon the used napkin of Leonard Nimoy and he almost blew a gasket because he was in possession of his DNA. Would you really want Mark Hamill’s DNA?
May 23, 2013 at 5:37 am
Oh good, because I was getting pretty tired of all the weird looks I was getting whilst running around shouting to everyone that I was wearing Luke Skywalker’s pants! Now, when I yell it while also pulling them down to display the proof inside, I will have much more respect.
May 23, 2013 at 6:19 am
Exactly. Nothing diffuses a potentially tense “is this person crazy?” situation like dropping trou and demanding that people read your pants.
May 23, 2013 at 5:57 am
I went to IMDB to look up the entry for Corvette Summer because I couldn’t read the tagline in the photo. (You can’t on IMDB, either.) Funniest thing: on the IMDB listing, after the plot synopsis, there’s another line that reads “The plot synopsis is empty.” Interestingly, after reading the plot synopsis, I had to agree.
May 23, 2013 at 7:24 am
It was never even supposed to be released, but then Star Wars was so massive that the studio figured people would see it for Mark Hamill. It also had an extremely young Annie Potts in it.
May 23, 2013 at 12:37 pm
This is perhaps not the first time the studio was wrong? I can’t even place Annie Potts. Why is that name familiar? (I could look it up but am supposed to be grading finals. Shh. Don’t tell anyone I’m answering my blog emails instead.)
May 23, 2013 at 1:46 pm
Ghostbusters and Designing Women is probably where you’d know her best.
May 23, 2013 at 4:22 pm
Ah, riiiight.
May 23, 2013 at 6:03 am
If I was certain that it’d make my lightsaber look bigger when I wore them, I’d jump at this (see what I did there?). I’d really like to get my hands on some Patrick Swayze Roadhouse clothing so I can go around kicking people’s asses and saying “Roadhouse” Peter Griffin style over their knocked out on the ground bodies.
May 23, 2013 at 8:49 am
Hawt.
May 23, 2013 at 1:46 pm
You’d probably want some Patrick Swayze/Roadhouse hair-product as well.
May 23, 2013 at 6:24 am
Let me know when they auction off Darth Vader’s pants. Or even Grand Moff Tarkin’s pants. Now those would be pants one could wear with pride. Just imagine the pick-up lines.
“Hey, baby, wanna get into Tarkin’s pants?”
“What? No!”
“You’re far too trusting.”
May 23, 2013 at 8:46 am
Oh… the things I wouldn’t do with/while wearing Boba Fett’s helmet.
May 23, 2013 at 1:47 pm
You could probably auction anything if you said it was from Star Wars. “It’s a glove. It was worn by, uh, Alien #7 in the Cantina scene.”
May 23, 2013 at 6:30 am
“Hey, baby, how’d you like to get in Luke Skywalker’s Pants?” hee hee.
I really wish you hadn’t posted this. I’m obsessed with auctions – in real life and on ebay. I’ve “accidentally” won two dresses on ebay in the last two days. It’s a sickness.
Off to up the bid on Luke’s pants.. .and hope I don’t win!
May 23, 2013 at 1:49 pm
If you’re dumping enough money to win these pants, I’d say you have a problem with auctions. That and/or you’re directly related to Bill Gates.
May 23, 2013 at 7:33 am
Correction – I HAVE seen Corvette Summer. Don’t judge me.
May 23, 2013 at 1:48 pm
So have I. So have I.
May 23, 2013 at 8:14 am
You could prove the old adage, “Everyone puts their pants on one leg at a time…”
May 23, 2013 at 1:50 pm
I remember hearing that phrase as a kid and then I sat down to put on my pants both legs at a time for a while, just to obstinately disprove the adage. I was a weird kid.
May 23, 2013 at 2:09 pm
I’m impressed… 🙂
May 23, 2013 at 8:27 am
That Star Wars/Comic-Con line has got to be the best pickup line ever. In history. Except I don’t think I’d be interested in the people it would pickup. That’s just me.
May 23, 2013 at 8:45 am
Hahahaha! That’s the rub! It is a shame that such good lines could be used so uselessly.
May 23, 2013 at 1:49 pm
I know, right?
May 24, 2013 at 6:31 am
Actually, that line is how George Clooney gets all those women. True story.
May 23, 2013 at 8:32 am
Oh dear. Thanks for the laughs, darling!
May 24, 2013 at 6:31 am
Just doin’ m’ job!
May 23, 2013 at 8:35 am
I’m afraid that many of the people who would want them the most (Baby Boomer delusional men) would never fit into those pants. Their bellies have grown even larger than their imaginations… 😉
May 24, 2013 at 6:32 am
When Jabba The Hutt’s pants go up for auction, it’s going to be a great day.
May 23, 2013 at 8:44 am
If I was still a 29″ waist wielder, I would buy them faster than you can light up your light saber, but alas… my daughter killed my waistline.
May 24, 2013 at 6:34 am
We’ve got quite the lawsuit building against our daughter for when she grows up.
May 24, 2013 at 8:45 am
Amen. The boys? Not so bad. The girl? Already shopping for a rich sultan to take her as a wife. Good thing she is pretty. I feel bad for her husband. Seriously. At three years old, she already knows the term: “I can out-bitch you any day of the week and twice on Sunday.” (I say it to her all the time.)
May 23, 2013 at 9:41 am
So many things to comment on here….still reeling that someone washed jeans that had the Ramones signatures on them. But yeah, I will be happy to donate five bucks to your Luke Skywalker Pants Fundraiser.
May 24, 2013 at 6:38 am
It’s such a “mom” thing to do, isn’t it? Straight out of the handbook.
May 23, 2013 at 11:18 am
I want Luke Skywalker’s tunic. Because nothing says “hubba hubba” like a tunic.
May 24, 2013 at 6:38 am
It’s up there with muu-muu’s.
May 23, 2013 at 6:49 pm
How much do we have to offer to have Luke in the pants? Not that I’m all that interested, but when he was in those pants, I could fit into a 29 too.
May 24, 2013 at 6:41 am
I think if you buy the costume and see the actor on the street, legally, they have to put it on. Weird California law.
May 24, 2013 at 7:01 am
There are so many!
May 23, 2013 at 9:09 pm
I may just have to buy these pants, because people keep looking at me in a weird way when I wear that famous Princess Leia underwear.
May 23, 2013 at 11:26 pm
You should see the looks I get when I wear my Jabba the Hutt outfit.
May 24, 2013 at 6:42 am
I went to the annual UFO parade we have here in Oregon (because it’s, you know, Oregon), and there’s always a huge Star Wars section. In it, there’s about 35 Boba Fetts, and 50 Leia’s in slave costumes. And I hate to be all objectifying or body-elitist? But that’s really a public costume you have to earn; it’s not a right.
May 23, 2013 at 10:48 pm
I would place a joke about space pants here, but in the world of intergalactic space travel that would just be redundant.
May 24, 2013 at 6:44 am
“Hey, baby, are those pants from outer space??”
“Yes.”
“Oh. I see. Uh. Well… you have a cute butt…”
May 25, 2013 at 4:46 am
At least they aren’t the pants he wore in the fighter ship. Those would have *a lot* more DNA in them.
May 25, 2013 at 5:35 am
I’d like to believe that you wouldn’t have to announce that you’re wearing Skywalker’s pants. Things would just happen like doors opening and stuff being free or other people’s lame pants blow off by Jedi force.