Taking the Shirt off Mark's Back (October 17, 2010)

[Bandit LOAF]

On February 9, 1996, two days before Wing Commander IV's release, Origin held a promotional event at the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Beverly Hills to unveil the game and donate costumes used by Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell (original press release). We've uncovered three photographs showing the event in progress!

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Two of the pictures are also available in higher resolution black-and-white versions:

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Original update published on October 17, 2010

 

[criticalmass]

Just out of interest, and I'm sure this has been mentioned in some other post, but it would be nice to put the story in context: what happened to the donated costumes? Are they in some Planet Hollywood display, or in Arnie's big secret vault?

(and thanks, the pics are great. Looks like Mark Hamill doesn't really want to give the suit away..)

 

[Bandit LOAF]

Just out of interest, and I'm sure this has been mentioned in some other post, but it would be nice to put the story in context: what happened to the donated costumes? Are they in some Planet Hollywood display, or in Arnie's big secret vault?

It's a good question. The original press release says that they will go "permanent display at one of the many Planet Hollywood locations around the world" which I always read as 'anywhere but Los Angeles'. According to the Point of Origin version of the story it would be determined a few weeks after the actual presentation.

To the best of my knowledge, though, no one has ever found them. Planet Hollywood has fallen on hard times since 1996, of course, and very few of the locations that existed then are still around today. One of the Rapiers from the movie (or a mockup) was at the Planet Hollywood in Columbus Ohio... but it closed in 2001. I wish knew what happened to that!