Star Wars Rebel Trooper Blaster Ep IV LE

Product Information
· Official reproduction of the first space weapon seen on-screen in Star Wars: A New Hope.
· The original prop was modeled after a 1950’s British submachine gun.
· Our replica is made of metal with ABS parts and detailing.
· The Rebel Blaster is fabricated using a combination of machined steel and aluminum parts, die-cast zinc parts, and injection molded ABS parts. The barrel is a machined steel tube, the emitter is a machined aluminum extrusion, the scope is die-cast zinc, and the grip is injection molded ABS. The basic finish for most of the blaster will be a semi-gloss black hydrostatic paint with a light texture. The grip will be high gloss black paint. The emitter will have a brushed aluminum finish. The safety plug in the emitter will be safety orange as per US gun safety guidelines. The bolt will be natural steel color. A number of other parts will be natural steel as well. The eyepiece for the scope will have a printed underlay in red and black. 
· The display is a black base with mirrored acrylic surface. The blaster will rest on two acrylic supports and be covered with a 3mm thick display cover. 

Prop Story
Fiercely defending the cause of freedom and individualism, the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance would lay down their lives to protect Princess Leia and her starship. In the opening scene of Star Wars: A New Hope, Rebel troopers do just that—wielding their blaster pistols in a desperate attempt to fight off the faceless enemy stormtroopers who overrun Leia Organa’s starship. The Rebel blaster was the first Star Wars weapon to appear on-screen and was modeled after a 1950’s British submachine gun (also the model for the stormtrooper blaster). Like all blaster pistols in the Star Wars trilogy, it fired bursts of searing light-based energy called bolts. 

In creating the Rebel blaster, Lucasfilm made some major modifications to the original submachine gun. First, the prop designers removed the folding stock, a feature that was kept for the stormtrooper blaster. While the  blaster had barrel vent holes that were covered with plastic “T-track”, the Rebel blaster had vent holes covered with a tube of ribbed, rolled metal. A cone was attached to the muzzle of the Rebel blaster and a solid metal bar was then added to the top of the barrel, and the sides were detailed with “T-track” for the mounting of a scope. A non-optical scope was mounted to the bar using off-the-shelf mounting rings.

While the referenced submachine gun normally uses a 32-round magazine mounted on the left side of the gun to hold the ammunition, the Rebel blaster used neither a magazine nor had a magazine housing. There were also stunt versions made for Star Wars: A New Hope that looked slightly different than the standard prop. Notably, the stunt version had a thicker trigger guard. Master Replicas modeled its Rebel blaster collectible on a blank-firing “hero” version of the prop. 

Limited Edition Size: 2500
Item Number: SW-125
UPC: 836453000621
Item Size: 18.0” x 2.0” x 8.5” 
Display Size: 20.0” x 5.5” x 10.5”
Approx Weight: 30 lbs.

Star Wars Master Replicas Rebel Trooper Blaster Ep IV LE

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$269.95  

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