Han Solo's blaster prop gun has made history. During an auction held by the Rock Island Auction Company (RIAC) in 2022, the blaster Harrison Ford used when portraying Han Solo in the first "Star Wars" ...

If someone puts a lightsaber or a blaster from Star Wars in your hand, how high are the odds that you’ll make the appropriate sound effect? Laura Dern grappled with this while filming The Last Jedi.

In this video, we're unboxing the CosmoxToys gel BLASTER! Is it better than Nerf? Find out in this video! Are you wondering if the CosmoxToys gel blaster is better than Nerf? Well, in this video we'll ...

I am almost certain (almost) that nowhere in the Star Wars movies (even in Episode I) does a character refer to these as "lasers." Really, there isn't much to talk about here that hasn't been ...

The blaster that helped the Rebel Alliance finally take down the Empire could soon be yours. This particular prop was used to film that infamous scene—there’s some argument over who shot first, though ...

Among the go-to items in many households for a variety of tasks is WD-40, which was derived in 1953 by a small chemical company on their 40 th attempt to perfect a water displacement formula. By 1993, ...

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