Syper
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SuperTrooper Blaster Rifle - Found Part?
Recently I was lucky enough to be invited to join a great group of people for a private tour of Rancho Obi-Wan hosted by the man, the myth, Mr. Steve Sansweet. While on this epic tour Steve was talking about a poster for New Hope that was first purposed when I turned and saw it! In my mind, I got that tunnel vision that you always hear about as my brain registered and confirmed that I was face to face with our beloved Preproduction Supertrooper rifle that we have all studied for so long. I took a deep breath and slowly pulled my cell phone out and took as many pics as I could with only 3% battery life left. I will admit that I did get emotional while taking these pics and my mind was all over the place so they’re not the best photos sorry.
Here’s what I got while trying to keep my hands from shaking to bad lol
After viewing my pics from that visit I found myself gravitating right back to the three yellow control greeblies on the SuperTrooper rifle and after a few weeks of research I believe I can make a strong case for calling the three yellow/chrome pieces “Found” from a certain point of view as Obi-wan once said, Let me explain.
Summary: In the details I will do my best to explain the following
Recently I was lucky enough to be invited to join a great group of people for a private tour of Rancho Obi-Wan hosted by the man, the myth, Mr. Steve Sansweet. While on this epic tour Steve was talking about a poster for New Hope that was first purposed when I turned and saw it! In my mind, I got that tunnel vision that you always hear about as my brain registered and confirmed that I was face to face with our beloved Preproduction Supertrooper rifle that we have all studied for so long. I took a deep breath and slowly pulled my cell phone out and took as many pics as I could with only 3% battery life left. I will admit that I did get emotional while taking these pics and my mind was all over the place so they’re not the best photos sorry.
Here’s what I got while trying to keep my hands from shaking to bad lol
After viewing my pics from that visit I found myself gravitating right back to the three yellow control greeblies on the SuperTrooper rifle and after a few weeks of research I believe I can make a strong case for calling the three yellow/chrome pieces “Found” from a certain point of view as Obi-wan once said, Let me explain.
Summary: In the details I will do my best to explain the following
- I’ll explain how I found these parts.
- I’ll explain exactly what these parts are and what their used for!
- Out of hundreds of different types of these available today this one design is ultra-rare.
- Because of how small they are, these normally have no manufacture markings on them, so determining who made this one design from the 70’s / 80’s might be impossible.
- I have ten of these same units but in clear plastic and not the yellow we see on the rifle.
- I have found only one photo with the yellow plastic installed and in use.
Details:
I was viewing my 3D printed SuperTrooper rifle greeblie set again and that sparked a search on google for the “Glenross found part” and that lead me to these pics after a few more searches.
Years ago in what I called the “Christmas Miracle” as some of you might remember I found a real Glenross Dental expander from an ebay lot. Well that same lot had other stuff in it that I never paid much attention to until I found the above pics showing other dental equipment with a bent U-shape to it so I dug the rest of that ebay lot out and to my amazement I found these.
There they were! I never even gave these a first or a second look once I had my precious Glenross Expander in hand and I even thought about just throwing the rest of the dental lot out with the trash. These dental bits must not have stood out to me at all because mine have the “Clear” plastic spacers and not the yellow type used on the rifle. Finding those lead to countless hours of research.
Ok so we know that the Glenross found part is a “dental expander” that’s actually laying on its side and is secured horizontally to Boba Fetts gauntlet and now we can also say without a doubt that the three yellow greeblies are also in fact a type of “Dental Expander” only we are seeing just the top half of the expander on the control board of the SuperTrooper rifle.