The original ET the Extra-Terrestrial animatronic figure, used in Steven Spielberg's eponymous film, found a buyer this weekend for $2.6 million (2.45 million euros), according to the organizers of the sale .
The flagship lot of these auctions spread over two days and held by Julien's and Turner Classic Movies was presented with 1,300 other film accessories, from Robert De Niro's boxing gloves in
Raging Bull
to Thor's hammer.
The friendly alien has been one of the most famous characters in pop culture and science fiction since the release of the hugely successful ET in 1982.
Almost the entire figurine is articulated: his protruding eyes, his long neck and of course his luminous finger which he shines in the film before uttering his cult
line “AND home phone”
.
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A model of the brown alien was also sold for 125,000 dollars (117,000 euros), slightly more than one of the bikes used in the final scene, which went for 115,000 dollars (108,000 euros).
Other emblematic objects of the seventh art were offered and fetched high bids, such as the stick with which Charlton Heston split the Red Sea in two in
The Ten Commandments
(448,000 dollars, approximately 422,000 euros) and the Nimbus 2000 broom from Harry Potter (128,000 dollars, around 120,000 euros).