HAL, open the pod bay doors and flush all the money out.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=153&item=3840166200

Let's get this straight: this is just the lens. A round piece of glass. Not the panel that it was mounted on or anything. Just the lens.


I'm sorry Dave. I cannot afford that.

Y'know, I'm a wacky, crazy SF fan with a deep and abiding love of 2001: a space odyssey, both the movie and the book, and I even have a replica prop of the HAL wall panel that I paid, I think, $50 for around 15-16 years ago. But this is just freakin' ridiculous. There needs to be something more of the original prop to include for that price.

The genuine article it may be, but I have only one thing to say for anyone who actually makes a serious bid for this:


My mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it...

[Sniderman]

"Daisy, daisy, give me your answer please...."


LOL

[tynstar]

Holy SHI_!!!!!!!

2001 is one of the few movies I have fallen aslepp watching for the first time. :o

[captain nintendo]

Thats alot cash..... @_@

[Flack]

This is old news, but for those who are fans of both movies, Dave's pod from 2001 appears in Watto's Junkyard in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.

http://theforce.net/episode1/newspics/hidden_2001_big.jpg

[Ed Oscuro]

This is old news, but for those who are fans of both movies, Dave's pod from 2001 appears in Watto's Junkyard in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.
Hah!

Well, my thoughts on the lens - it's really the main draw of that setpiece; certainly it's a cultural icon by now. $150K actually doesn't seem far off for me, but at the same time that's totally wrong. Belongs in a museum, really LOL

[ianoid]

There has to be a name for this-

Putting something on eBay that is certifiably valuable or rare, but putting it up for a price that no one can or will afford.

Hope listing?

Retirement auction?

List and pray?

No chance auction?

May bid?

Wishful listing <-- probably my favorite.

If I can get auction?

[Ed Oscuro]

Haha, that's a great checklist, Ianoid :D

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

This is old news, but for those who are fans of both movies, Dave's pod from 2001 appears in Watto's Junkyard in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.
Y'know, I had never heard this factoid before! Only here, if HAL's giving you trouble, you can just hit it on the nose.

[jerkov]

Holy SHI_!!!!!!!

2001 is one of the few movies I have fallen aslepp watching for the first time.



We had to watch this in school one day, and I fell asleep while watching it too.

I decided to give the movie another shot, and I was fascinated from beginning to end. Now it's one of my favorite movies.

[Fuyukaze]

After years of wanting to watch it and being unable to due to the monkey scene at the begining (religious family=no 2001) I finaly bought both 2001 and 2010. I still havent watched either. I realy, realy, need to spend the time and WATCH them.

Thats way to much for anything you cant live in or drive.

[Jibbajaba]

Holy SHI_!!!!!!!

2001 is one of the few movies I have fallen aslepp watching for the first time. :o

I too fell asleep watching this movie, and never tried to watch it again.

Chris

[FlufflePuff]

Why does a guy who sells batteries and cell phone cases

a) have such a "valuable" item in his possession

b) think with 12 feedback he'll get anyone to bid on it

He must have at least made some money, because the listing fee for that auction had to be pretty steep.

[PhoeniX]

Man, I guess I'm the only one who LOVED!!! this movie. That is one of the coolest props I've ever seen, but at that price I think I'd sooner go buy some super exotic car. Even as a fan this auction is indeed offensively overpriced... But I mean this is pretty cool man, HAL 9000 is truely landmark piece of sci-fi history that has inspired many advances in computer science.

[StartTheBiddingLow]

Arthur C Clarke's book is worth reading, but the film is a real Curate's Egg.

I watched it the other week and even though it seemed to go on for longer than its actual length -_- , it still seemed to me that the video had had massive chunks cut out of it. x_x

[wberdan]

i will say- 2001 is one of my 3 all time favorite movies, and thats a really cool item.
every single space scene is fascinating to me- i mean, just dig how the shots are set up- kubrick was such a genius... so stylish.

as for the auction... yeah, im bidding.

LOL

good god- just kidding!


willie

[Flack]

You all should watch 2001 twice ... once normally, and then a second time with the commentary track. It's a really, really good one that explained a million things I didn't understand the first time I saw it.

[rpepper9]

One day I was driving around and I saw a Honda odyssey mini van. I didn't think too much of it untill I pulled up behind it at a light and noticed that the licence plate read HAL9000. Get it? On a ODYSSEY van! Took me a second. Pretty cool though. 8-)