The 'Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back' Mistake Hiding In Plain Sight For 39 years
 

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The “Star Wars” saga takes place a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. But one goof that’s been hiding in plain sight for decades is of much more recent ― and far, far more local ― vintage.

If you take a close look at Luke’s lightsaber in the wampa cave on the icy planet of Hoth in 1980s “Empire Strikes Back,” you’ll see “NEW YORK” stamped into the bottom.

The error was spotted by Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm Story Group, who works to ensure continuity throughout the “Star Wars” franchise:

I've noted this before, but every time I watch a Star Wars movie, there's something new to notice. Especially if I'm fortunate to catch it on the big screen. This latest discovery? that 'NEW YORK' is visible on the bottom of Luke's lightsaber in EMPIRE. pic.twitter.com/Z85NPvgcVR


— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) June 19, 2019
Given that there aren’t many people in any galaxy who know as much about “Star Wars” as Hidalgo, it’s a safe bet that few have noticed the error.

But good luck NOT seeing it in subsequent viewings. It’s even visible in the YouTube clip:


Hidalgo explained in subsequent tweets that the lightsaber was made from a Graflex flash holder for a camera:

Graflex made the old camera flash holder that the lightsaber was built out of. pic.twitter.com/PqaGkzXAVi


— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) June 19, 2019
When it was repurposed as a lightsaber, most of the text on the bottom was hidden. But much of “New York” was unobscured, and for the most part unnoticed.

… Breaking News!!!

R2D2 spotted fixed to the outside of the spaceship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Time for another edit of the movie with more fixes and vdx's. bah.

That's different because it was intentional. One of the kids is dressed as Yoda during the halloween scene, and a bunch of ET's can be seen in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. There are many other Easter eggs too. Solo says "Cellblock transfer from Cellblock 1138" is a nod to Lucas's older film, "THX-1138". C3PO and R2D2 can be scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc...

You would be amazed at the hidden stuff we put into movie models and props. The ones i liked the best are sharks hidden in toilet bowls on models and names of all the effects people typed onto miniature newspapers used on model sets. In the Uk we had to burn millions of pounds of paper cash for a TV commercial so we removed the queens portrait and replaced it with the directors face. No one noticed to this day, too busy watching how it burnt i guess?