Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Fernandes Stormtrooper guitar

Posted by Jon in • Cool Guitars

Fernandes stormtrooper
A long time ago… well 2002, in a galaxy far far away… well this one, Fernandes released a limited edition run of their Retrorocket guitar with custom Star Wars graphics. I’m not sure how I some how managed to miss this, maybe because I never get to go to NAMM and I was backpacking across Thailand and the east coast of Australia at the time…

Anyway there is no longer any information on the Fernandes site so I’m not sure which version of the Retrorocket this would be but I assume it would be the Elite or Pro, unless they were being cheapskates? There is also a bobba fett guitar that I came across although it seemed to be a vector drawing rather than a photo and a Darth Vader version. Check out Harmony Central’s write up from Feb 2002 for more info.

UPDATE: I just found the Yoda guitar and Bobba Fett guitar on the official Star Wars site!

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on 03/25 at 10:57 AM

I have all 4 models:

Storm Trooper
Bobba Fett
Darth Vader
Yoda

All of them have cases, have never been played and include all original hang tags, manuals, etc. 

Storm Trooper and Darth Vader were shipped to me directly from Japan before they were available in the USA - they were the first two here.  Yoda I picked up in Japan from Fernandez some years later and Bobba was shipped to me from the USA distributor shortly after it was introduced.

Not sure what I’m going to do with them - perhaps sell them on Ebay. 

Greg

Jon on 03/25 at 12:02 PM

Sell them?! After you went to all that trouble? Seems like a shame to me, then again not playing a guitar seems like more of a shame smile

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