Lopez recounted the Death Star’s journey from the set of Star Wars to his own collection in a recent blog post on Starwars.com titled ‘Saving the Death Star: How the Original Model Was Lost and Found’.
I got a kick out of reading about the Death Star in local tourist literature and walking by the Death Star on display at the museum to hear conversations from people telling their stories about what Star Wars meant to them.
And now the Death Star is back home, where I see it every day.
And when I look at it, I am still amazed it survived its long journey and is sitting right in front of me.”