The original E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial animatronic figure, used in Steven Spielberg's movie of the same name, found a buyer this weekend for $2.6 million (€2.45 million), according to auction organizers. The flagship lot of these auctions spread over 2 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.
A scale model of the brown alien also sold for $125,000 (€117,000), slightly more than one of the bikes used in the final scene, which went for $115,000 (€108,000). Other iconic objects of the seventh art were on offer and fetched high bids, such as the staff with which Charlton Heston split the Red Sea in The Ten Commandments ($448,000, around €422,000) and Harry Potter's Nimbus 2000 broom ($128,000, around €120,000), priced around $1,000.