As far as I know, you won't be able to bring home a real-life spaceship or light saber — but you can buy your own BB-8 droid, thanks to a collaboration between Disney and robotics startup Sphero.
(A real-life spaceship in the 24th century, anyway).
With Touch controllers, it's very intuitive – you press buttons in the game, on a futuristic console, just as you would if they were really before you; and you turn to speak to your colleagues, just as you would on the bridge of a real-life spaceship.
He is shooting on film rather than digital, using lots of real costumed stormtroopers, spaceship models and puppet aliens, and even introducing a real-life, fully functioning ball robot, BB-8, which is already busy making promotional appearances.
But, if you tried to do this in real life, your spaceship would arrive to find that Mars had moved in it's orbit quite a bit, and there would be nothing there to land on!
After, all it's a convention of alien movies such as Independence Day that Area 51 will be portrayed as holding a museum of real aliens and spaceships that have been locked away by the American military to protect humans from alien life forms.
Star Wars fans are probably the most escapist of the three, given that the world of Star Wars is the one furthest removed from our own, where magic is real and observable, spaceships fly, bob and weave as though flying through air, and so forth.
Mistaking the TV show for "historical documents", they have come to Earth to beam up the courageous crew to their spaceship – a real, working version of the plywood-and-foil Protector – to help them fight off the evil Sarris.
What he called animations were elaborate fake spaceships and real actors on tethers simulating astronauts in zero gravity.
