Wealth & Money Quote by Johnny Vegas

There’s a deliberately unglamorous honesty in Johnny Vegas admitting he’d “probably spend a lot of money” on a Star Wars costume. Not “invest,” not “collect,” not “curate.” Spend. The verb collapses any pretense of sophistication and makes the desire feel both sheepish and totally rational in the way fandom often does: you know it’s absurd, you want it anyway, and the point is the wanting.

Vegas’s comedy persona has long traded on a kind of working-class vulnerability - the guy who’s a little too earnest, a little too exposed. This line plays that note perfectly. He’s not positioning himself as a high-status superfan or a cultural gatekeeper; he’s confessing to the same consumer impulse that powers entire convention floors and eBay economies. The “probably” does important work: it’s a wink of self-awareness that still leaves the door open to going all in. Self-control is implied, then immediately undercut.

The phrase “original piece of wardrobe” is also telling. He’s not talking about a replica lightsaber; he wants proximity to the real artifact, the cloth that touched the production. In a media landscape where Star Wars has been reproduced into infinity, the authentic scrap becomes a kind of secular relic - proof that the myth once had a physical, handmade origin.

Underneath the joke is a clean cultural diagnosis: nostalgia isn’t just memory anymore, it’s a marketplace. Vegas isn’t mocking that marketplace so much as admitting he’s happily - and knowingly - inside it.