Lightsabers

11. Did You Know: You can still buy the original Star Wars record albums? When each of the first three movies of the trilogy was released, so were albums that included a narrator, much of the dialogue and the background music. The record albums have become collector items. The first Star Wars record album is actually a picture album. On one side, there is a photograph of Darth Vader, and on the other side is a picture of R2-D2 and C3PO.

74. What character does Kenny Baker play, in addition to R2D2, in The Return of the Jedi? Answer: Baker, who plays R2D2 in all six films, also plays an Ewok named Paploo. Paploo’s heroic actions were stunted, however, after Baker came down with a case of food poisoning. So, Wicket—played by Warwick Davis—was the Ewok hero of the scene when he found an unconscious Princess Leia who would then share her food with him.

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