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Space troopers seen in ANH docking bay scene
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TANGO'D FETT Mar 28 2011, 07:43 PM Post #1
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Originally posted by John Danter tk8456 migrated from old forum

Hello

This little baby is something that means quite a lot to me :)
Many hours of research, many emails back and forth to folks involved, many pigeon english emails with a Japanese toy sculptor, many incorrect purchases of what I believed the bottles to be and many cut fingers and splitners to make my prototype version, made just before CE, shown here:
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I knew this was inaccurate and have always meant to upgrade the bottles etc.

With help from a Japanese toy sculptor and a lovely Japanese lady named Akiko who I used to work with :) I've managed to track down the exact thing used way back in 76 to recreate the bottles used on the Death Star surface and what a lot have believed for a long time were also then used on the back of the 2 TKs outside the Death Star as the Falcon gets sucked in

Here the guys are
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Cleaned up in photoshop
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This image shows the bottle tops are flat with some nipple on top
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This toy made many moons ago shows what the maker thought the bottles should look like (this was based on what he was told BTW :))
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When most saw those bottles, it was dismissed as being inaccurate due to the hose and fastening to the chest.......
However a few years ago a chap on the RPF thought they might be bottles used on the Death Star surface. Then there was a SW exhibition in London. In there they had a few meters of the Death Star surface and these turret guns. I saw these bottles (before the link was made) and yes, they're about the correct size :)
Shown in the corner here
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Close up, here
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Now then....
Does this look familiar to you :)
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I then went through everything to try and recreate the shapes seen. this is what I've come up with so far

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With a clue from the scupltor I then managed to nail it down further with the help of this pattern here (thanks to Alex Howard for the reminder on this pattern)
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I'm pretty happy with myself after some 5+ years of fiddling with this.

All I need to do now, is take my time, create the rest of the detail and vac form a new bottom

This is all I have on that so far. The sculptor was told those lower parts were just made up
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However, I doubt that and they MUST have been used elsewhere in the film.
Based on my screen grabs (role on BluRay) I think the toy above IS the same shape as the lower section. Note the pipe that rolls around the back,emitting the pipe. It looks right

So can I ask if anyone wants to kindly sit down and watch ANH 100 times in slow mo to find the lower bit, feel free.

John :)

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jaffa007 Apr 8 2011, 11:10 AM Post #3
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Interesting read! Remember this subject from ages ago. Nice to see you've not given up. Look forward to seeing more :-)
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