As you may know back here on Mexico on the 80's R2D2 was called Ar-tu-ri-to (Little Arthur);


There's a water heater and it seems to be available since the 80's and it's called Arturito, because of the charismatic robot.

That Wioslea was the guy Luke sold his landspeeder too.

LUKE: So, ummm, you wanna buy a used Landspeeder?
WIOSLEA: Whaa? Fk you farmboy, do I look like the kinda guy that drives a Landspeeder?!?
BEN (Forcing): You will buy the Landspeeder... you will buy the Landspeeder...
WIOSLEA: Yeah, okay then, how much?

Did you know, there was a Han Solo Carbonite statue placed somewhere in every episode of Firefly! 

That the uprighted millenium falcon appears as a building in Blade runner



with an added red outline to show it in the dark Blade runner cityscape.



and here is a pic of the model used



apparently as tribute the guys at ILM added the blade runner police cars to the speeder chase scenes on coruscant in episode II

I didn't know, until recently, that the Vehicle Maintenance Energizer actually appears in the background of Star Wars. I had assumed that it was a Kenner creation along with the mini-rigs.

I didnt know until a long time after i had the POTF pop up r2 that the saber pops up when you spin the head lol, it sat there for a few years with the saber down, i kept thinking shite how do these other guys keep those sabers up lol, it was an epic moment when i found out hehehe.

One thing I didn't know till recently not really toy related but I didn't know billy dee Williams son stared as one of the skiff guards in ROTJ and that he also did a stand in part for his dad it was him not his father hanging off the skiff dress as lando. I found this out in one of my resent star wars insider mags.

I didn't know that the TW ree-yees came with pink molded arms and grey molded legs. For years I always thought this figure was poorly designed as the pink painted hands always rubbed off on the HK version.

chris.75 wrote:

That the uprighted millenium falcon appears as a building in Blade runner



with an added red outline to show it in the dark Blade runner cityscape.



and here is a pic of the model used



apparently as tribute the guys at ILM added the blade runner police cars to the speeder chase scenes on coruscant in episode II

I'm a Blade Runner fan, never noticed the Millennium Falcon, sweet!!! Still I always thought that this antenna looks a bit familiar:

Probably the Radar from that falcon

That is cool, I love Blade Runner!

Section 8 wrote:

R2D2 & C3PO hieroglyphs.



Club Obi Wan in Templer of Doom.

Being a fan of both film series, I always liked the Star Wars links found in Indiana Jones movies.


No one has mentioned Oola's boob. Not that is news to any male SW fan.  Oops lowered the tone.

Did you know about Indy's plane?
 

LOL, You guys are freaks, i never notice any of this cool stuff in movies, i have a hard enough time understanding the plots and stories to notice this fine detail:unsure: 

a poster seen in Howard The Duck - homage to Raiders , Jaws and Star Wars all on one poster  
 

 
and yes , I know the movie sucked

I didn't know about Indy's plane, but.. but.. but.. there's a 3 missing.



Anthony Daniels (C3PO) is a guard in Attack of the clones scene with Anakin & Zam Wessel chase.



Another guard in the same scene was Amhed Best (Jar Jar Binks).

Section 8 wrote:

(Jar Jar Binks).

 How dare you use language like that! I nearly fell off my chair!

From memory I believe Hasbro released figures of Anthony & Ahmed as those characters.

cantina_patron wrote:

Section 8 wrote:

(Jar Jar Binks).

 How dare you use language like that! I nearly fell off my chair!

From memory I believe Hasbro released figures of Anthony & Ahmed as those characters.

They did, in the first Saga collection (Blue Cards), Daniels is called Lt. Danni Faytonni (a hash of Daniels and Tony) the other I will not utter here  

Also, Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett) plays the Imperial Officer manhandling Leia in the Bespin Escape scene


Also the late and great conceptual artist for Star Wars, the man who created the general visual look of the films and who's paintings sold the idea to 20th Century Fox, Ralph McQuarrie made a Cameo in ESB as General Pharl McQuarrie (he was also made into a figure along with many of his concept characters in the 30th Anniversary Collection)

cantina_patron wrote:

Section 8 wrote:

(Jar Jar Binks).

 How dare you use language like that! I nearly fell off my chair!

From memory I believe Hasbro released figures of Anthony & Ahmed as those characters.

 

I alika Amhed as dees guard character. He keepa hees mouth shut.

Someone posted this on facebook and I just had to post it here on TIG, couldn't think where and then I remembered this thread, which is due a revival and plus I genuinely didn't know this until know!

The picture on the left is from an episode of Doctor Who called The Tenth Planet from 1966, the picture on the right needs no explanation.

Thanks for bumping this great thread, Alex.

Here some other movies which inspired Mr Lucas:

http://www.imperialgunneryforum.com/t5230-ot-the-movies-that-inspired-george-lucas

I just love the the fact that they used the exact same costume and it must have been sat in some store room for nearly 15 years, and yet it's absolutely perfect.

I took a close look now, Bossk s jumpsuit is not just based upon the Dr Who suit, it IS the exact sane suit.

I didn't get that first. Funny fact indeed.

Also used for the Cantina Dude then, I suppose.

That is really cool   

I had no idea that they reused a suit from Doctor Who   

I think they did it more than once too ...

I wish I could remember what movie it was I saw this suit in not long ago. I ment to bump this thread when I noticed it but forgot and just remembered now. Trying to remember all the movies I've watched in the last few months.