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Boba's ship, when it starts up,
is something like this.

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Wait a second.

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Let's see if this'll... Here it is.

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Boba Fett, only four lines of dialog...

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As you wish.

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He's no good to me dead.

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What if he doesn't survive?

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Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold.

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... and six minutes 32 seconds
of total screen time...

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Boba Fett? Where?

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... and this somewhat
unceremonious introduction.

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Bounty hunters.

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- We don't need that scum.
- Yes, sir.

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So how did this become this?

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The universe's most
famous bounty hunter,

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Boba Fett.

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It's Boba Fett.

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Whoa!

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Dude, it's Boba Fett's ship.

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Look, the Giant Chicken is Boba Fett.

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Boba Fett, you didn't know who
he was, where he came from.

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He didn't get much screen time.

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I never thought they'd be
talking about him after 1980.

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Despite his lack of screen time,

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next to no dialog, he's everywhere.

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You a big fan of the Fett?

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He signed it for me. Dude, look at that.

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Okay, we'd like to introduce
Boba Fett. And here he is.

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A new character.

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- Uh, can you speak to us, Boba?
- Certainly.

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Star Wars had become this phenomenon.

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Now we had to top that.

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Nobody wanted it to be
just another sequel.

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We had to do something better.

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We sort of jumped in on Empire.

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We had to hit the ground running.

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Because there were more shots

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and there were more complicated designs.

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Ralph McQuarrie and I had
traded sketches back and forth

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and sort of had a direction
for this prototype suit.

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And it evolved into Boba Fett.

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I liked the design. I don't think
we even changed that much of him.

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There were different versions of it.

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Each character, when we do it,

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we do other alternative versions
of it to see where we go.

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The design for the character,

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the armature and all the
gadgets and weaponry,

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is something we've never seen
in Star Wars before.

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One thing that stood out above
the rest is his "T" visor.

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Medieval in its styling,

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it's something that speaks to, you know,

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the days of sword and sorcery.

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It just gives him that added dimension
of magic and mystique.

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I don't remember if Ralph
added the "T" shape or if I did it,

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or if George came by and said,
"Hey, give him a 'T' shape".

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I don't know. I don't remember
where that came from.

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But during the whole
process of evolution,

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a lot of stuff like that would happen

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where somebody would suggest something

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and the other guy would take it
and say, "How about this?"

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It shows you the power of a design.

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Anything out there
that resembles that visor

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is just Boba Fett.

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The Boba Fett suit itself

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was originally intended to be an army

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of what George called Super Troopers,

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and the plan was
to build 100 of these suits,

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and to have them sort of be the
Empire's upgraded stormtroopers.

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They wanted to show
what Boba Fett looked like

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to the crew in England.

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And I made a, kind of, stand up,

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you know, introduction. "Here's
the new character, Boba Fett"

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Boba has sort of a radio voice.

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There's a speaker built into him here.

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And also, there's a certain amount
of telemetry going on.

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And certain amount of feedback
for some reason.

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It was just a show-and-tell
of the character,

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but it was a very functional costume.

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This is a range finder. Is this...

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This is... This tilts down here.

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There's a flamethrower here.

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This is a dart-throwing device.

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Very deadly.

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These also shoot some sort of darts,
projectiles from each knee.

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Sure, have him turn around
and get a shot of the jetpack.

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Can you do it, Duwayne?

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We put the costume on Duwayne Dunham,

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who was part of our editing team.

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I just happened to be the size
to fit that costume.

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And George said, "Hey, why
don't you put this on him?"

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"Okay".

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George is standing there
and he's looking, and he says,

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"You know, we need a cape".

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I said, "George, there's
a Star Wars towel

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right there in the garage.

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"We use it when we rinse off
after a volleyball game at lunch".

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That was the first introduction of Boba

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in some sort of physical form to us,

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months before the film
went into production.

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Apparently, there was a budget issue.

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And once the original suit was built,

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George decided that
we didn't have the money

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to turn them into an army.
But we had this one suit.

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And George said, "Let's make him
a different kind of a character.

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Let's make him a bounty hunter".

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So the first thing I did was
I painted the entire thing silver,

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so that when I put the
subsequent layers of paint on,

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it would look like
something hit the suit

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and broke the covering away,

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whether it's paint
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and you would see the metal underneath.

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And from that, I just started
mixing rail road colors

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and just painting it up and damaging it.

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I would take a heat gun,

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I heat the plastic, and I think
I had a rock or something

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that I would then press into
the hot plastic to make a dent.

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George never came by and said,

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"I don't know, I don't like
that orange on there".

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You know, he said,
"Just take it and run with it".

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There was no sort of interim stage.

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He went from white plastic to Boba Fett.

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I said, "This is a good character.
People like the bad guys".

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And then later, they were doing
this holiday special.

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And there wasn't much
of our involvement.

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But I came up with the idea,

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"Why don't we take the Boba Fett
character and put him in that?

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"Make a little movie out of it?"

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I am Boba Fett. Follow me, friend.

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Boba's first appearance in film.

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So he really predates
by a couple of years

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the actual release
of The Empire Strikes Back.

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Beautiful work, very stylized.

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It's just very simple,
kind of fantasy storytelling.

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Chewbacca suspected all along
there was something bad about Boba.

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How did you know, Chewie?

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It wasn't until the last ten years
that any of us realized

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that a month before the Star
Wars Holiday Special came out,

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Boba Fett was actually
in this Marin County parade.

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George Lucas, who lives in the town,

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wanted to do something very local
that was exciting about Star Wars.

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And so, they put Vader and
this strange character, Boba Fett,

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that people didn't know,
into the local parade.

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It's hard to imagine a local parade

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where Star Wars characters,
not just like people in costumes,

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the actual screen-use costumes
are walking down the street.

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But that's exactly what happened.

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Duwayne was inside it at the time.

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And it was a strange sight

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because Boba hadn't been put on film yet

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and become well-known.

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At first glance, you didn't
say, "Oh, that's a stormtrooper".

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You said, "Whoa, who is that?"

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Vader was a known
quantity at that point.

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But the fans definitely
responded to Fett.

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And that's where it really started.

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You know, and then, over time,
we put him in the movies.

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I think what made Boba Fett

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really popular was
that he was a mystery.

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Like Darth Vader,
the helmet was his face.

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I liked that we didn't
give him any backstory.

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He was just one of the bounty hunters.

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George never worried
about stuff like that.

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He never felt like he had
to give you a big backstory.

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... but I want them alive.

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No disintegrations.

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As you wish.

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Less is more with Fett.

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He's enigmatic. We don't know
what to expect from him.

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He's encased in this
battle-worn scorched armor

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that we just know nothing about.

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And all of these mysteries

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form kind of this amazingly
cool vision of who this guy is.

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He wears the poncho.
It's just like Clint Eastwood.

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He is an icon drawn out of
George's appreciation for Westerns,

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and, I think, the gun fighters
of Sergio Leone's films specifically.

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I mean, I jokingly said at one point,

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"If Boba Fett is a bounty hunter,

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why can't he wear spurs like we
hear in the Westerns, you know?"

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Although I said it half-jokingly,

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Bob Rutledge, who was
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actually took my suggestion
of spurs like these

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and did foley footsteps for Boba.

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Within the DNA of Star Wars

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is a deep appreciation
for movies that George liked,

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that he was inspired by,
of different genre.

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And so spurs make absolute sense
when you think of it that way.

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As surely as, you know,
Obi-Wan looks like a samurai.

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That makes perfect sense

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if you understand
who the creator of Star Wars,

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the person that devised it all is,
George Lucas.

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It's just part of the appreciation
of the art form really.

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Boba Fett in both, The
Empire Strikes Back

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and Return of the Jedi,

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that was Jeremy Bulloch.

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His half-brother, Robert Watts,
was a producer,

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and he called Jeremy one day and said,

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"There's a little part
in The Empire Strikes Back.

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Get your agent to get onto it".

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Jeremy said, "I can't.
I'm in the theater".

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"Yes, well, just go along". And he did.

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And tried the suit on and
everything fitted perfectly.

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So he got the part.

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He said when he put the costume on
and walked onto the set,

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there was absolute silence.

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Everybody was amazed
at what it looked like.

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379J take 1.

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What was interesting about
what Jeremy captured was

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in his posture and in the armor,

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he did carry that kind of

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Eastwood gun-slinger
contrapposto stance.

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Like, he had the way about him.

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371A take 1.

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Every little subtle move that Boba has
in these films, you remember.

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Jeremy actually had a face role
in The Empire Strikes Back.

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He was an unnamed Imperial officer

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who was actually dragging
Princess Leia away from Luke

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and he was a pilot in
Revenge of the Sith.

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We're receiving a message
from the chancellor's office.

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- Send it through.
- Yes, sir.

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And then, I mean, Jeremy the person,

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after the films, at conventions.

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It was in the mid-'90s when
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when it just took off.

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Then eventually, I went and I sort of

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dealt with all the setting
the tables up and everything.

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So we did it as a partnership,
which was nice.

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We went to Poland, and the
whole town came out to meet him.

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Lots of lovely memories.

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And sometimes, he would
stand in front of the table,

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he wouldn't sit down so that he could
be there if they wanted pictures.

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And always took time to
chat to people and everything.

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He loved all that.

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He really appreciated what
that character meant to people,

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what his performance
had meant to people.

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He had a phenomenal relationship
with Star Wars fans.

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He's one of the originals.

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This is the lovely
metallic one, isn't it?

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- Yes, it is.
- It just shines.

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It was a deep loss to all of us

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and the fans when he left us last year.

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That's what he used to
write on his photographs.

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"Stay cool. Stay cool.
Jeremy Bulloch, Boba Fett".

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Lots of people, over the years,

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have worn the Boba Fett costume.

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There were stunt guys
who did some of the work,

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especially in Return of the Jedi.

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This is what happens
to an old stunt man.

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He needs this equipment in the morning.

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Maybe what I'll do is
start with that wet suit.

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It'll pick up enough slack
so it won't slip around.

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Why don't you go up this ladder?

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- Hey, buddy.
- What if he came up higher

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and tighter so that you could get
the dunes behind him?

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- Where is your hand go up?
- Up four, down...

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The flexibility of the costume
is such that you could produce

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virtually anything and justify it.

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Let's shoot this.

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Stand by to go.

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It's a wonderful thing
when that character

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is performed by so many great people.

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I always liked him,
and he was a good character.

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And then I came and needed
another one, so I did Jango Fett.

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Boba Fett's father.

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Temuera Morrison was hired
to play Jango Fett,

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and Boba Fett is the sole clone

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that was purely his DNA
without alteration.

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My first introduction
to Boba Fett was, um...

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Actually did a
behind-the-scenes interview

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for Attack of The Clones,

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and they open up this book that

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basically explains all the characters.

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I remember I opened
this book and I go...

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Whoa! I even get the jetpacks.

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I remember the guy behind
the camera probably thought,

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"No, you're only going
to get a blue jumpsuit.

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"But the original guy has all of this".

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Acting-wise and everything,

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it was very good to have Tem there

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'cause he'd worked the character out,

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and they were supposed to be
the same person more or less.

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The first day I met him, he said to me,

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"I guess you're going
to be playing my son,

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and I'm going to be playing your dad.

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You call me dad and I'll call you son".

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Dad, I think we're being tracked.

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Hang on, son, we'll move
into the asteroid field,

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and we'll have a couple
of surprises for them.

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I remember being all
of four-foot-nothing

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and I look up at him
and I said, "All right, Dad".

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And he just looked back down at me
with this big smile and he goes,

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"All right, son".

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Whose helmet is that anyway?

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It belongs to a bounty hunter
I killed on Geonosis.

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I was a fan of The Clone Wars,
and I really loved the cartoon,

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and I was hoping to come back.

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You got a problem with that?

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My name's Boba.

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I was so thrilled to be able
to voice Boba Fett again

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and to be able to fill in the gaps
after Attack of The Clones.

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The greatest thing is I've been able

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to show my son Attack of The Clones.

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And I show him the little
Kamino Escape blue figure

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and I would point out
and say, "Hey, who's this?"

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He says, "Boba Fett".

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I've been a collector all my life,

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and when Star Wars came out,

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that became the focus of my collection.

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And when I moved up
to Northern California

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to go to work for Lucasfilm
in the marketing department,

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I needed someplace to store my objects.

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So I bought a house with chicken barns.

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So what used to house 20,000 hens,

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now houses Rancho Obi-Wan,

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a Star Wars Memorabilia Museum,

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which, according to the
Guinness Book of World Records,

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is the world's largest collection

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of Star Wars memorabilia,

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including one or two Boba Fett items.

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So here is a maquette
of the original Boba Fett costume.

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The all-white costume.

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And this is the
original Boba Fett rifle.

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When he was wearing the all-white
costume before production started.

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I think that there are well over

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1,000 Boba Fett items in the collection.

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This is one of two Lego-authorized
Boba Fett figures that were sold

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at FAO Schwarz.

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In our cantina set,

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we have Boba Fett guitars
from both Japan and the US.

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And how many more than the 1,000

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is really hard to say because
there are a lot of objects

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that have Boba Fett as part of a
broader spectrum of characters.

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This is a Japanese Boba Fett toy,
and it actually tap dances

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to a couple of Star Wars melodies.

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There are many strange Boba Fett things,

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there are many fan-made
Boba Fett objects.

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But perhaps my favorite because
of what Rancho Obi-Wan used to be

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is a painted Easter egg of Boba Fett.

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The inside of the egg is long gone.

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One of the reasons that Boba Fett

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has become so popular among collectors

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is because of the story of
the send-away Boba Fett action figure.

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Here we have two versions
of the rocket-firing Boba Fett,

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the one with a four-sided missile.

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And this was an attempt to do
a locking mechanism

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with an eight-sided rocket.

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This is instead what
we all got in the mail.

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Boba Fett in a plastic package
with a sonic-welded missile in it,

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and a note to consumers...

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"Sorry, the launcher has been removed

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from the product for safety reasons.

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"If you're unhappy,
we'll send you a different figure".

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The handful that are out there
in the public among collectors

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came from the ones that were tested
at Kenner Products in Cincinnati,

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and when they go up at auctions,

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00:17:42,631 --> 00:17:45,266
they can go into the six figures now.

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00:17:45,974 --> 00:17:48,680
The Boba Fett figure was a big deal
because if you had that,

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you had a capable villain
to do your adventures with.

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And it invited creative thinking.

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It invited stories to be told
about this character.

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And now we play with
biggest toys there are.

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And Boba Fett is still one of them.

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He gets out of the Darth
Vader carrying case,

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and he's back in play.

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How the fans would react to Boba Fett

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reappearing in The Mandalorian.

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We knew it would be big, I have to say.

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00:18:17,922 --> 00:18:21,259
I think this was sort of a
gasp rather than a scream.

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All that time since the '80s,

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when Boba disappeared...

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00:18:29,267 --> 00:18:33,099
and now it was like, "Here he
comes. The great comeback".

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00:18:33,104 --> 00:18:35,101
To have Temuera Morrison back,

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he's just remarkable in the part.

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Big day today.

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First reveal.

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I've been tracking you, Mandalorian.

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Boba, he's back.

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00:18:51,081 --> 00:18:53,958
Here we go. And... Action!

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What happened to Boba Fett

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after he was swallowed
up by the Sarlacc?

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That's a story in itself.

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I'm here for the armor.

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00:19:03,218 --> 00:19:06,421
If you want my armor, you'll
have to peel it off my dead body.

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00:19:08,056 --> 00:19:10,512
Where's Boba been all this time?

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00:19:10,517 --> 00:19:14,896
I don't want your armor.
I want my armor.

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00:19:15,355 --> 00:19:16,597
It belongs to me.

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00:19:19,484 --> 00:19:22,899
I never imagined that
Boba Fett would be a character,

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that we'd be talking about 40-plus
years after he was created.

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00:19:28,993 --> 00:19:32,242
A character if you see it,
and it enters your imagination

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00:19:32,247 --> 00:19:35,266
at the right age, it changes your DNA.
You sort of carry it along.

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00:19:36,167 --> 00:19:38,915
And there was a whole
generation of Star Wars kids,

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I would call them, and young fans that

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absorbed what was in the movies.

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And it became a culture.

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00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,659
The world was ready
for this bounty hunter.

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00:19:54,644 --> 00:19:57,080
Temuera and what he's
brought to the character,

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00:19:57,689 --> 00:20:01,104
Daniel, Jeremy, these people
that have been in the suit,

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00:20:01,109 --> 00:20:03,644
it becomes their legacy as well.

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00:20:05,905 --> 00:20:07,600
Fans have wanted this character

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00:20:07,604 --> 00:20:10,209
to come back in Star Wars for so long.

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00:20:11,870 --> 00:20:13,958
It's even more exciting to realize

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00:20:13,963 --> 00:20:17,245
that we have a whole series
on the way that features Boba Fett.

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00:20:18,918 --> 00:20:21,421
The anticipation is remarkable.

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