WEIRD WHEELS. 1980.
Concept art by Nilo Rodis-Jamero for Boba Fett’s ship, Slave I. 1978.
Ships from RETURN OF THE JEDI. (All of these are from the ART OF book.)
Ralph McQuarrie designs for Bespin’s Twin-Pod Cloud Cars. The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
George Lucas surrounded by RETURN OF THE JEDI props.
What is that creature just behind the AT-AT? It’s not an Ewok, is it? It looks like that Joe Cocker fuzzball from the Special Edition, but it has to be something else.
ROTJ was the first Star Wars film I saw. I was fascinated by the Death Star—it looked ghostly and ominous, like a derelict building, or a zombie. The Emperor looked equally decrepit, as did Darth Vader without his helmet. It seemed to me the face of evil was old and sick.
So many characters meet their end in RETURN OF THE JEDI: Yoda, the Emperor, Darth Vader, Jabba the Hutt (and his entourage: Bib Fortuna, Salacious Crumb, et cetera), Boba Fett, everyone on the Death Star II, like Jerjerrod. And that one Ewok of course—that one actually hit me the hardest when I was a kid.
Han Solo was initially supposed to die I believe, but that was changed before production started.
A Y-Wing model used in RETURN OF THE JEDI. The details! (The images are watermarked but the logo is not that intrusive fortunately.)
WEIRD WHEELS. 1980.