"Way back in 1977 it was leaked that Star Wars was coming to the UK in 1978. "

"I was at college and as a project made a 1/2 scale R/C Artoo Detoo. I visited 20th Century Fox in  in London to show off my model where Peter Beale told me the real Artoo was in a crate in the Foyer!”

 "The operator came over with Artoo from The States . He shared some secrets of how the robot turned his head and spoke. He let me photograph it.

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