Those studios aren’t much different from makerspaces like the Node, with lots of stuff lying around that gets turned into something else. But the power to recreate things digitally is insignificant next to the power of 1970s prop makers who were just using found objects that happened to be lying around the studio. But to get it perfect and get all the details, that’s a whole other level,” he said.īlatt was able to find dimensions, and recreate some of the parts using 3D scans and AutoCAD. “You could build the whole thing in a day if you wanted. Those also happen to be the details that Star Wars geeks obsess over. “You get certain pictures and you’re trying to figure out spacing of things and how big things are, and you never get a straight-on shot and exact measurements of things,” Blatt said. Much assembly was still required, which is where the Bondo came in.īut that still left the vertical side panels, which in many ways are where the smallest details exist.
Blatt was able to track down the body parts in rubber form, and received them in a rubber blob. In 1996, a company called Illusive Concepts was licensed by the Star Wars empire to produce replicas. In the movies themselves, there aren’t very many shots of the frozen figure, and only two props are in existence in the Lucasfilm archives.īlatt was buoyed early on after finding that he didn’t have to recreate the images of a trapped Harrison Ford.
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(Photo by Todd Blatt)įirst, however, he had to figure out how to build it. A smaller, 3D-printed version of Han Solo in carbonite.