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Inside Jabba - more fun than is really fair...
Stuart Freeborn was the main designer of Jabba the Hutt
but there was quite
a large
team of builders, who also helped operate Jabba on the set. John
Coppinger who sculpted the beast and operated the eyes by remote
control has lots of glimpses of the backstage
action on 
his fascinating website.
If you
want to see Jabba in
development, try this part of
John's site. For a lot more detail on the build - read
his
interview at The Force.net. Or this one at Baby
Fett net 
It was really nice to meet up with John again after so many years - and to sustain the contact - here's a picture from a visit recently...
And my big thanks also to Michael 'HR'
Nielsen (also in picture above) - for his continuing advice and encouragement about conventions - we
chat regularly. Go
look at HR's great looking website. He's got a wonderful collection of pictures
and autographs and cards. 
He has also helped me greatly with producing pictures to sign for fans who contact me, something he also does for the 'real' stars. (Few people seem to like this PayPal method - I sold two, so far!)
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