When the movie first came out I remember something like Robot 2 Deck 2 in the credits or on something from the movie.

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Nice find. Shame about the big mofo add though. Kind of like answering the phone during sex!

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"george lucas" poses an good question. Here's what I found after a bit of googling...

C3PO was named after a post office which is located at reference C3 on a map of Lucas' hometown.

http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question48321.html
http://www.ozturyapevdenevenakliyat.com

Interesting, if true.

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Wait! What! Darth Vader was Lukes FATHER

thanks

Lucas biography about 20 years ago.

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common knowledge for years!
re...

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Pretty good list, but I think #6 and the three comic book movies should all be be much higher numbers on the list (in the teens), and the new Bond movie should be in the top five. New Indiana Jones movie seems like an obvious ...

I gotta say.. who doesn't know r2d2 stands for reel 2 dialogue 2? Why make a site about it and digg it...

We might have known it, but he didn't know it and thought it cool to post to others who didn't know it. Give the guy a break.

think some of you are missing the point.

I heard that R2D2 was named after a Rainbow series 2 vacuum which his mother used.

How lame would that be if you watched the movies in that order for the first time?

and the biggest insult is that there is a date on the article... like this is news or something argh

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ty man..

Doesn't everybdy refer to R2 as a "he".

Example:
Luke: "He claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. "

C3-PO: "It wasn't my fault, sir, please don't deactivate me. I told him not to go, but he's faulty, malfunctioning. Kept babbling on about his mission. "

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John Dykstra also created the FX in the original Battlestar Galactica series.
If Dykstra's talent was instrumental in making Star Wars a monumental success, shouldn't the original "Galactica" be just as massive?


*Think*

Well, we all know that George didn't just make it up, because he's never come up with a damned original thing in his entire career. yeah, yeah, I know you're all Star Wars fans; hell, even I liked the first one. Of course, I was fifteen at the time, but whatever. John Dykstra really should get all the credit, since the pre-CG special effects made the film. It surely wasn't the writing or directing, or the cobbling together of every film cliche ever devised. All I can say for George Lucas is that he's one of the luckiest bastards ever to stumble into a fortune.

But...

How did George Lucas get HIS name?

Hi rodrigo,

here is a reference which I found:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099464/usercomments

Look for this on:
http://www.c2i.ntu.edu.sg/AI+CI/Humor/AI_Jokes/...
It describes the real source of the name.

Once upon a time there was a robot, named R1 by its creators. Its only task was to fend for itself. One day its designers arranged for it to learn that its spare battery, its precious energy supply, was locked in a room with a time bomb set to go off soon. R1 located the room, and the key to the door, and formulated a plan to rescue its battery. There was a wagon in the room, and the battery was on the wagon, and R1 hypothesized that a certain action which it called PULLOUT(WAGON, ROOM) would result in the battery being removed from the room. Straightaway it acted, and did succeed in getting the battery out of the room before the bomb went off. Unfortunately, however, the bomb was also on the wagon. R1 knew that the bomb was on the wagon in the room, but didn't realize that pulling the wagon would bring the bomb out along with the battery. Poor R1 had missed that obvious implication of its planned act.

Back to the drawing board. "The solution is obvious," said the designers. "Our next robot must be made to recognize not just the intended implications of its acts, but also the implications about their side-effects, by deducing these implications from the descriptions it uses in formulating its plans." They called their next model, the robot-deducer, R1D1. They placed R1D1 in much the same predicament that R1 had succumbed to, and as it too hit upon the idea of PULLOUT(WAGON, ROOM) it began, as designed, to consider the implications of such a course of action. It had just finished deducing that pulling the wagon out of the room would not change the colour of the room's walls, and was embarking on a proof of the further implication that pulling the wagon out would cause its wheels to turn more revolutions than there were wheels on the wagon ... when the bomb exploded.

Back to the drawing board. "We must teach it the difference between relevant implications and irrelevant implications," said the designers, "and teach it to ignore the irrelevant ones." So they developed a method of tagging implications as either relevant or irrelevant to the project at hand, and installed the method in their next model, the robot-relevant-deducer, R2D1 for short. When they subjected R2D1 to the test that had so unequivocally selected its ancestors for extinction, they were surprised to see it sitting, Hamlet-like, outside the room containing the ticking bomb, the native hue of its resolution sicklied over with the pale cast of thought, as Shakespeare (and more recently Fodor) has aptly put it. "Do something!" they yelled at it. "I am," it retorted. "I'm busily ignoring some thousands of implications I have determined to be irrelevant. Just as soon as I find an irrelevant implication, I put it on the list of those I must ignore, and ..." the bomb went off.

Simpsons Reference Number 1: This just reminds me of "Max Power? Cool name" "Hehe, thanks. I got it off a hairdryer"

Simpsons Reference2 : This sounds so much like Comic Book Guy it's unreal...
"Andras Says:
Wow - that’s real breaking news. Especially if you ignore that it was in “Skywalking”, the unofficial George Lucas biography about 20 years ago."

I heard that on TV in a program about authors.

r u kidding me?

Wizard of OZ was named OZ because the author was sitting in front of the filing cabinet with the bottom drawer labeled O-Z.

Star Wars is just awesome!

@Rookie: it doesnt matter. it looks like vacuum cleaner anyway..

Funny, I just had the same reflexion. A kind of vacuum-transformer...

it doesnt matter. it looks like vacuum cleaner anyway..

I gotta say.. who doesn't know r2d2 stands for reel 2 dialogue 2? Why make a site about it and digg it... I just... I could make eleventy billion websites with my knowledge... I can't believe one piece of commonly known trivia and it has it's own url, and the biggest insult is that there is a date on the article... like this is news or something argh

Such a humble beginning for the most famous druid in the world.

Cool... thanks for C3PO one. Any idea why Z6PO has been chosen in the French version?

I heard that R2D2 was named after a Rainbow series 2 vacuum which his mother used. If you look at the design of R2D2, it looks very similar to the design of a late 50's canister vacuum.

I don't know this to be true, but that's what I heard.

The name "Wookiee" came from THX-1138 also. Listen to the radio chatter as they are stealing the police cars. One of the voice actors ad-libs the line, "I think I just drove over a wookiee back there". Again, Lucas liked it and wrote it down for later.

“Droids don’t have a gender.”

R2D2 is no "Droid", C3PO on the other hand is.
Droid is abbreviated form of Android, from the greek "Human-like-form" (i.e. 2 arms, 2 legs, torso, head)

so there...

interesting trivia: R2D2 in spanish takes too long to say so in mexico's translation they called him ^arturito^ which is like litte arthur in english

I think some of you are missing the point. While the story of R2D2's naming has been well known for years, this is the first photo of the actual american grafitti reel (as far as I'm aware of).

@robis: which is why you'd watch them in this order: IV-V-I-II-III-VI. Set up, revelation, back story, redemption.

heh that's pretty nifty.

Still looking for the jump...

Oh! after the fold.

Right.

Jump is a link, people...