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Mark Hamill Has Been Haunted By One Star Wars Line For A Very Long Time
By WITNEY SEIBOLD
In 1977’s “Star Wars,” Owen (Phil Brown) implores his nephew Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) to take a pair of droids to their garage to clean them up, but a whiny Luke objects.
Luke replies, “But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!,” lamenting that he can’t go visit what sounds like a “Star Wars” version of a hardware store.
Hamill's whine was deliberate, but it felt too whiny for some fans and began to circulate among the growing cult of Starwoids as one of the more risible lines in the movie.
Like everything in “Star Wars,” the Tosche Station line was put under a microscope. Some enterprising fans eventually made a dance remix of the line many years later.
In a 2013 AMA on Reddit, a user jokingly asked Hamill if he was still upset that he wasn't able to pick up those power converters. Hamill confessed that the line still plagues him.
“I get ribbed for that line [...] [but] I had to make it as juvenile as possible so that I can show how Luke matures later. So it should be embarrassing,” said Hamill.
He added, “It should be whiney and childish. But boy, has it come back to haunt me. I don't think I ever got the chance to finally pick them up.”