![]() ![]() For the eyes of the mask bubble wrap was used, but at that time it was not the common shipping solution as it is today. This insect-like helmet was sculpted by Patti Rodgers and was one of the few new pieces in general for any of the bounty hunters. Most of that budget went into creating a new helmet. Like Bossk and Dengar, Zuckuss was also budgeted for 500 pounds or 1027 dollars and the third of the costumes that John Mollo had to design. The Fourth Draft (Dated: October 24th, 1978) of The Empire Strikes Back screenplay mentioned Zuckuss as, the rather unfortunate, Tuckess and described him as a battle-scarred many human type. ![]() And he even performed as C-3PO at the official premiere of The Empire Strikes Back.Ĥ-LOM can be seen with a BlasTech Industries DLT-19x targeting blaster, which was a modified WWII-era German MG 34 machine gun. There are a couple more connections to C-3PO besides the repaint: Chris Parsons, who was hired originally for K-3PO on Hoth, was also the body double for Anthony Daniels. Considering that the droid has a bug-eyed mask not unlike Zuckuss, confusion of the characters happened a lot in later published works with the infamous Kenner package name swap being the most well-known. This was due to the eye pieces being made out of a mosaic of broken glass by pattern maker Brian Archer. Considering that actor Chris Parsons did not had to move at all, the helmet featured eyes from which he could not see out of. They basically repainted an existing C-3PO suit and added a new, more insect-like, chest plate. He did star in his own short comic story ‘ The Long Game’, as part of the ‘ Age of Rebellion Special’ and in the ‘ Forces of Destiny’ episodes ‘ Triplecross’ and ‘ Bounty of Trouble’.Ĥ-LOM was based on the protocol droid costume and was handled by the art department. Despite being a very popular character with many stories in Legends and with many droids based on his model like IG-11 in ‘ The Mandalorian’, IG-88 has not been used that often in the current canon. Hunting IG-88: Those who played the classic ‘ Shadows of the Empire’ game back in the day on their pc’s or Nintendo 64’s probably remember the nightmare of IG-11 stalking you in an epic boss fight on Ord Mantell. IG-88’s weapon of choice was a DLT-20A rifle, which was built using parts of a StG44 and a Browning M1919, while the stock was custom-made. For these shots they actually lowered the droid so that he still could have his close-up in the camera alongside the other bounty hunters. There was however one problem with the droid as build by Hargreaves and Short they had build the droid too high as its head often popped out of the camera frame. It was Hargreaves who reused one of them for the headpiece of IG-88. For A New Hope, Roger Christian had used multiple Rolls-Royce Derwent turbo engines as space fantasy decanters for the cantina. This was something of a tradition/directive set by A New Hope’s set designer Roger Christian, who had travelled the country to buy lots of airplane scrap and junk that he used for the various props and sets he had to dress. Hargreaves, with the help of Steve Short, assembled the droid out of various scrap that was lying around. In fact many of the early designs, before they were really assigned and refined into any of the bounty hunters of these articles, became new alien species and characters in that show.ĭespite the sketch of McQuarrie, the movie prop was mostly done from the imagination of Bill Hargreaves, who was the supervising prop maker. While the original droid that he had designed was a lot more bulkier, that design ended up being used in ‘ Rebels’ as the IG-RM, with the RM in its name standing for Ralph McQuarrie. When dealing with the entire line-up of bounty hunters, Ralph McQuarrie quickly decided that one of them should be a war robot of some kind. In this week’s Part 2, we look at the remaining, and equally interesting, bounty hunters: IG-88, 4-LOM and Zuckuss. ![]() Last time we delved into the creation of the bounty hunters Boba Fett, Bossk and Dengar and their journey from concept to screen. From behind the scenes to source and merchandise, we go in-depth to hopefully show you the movie in ways you have never seen it before. This year is the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, and like last year’s celebration of The Phantom Menace, Fantha Tracks will be covering this movie with a couple of articles. ![]()
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