{"id":3632,"date":"2016-03-04T10:12:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T15:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2022-05-08T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T20:25:13","slug":"remembering-tony-dyson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/remembering-tony-dyson\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Tony Dyson"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was very saddened to learn that a very old friend of the site, Tony Dyson, has passed away. Tony was the robot engineer who created the many R2-D2 units for The Empire Strikes Back. <\/em>He also worked on other films like Moonraker<\/em>, Superman II<\/em>, and Dragonslayer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It may be hard to believe now, but back when the internet was young, there weren’t many Star Wars<\/em> websites out there. Lucasfilm itself didn’t even have a web presence. For a short time, fan sites like this one were the only source of Star Wars<\/em> information on the Internet. So when I started up this site in 1996, it wasn’t long before e-mails began to come in from all sorts of people. One of those people was Tony Dyson, a man of whom I’d never heard. He told me he was the guy who made the R2-D2 units for Lucasfilm when they made The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>. He had pictures and seemed genuinely happy to share them and his information. He said he’d be more than willing to do an interview for the site. This site was only a year old at the time and I wasn’t much of an interviewer, but Tony’s answers were honest and we had a good time. His interview became my first “official” Star Wars<\/em> related interview which is why his passing hits home a bit for me. My memories of him will always be of a friendly and enthusiastic man who loved what he did.<\/p>\n

You can read that interview here: Interview with Tony Dyson<\/a><\/p>\n

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