Gordon Tarpley

In most cases with the original costume, which was great and very helpful, but with measurements of vehicles or with maybe some 3D scanned elements or Some blueprints that someone drew up for us and a wonderful guy named Phillip over at the museum was a huge help in making sure that we were getting everything right from a distance.

And Gordon Tarpley was in our studio and building what looked like the craziest sawhorse you ever saw, which was our stand in for the speeder bike.

And it had to be a stand-in for two different speeder bikes because, of course, the two that they made for the movie didn't have the foot controls and the hand controls in the same place.

So we had to rig it in such a way that the hands and foot controls moved so that we could represent each bike individually and make each figure for both the Princess Leia and the Scout, the Biker Scout, able to...

But he did a great job on this sculpt then.

Gordon Tarpley, Patrick Louie, Matthew Biegun, I think Max Fry worked on it a little bit.

Sam Martino did the paint on it.

She did the little, I mean, he's all black, but then he's got like gloss boots and gloves and he's got the red and black on the face and little painted eyes.

They gave us sort of like a...

For each cockpit, for each vehicle, they gave us a lot of measurements to where the controls are versus the seats, the angles, things like that.

And so Gordon Tarpley was at our studio for some of the work on this, and he built us cardboard mock-ups of every seat that we were going to need to put a bud in.

So he made the seats from this.