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Links to other great StarWars websites:

If you are looking for other interesting StarWars websites, here is a list of my favourite links:

First the official ones from the Lucasfilm Empire:
Off course...... Starwars.com
The Lucasfilm Main page
The ILM page, mostly for professionals
R2-D2 related fan pages
The main page of the R2 Builder´s Club
Astromech.net, by now the database center of the R2 builder´s world. At least as important as the Builder´s Club site !	http://www.astromech.net
The Droidworkshop.com; very good early version of the "official" drawings.Sadly offline by now, but try the Internet wayback machine.	http://www.thedroidworkshop.com
Ramjet´s R2 page , with dimensioned pdf-drawings. Highly recommended ! Also offline now, but historically  very important.
The page of Christina Carr and Martin Hunger´s R2-D2, two other very early pioneers of R2-building ! Also offline now, but I hope it can still be found.	http://carrhunger.0catch.com/scifi/R2/R2.html
Robert Brown´s R2-D2 analysis page. With lots of pictures of all the gadgets. Sadly no loner online for reasons unknown, but listed here anyway, you still find it in some webarchives	http://www.synicon.com.au/sw/r2d2/r2d2.htm
The early R2 page of Jean-Marie	http://members.tripod.com/~JMMELANSON/r2d2.htm
General StarWars sites
Tim, a professional SFX Artist, has scratchbuilt a variety of brilliant SW models, among them a TIE-Bomber and a Y-Wing. But his masterpiece is his original-size Falcon model, presented here with a how-to-do-manual.	.
If you ever wanted to know everything, and I mean everything, about Solo´s ship, this is your link. In my view one of the best SW homepages I have found! Sadly no longer online, but can still be found on some webarchives !	Robert Brown´s Millenium Falcon Page
Curtis Saxton´s Technical StarWars Homepages.	http://www.theforce.net/swtc/
How to build your Stormtrooper costume, and many other useful things like a vacuum table.	http://www.studiocreations.com/howto/index.html
German sites - Deutsche Seiten
The official German StarWars Fan Club	http://www.oswfc.de
The site of Jedi-Con 2001, 2004 and all the other great conventions	http://www.jedi-con.de
Starwarsunion, a German SW news site	http://www.starwars-union.de
Alexander´s superb CHEWBACCA costume was THE highlight on JediCon 2004. This page shows all about the costume	http://www.wookiee.de

Credits/Acknowledgements:

Many people helped me with the design and the construction of this homepage. Thanks to everyone and some special thanks to:

• Maikel from Hamburg, for the great buttons on the navigation frame. Maikel is a graphics pro and besides a reknown German comic artist.
• Jill  from California, for debugging my homepage language-wise. Too many German idioms, I know....Jill now works in the movie buisness and does a lot of digital work at Sony.
• My wife for having the patience to allow me to sit countless hours working on my R2-D2 and this homepage.
• Alexander from Nuremberg, Germany for the clear plastic R2 head cupola.
• Dave Everett for the hint about why my R2 flashes faster when his head turns and for creating the R2 builders club, off course !
• "Dust" from Australia for the Bungee-jumping Artoo pictures from Episode 2.
• Don Bies for taking the time at Jedi-Con2001, for telling me so much about the originals and for being "real picky" about my R2´s little errors !

R2-D2 Literature and Sources:

Off course, there are probably thousands of books and articles about our favourite little robot. I will try to list the most interesting books, magazines and other sources that helped me to collect all that knowledge about Artoo and to built my droid.

StarWars Blueprints

Ballantine Books; 15 blueprints 19´´x13´´, including one side elevation of R2-D2.

The Art Of StarWars

Ed.by Carol Titelman; Ballantine Books; contains sketches and a large photo of a prototype R2.

SW/ESB/ROTJ-The Original Radio Dramas

NPR-broadcast on CD; very interesting details about the events right before ANH

StarWars Triology CD-Rom

by Sound Source Interactive; contains dozens of digitized R2-D2-sounds and video clips.

StarWars Technical Journal Vol.#1

by Shane Johnson; Starlog press; page 59 shows front views of both R2-D2 and R5-D4.

Behind the Magic - The Insider´s Guide to Star Wars

by Lucasarts Entertainment 1998; CD-ROM; amazing Database with hundreds of photos, videos and millions of info bits about the movies. Must have !

Magie eines Mythos (German) - Episode 1

by Lucasarts Entertainment 1999; CD-ROM; not as good as the one about the "Classic" movies, but nevertheless a very good source !

Star Wars - The Visual Dictionary

by David West Reynolds ; DK Publishing Inc.1998; contains a multitude of amazing new pictures of rare props from the LFL archives. Mixed inbetween those "genuine" pics however, are some photos of cool-looking hardware fabricated especially for the book. For example none of the R2-D2-arms shown seems to be an original that appeared in the movies. Yet, this book is warmly recommended for the technically oriented fan !

The Robot Builder´s Bonanza

by Gordon McComb; TAB Books 1987; for those folks who wish to make a true robot out of their Artoo. Shows several types of homebuilt robot projects including the mechanical and electrical solutions.

Star Wars - The Essential Guide to Droids

by Wallace / Hughes / Vigil, Ballantine Books. Contains the complete story of the developement of the whole R-series, together with some quite nice drawings. No photos though, sadly......

The StarWars Chronicles

1995 Take Shobo Publishing, Tokyo. This superb book is the fullfilment of every prop builder´s dreams. Thousands of pictures, mostly never published before, of all the gadgets, costumes, droids, vehicles and models from the classic movies. Even stuff from Startours or the Ewok movies. Amazing !

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