C-3PO has played a major role in all 5 movies released thus far.
R2-D2 is a real, remote-controlled robot, but when R2-D2 needs to shake or jiggle, 3 feet 8 inch tall Kenny Baker gets inside the unit. Kenny is 67-years-old.
George Lucas was born in Modesto, California in 1944.
In 1977, Star Wars grossed over $460 million, and was the biggest hit movie of the year. It currently stands at number two of all-time movie hits, behind Titanic.
Star Wars started out as an individual movie, but the script became so large that George Lucas cut it into three parts and made a film of each part. (Episodes I, II, and III.)
In Episode II, Yoda is a digital character instead of the puppet character from previous Star Wars movies.
