8/30/2023 0 Comments Hyperspace is a scary place![]() In 1983, when Return of the Jedi was released, Smithsonian curator Carlene Stephens wanted to preserve an artifact from this pop-cultural moment. “There is something about R2-D2,” as the robot’s original designer, Tony Dyson, has said, “that people just want to cuddle.” Even Star Wars actors went a bit googly-eyed when they were on the set alongside the droid. Fans went crazy for the droid, knitting winter hats in its shape and building computer cases that looked like its body. With its stubby little body, blooping voice and wide round eye, R2-D2 was a curiously endearing machine. But one character implausibly worked its way into people’s hearts: R2-D2. Many Star Wars characters loom large in the imagination-the sepulchral Darth Vader, the swaggering Han Solo, the take-charge Princess Leia.
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