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laugh it up fuzz balls we're here at the Star Wars identity's exhibition in London packed full of original props costumes models and early artwork from the collection of George Lucas himself talk us through it we met with Leila French from the Lucasfilm Archive the items for this exhibit were really chosen based on first that we were going to tell the story of human identity or the science of human identity and once the scientific committee that we worked with kind of out laid that framework and then we overlaid it with the Star Wars story of Anakin and Luke it kind of immediately just made it obvious what objects we had to have also I always want to include all the main characters because that there's an expectation when you come to a Star Wars X question we want to hit all the right notes for the superfans they have expectations and we want to meet them and actually I want to surprise and exceed them with things they don't know about for the casual fan or those that haven't seen Star Wars we need to give them sort of the Star Wars 101 introduction and then that we get down into the more deeper content we can add in some unusual pieces and that's where it gets fun in the original films you know you have to remember 1977 people didn't save everything from a film that they made you know they made the movie everything went away or was returned back to the costume department or was borrowed so for George to save even the models that he did was unusual and he had the foresight because he's very innovative to know that if he knew that if a new hope was gonna be a success he'd have two more films to make and he didn't want to have to Reese make certain ships from scratch so he kind of was saved everything hoping it was a success which it was and then he got to reuse those same ships and make more ships for the new films and then he saved some costumes and things like that so for that time period what he saved was quite a lot the main collections at the archives at Skywalker Ranch which is where George who you know helped make his new movies episodes one two and three but it's a very large collection probably one of the most complete film collections that exists today is because George had the foresight to save quite a bit from the early films and we saved almost everything we could from the new films so for the fans that collect there certainly is Holy Grail items I know that if they got in my archive they would probably faint quite a few of the items are very sturdy the models in the ship case you know they actually held up beautifully over the last 40 years they every now and then the tiny bit will fall off and we can restore it the costume fabrics are a little more fragile so we have to be careful about lighting and we use museum quality conservation and museum standards for exhibition surprisingly from the new films episode 2 there was a scene set on you too pal where are these beautiful set designs these little miniature model buildings and they were gorgeous and we tried to tour them and they immediately just crumbled they were not built to tour in the same way that some of the stuff from like a new hope vampire was so sadly they were sitting at the archive and the death star is at the archive I'm too fragile to tour so there's a few things that we know that we can't really just ship you you