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Smatter? You don't get it? [sighs] Bloated One too don't. Seen it. He say, 'Next time, louder and funnier.'" ―Salacious Crumb and Melvosh Bloor, who does not realize to whom he is speaking [5] As seen in the 1985 documentary From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga, Crumb's puppeteer Tim Rose actually gave Crumb a voice (other than Crumb's laughing as seen in Return of the Jedi), which he frequently used in conjunction with the puppet to joke around on set. The voice heard in the film is that of Mark Dodson. Through the whole process, I bugged him with photos and really, really pushed to match not just the character, but the prop. And Tony does -- and I don't know, he’s probably too humble to say -- again, brilliant hands. But the texturing on the skin that he did looks like latex and cotton fabrication or latex and tissue, like you would do when you're fabricating a prop like this. Everything on it is made to feel like that real prop, to look like the prop, to have that sense of kludged together effects [from a] guy working in the middle of the night, I'm sure, after many, many days. That was the whole goal. And much like Tony's brilliant sculpt on the original prop gave [Salacious] a great foundation, Tony's brilliant work on our sculpt gave me and our team inspiration. When we then went to do the paint mastering and to do the finished work on it, it has all these great little nooks and crannies that are just made to catch a wash and to pop those details and everything . The original prop is still in the [Lucasfilm] archives. We do a lot of research at the Skywalker Ranch archives and over the years with my other company, we've done restoration work for them on a number of pieces. So we did get to go and look at that real puppet. We got to spend many, many, many hours and days, actually, with it. We were able to measure things. We were able to take photos and really provide Tony with a foundation to make sure that this new sculpt was going to be one-to-one, 100% the same size, the same look, etc. And, you know, we sent Tony a lot of reference photos. Probably way too many reference photos. He can probably sculpt in his sleep at this point. [ Laughs]StarWars.com: Tony, why do you think you're so great at capturing these creatures and aliens that spring to life that are nothing of this world? What fever dream do you think these little guys come out of? We can begin searching for jokes and gags by heading to Mos Eisley. From there head to Chalmun’s Cantina and speak with the R5-D4 droid. (1/5) I love that symbol, Jabba's tattoo. It's this great asymmetrical, hand-drawn looking thing. We wanted it to just look ancient and old and, you know, that Star Wars lived in universe look. And I think it just makes it something a little special. And that sort of symbol, that's my kind of thing. That's stealth geek. People really have to know the property to know what that is. And, you know, if you're coming to us for that 1:1 replica that feels like the prop, you're exactly the type of person who's going to know what that symbol is. The original idea for the character of Salacious came from Ben Burtt. He said it would be funny to have a small creature sitting on the shoulder of another creature and repeating everything the larger creature said during arguments. [13]

Tony McVey: I think I did a few drawings before just to try and figure out what might be a workable pose. But, you know, those things like that can always change. I mean, you can still alter the position of the limbs a little bit.Minikit #3: In the same starting area, find this minikit hidden in the bushes to the right of the speeders that arrive. Grab it before chasing down the escaping scouts! Tony McVey, the sculptor who designed and fabricated Salacious B. Crumb -- including a new 1:1 replica statue from Regal Robot -- and many other denizens of the galaxy far, far away, intended to have a career as a graphic designer.

A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale on Hyperspace ( article) (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable) Tom Spina: Tony had worked with us previously on the Gamorrean Fighter maquette from The Mandalorian. It's the first thing we got to see from Season 2. I immediately fell in love with the sculpt. I thought it was brilliant. Then one of our other sculptors here saw it and he said, “Look at those hands. That's McVey.” [ Laughs] “Nobody does hands like Tony McVey.” So sure enough, we find out that it was one of Tony's sculpts. That was something that that really kind of put us together. We got to talking. We both love a lot of the same old stop-motion and things like that. And so, you know, the Salacious thing came out of [of that].StarWars.com: So once you twisted Tony's arm, you got all of that research in the measurements and all that, how long does it take to create the replica start to finish? And also, Tony, I am curious if now that he's in the spotlight and this is something that's going to be in people's homes, if you are tempted or added additional details that you would have liked to see on the original.