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One of my favorite details in the Tokyo version blew me away the first time I spotted it on a grainy home video. Over here we’re used to the Mon Calamari crewmen of Star Tours being pretty stiff… but suddenly I spotted a video monitor with what looked like Admiral Ackbar himself moving and talking and blinking his eyes!
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Then one day, Brian Curran uncovered a photo online of an Ackbar puppet, complete with a Star Tours logo on its chest, on the portfolio site of puppet-builder Lynette Eklund. I jumped at the chance to interview someone (in English!) about this detail which had so long intrigued me!
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