Since Star Wars is owned by Disney, and The Force Awakens has been released (please don't spoil it for me, I'm going to see it on Monday), here are a few facts about the previous Star Wars films and a couple drawings I did of BB-8 the other day. Enjoy!

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1. Harrison Ford (Han Solo) was paid $10,000 for his performance in Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope.

2. The sound of the TIE Fighter engines is actually the sound of an elephant call mixed with the sounds of a car driving on wet pavement.

3. While shooting the scene in the trash compactor, Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) held his breath for so long that he burst a blood vessel in the side of his face. They had to adjust framing while shooting the rest of the scene to avoid showing the blemish.

4. Many of the buildings constructed to be used in shots of Tatooine are still standing in Tunisia. In fact, some of them are still used by locals.

5. Luke Skywalker was originally going to be named Luke Starkiller, and retained the name until the film started shooting. Luckily, the name was never mentioned, so it was changed to Skywalker with little effort.

6. The Jawa language is based on a sped-up version of the Zulu language.

7. Yoda's species has never been named.

8. Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) was in a bad car accident before filming started in Star Wars: Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back, causing severe facial trauma. The scene in which Luke Skywalker is mauled by a Wampa was added to account for the scarring on his face.

9. The word "ewok" is never said out loud in the Star Wars movies.

10. While filming lightsaber fight scenes, Ewan McGregor kept getting carried away and making the sounds of the weapon himself, which had to be removed in post-production.

11. E.T.'s alien species are part of the Star Wars universe. A delegation of the aliens can be seen in the Galactic Senate.

12. The phrase "I have a bad feeling about this" is said in every film.