BHWW See, this not-Vader has laser gloves which puts him a few rungs above any others.
Rudy At least his chest thingie actually DOES something.
The Mothership um, that's totally Richard Kiel saving princely hero's ass, aka Jaws from the Bond movies.
Jet Bin Fever yep, see the vid I posted earlier this week to get a nice closeup of his distorted face and strangely small teeth.
The Mothership missed that when it came through, nice one.
duck&cover They couldn't afford a bottomless shaft to toss the bad guy down, so Kiel just squeezed him until he popped.
StanleyPain Interesting trivia about Kiel: he's apparently a huge born-again Christian and at one point was trying to get together funding for a remake of Eegah where instead of the Caveman just going back into the desert at the end, he finds Jesus or something and is "redeemed" or some such nonsense.
Jet Bin Fever Did Lucas and gang trademark lightsabers really early on? It seems really awkward to have these guys have a fist fight.
SteamPoweredKleenex That's actually a good question. He tried and failed to sue the original Battlestar Galactica for having guns that fired "laser bolts" or "light bullets" or whatever he called them.
I bet glowing swords of one kind or another had been done before. Lucas was hardly a font of originality.