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Hey Star Wars fans, Jimmy Mac here.

Welcome back to another edition of Star Wars Influences.

This is where we discuss everything that inspired, contributed, and influenced the Star Wars saga from concept to the silver screen.

And of course, joining us as always, we couldn't have the show without this man.

From London, artist Paul Bateman. Hey Paul.

Hello. Hey, what do you mean, hey dude?

Great, great.

Hey, it's good to have you back here on Star Wars Influences.

There's been a lot of cool news coming up lately in Star Wars, especially surrounding Star Wars Rebels.

And of course, I know that's of interest to you, Paul, specifically because they have stated on the record several times

that Star Wars Rebels will be dipping into the concepts created by Ralph McCory

for the original Star Wars trilogy.

So what they're basically doing is they're mining some old material that Ralphie come up with.

I mean, Ralph's concepts, you would know as being a Ralph McCory protégé like you are in front of Ralph McCory.

You would know that he created just such an abundance of material that was never actually used in Star Wars.

And so now it was never thrown away either.

The greatest thing is that how could you, how could you put, I mean, when you think back to the 70s,

wouldn't that have been just the normal practice once a film wraps production that they pretty much scrap the material that wasn't used?

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