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30 Awesome Rare Star Wars Photos

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By Sam Ashurst published 25 February 2010

See smiling slave Leia, Daft Vader and a skinned Chewbacca...

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Rare Star Wars Photo 1

Rare Star Wars Photo 1

Han practises shooting first.

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'Aren't you a little cheery for a slave Leia?'

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Rare Star Wars Photo 3

Han and Leia spot a ghost, while Luke poses for an off-camera photographer.

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Rare Star Wars Photo 4

Just a little higher!

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Aw, they look like brother and sister.

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Skinned Chewie.

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A view from the Death Star CCTV camera.

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Rare Star Wars Photo 8

Luke's lightsaber fails at an embarassing moment.

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Rare Star Wars Photo 9

Rare Star Wars Photo 9

C3P0 has a sneaky fag. We hope he hasn't just had an oil bath.

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Rare Star Wars Photo 10

Kenny Baker puts on the iconic mask. That's not a joke. That really is Kenny Baker.

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Rare Star Wars Photo 11

Rare Star Wars Photo 11

Stormtrooper Fett.

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Rare Star Wars Photo 12

Ghoulish look at some decapitated Stormtroopers.

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Rare Star Wars Photo 13

Rare Star Wars Photo 13

Grand Moff Tarkin playing Tempest 2000 on a widescreen telly.

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Rare Star Wars Photo 14

Never get a Wampa to rewire your fridge.

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Rare Star Wars Photo 15

Rebels are easily distracted by off-camera snowmen.

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Luke and 3P0 nip into Weatherspoons.

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Snowtroopers discuss last night's episode of Lost by the watercooler.

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Peter Mayhew always drives with the top down.

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Rare Star Wars Photo 19

'Who let a girl in their X-Wing? Porkins, was it you?'

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Three Stormtroopers taller than Vader? Force-choke them immediately!

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Princess Leia has a relaxing can of Stella before X-Winging home.

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Leia was always happiest when she was feeling cold.

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Jawas fail to notice that half their car's been nicked.

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Never take an axe to a lightsaber fight.

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Pimp my ride, Tatooine style.

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Leia doesn't realise he's laughing at her hair.

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'Dude, why are our lasers stopping in mid-air?'

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Treat Williams and Leia hug a gun.

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'I don't care if you're fluent in six million forms of communication. I don't want to hear any of them.'

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C3P0 has been tangoed.

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