The final explosion could be seen for miles around as the 2,500 litres of fuel created a fireball about 200-feet high with a 50 to 60 foot radius. Everyone around him was also dressed up and wore fire suits, and we had stuntmen with shields around as well to protect him.”Īfter three months of planning and testing, the special effects team had a day to rig the explosion, which was pre-rigged and then craned in. “Gareth wanted to get really close, and so I said it would be fine but he would have to dress up in a full fire Nomex suit, balaclava, gloves, etc. Theres no escape from the Galactic Empire with the Star Wars Death Star Light-Up Beach Ball from SwimWays Our inflatable beach ball looks like the. I told Gareth it was going to be a bit bigger than he’d seen.” “And so when we came to shoot it, we had a 40-foot container, which we basically cut into bits, loaded with mortar parts, and then we covered it in a lightweight breakaway material. “Gareth wanted a big explosion, so we showed him some tests that were about a fifth of what the full explosion would look like,” he explains.

But Corbould’s biggest challenge was to build an explosion of gigantic proportions. The Dark Lord of the Sith looms over this Star Wars Beach Towel on which hes pictured in a lightsaber duel with Luke Skywalker.

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