Original Sponge Sculpture
Original Handmade Sculpt by 3dwizart. Not a recast.
Chewbacca's creation as a "gentle, hairy, non-English-speaking co-pilot" was inspired by George Lucas seeing his own Alaskan Malamute sitting up on the passenger seat of Lucas' car. The Malamute, named Indiana, also inspired the name of the lead character in another one of Lucas' film franchises - Indiana Jones. It is said that Chewbacca's name is derived from собака (sobaka), the Russian and Ukrainian word for dog. Another possible model for Chewbacca may have been Theodor Jo-Jo, the so-called dog-faced boy or human Skye terrier, featured in P.T. Barnum's circus side-show of freakish human anomalies in the 1890s.
Chewbacca, a Wookiee, became Han Solo's first mate and companion after Solo, then an Imperial Captain, refused an order to kill him while Chewbacca was a slave of the Empire. Solo was dismissed from the Imperial Navy for disobedience and became a smuggler. Chewbacca owed a life debt to Han and would serve Han Solo for the rest of his life.
Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy's real name was Fedor Jeftichew, and he was Russian. There was a song about him by that name by the late Annette Funicello. I call my little cocker spaniel-mix Daisy the Dog-Faced Girl...
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