101 Facts About The Empire Strikes Back You Might Not Know

It's the 40th anniversary of the release of The Empire Strikes Back! To celebrate, here are 101 facts or pieces of trivia from the movie!

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[mattdoesvoices]

Fun fact, the man wearing the costume of Boba Fett in that parade is Duwayne Dunham who was one of the editors on Return of the Jedi as well as an assistant editor on Raiders of the Lost Ark. He was also one of my professors in film school.

[darynkatano]

Another trivia: If you go frame-by-frame through Vader chopping off Luke's hand, you'll see that his lightsaber doesn't even come close to hitting his arm

[evancrum]

ESB is one of my favorite movies. You named a lot of things that I didn't know.

[DarkraiNewmoon]

Correction: The book he ran into the Wampa in was Darksaber, not The Crystal Star.
I've read both this year.

[DanBen]

Actor John Ratzenberger also played the same character in a episode of
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures.

[EChacon]

Can't believe it's now been 40 years since The Empire Strikes back was released to Theaters.

Also I had no idea that John Ratzenberger (Pixar's Good Luck Charm) was in this film.

[StuartLugsden]

I hope we get a certain point of view novel for Empire Strikes Back.

[carrieorsel]

I'm showing my appreciation to channels that use "might not know" rather than assuming we are all clueless, or just as clickbait. Thanks!

[DuneStar]

5:07 so he went from being a space nazi, to just a nazi.

[drhenrywaltonjonesjr]

10:02 I swear Boba Fett was originally voiced by Jason Wingreen, with John Morton being a body double for Bulloch.

[Nate-fp]

40 year! Damn time flies! One of the best Movie ever!

[exvaran]

No mention of Lando wearing Han's clothes when he's picking up Luke?

[lukassrensen]

Correction: Jason Wingreen did Fett’s voice

[PerovNigma]

10:25 A detail I really appreciated about LEGO's more recent X-Wing sets, the one with Biggs in it, was that alternate tiles were included if you wanted to mark the fighter as Biggs' instead of Luke's.

[BrickSomething]

Haven’t said it in a while, but this is the greatest SW related YouTube channel. Keep up the wonderful work and I hope that the studying continues to make your trivia experiences less "haunting”...goddamned dragon snakes. Oh, and I love that you listed what each Bounty Hunter was, except...

"4-LOM the droid, Bossk the Trandoshan, … Boba Fett...the…moving on..."

[eccentricjoe]

I adore this movie so much, and it will forever be my favorite movie of all time. Whether it is the score, the characters, the action. It had it all. But most importantly about this movie, was its atmosphere. Hoth really set the stage, as the rest of the film is very cold feeling, as if this is all a bad dream. But then you go to Bespin, and you begin to think things may be turning up because of the warmer colors, but of course you couldn't be further from the truth, as the deep insides of cloud city return to the cold windy feel of Hoth, and a mix of the creepy for Dagobah. Thank you Lucasfilm 👍

[ValueNetwork]

The claim that the wampa was added to explain marks altered face falls apart instantly since one of the movies first shots is a close up on Lukes face

[garyhatch]

One of the best movies of all time. Saw this at Odeon Leicester Square in London on the day of release, 20th May 1980.

[Jedi_Spartan]

3:38 There are some Robot Chicken sketches that I consider Canon... especially when Palpatine's involved eg: Palpatine's Last Moments being my head canon for how he survived (as I prefer it to what we got) and The Emperor's Phone Call for his reaction to the Death Star explosion.

[Roscododger]

6:53 Those aren't jokes. The VFX artists were just so pressed for time that they had to throw them in there I instead of making an asteroid.