Fast Facts

1. The style of animation in Star Wars: The Clone Wars was designed as a homage to Japanese anime and the 1960s British marionette series “Thunderbirds.”
2. Star Wars: The Clone Wars was the first Star Wars movie not to premiere in the month of May (it opened in August).
3. The action of Star Wars: The Clone Wars is set between Star Wars Episodes II and III.
4. LEGO has designed several building sets based on vehicles and characters from the movie, including the ship Twilight and several Separatist droids.
5. The character of Ziro the Hutt is based on the writer Truman Capote.
6. In Star Wars: The Clone Wars, both Christopher Lee (Count Dooku) and Samuel L. Jackson (Mace Windu) provide voices for the characters they play in the live-action Star Wars films.
7. George Lucas decided to do a feature film of Star Wars: The Clone Wars after being impressed with the work animators were doing on the TV series of the same name, launched later in 2008.
8. Anakin’s ship, Twilight, is a spice freighter --- a fact that was mentioned in Star Wars Episode IV.
9. Padawan Ahsoka Tano is a Togruta from the planet Shili. Shaak Ti, who played a key role in Attack of the Clones, was another Togruta Jedi.
10. Rotta the Huttlet is nicknamed “Punky Muffin” by his father and “Stinky” by Ahsoka and Anakin. Rotta means “rat” in several Scandinavian languages.