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 Prof Tony Dyson, the British inventor who built the original Star Wars R2-D2 droid, has been found dead at his home in Malta. 
 
 Police on the island of Gozo discovered the 68-year-old’s body on Thursday morning after being called by a concerned neighbour. 
 
 A police spokesman, Kurt Bugeja Coster, said: “A neighbour realised the front door was open and called the police. Officers entered the apartment and he was found dead. Foul play has been excluded so far. An autopsy will be held to determine cause of death.” 
 
 Dyson – who also worked on Superman II, Moonraker and Dragonslayer – was nominated for an Emmy award for his film special effects supervision. ||||| Image Credit: Tony Dyson via Facebook. 
 
 One of the most iconic non-human characters in movie history, R2-D2, was the handiwork of many people. Beloved concept artist Ralph McQuarrie designed him, Kenny Baker helped bring him to life—but it was Tony Dyson, who passed away today at the age of 68, who had the daunting task of building Artoo as a real life droid. 
 
 
 
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 In the 1970s, Dyson owned the White Horse Toy Company in the UK, and had worked uncredited on films like Moonraker, Superman II, and Dragon Slayer as an effects supervisor. When George Lucas began production of Star Wars in the country, he tapped Dyson to bring McQuarrie’s artwork to life. 
 
 Dyson modeled the building process on the same technique his toy company used to mold rocking horses. He built eight droids for the franchise, including multiple remote-controlled versions, two versions that Kenny Baker could sit in and operate, and a throwaway model for Empire Strikes Back that was hurled into the swamps of Dagobah. Later on in his life, Dyson turned his focus to artificial intelligence and robotics, building bots for Sony, Toshiba, and other electronics companies. 
 
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 Dyson was immensely proud of his work on Star Wars, and even set up an R2-D2 builders club in the UK so fans could craft their own astromechs. (Although, the always litigious Lucasfilm mandated that he couldn’t build them to the exact specifications from his designs used in the films.) It’s the same club from which two designers were selected to build the R2-D2 prop for The Force Awakens, ensuring Tony’s legacy in the franchise will live on forever. 
 
 [BBC News via Mashable]
– The man who created Star Wars' most famous droid has died. Tony Dyson, the British inventor who built R2-D2, was found dead at his home in Malta, on the island of Gozo, the Guardian reports. He was 68. "A neighbor realized the front door was open and called the police," a police spokesman says. "Officers entered the apartment and he was found dead." Foul play is not suspected and an autopsy will be conducted. Gizmodo and the Telegraph note that R2-D2 was brought to life through a collaborative effort that included a designer, special effects and sound effects crew, and actor Kenny Baker, who donned the R2 costume. But it was Dyson who actually built the droid and "brought the blue and white astromech into beeping, whirring existence," per the Telegraph. (Check out the original R2-D2 blueprint Dyson tweeted out a couple of years ago.)