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Mark Newbold
By Mark Newbold
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Today would have been the 89th birthday of the late Ralph McQuarrie, the man behind the magic of Star Wars. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with fellow innovators George Lucas, Gary Kurtz and John Williams, McQuarrie was responsible for carving out of his imagination some of the most iconic and zeitgeist-thumping characters, locations and vehicles in movie history.

Earlier on today we posted a tweet celebrating Ralph on this special day.

Ralph opened a door into an imagination as vivid, exotic, exciting and fertile as the Star Wars galaxy itself, a debt that can never be repaid. Thank you Ralph.

Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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Today would have been the 89th birthday of the late Ralph McQuarrie, the man behind the magic of Star Wars. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with fellow innovators George Lucas, Gary Kurtz and John Williams, McQuarrie was responsible for carving out of his imagination some of the most iconic and zeitgeist-thumping characters, locations and vehicles in movie history.

Earlier on today we posted a tweet celebrating Ralph on this special day.

Ralph opened a door into an imagination as vivid, exotic, exciting and fertile as the Star Wars galaxy itself, a debt that can never be repaid. Thank you Ralph.

Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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