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[Baker] Grand openings
are always hard for me

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because you're giving a huge piece of your
heart to the world for the first time.

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It's hard to turn it over that first time
and to see how the world's gonna react

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because you don't know till they come in.

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The fans of Star Wars have been
building Star Wars for 45 years now.

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There's people that live and breathe
Star Wars every day,

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and this land that we've built

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now gives them a place
to live their Star Wars story.

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I feel we owe them, to give them the best
possible experience they can have.

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'Cause this is something that, you know,

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they've waited their entire lives
to see this.

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I grew up in a very small town
in North Georgia.

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We didn't even have a theater. You had
to go to the next town to go to a movie,

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so if you went to a movie,
it was a special event.

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I didn't see Star Wars till it had been
in the theater for about a year.

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I finally got my parents to take me,
and it had changed my life.

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I didn't know what I wanted to do,
but I wanted to be in entertainment.

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Funny enough, I was at a party one night,

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and there was a prop master
from a TV show who showed up at the party

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and saw some of the stuff
that I had built around my house,

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and asked me if I was interested
in being a prop fabricator.

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Going from film into the real world
is building stuff

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that's gonna last
for the guests to enjoy every day.

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When you build it for a film set, it's
something that has to last one or two days

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and then it gets thrown out.

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When we were in England, we would go
to aircraft scrapyards and stuff

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because we were actually shopping
for aircraft parts

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to match stuff that was used in the films.

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And suddenly, there's a 747
sitting in a cow pasture

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that they're tearing the parts off of,

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and you would go in and say,
"I'll take all 57 miles of cable

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and that seat and that seat
and that control panel." [chuckles]

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I mean, to be able to go 360
around something

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and really look at it and study it,
"There's that and there's that."

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And seeing all these pieces they've seen
in the films for years and years.

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I mean, there's nothing like seeing
the reaction on the guest's face

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the very first time that they walk
into anything that we've done.

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It makes every minute of blood, sweat
and tears we put into this worth it.

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Um... Sorry. [chuckles] I get choked up.
I'm sorry. I'm emotional.

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I mean, just in this little shop alone,

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um, there's over 63 cages
hanging from the ceiling.

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And all these cages
are made out of different things.

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I mean, some of them, actually, are made
out of studio lights from film sets.

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It's an incredible, beautiful mess.

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Part of the fun for us was coming up
with these things

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that hadn't been seen on camera,

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and getting to add to this lore
that we've loved our whole lives.

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My grandson thinks I'm famous now.
[laughs]

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He's like, "You're famous."
I'm like, "No, I'm not. Not really.

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I just make this stuff, you know?"
[laughs]

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I told my wife the bucket list is checked
off now, to work on Star Wars. [chuckles]

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I'm getting chills talking about it.