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Kenny Baker, the man inside R2-D2, has passed away at the age of 81. In addition to the Star Wars films Baker had appeared in Time Bandits, Labyrinth, Willow and numerous other movies and television shows.


Mark Hamill had a nice tweet about it:

Rest peacefully Mr. Baker

Big bummer

2016 sucks, man. Lemmy and Bowie destroyed me. It's only going to get worse from here as our heroes vanish one by one.

It shows our age - the impacts coming closer. 

Was sad news waking up to this yesterday, my FaceBook news feed had nearly every droid builder posting about it ...