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Everything You Didn't Know About Star Wars, Explained with Action Figures

What's Darth Vader's death count? How many Lego sets has the franchise sold? Which nation accepts Star Wars collectable coins as real currency? Find out everything you didn’t know about the epic franchise, as told by Star Wars action figures.

Released on 12/16/2015

Transcript

[Male Voice] Star War: by the numbers.

In the first six films, there have only been

11 lightsaber battles, which resulted in nine severed hands.

Storm troopers scored only 58 visible kills

in the first three movies.

And, in the first film, they hit a main character only once

and it was a stun blast.

Darth Vader, on the other hand,

had a body count of 10.

Even still, in 1977, 29 babies in the U.S. were named Darth.

In 2014, 218 babies were named Anakin,

605 named Leia, and 10,431 named Luke.

Of course, that one's also in the Bible.

In 2011, 176,632 census responders

in the U.K. reported Jedi as their religion.

But it's also big money.

More than 200 million Star Wars Lego sets were sold

from 1999 to 2012.

Hasbro sold five point five billion dollars worth

of action figures.

Harrison Ford was paid 10,000 dollars

for Star Wars: A New Hope.

He is now worth 210 million dollars.

George Lucas was paid 175,000 dollars for A New Hope.

He is now worth five point two billion.

And Star Wars collectible coins are

even accepted as currency in Niue,

a tiny island nation in the pacific.

In 2007, NASA sent one lightsaber from the movie into space,

bringing it slightly closer to a galaxy far far away

that featured 17 different planets, two moons,

and 132 different species of life in the first six films,

as well as complex languages such as Ewok language,

which was comprised of at least two human languages,

and Wookie, which included the sounds of bears,

walruses, lions, and badgers.

And, while Star Wars: A New Hope may have started small,

being released in a total of 43 theaters,

The Force Awakens is predicted to open

in more than 5,500 theaters and over 10,000 screens.

So far, the Star Wars universe has raked in

over 37 billion dollars.

And The Force Awakens is projected to gross anywhere

from one point two billion to three billion dollars

in ticket sales alone.

It looks like the force is strong with this one.

(percussive music)

VO: James McPhee

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