Yoda Guy Movie Exhibit
Spend time at the Yoda Guy Movie Exhibit while in St Maarten and enjoy an experience unlike any other worldwide. Get an insider view of making famous movies including 'Star Wars', 'Superman', 'The Terminator', 'Highlander', 'Men in Black' and more! This non-profit exhibit is the founder's endeavor to inspire youths to overcome negativity and peer pressure to live exceptional lives.
Make your way to the Yoda Guy Movie Exhibit, located in the heart of St Maarten's duty-free shopping area on Front Street. Checkin a the musuem shop, which sells rare movie relics hand signed by the stars, including Mark Hamill (Luke), Carrie Fisher (Leia), Frank Oz (Yoda), Dave Prowse (Darth Vader), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) or Kenny Baker (Artoo) etc. There you check-in and gain access to the museum. For a full itinerary of what displays are at the musuem, please view the itinerary section below.
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In the musuem, take time to visit each section of rooms each containing displays on varied subjects narrated by virtual holograms or DVDs. Here are some things to look forward to when visiting:
1. Star Wars: Darth Vader, including hologram of actor Dave Prowse discussing his experiences
2. Star Wars: creation of Yoda
3. Star Wars: creation of creatures for the famed Mos Eisley Cantina in Episode IV
4. Star Wars: Han Solo in Carbonite
5. Star Wars: Ewoks and props
6. Star Wars: Tusken Raiders
7. Star Wars: Unknown Yoda puppeteers
8. Star Wars: first, second & third drafts of episode IV including "The Adventures of Luke Starkiller"
9. Star Wars: Nick Maley's current recreation of Yoda to encourage Lucasfim's return to practical effects in the upcoming Star Wars Anthology movies.
10. Superman: Nick Maley's work on the first two Christopher Reeves movies
11. Highlander: Nick Maley's work on the classic movie
12. Men In Black: work of Rick Baker
13. Thriller: work of Rick Baker
14. Terminator & Terminator II: work of Stan Winston
15. Alien: work of the Special Effects team
16. The Excorcist: the uplifting influence of Dick Smith "grandfather of American prosthetics"
17. Lifecasts: movie: Michael Jackson, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Robin Williams, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise, Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, Jim Carrey, Muhammad Ali, Patrick Stewart, Christopher Lee, Bogart & Brando, James Dean & Gregory Peck, Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Cagney, Alfred Hitchcock, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and 30 others.
18. Lifecasts/death masks: historical: Abraham Lincoln, (lifecast 3 months before his assassination in 1865), Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, Ludwig Van Beethoven and Oliver Cromwell, (1658),
19. The Shining: Nick Maley's work on the horror classic
20. Lifeforce: Nick Maley's work on the cult horror movie
21. Krull: Nick Maley's work - fantasy movie
22. The Keep: Nick Maley's work on Michael Mann's hard to find cult horror movie
23. Storyboarding: The process of visualizing movies through sequential drawings, Star Wars, Terminator, etc.
24. The careers of legendary make-up effects artist Stuart Freeborn "father of British creature effects" and his son Graham Freeborn
