Hardware Wars



Hardware Wars is an eleven minute short film spoofing Star Wars. The film, in the form of a "coming attraction" trailer, features broad spoofs of Luke Starwalker (Fluke Starbucker), C3-PO (4-Q-2), and R2-D2 (Artie Deco) amongst others. The Chewbacca equivalent is "Chewchilla the Wookie Monster," a brown googly-eyed hand puppet and Cookie Monster look-alike. The Wookie Monster mostly growls, pantomimes, rolls his googly eyes, and in one scene, hungrily gnaws on the coiled sticky buns adorning Princess Anne-Droid's hair.

Connections
The film was made by several San Francisco based artists who also worked on Sesame Street animated inserts.
 * Ernie Fosselius directed, wrote, and performed the Wookie Monster and other roles
 * Paul Frees played the narrator.
 * Jeff Hale played Augie Ben-Doggie.
 * Walt Kraemer scored and supplied voices.