Top 10 Stop-Motion Scenes of All Time

9. Star Wars (The Original Trilogy 1977/80/83)

HoloChess Scene: Star Wars may now be a schmaltzy, CGI, Jar-Jar Binks thorn in our side but the original trilogy had some incredible practical effects which still stand up today. The AT-AT's crossing the tundra on Hoth, the Rancor being a big scary alien on Tatooine and the TaunTaun's running around being used as sleeping bags are all great uses of stop-motion but they're not the one that sticks with me. As a child Star Wars is like catnip, it's got everything you could want; cowboys, princesses, bad guys, robots, death, peril, love, incest and all set in space but it also made chess cool! Who can say that this scene didn't make you want to play chess as a child and just like the hover-board from 'Back to the Future' you know you still want one.
 
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