20 Useless Things You Probably Never Knew About Star Wars

14. Rubbish Attention To Detail

Darth Vader Orson Welles
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The Trash Compactor Leia leads the rescue party into on the Death Star isn't just a habitat for Dianoga (the monster thing) - it is also numbered in some kind of OCD manner as everything on the space station seemed to be, if you look into it.

Annoyingly, there are actually conflicting reports as to what this particular Trash Compactor should be referred to as. According to the A New Hope novelisation and the Darth Vader comics series; its number is 366117891 but the 1980's radio drama suggests something different.

It's official designation is 3263827, according to the radio and this appears to have been made canon.

Now you know.

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