AN 'EMPIRE' AT 40: A JEDI BEGINS HIS TRAINING...

With no time wasted, the training of a new Jedi Knight by the experienced Jedi Master Yoda begins, and Luke Skywalker is certainly being put through his training paces across the murky and dirty Dagobah landscape.

The primary Yoda used in this sequence was a very basic puppet with likely very slight remote control movements, which was fixed into Luke's backpack for the long shot scenes.

Several more sequences of Luke in training had been scripted and planned, including his once more battling flying remotes (which may have been partially filmed with Mark Hamill's reaction shots using his lightsaber blade), but due to lack of time and money these were aborted.

Colin Skeaping performs one of Luke's Jedi somersaults on the set.