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Watto was portrayed and voiced by actor Andrew Secombe in the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace and its 2002 sequel Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. Secombe played Watto on set, to give animators a reference for lighting and eye-line.
Watto first appears in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, the first title chronologically in the Star Wars series. He has both an ability for haggling and a resistance to the "Jedi mind trick", a technique used to persuade people.
Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (1999 – 2000): 12 Inch Figures. The Power of the Force line established the 12 inch figure as a staple to the modern day Star Wars lines, and proved to be wildly successful, so it was only natural for Hasbro to include them with their Phantom Menace line as well.
Secombe reprised the role for Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, and the games Star Wars: Episode I Racer, Star Wars: Racer Revenge, Star Wars: Pit Droids, as well as the video game adaptation of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
Episode I Featurette: Watto. He's unshaven, pushy, miserly and has a taste for gambling. It's hard to imagine that he's also a collection of pixels occupying thin air. See the magic that was needed to not only make Watto come to life, but to make him a star.
Watto was a Toydarian junk dealer in Mos Espa who bought Shmi Skywalker and her son Anakin from Gardulla the Hutt. An inveterate gambler, he sponsored Anakin in several Podraces, but often bet against his own slave, who was talented but inexperienced.
He's unshaven, pushy, miserly and has a taste for gambling. It's hard to imagine that he's also a collection of pixels occupying thin air. See the magic that...
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