What the papers say

The man behind iBot2000 and Star Wars R2-D2. The versatile Emmy nominated Film SFX supervisor is the creative genius at the helm of many of the biggest SCI-FI movies to date. Among them are Superman 2, Moon Raker, Dragon Slayer, and of course, The Empire Strikes Back. “Chev. Anthony John Dyson obss”

When it comes to Robot technicians Tony is quite unique, as well as building one of the most famous Robots ever, R2-D2 he has also designed and built Robots for some of the largest electronic companies in the world. For example Sony, Philips and Toshiba.

IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY

“What’s special about Tony is that I don’t think he’ll ever grow up … and that makes him interested in almost everything.” Could it be that, as Tony Dyson’s wife commented, it’s the quest for knowledge so characteristic to children that drives a person like Tony to success? One thing is for certain, Tony has got that something that leaves you thoroughly breathless … and that’s his mind.

Having grown up watching films like Star Wars and Superman, fantasising about a world so unreal and yet so vivid in my mind, I must say that meeting Tony Dyson was like a dream come true. The SFX Master behind many creations such as R2-D2, the barrel-shaped Droid from the “Star Wars sagas” and many other ingenious creations for cinema and TV commercials being commissioned to create anything from Robots to Theme parks, Tony has built a worldwide reputation as the man who can make it happen” by Karen Barun. Di-ve.com.

ANYTHING LESS THAN TOTAL VISUAL PERFECTION

“If any one man may be held responsible for this state of affairs then it must be Tony Dyson, creator and only begetter of the thinking mans pedal bin R2D2 in the film The Empire Strikes Back, if it were not for him then film special effect would still be back in the far off innocent days of Papier-mache dinosaurs. ” Next U.K.

VISUALLY STIMULATING

“Tony Dyson’s goal is for all his products to be visually stimulating, it is a goal he unfailing achieves and with the advent of more and more amusement parks around the globe, his own brand of scientific showmanship looks set to put the Droid Factory on the leisure map, not only in the U.K and China but throughout the world.” Park World U.K

JOHN CLEESE’S NEW BABY ROBOT

“Following the arrival of John Cleese’s new baby, BMP (UK) the agency which thought up the Sony T V commercials featuring a robot version of Cleese has presented him with a baby robot, the gesture was made by Tony Dyson of Star Wars fame, who also constructed the Sony robots.” Evening Standard U.K

AWFULLY CLEVER CHAP

“There’s a rather good robot that looks awfully like John Cleese who does the voice over, Well the credit should really go to any awfully clever chap from Abingdon, Tony Dyson.” Oxford Journal U.K

PRETTY POLLY COMMERCIAL

“The new Pretty Polly commercial was going to be something special so somebodyspecial was needed to translate the ideas into workable artifacts and the whole problem of the men legs was handed over to Tony Dyson a genius at constructing workable models.

It was Tony Dyson who made the robots for “Star Wars” and the Anglepoise “thing” used on the Sony TV commercial with John Cleese’s voice over, fortunately England still breed eccentrics, and there are people like Tony about, who actually enjoy their living making lamps walk and bits of perspex and nylon pot scourers look like the hall of the mountain king.” The Grape Vine UK

INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS

British Design and Art Direction (Hardback 1985), Robots by Peter Marsh (Hardback), Het Robot Boek by Chriet Titulaer (Hardback), Star Wars CP 30 Book about robots by, Random House (Hardback), The Robot Book by Richard Pawson (Hardback), The Making of the Empire Strikes Back by Alan Arnold (Paperback), Art of The Empire Strikes Back

NEWS PAPER ARTICLES.

The Evening Standard (London), The Sunday Times (Malta), The Times (Malta), Il-Torca (Malta), South Oxfordshire Star (Oxfordshire), The Gazette (Oxfordshire), World Business Weekly, Son Haber (Mersin), Anadolu (Sivas), Koparan (Corun)

Tony has  worked with:-

Steven Spielberg (Producer/Director), Gary Kurzts (Producer), Cubby Broccoli (Producer/Director), Peter Parks (Producer/Director), Irvin Kershner (Director)
John Mollo (Designer), Brian Johnson (SFX Supervisor), Derick Meddings (SFX Supervisor), Dr. Christian Barnard (Heart Surgeon), Chriet Titulaer (Author/Presenter), John Cleese (Actor/Author), John Webster (Advertising), Adel, Roustein (Fashion Mannequins), Jim Davison (TV/Theatre), Roger Daltry (The Who pop group), Peter Townsend (The Who pop group), Mike Oldfield (Tubular Bells)