Alexrd said:
Realism is missing on every Star Wars movie. Be it CGI or puppets.

I disagree. The puppets were really there in the frame during filming, along with the background, buildings or foliage, etc. In the PT, many of the characters and background are CGI which was not in the green screen frame during filming at all but was added later. So whereas the puppets aren't actually living creatures, they are at least there during filming. And in my opinion, the difference in realism is obvious. Particularly on Tatooine, which in SW looks like a real desert town with real dust, real people wandering around, real dirty vehicles, real wind, real daylight, etc., presumably because they all really were real when filmed.