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GAME ON?
The holochess dejarik set
18seen on the Millennium Falcon THE RETURN OF
was animated by Tippett Studios, which 24 SOME JEDI
is owned and supervised by the same
special-effects mastermind who worked WARWICK During Rey’s Force vision, or Forceback,
on the original sequence in A New Hope, at Maz’s castle, many voices and
21 RETURNS Vader’s breathing and Yoda explaining
Phil Tippett. sounds are heard, including Darth
Star Wars film veteran Warwick Davis the nature of the Force. However, it
continues his streak of cameos in is an altered sample of the late actor
The Force Awakens, this time in Maz Sir Alec Guinness’s voice that is the
Kanata’s castle as interstellar scout sequence’s most impressive ingredient.
and hyperspace trailblazer, Wollivan. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly,
It also continues a tradition of Davis director J.J. Abrams explains longtime
playing characters who have names Bad Robot collaborator Bryan Burk and
beginning with the letter “W”: Wicket one of the film’s producers took the
W. Warrick (Return of the Jedi), and word ”afraid” and altered it to sound like
Weazel and Wald (The Phantom Menace). “Rey.” They then combined that with new
Coincidentally, Warwick played the lead voice-over from actor Ewan McGregor to
CAPTURE THE character Willow Ufgood in Willow, a complete the line, “Rey…these are your
first steps.”
Lucasfilm Ltd. production from 1988.
19FLAG
The flags at Maz Kanata’s castle
are imprinted with familiar images
from Star Wars films and cartoons,
including the Mythosaur skull from
Boba Fett’s left-shoulder blast plate,
Hondo Ohnaka’s Gang symbol and Ziro
the Hutt’s belly tattoo from The Clone
Wars, and Cikatro Vizago’s Broken Horn
Syndicate symbol from Rebels. There
is even a flag displaying the universal
symbol for the 501st organization.
C-3P0—
22SPYMASTER?
In addition to his role as translator, C-3P0
is in charge of the Resistance’s pool of
spy droids distributed across the galaxy,
including GA-97, who reports BB-8’s
presence at Maz Kanata’s castle.
ON SONG
Composer and actor
20Lin-Manuel Miranda, DON’T TRUST HER
most recently of Hamilton: An American
Musical fame, wrote the tracks Jabba See the mysterious girl
Flow and Dobra Doompa, which were 23wearing the distinctive black
performed at Maz Kanata’s castle by and white outfit? That’s Bazine Netal, a human
travelling musicians Taybin Ralorsa, mercenary and spy of the First Order who
Infrablue Zedbeddy Coggins, Ubert spots BB-8 at Maz’s castle on Takodana. She
“Sticks” Quaril, and Sudswater was first introduced in the short story The
Dillifay Glon. Perfect Weapon by Delilah S. Dawson.
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