The SECRET of the Tatooine Skeleton in Star Wars.
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Here we take a look at the Krayt Dragon skeleton seen in the Tatooine Desert in Star Wars (a.k.a. A New Hope), and find out the mystery behind it, where it came from, and where it is now!
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I always thought that skeleton looked amazing. It made Tatooine seem wild and dangerous. Never in a million years would I have guessed that it was a dinosaur from an earlier film. Very interesting video.
Yes indeed! I wonder if people watched Star Wars in 1977 and were like "wait a minute, I recognise that..." 😀
@StarWarsUpdate, several years back I met a Tunisian couple, the husband spoke of taking people on tours to visit Star Wars sets but he didn’t mention this fact that you brought up. It’s still very interesting, though
I remember being a little kid In the theater, and seeing C-3PO walk past that skeleton. It seared into my brain that they were in an alien planet. And things were HARSH there.
Only to find out decades later, that they just LEFT IT there! I actually wanted to go there and comb the desert for a piece. But, I probably would’ve been like the guys in Spaceballs “ We ain’t found shit!”
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Now to find out that it was an old Dinosaur from an old Disney movie, that they found in a crate. And made it into a Krayt dragon.
And left it there, because they were tired of draggin’ it around.
Only to have Disney, years later , buy the franchise, which at them time was a huge indestructible monster….and KILL IT. And leave it’s rotting carcass to disintegrate , like an old skeleton in the desert.
The circle of life.
Very, very interesting comment! the parallels are incredible 😀👍👍👍
Thanks for reminding me of a hilarious quote from spaceballs
@@Pokemon-Kid112 Bonus useless tidbit: That line is spoken by a young Tim Russ who went on to play Tuvok in Star Trek Voyager.
OK, that is cool
I guess you didn't find any of her Royal Highnesses matched luggage either
I've been to Tunisia and visited a couple of the locations, and basically the local people sell tourists anything. Even souvenir bottles of sand, exactly the same as that which you are walking on at the time.
😆😆 omg seriously??
People used to sell "authentic pieces of Jesus' cross." They say so many "authentic pieces" were sold you could have built a naval fleet from the quantity of wood.
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Anyone who grew up with the eBay Jesus toast thing has really seen it all
The piece i have is authentic. That's what the salesman with an unusual amount of gold watches told me.
I also have an original copy of the Declaration of Independence. I bought it from the State House gift shop in Boston. I think Carl Yastrzemski signed it as well.
There's a sucker born every second!!
I saw that dinosaur movie in the theater but was way too young to remember much more than the truck-driving scenes. So cool to learn that it became the skeleton on Tatooine.
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One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing. I don't recall seeing it in the cinema - I was only born in 1973, so I was pretty young when it came out. I did watch on the TV later though, and had a Betamax recording of it I took of a TV showing. Used to watch a lot when I was younger - didn't see the "issues" with it back then. What I do remember is a model of the dinosaur in the back of the truck, in a display case, on the stairs of the Disney Birthday Club I was signed up to and used to attend every year as kid. At the time I didn't know which movie it was from.
It's always a fun surprise to learn something new! I knew the bones had been left behind, but I had never heard the storyof where they came from!!!
🙂🙂🙂🙂 Glad you enjoyed it
I always thought the skeleton was from a young Krayt Dragon.
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my first thought was, someone doing the storyboards for the 70s Dune Project got hired on to stay with Star Wars and decided to leave a worm skeleton in the background. A lot of people who worked on "Star Wars" and "Alien" and "Blade Runner" came off that failed Dune project.
Interesting!!
First time I saw it as a kid I thought it was a dinosaur. Even staring at the pictures in books over the years thought the same. Never thought to research what it really was when I would go on BBs and later when the internet came out.
Mysteries have died because of the internet, sometimes I wish I could go back to a time when it didn't exist!
I just can't believe they left it behind in the desert! That can't be true! No one wanted it back for their museum? No one? No lawsuits? No one screaming... "Where's my f***ing dinosaur?!"
😆 I don't think it was considered so valuable or important back in 1976 (before Star Wars became a phenomenon). It was probably too expensive to transport it back, so they left it. Disney probably weren't concerned and may have forgotten about it after they had finished their movie, and the UK studio maybe weren't interested in getting it back after giving it away.
It definitely got sandblasted after it was left, depending on materials of the skeleton I doubt anything recognizable would be left after 20 years. Some parts may have survived if buried, it's a big if.
I wonder if those pieces were real!
@@StarWarsUpdate So do I.
It COULD have been explained as a Young Krait Dragon . But it is quite cool that it WAS in fact a Rendering of a Diplodocus .
Very true John 🙂🙂👍
Yeah it was supposed to be that dragon which is why Obi Wan makes that loud noise to scare away the sand people. They think the dragon is near by.
Yes! And that sound was changed for the special edition from what it sounded like in the original, and I believe it was changed again for either a DVD / Blu-Ray release or for Disney+ or something. They also made the Krayt Dragon in the Mandalorian sound like Obi-Wan's sound. My question is, was this some kind of "Force Mimic" or can old man Ben do really good impersonations?
@@StarWarsUpdate I didn't like how much the sound was changed. I thought it sounded better in earlier versions.
Good question whether it's a force power or not. I assume it is but never seen anyone else do it.
So the skeleton prop is actually... a skeleton prop?
😆😆 no of course it isn't! 😐
For real though, the story behind it is cool. 👍
That's good to know for scale model builders who might want to sculpt one for a diorama.
Interesting, I never thought of that!!
"It's not what you think they are. It's Rhōde sanitary cleaner."
- Dimitri
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I just assumed that Tatooine has once had a Giant Sandworm problem, like Arrakis, but they'd gone extinct.
Hmm, interesting !!
"Actually a dinosaur!"
"Fiberglass skeleton"
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Took me a minute to figure out what he meant too.
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Funny, as a kid I was very interested in dinosaurs. That was years before jurassic park, so it wasnt even cool yet. When I saw Star Wars for the first time the first think I said during that scene: Hey look a diplodocus. Years later I was dissapointed when it turned out to be a krayt dragon. I learned to live with it, but now I have seen this video I will shout out to all of you: Haha, I told you so!Sorry, I had to get that out of my system.
the skeleton looks at you with his own eyes and says: "You were right about me, tell your sister, you were right......" (Dies. again.)
I actually have a piece! My brother bought it for me as a gift. Like stated in this video, sadly there's no real way of telling it's authenticity, but mine was presented differently, it wasn't packaged in cheap plastic like a toy. Instead it came with a cool gold stand with a plaque to display it, a framed picture from the movie scene, and some "official" paperwork claiming it's authenticity and history. I'd like to think mine is real but who knows, its the thought that counts anyways. And it looks cool on the shelf next to my other star wars stuff.
That's cool! Thanks for sharing that! Hey I think it could be a real piece, I was just being cynical in the video. 👍
That's awesome. Even if it's not genuine (I like to think it is genuine) it's still a great piece with a great movie background story.
What an awesome brother you have.
I remember playing a VHS version of the 3 movies of the original Trilogy but it was Letterbox and the people who was watching it said I didn't know they had that skeleton there. What I was told was that the skeleton was of the dragon who Obi-Wan made the roar for the Krayt I think they called it.
Brilliant! Yes Obi Wan was supposed to be making the sound of the Krayt to scare the Tuskens
Who crated that big dragon?
Not sure 😆
I have one of the fiberglass bones of that skeleton. It was a gift from David West Reynolds, who chronicled his trips to Tunisia in Star Wars Insider magazine. I knew about the Disney connection, but the Clive Revill tidbit was new to me. Thanks for digging that up! Did you know the finding of that skeleton was eerily predicted by Arthur C. Clarke in his novel 2010?
WOAH, that's some cool information Lex thank you! And I didn't know that about the 2010 novel, and I'm going to seek it out
@@StarWarsUpdateIt's a very passing reference, but as the monolith and other events have all of Earth in a frenzy about the possibility of alien life, Clarke mentions the "unfortunate amateur archaeologist" who thought he'd found proof of alien fossils in the Tunisian desert, only to discover it was nothing but prop bones abandoned by a celebrate sci-fi author decades earlier.
That's actually incredible! I'm wondering if George Lucas had read the novel and had the opportunity to make this real, and made himself the sci-fi author!
@@StarWarsUpdate 2010: Odyssey Two was published in '82, so Clarke must've already known the bones were abandoned by Lucas and company. But David West Reynolds didn't find them in the desert until the two trips he made to Tunisia before Phantom Menace came out in 1999.
Great video! Are Luke's aunt/uncle and Greedo's body also buried somewhere in Tunisia?
Interesting thought!! Quite possible! Imagine archeologists digging up Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's burned bodies in 1000 years time lol
"Buy from me, a fragment of the 'true' tatoonine........"
lol indeed
Poor scavengers. They act just like Jawas. 😊😉
2:25 That would have been a much better backstory for Rey.
lol that would have been cool
You learn something new everyday......
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I hate sand...
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I’ve never heard this and wonder if it’s really true. It seems like something that would’ve been mentioned already before 2024.
It's true!
This makes perfect sense! Disney set out to avenge the theft of their diplodocus by now destroying Star Wars! "You'll pay for this George Lucas! You'll see!"
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Cool story! Well done! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video amazing RUclipsr
Thank you so much!!
boba: MY DINO!!!! :(((((((
lol
Wow, I never knew this!
🙂🙂🙂 Glad you liked the vid
I thought it's just a big Java that somehow grew really big
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I did read a few years ago that the skeleton was used for One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing. By the way, what film was that footage of the chimpanzees from please?
Do a search for "chimp sees the sky for the first time"
@@StarWarsUpdate Thanks.
I KNEW IT!
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I didn’t think the “live” Krayt dragon ended up being next to C3PO...maybe a younger one who got left behind, or attacked in some way and just died there, or could’ve been some sort of smaller subspecies. Heck maybe it was dropped by a gigantic bird we have yet to see. Either way, you’re far too trusting.
Interesting thoughts! Thanks
“Gold mind” ugh 🙄
I literally say "Gold mine", maybe the mic popped or something lol
you're 3 months early for an april fool's joke
What do you mean by this? There's no april fools joke here
This is very credible. Like the chest in kenobis dwelling being used in SUPERMAN and the gun controls in the Falcon being used in the 76 fillm At the Earth's Core. Peter Cushing and Doug McClure at the controls.
I didn't know about the gun controls in the falcon, thanks!!
@StarWarsUpdate Just Google The Mole in At the Earth's Core. A 1976 Amicus production made in England. The dual controls for the Mole are the handgrip for the Falcon turrets. The film is shown occasionally on Talking Pictures TV in the UK.
I watched a few scenes of it today, when they are travelling in the mole at the beginning of the movie, and they are indeed the exact same joysticks! Thanks so much for the info!
Where are the sources for the Empire actors? I thought it was Ian McDiarmid that played Palpatine
Ian McDiarmid played Palpatine for the first time in Return of the Jedi, but later for the special editions, the original actress (as in the video) who first played Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back was replaced with Ian McDiarmid for continuity.
Who really remembers One of our dinosaurs is missing?
Probably not many people
Is One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing worth watching? Looks kinda fun.
hmmm.... I watched it as a kid and it was ok I suppose and it was fun, but I remember feeling bored during it. You may like it! It has a similar vibe to Mary Poppins I suppose.
there is always something new and interesting about Lucas's films. For Disney's, it's the same - NOTHING! 😊
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Thats supposed to be a juvenile Krayt Dragon. A smaller greater kreayt instead of a Canyon Crayt.
It was believed in Robot Chicken that these were aquatic animals.
If u remember in a New Hope. Obi-Wan imitated the roar of a Krayt Dragon to scare away the Tuskan Raiders when they attacked Luke Skywalker.
Yes! Great comment
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isn't old Hollywood great ?
@@andrewblanchard2398 I'm surprised Disney haven't wiped that one from existence (Is it even on Disney+ ?).
@@StarWarsUpdate
there's an old saying :
" YOU CAN ERASE
THE PAST
BUT YOU CAN'T
FORGET THE PAST ""
putting "its not what you think" in titles or thumbnails is lame as fuck. that trend is so stupid
Oh really? I was right though LOL
No, it's not an actual dinosaur. What bullshit.
It's not an "actual" krayt dragon either. Were talking in the context of what creature it is, not whether it is real or not. LOL
@@StarWarsUpdate I mean it’s not an actual dinosaur skeleton.
(obviously)
Another Gen Z'er finds something out & thinks nobody else could possibly know about & makes a video declaring such.
"GEN Z'er"?? LOL. Its called RUclips buddy, its up there with Google as the go-to search tool for information. Not all people know about this, take a read of the comments, people are surprised and grateful for the info.
@@StarWarsUpdate Then don't make a title or thumbnail with the blanket statement saying it's not what you think it is, when it is EXACTLY what I thought it was & LOTS of other people knew what it was too.
Obviously there a LOTS of people who know, but there are LOTS of people who didn't know and loved the video and information. Even the ones that knew enjoyed the video (not YOU though). This channel is for anybody, die hard fans, moderate fans and people who are getting in to Star Wars from scratch. Do you feel personally cheated or conned in some way that the information didn't turn out to be something different to what you knew? I can't base every thumbnail and title on the consideration that you may already know the information. Or maybe I can. Hmm. I tell you what, can you give me a list of things that you know, and I will specifically avoid these videos and thumbnails for the rest of my channel. Let's make the whole channel about you! LOL
I had heard about it being fiberglass and left behind (and essentially lost unless you believe the people selling pieces of it), but never knew there was history behind it - that they flew it out and that it was a prop from another movie. Thank you for that.
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I thought I knew everything about Star Wars and I always wondered about that prop and now I have learned something. Every days a school day! Thanks for a great vid.
Great to hear that, it's my pleasure 🙂
I always loved seeing that thing in the movie. I hated when they put it on vhs (pan and scan) because you couldn't see it at all.
I know what you mean! I bet there are loads of scenes from the days of VHS that cut out major parts of the scenery!
In Lego Star Wars obi wan makes it into an arrow to point to where he buried the holocrons
Cool! I didn't know that!
As far back as 2007 when I was there The Berbers I met were trying to sell all sorts of random pieces of plastic that clearly had nothing to do with it.
Wow! Cool, thanks for the info! I wonder if they have a warehouse full of fiber glass and plastic, and they send people out in to the desert every day for years.
@@StarWarsUpdate I will say that the parts that woman had in the video look legit, but it is hard to know. When David West Reynolds was there in the 90s I believe a lot of the skeleton was still laying out and brought back some intact vertebrae replicas.
Twenty or so years ago, a group of us went out into the desert to the location for Jabba's sailbarge scene. A couple members had actually been there duriing the shoot years before. When filming was done, a company was hired to dismantle and clean up. One of the two people came away with a set of shutters from the barge. The company bulldozed a giant pit, and everything they didn't dismantle was bulldozed into the pit and covered.
Apparently, the Star Gate movie also shot there (unverified).
It's just a flat place in the desert like any other.
I've got some foam pieces that look like trash, but are Saarlac pieces.
Cool video.
Extremely interesting comment!! Thank you! So strange to think the actual Sarlacc Pitt (filled with rubble and wot not) is buried under the sand. I wonder if some day in a few thousand years it will be discovered and excavated by archeologists! lol. Amazing info, thank you!
This can be quite common in the film industry.
Yeah so many examples of it, I find it fascinating.
@@StarWarsUpdate The pistol Han used had been in a few films beforehand.
@@TheGroundedAviator
What are you talking about? It’s a Mauser C96 that’s been chopped up and had another barrel glued to it.
@@Peter-ff1tp Before they restyled it the C96 had been used as a regular pistol in other films.
Dang, I wanna visit one of the old sets some day
Me too 🙂
According the Star Wars Galaxies MMORPG it was a Krayt Dragon - and apparently some other SW offshoot. Anyhow, when one appeared, any player anywhere near it attacked them and then tried to loot it simultaneously just to get some scales and some good loot. They were massive. Do any of you actually remembering playing that game?
I PLAYED IT, I used to LOVE IT! I remember the Krayt Dragons, they were very hard to kill if I remember right. I played from the start until the NGE update (totally ruined the game), but then I returned for the last few months before the server shut down forever (I was logged in the game when they shut off, it was so sad.) I've recently played SWGEmu, it's so good and has brought back loads of amazing memories. :-) Have you played SWGEmu?
Bizarre. We've reached the point in human history that a fake dino skeleton (actually, litter left behind by a film set) is treated as a real exotic artifact because of its association with two different fantasy movies.
lol indeed
Ded Luck Dragon (Falkor from Neverending Story)
"BASTIAN!! SAY MY NAME!!"
Krayt Dragon?My head cannon is that it was the skull and backbone of a Dewback. George added Stormtroopers riding them in the special edition rerelease.
They are native to the planet.
Nice, I like this idea
It’s the dead dinosaur that walks across the desert in One Million Years BC!
😀 Perhaps!
Well, That was Delightful.... Thank you
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed the vid
When I saw this in 1977, my ten year old mind thought it was the skeleton of a giant SNAKE!!!
Sure I loved the Dino's! I never really thought about its head. Just looking at the "body" put snake in my young mind.
It does actually look like a giant snake!
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IKR? As a kid, I was glad it was dead! I never wanted to see a snake that big!🤣🤣🤣
Funnily enough I thought that might be the same prop (not a real skeleton). I didn’t think for a moment that I’d be right. I never thought it would be a Krayt Dragon. SW fans are way too keen to retcon everything like the Stormtrooper in the Sarlacc pit or how Boba Fett’s helmet got dented (during Jango’s encounter with Obi Wan).
Thanks for your comment! 🙂
didn't
CLIVE REVILL
play a robin hood character
SIR GUY
in the
STAR TREK YNG episode
Q PID
I don't watch Star Trek, but I just googled it, and you're correct!
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PICARD quote "
" THERE'S SOMETHING
YOU SHOULD KNOW ,
I'M NOT FROM NOTTINGHAM "
APPLAUSE
GREATEST PICARD quote ever
Mokele mbembe is another one
In the Congo
cool!
Remember SW before it became woke nonsense?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I loved Star Wars 1977 - 2005. After that it's hostile waters. Beware!
I edited the comment from "an acquired taste" to "hostile waters" lol.
@@StarWarsUpdate I'd feel safer on the SS Minnow in the Red Sea.
Interesting photo of Palpatine face prosthetic (first time I saw it) what strikes me is how similar the forehead with its crackes and deep creases are to how the makeup is for Ian in ROTJ. due to the lighting and the hood casting shadows one really never saw this in ESB.
Cool comment and observation! Thanks
I didn’t understand “ placeholders for the eyes of a chimpanzee”?
Sorry about that, I should have made it clearer. The prosthetics had dark areas where her eyes were, and the actress had to stay very still, because the footage chimpanzee's eyes were superimposed over the top of the dark areas.
@@robwayne8322 more like “masking area” for other footage. So they could create a mask. And use that when adding that footage. As it was almost black the original eyes would not be seen and they could use the need footage as a positive to create a final film composition
@@StarWarsUpdate thanks. Yeah first time. I saw this would love to find those image online. Did you check some of the concept art / storyboards for this scene? It’s also interesting how similar to more ghoulish SNOKE like one concept was. So for sure that on was revisited for PT. Also I find it cool that the chimpanzee eyes do not really visually look like that. For me they actually just look more like big” dark side eyes” and in the concept art it’s actually how they look. With one exception : they also have a vertical slit all over it. So more of a snake : Sauron style. So the question was. Did they take a choice? - big ghouls looking eyes with not slits or - using lenses with slits but more normal size. Or well maybe they just scrapped the slit idea. Would have been interesting to know as if they would have went with lenses then maybe slit style dark side eyes would have been canon so to speak :)
Interesting 🧐
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This video caught me by surprise. Most other youtubers put the answer at the end so I always skip there first. Also, most youtubers start their vids begging for likes and subs.
But this guy put the answer to the title right up front!
Thank you.
😀😆 No problem! So glad you liked it
Weren't these creatures hunted for their meat as shown in the Kenobi TV series where he worked on one of those land ships that hunted them and he even managed to save a few scraps for his animal friend ?
hmm, I looked it up (because I didn't know the name of them) and they are called Tibidon Sand Whale, very very large and don't seem to have a head shaped as on the skeleton. But you could be right!
Turns out it was exactly what I thought it was.
Brilliant!
That guys wearing yellow face
😬 Well, I did say "Yikes" on that part
I'm glad you put not one red arrow, but TWO red arrows for our feeble little minds.
That was specifically just for you 😆
Interesting trivias.
Yes 😀
Interesting!
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I saw that dinosaur skeleton movie in the cinema when I was a kid.
It bored the arse off me.
😆 I remember watching it when I was a kid on the TV, it wasn't very exciting was it.
@@StarWarsUpdate ...........................Um, no.
Quite interesting. Why is there text on the screen though? We can hear what you're saying.
I've been wrestling with this one, I feel that not many American's would understand my accent in certain places 🤔 Is it easy to understand me?
@StarWarsUpdate If we can understand Joe Biden's gibberish threats, I think we can understand your distinguished voice.
I rather like it.
It reminds me of some of actor's voices in A New Hope. The movie was primarily filmed in England and employed many actor's, and crew members, with accents. Your accent reminds me of Peter Cushing, in a good way.
"Is there another military target?! Then name the system! I grow tired of asking...."
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Thanks Ricardo! That's a great compliment! I'm from the North East of England, and the accents here are sometimes hard to understand on certain words - a little bit like Scottish, but I guess there are many Scottish youtubers and they have no problems being understood, so maybe I'll get rid of the subtitles. THANKS GUYS!
@@StarWarsUpdate I loved the way Peter Cushing spoke. You remind me of him, ...in a good way, of course.😉
ruclips.net/video/AK4sZzoycOc/видео.htmlsi=HOrTNu6p17N29aeT
@StarWarsUpdate yeah man your voice/accent sounds perfectly fine. Even to us Americans lol and I'm a 'texan' lol
then it is NOT a "real" dinosaur if it was made of glass fiber.🙄
Obviously were talking in the context of creatures (as opposed to a Krayt Dragon). Nobody said it was "real".