Skeleton Crew‘s Giant Crab Monster Was a Practical Model Packed With Star Wars Easter Eggs

The latest occurrence of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is noteworthy for galore reasons. The characters escaped the satellite Lanupa. We saw a frank, heartfelt treatment astir disability. It was directed by rising Star Wars superstar Bryce Dallas Howard. And, of course, determination was a elephantine trash monster acceptable to devour our heroes.

That past portion is not conscionable ace freaking cool, it’s ace freaking real. Lucasfilm conscionable released an fantabulous behind-the-scenes clip from the occurrence revealing the creature, named “Tet’niss” for each its crisp objects, was created and controlled by the squad astatine Tippett Studios, founded by Phil Tippett. You know, the legendary squad down different Star Wars stop-motion moments similar Empire Strikes Back‘s AT-ATs and Return of the Jedi’s Rancor. On its own, that would beryllium noteworthy, but Tet’niss—which is referred to simply arsenic “Monster Trash Crab” successful selling materials—has immoderate precise chill Star Wars Easter eggs too. Here’s the video.

i spy the Millennium Falcon

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— Star Wars (@starwars) January 2, 2025

The official Star Wars website has a large nonfiction with adjacent much details. “If you look intimately astatine the junk connected his back, it’s not conscionable random parts,” creation manager and fabrication supervisor Mark Dubeau told the site. “There’s pieces of the Millennium Falcon in there. There’s pieces of an Imperial Walker. There [are] droids stuck successful there! I conscionable wanted to marque it look arsenic bizarre arsenic humanly possible.”

However, bid accumulation decorator (and chap Star Wars legend) Doug Chiang besides told Dubeau not to spell overboard. So while, yes, determination are astromechs and protocol droids successful there, they were enactment successful carefully. “Doug was precise specific,” Dubeau said. “He didn’t privation it to look similar determination was an X-wing sticking retired of it. So, it’s precise good disguised.”

So good disguised successful information that you astir apt can’t adjacent spot it connected TV. But it’s there. It’s successful the DNA. And that’s what matters. Oh, and you tin besides conscionable head implicit to the Star Wars website to spot a fewer much close-ups.

The sixth occurrence of Skeleton Crew is present streaming connected Disney+.

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