Skeleton Crew’s Big Crab Monster Was a Sensible Mannequin Packed With Star Wars Easter Eggs

The newest episode of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is noteworthy for a lot of causes. The characters escaped the planet Lanupa. We noticed a frank, heartfelt discussion about disability. It was directed by rising Star Wars superstar Bryce Dallas Howard. And, after all, there was an enormous trash monster able to eat our heroes.

That final half isn’t just tremendous freaking cool, it’s tremendous freaking actual. Lucasfilm simply launched a wonderful behind-the-scenes clip from the episode revealing the creature, named “Tet’niss” for all its sharp objects, was created and controlled by the team at Tippett Studios, based by Phil Tippett. You realize, the legendary group behind different Star Wars stop-motion moments like Empire Strikes Again‘s AT-ATs and Return of the Jedi’s Rancor. By itself, that will be noteworthy, however Tet’niss—which is referred to easily as “Monster Trash Crab” in advertising and marketing supplies—has some very cool Star Wars Easter eggs too. Right 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 an ideal article with much more particulars. “When you look intently on the junk on his again, it’s not simply random elements,” artwork director and fabrication supervisor Mark Dubeau advised the location. “There’s items of the Millennium Falcon in there. There’s items of an Imperial Walker. There [are] droids caught in there! I simply wished to make it look as weird as humanly attainable.”

Nevertheless, sequence manufacturing designer (and fellow Star Wars legend) Doug Chiang additionally advised Dubeau to not go overboard. So whereas, sure, there are astromechs and protocol droids in there, they have been put in rigorously. “Doug was very particular,” Dubeau mentioned. “He didn’t need it to appear like there was an X-wing protruding of it. So, it’s very properly disguised.”

So properly disguised in actual fact that you simply most likely can’t even see it on TV. But it surely’s there. It’s within the DNA. And that’s what issues. Oh, and you too can simply head over to the Star Wars website to see a couple of extra close-ups.

The sixth episode of Skeleton Crew is now streaming on Disney+.

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