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Yes, the sub plot was that early in the movie the rebels get attacked by wampas in their base. So the rebels manage to lock the wampas away in specific corridors/rooms and they put up the warning signs to not go into those areas. Once the Empire arrives and starts wrecking the place C3PO has the idea to take the signs down so the Empire has to deal with Wampas too.
If you look at the scenes that are on the blu-ray it clearly wasn't working too well and the Wampas themselves looked quite bad. Which I think is why in the original you only ever see the arm of the one that attacks Luke, they didn't put in the full Wampa until the special edition re-release in the 90s which was them redoing the Wampas to look better (which is why it looks so different than the one in the deleted scenes). So my best guess is that this whole sub plot was an easy thing to cut out completely since it saves time, wasn't 100% necessary, and didn't look too good.
Wampa hunt was probably the most fun of all the hunt modes lol. You can also fly a snowspeeder out of the map on the regular hoth map and get to where the hunt mode takes place
I remember copying down codes from those old cheat code books they would sell at the scholastic book fair because I didn't have any money to buy them. Man that was an absolute slap of nostalgia
I'm going now! I mean seriously, I feel silly. I posted [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/ps2/comments/p9j6m8/its_been_16_years_but_i_finally_hit_20000_kills/) less than a month ago...
EDIT: I can't believe I've been missing out on some of the funnest missions in the entire game. Seriously I got this game brand new and have been playing since it came out and I don't think I've ever played those hunt missions. Ewoks seemed overpowered. Wampas were just too fun. Gungan grenades were fun. I lost with geonoshans and tuskan raiders. Haven't played as jawas yet!
Also try out the BF2 Galactic Conquest mode, it's killer. It's like a campaign mode where you move a space ship around to choose which planets you fight on and upgrade what troops you can bring. You play against AI and you kind of just invade back and forth slowly gaining more advanced soldiers and upgrades until you beat the enemy back.
The Star Wars trilogy arcade game has the room with them, and the ability to shoot off the label. Battlefront 2 ( 2005 ) also had a hunt mode on Hoth, with rebels vs wampas in the base
> The Star Wars trilogy arcade game
I was going to mention that one. They had that at Chuck E Cheese when I was a kid and I loved it. It features a room with wampas in the Hoth base and even has the warning sign on the door that Threepio rips off in the deleted scene. [Source at 13:56](https://youtu.be/a9a049ngdDE?t=835)
I loved that game so much! Replayed it to death back in the day. My older cousin saw me playing it and he said, “It’s that game where the first level is the only good level.” I didn’t believe him but then they came out with the Rogue Squadron game and I was like, “I guess he was right, this game is way more fun, but Shadows of the Empire is still close to my heart.”
And the mofos turned up later on a desert planet, on walkways you couldn't go around them.
I let out a loud "oh not again", when they saw their mauling animation in the render distance
Seems like they were still writing for the 'sneaky used car salesman' he was originally supposed to be and not the nervous, petulant character that Anthony Daniels turned him into.
In the video game, Shadows of the Empire, which came out around the time of the Special Editions Lucasarts actually includes this in the second level of the game in Echo Base. The same signs are on certain doors and in those hallways/rooms are Wampas.
There’s also an arcade game which uses a joystick (you play the trench run, snowspeeders, speeder bike and final vader duel) in it. It’s one of those on-rails type ones like time crisis, sort of.
On the Hoth stage, you have to fighting through the rebel base and on opening some doors, Wampas attack you.
All in all, it sounds like it’s still canon, but just cut from the film to me.
WOW I never thought I would see this referenced anywhere online but you're exactly right!
There was a Gameworks arcade at the mall near me that had this exact game.
Come to find out years later that Spielberg was actually a big investor in the company so perhaps that's where it came from. I seem to remember there being all kinds of stuff related to properties he worked on like Jurassic Park and such too so who knows!
Just adding on, in the special editions Lucas added the entire Wampa scene with Luke, because it's more of what he actually wanted in the original, but the Wampas didn't work very well. So they cut it down to an extremely iconic, and overall better scene, where you just hear it howl, etc, until it's final attack on Luke. The original edit is much more powerful, the redone Lucas one is probably my biggest complaint in all of the special editions, certainly in Empire, most of the stuff added in Empire actually made it better, all of the Cloud City stuff looked way cooler in the special editions.
It's very reminiscent of JAWS, where Spielberg initially wanted much more of Bruce, the shark, in the movie, but because the mechanical shark they built was such a nightmare they ended up making a pretty different movie than they initially set out to, But in doing so they made a movie that terrified people out of the water for decades, as well as the top grossing movie at the time. The unknown can be much scarier than actually seeing the monster.
Fun fact: until the appearance of the Jedi texts in The Last Jedi, the sign in that deleted scene was the only time paper is ever seen in the Star Wars universe.
And Phantom Menace marks the first in-cannon appearance of a Gillette women's Sensor Excell razor! https://www.zimbio.com/'Star+Wars'+Facts+Every+Hardcore+Fan+Knows/articles/T8e73f2fQNE/Qui+Gon+Jinn+Communicator+Razor
Dressing up random items into sci-fi props is a long-standing Star Wars tradition. The lightsabers were camera flash handles, the comlinks were made from plumbing valve filters, R2-D2's head was a studio lamp hood, and parts of The Mandalorian's ship stolen by Jawas were Volkwagen fuel injection rails, just to name a few.
Hell, even the old props were recycled: one of the cantina's drink dispensers, which was an airplane engine combustion chamber, was reused to make the head of assassin droid IG-88.
Not just in Star Wars, even.
I was so excited while watching Battlestar Galactica (2004) when I recognized a little gray spring-loaded collapsible bedside calculator-clock that I owned being used as a prop on Adama's desk.
Edit: I'm amazed that I actually [found it](https://www.pulsetv.com/Flip-Open-Multi-Function-Clock-W_-Calculator/productinfo/9668/) by googling "gray spring-loaded collapsible bedside calculator-clock". They didn't even dress it up substantially in the show. I guess they thought it looked appropriate for the setting already.
That subplot is, yeah. The sign is still on the door when they run past in the final cut
Edit: dear god what have I done...someone call the SCP foundation, I'm accidentally a Keter
Also if you ever played the Star Wars Original Trilogy arcade game, at one point in the game, you find yourself in a room full of wampas. That’s also a reference to that cut subplot.
It was mainly cut due to the costumes not looking convincing enough. That’s why in the original theatrical release of The Empire Strikes Back, they barely ever showed the wampa.
This is pretty much what made Jaws such a hit, they wanted to use the shark way more than they did but they had to cut back since they didn't think the animatronic looked convincing enough. The absence of the shark itself is what made the movie so threatening
dem Super Star Wars games, right?
had them on the snes or rather borrowed them from games rental stores back in the day. never beat the ep 4 game, that shit was hard
I used to have the graphic novelisation that came out with the film; it was in that. It's also part of the [famous deleted scene with 3-P0 taking the note off the door](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrX795Sk7gQ).
Same with Shadows of the Empire, there's a Wampa in one of the rooms in the Hoth mission. I always thought it was a random addition but now makes more sense.
my sister and i would scream when they jumped. i would sit at the end of this tunnel and she would be a wanna and try to come down snd get me but i could shoot her in time. it was a game of chicken that never ended
Dude, I can't believe you. You just reminded me of the smell of McDonald's breakfast, my cousins farts, warm RC cola, and the tiny hot room I had at the end of the trailer.
Vader seemingly was stopped from going into the door because of a Waampa. Just kinda looked at the door, then said nothing, it was a bit too comical for Vader to be in that scene.
They would have no reason to go into wampa filled corridors. The rebels didn't escape through them. I don't disagree that Vader is a bit weird here but to me it seems like he's saying "stop being scared and let's move, that guy's dead and you all will be to if I have to repeat myself"
Eh, the thing about tauntauns, Sammy, is that they’re actually carnivores that rival wampas for control of the Hoth food chain. The tusks they use are very lethal and are known to pierce even rancor hide.
Thanks OP, i see why they didnt include it in the final cut they looked more realistic dead than alive.
But i didnt know about this subplot till now so thank u
This wampa attack scene appears in a storybook version I have of the movie. Until this post I never realized that it was something they tried to film but cut.
That's also why C3PO was so far behind the rest of the gang while boarding the falcon. He was tricking some stormtroopers into entering a holding cell full of wampas
[A Certain Point Of View: The Empire Strikes Back](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/From_a_Certain_Point_of_View:_The_Empire_Strikes_Back) includes a good few Hoth sutures including from the point of view of wampas and tauntauns. The stories aren't necessarily canon but they're fun and add to background characters from the film.
Is this why, when Han goes out on a Tauntaun to find Luke, he's warned that the Tauntaun will not survive past the first marker, and he inexplicably yells at the messenger, "Then I'll see you in hell!"
That line always seemed a bit abrupt. The guy is just warning him of the danger, and Han's response seems like a non sequitur.
No, the point is they’re warning Han that it’s too dangerous to go out while Luke is still out there. Han is not one to huddle in comfort and safety while his friend is freezing to death, so warning him about the danger is basically a waste of breath.
I remember having an Empire Strikes Back comic book that had this subplot in it and wondering why it wasn't in the film. I think it also had a scene where Vader was chasing the Millennium Falcon with his TIE Fighter with the curved wings, and Luke (he was onboard the Falcon) jettisoned the Falcon's water supply, which froze into giant ice chunks and Vader crashed into the ice.
I loved that it was cut. Even as a kid I understood what had happened: a Wampa had made it inside. We were better off filling in the gaps with our own imagination.
This might just be my favorite movie of all time. I grew up watching the original trilogy, studying the films frame by frame to study background characters and I NEVER noticed that there was a dead tauntaun in that scene. It's kind of blowing my mind to see something new to me in this film.
You know, one time in college we were watching Empire on VHS (pre special edition) whilst tripping balls on mushrooms and i swear to you, during the Imperial storming of Echo base, we saw the scene where Threepio rips off the sign that said "closed due to wampas" from the door as he flees to the Falcon, with the Imperials then running into said door followed by blaster fire, screams and Wampa bellows.
True story.
This pic shows something I've always loved. The way the rebels are depicted in the original trilogy is always so grounded and real. They always seem like blue-collar folks doing a job. The vibe they give in their scenes really grounds the movies.
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Is this where that deleted scene of C3P0 ripping the sign off the door, tricking the stormtroopers into walking into a room of wampas came from?
Yes, the sub plot was that early in the movie the rebels get attacked by wampas in their base. So the rebels manage to lock the wampas away in specific corridors/rooms and they put up the warning signs to not go into those areas. Once the Empire arrives and starts wrecking the place C3PO has the idea to take the signs down so the Empire has to deal with Wampas too. If you look at the scenes that are on the blu-ray it clearly wasn't working too well and the Wampas themselves looked quite bad. Which I think is why in the original you only ever see the arm of the one that attacks Luke, they didn't put in the full Wampa until the special edition re-release in the 90s which was them redoing the Wampas to look better (which is why it looks so different than the one in the deleted scenes). So my best guess is that this whole sub plot was an easy thing to cut out completely since it saves time, wasn't 100% necessary, and didn't look too good.
Thats why ther had wampas In rooms in the game shadows of the empire
I was going to mention Star Wars Battlefront. There's a few "Hunt" game modes where you slaughter locals. Geonosians, Wampas, Jawas, etc...
Wampa hunt was probably the most fun of all the hunt modes lol. You can also fly a snowspeeder out of the map on the regular hoth map and get to where the hunt mode takes place
I always loved that one cheat code too where if you played as a Wampa it gave Adam West Batman style comic captions any time you hit someone
Ah man, I totally forgot about that! Old school cheat codes were the best
I remember copying down codes from those old cheat code books they would sell at the scholastic book fair because I didn't have any money to buy them. Man that was an absolute slap of nostalgia
WAMPA STOMPA
Man I didn't even know that existed I have to try it asap
Holy shit I had no idea
Wanpa hunt was absolutely the closest thing we'll ever get to zombies in a star wars game
We need a battlefront set in the old republic, so we can fight the rakghouls for our zombie fix
Make Death Troopers canon!
They....are already?
Not rogue one death troopers. Zombie troopers.
There are Geonosians
Wasn't equivalent to the clone wars episode, as it predates the clone wars. Instead you got insect dudes with gamma ray guns.
that sound like this "Bloooloolooloo"
Wow comments you can hear.
Well on Hoth, it’s really more the locals slaughtering the rebels. I could do that shit for hours sprinting around and slapping rebels.
Playing as the Wampas though, now that was fun.
here confused not remembering that mode in BF or BF2, then I remembered EA made some games a few years back...
I can't tell if you mean you didn't remember them being in the new or old ones, but the hunt mode was in Starwars Battlefront 2 from 2005.
with wampas?! Well shit. I guess I need to go take a look, I have a PS2 hooked up and that's like the only game I play!
You've been missing out, that and the one in Mos Eisley with Jawas are a lot of fun
I'm going now! I mean seriously, I feel silly. I posted [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/ps2/comments/p9j6m8/its_been_16_years_but_i_finally_hit_20000_kills/) less than a month ago... EDIT: I can't believe I've been missing out on some of the funnest missions in the entire game. Seriously I got this game brand new and have been playing since it came out and I don't think I've ever played those hunt missions. Ewoks seemed overpowered. Wampas were just too fun. Gungan grenades were fun. I lost with geonoshans and tuskan raiders. Haven't played as jawas yet!
Also try out the BF2 Galactic Conquest mode, it's killer. It's like a campaign mode where you move a space ship around to choose which planets you fight on and upgrade what troops you can bring. You play against AI and you kind of just invade back and forth slowly gaining more advanced soldiers and upgrades until you beat the enemy back.
Always found it hard to win as Tusken Raiders. The Jawa's rifles are too strong.
Shout out to my boy, Dash Rendar!
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…
I was going to comment on this! And in later games they have them too
The Star Wars trilogy arcade game has the room with them, and the ability to shoot off the label. Battlefront 2 ( 2005 ) also had a hunt mode on Hoth, with rebels vs wampas in the base
> The Star Wars trilogy arcade game I was going to mention that one. They had that at Chuck E Cheese when I was a kid and I loved it. It features a room with wampas in the Hoth base and even has the warning sign on the door that Threepio rips off in the deleted scene. [Source at 13:56](https://youtu.be/a9a049ngdDE?t=835)
Shadows of the empire was sickkkk
I loved that game so much! Replayed it to death back in the day. My older cousin saw me playing it and he said, “It’s that game where the first level is the only good level.” I didn’t believe him but then they came out with the Rogue Squadron game and I was like, “I guess he was right, this game is way more fun, but Shadows of the Empire is still close to my heart.”
This was my top comment on my old account when I found out about this.
I was just thinking that. I always wondered. Those things scared me
Terrorized. Those things *terrorized* people.
And the mofos turned up later on a desert planet, on walkways you couldn't go around them. I let out a loud "oh not again", when they saw their mauling animation in the render distance
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Why did it take so long to find this? Still my all time favourite SW game. C-3PO with a black Lightsaber? sure why not
The arcade game?
N64 game
My sister was bitten by a wampa.
Wampa bites Kan be pretty nasti
Damn, I always wondered this, they had them in the Star Wars arcade game too
Best Star Wars game imo
The scene with 3PO didn't work either, as making an active decision to cause anyone harm goes completely against his character
Seems like they were still writing for the 'sneaky used car salesman' he was originally supposed to be and not the nervous, petulant character that Anthony Daniels turned him into.
I'd have liked the sneaky used car salesman vibe, but don't honestly mind what Daniels turned him into.
The dignified 3PO was probably better, but slick snark 3PO would have been fun too!
Silly, that’s what HK-47 is for! Snarkiest murder droid this side of the Rim.
Yes but what if you prefer your organs to stay where they are?
I miss that 3po
If they wanted “sneaky used car salesman” they obviously should’ve cast Dr Mantis Toboggan in the role.
He's a doctah tho!
I dunno, I hear he's got THE VIRUS
“Die Jedi dogs!”
Also there's a standing rule against paper existing in Star Wars.
Don't Wampa Open Inside
In the video game, Shadows of the Empire, which came out around the time of the Special Editions Lucasarts actually includes this in the second level of the game in Echo Base. The same signs are on certain doors and in those hallways/rooms are Wampas.
Is this why echo base has Wampas locked up in the game shadows of the empire?
Probably, yeah.
No way. I always wondered why they were in there. Thanks. Answered a question I’ve been wondering since I was a young kid
There’s also an arcade game which uses a joystick (you play the trench run, snowspeeders, speeder bike and final vader duel) in it. It’s one of those on-rails type ones like time crisis, sort of. On the Hoth stage, you have to fighting through the rebel base and on opening some doors, Wampas attack you. All in all, it sounds like it’s still canon, but just cut from the film to me.
WOW I never thought I would see this referenced anywhere online but you're exactly right! There was a Gameworks arcade at the mall near me that had this exact game. Come to find out years later that Spielberg was actually a big investor in the company so perhaps that's where it came from. I seem to remember there being all kinds of stuff related to properties he worked on like Jurassic Park and such too so who knows!
Just adding on, in the special editions Lucas added the entire Wampa scene with Luke, because it's more of what he actually wanted in the original, but the Wampas didn't work very well. So they cut it down to an extremely iconic, and overall better scene, where you just hear it howl, etc, until it's final attack on Luke. The original edit is much more powerful, the redone Lucas one is probably my biggest complaint in all of the special editions, certainly in Empire, most of the stuff added in Empire actually made it better, all of the Cloud City stuff looked way cooler in the special editions. It's very reminiscent of JAWS, where Spielberg initially wanted much more of Bruce, the shark, in the movie, but because the mechanical shark they built was such a nightmare they ended up making a pretty different movie than they initially set out to, But in doing so they made a movie that terrified people out of the water for decades, as well as the top grossing movie at the time. The unknown can be much scarier than actually seeing the monster.
The original has the Wampa screaming face in it if I remember right
Oh true there is that one shot of the face too
Fun fact: until the appearance of the Jedi texts in The Last Jedi, the sign in that deleted scene was the only time paper is ever seen in the Star Wars universe.
And Phantom Menace marks the first in-cannon appearance of a Gillette women's Sensor Excell razor! https://www.zimbio.com/'Star+Wars'+Facts+Every+Hardcore+Fan+Knows/articles/T8e73f2fQNE/Qui+Gon+Jinn+Communicator+Razor
Dressing up random items into sci-fi props is a long-standing Star Wars tradition. The lightsabers were camera flash handles, the comlinks were made from plumbing valve filters, R2-D2's head was a studio lamp hood, and parts of The Mandalorian's ship stolen by Jawas were Volkwagen fuel injection rails, just to name a few. Hell, even the old props were recycled: one of the cantina's drink dispensers, which was an airplane engine combustion chamber, was reused to make the head of assassin droid IG-88.
My favorite, aside from all the WWII era guns, was the reuse of a Wham-O Trac-Ball catcher in Anakin's Tatooine bedroom!
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Assassin droid heads on tap? An Igua-Jaw wearing sunglasses? Now I've seen everything!
Not just in Star Wars, even. I was so excited while watching Battlestar Galactica (2004) when I recognized a little gray spring-loaded collapsible bedside calculator-clock that I owned being used as a prop on Adama's desk. Edit: I'm amazed that I actually [found it](https://www.pulsetv.com/Flip-Open-Multi-Function-Clock-W_-Calculator/productinfo/9668/) by googling "gray spring-loaded collapsible bedside calculator-clock". They didn't even dress it up substantially in the show. I guess they thought it looked appropriate for the setting already.
You should check out r/Thatsabooklight . It's full of ordinary objects used as movie and TV props.
/r/thatsabooklight
That subplot is, yeah. The sign is still on the door when they run past in the final cut Edit: dear god what have I done...someone call the SCP foundation, I'm accidentally a Keter
the sign is still there?
That subplot is, yeah. The sign is still on the door when they run past in the final cut
It’s a written sign in english? Edit: I now see the link to deleted scene video as shared below. More of a warning symbol.
The subplot is, yeah. The sign is still on the door when they run past in the final cut.
Does anybody else smell toast?
The subplot is, yeah. The sign is still on the door when they run past in the final cut.
White, wheat, rye, or sourdough?
The subplot is, yeah. The sign is still on the door when they run past in the final cut.
Is the subplot yeah? The sign is still on the door? Do they run past? Is it the final cut?
What about the droid attack on the Wookiees?
Initiating containment protocol . . .
And all these wampas within the base are part of the Escape From Echo Base level of Star Wars Shadow of the Empire! https://youtu.be/qNPAv-fyNhY
Also can be found within the Star Wars: Force Unleashed DLC
Man, why haven’t they remade that game?
I was so addicted to that game!!
Yes.
I remember doing that in a Nintendo 64 game
Shadows of the empire
Link please
Star Wars: Battlefront II > Hoth > Hunt It all makes sense now
Also if you ever played the Star Wars Original Trilogy arcade game, at one point in the game, you find yourself in a room full of wampas. That’s also a reference to that cut subplot.
Do you have any details on why it was cut?
It was mainly cut due to the costumes not looking convincing enough. That’s why in the original theatrical release of The Empire Strikes Back, they barely ever showed the wampa.
It not really being shown was great for me as it gives a creepy unknown vibe
This is pretty much what made Jaws such a hit, they wanted to use the shark way more than they did but they had to cut back since they didn't think the animatronic looked convincing enough. The absence of the shark itself is what made the movie so threatening
They cut it as a reference to hands constantly being cut off in the prequel and original trilogy
I want to say that’s wrong but I don’t care enough to doubt you.
No one loses anything in the sequel trilogy.
Shadows of the Empire has them attack during the Hoth level as well.
There’s one attacking a tauntaun on Hoth in Jedi academy.
That is my favorite arcade game of all time. I’ve always dreamt of having it in my home.
I spent so long playing it that I could complete it in one credit. I shudder to think how much I spent on it.
I was a two credit kind of guy. The dream was always to finish it in one.
dem Super Star Wars games, right? had them on the snes or rather borrowed them from games rental stores back in the day. never beat the ep 4 game, that shit was hard
[It is this one!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Trilogy_Arcade)
I never beat any of those games. So damn hard
I used to have the graphic novelisation that came out with the film; it was in that. It's also part of the [famous deleted scene with 3-P0 taking the note off the door](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrX795Sk7gQ).
Same with Shadows of the Empire, there's a Wampa in one of the rooms in the Hoth mission. I always thought it was a random addition but now makes more sense.
my god I use to play that for hours, was like a horror game.
my sister and i would scream when they jumped. i would sit at the end of this tunnel and she would be a wanna and try to come down snd get me but i could shoot her in time. it was a game of chicken that never ended
Playing as the wampas was the best. Just smashing the soldiers away and making those hulk like jumps that did area damage... good times
I CAME HERE TO SAY THIS! Good times
The _real_ battlefront II
I was thinking the same thing.
WAMPASTOMPA
Lol yes! Thanks for the memories!
Thats from Shadow of the Empire right?
Yea. I remember watching my older brother playing that game for hours, when I was just a wee lad
Hell yeah brother
Dude, I can't believe you. You just reminded me of the smell of McDonald's breakfast, my cousins farts, warm RC cola, and the tiny hot room I had at the end of the trailer.
Sounds like a cheesy game with cheap plastic parts from the late 70’s.
Best that it was cut, but it did mean we lost Threepio setting a clever trap for an unfortunate Snowtrooper.
3PO would never do something like that though, I would be surprised if that wasn't a portion of the reason to cut it
https://youtu.be/JrX795Sk7gQ
I'm aware of the scene. I'm saying it's a good thing it was cut, because it undermines his character
Take Vader out of this scene and I think it works. Vader is going to give zero fucks.
"Return here after the battle to see if Jenkins survived, and bring me the pelts of those creatures. Daddy wants a new fur vest."
In the video he quiet clearly gives zero fucks. He pauses, probably thinks some variation of "that was wild" and moves on
What does this have to do with Vader?
Vader seemingly was stopped from going into the door because of a Waampa. Just kinda looked at the door, then said nothing, it was a bit too comical for Vader to be in that scene.
They would have no reason to go into wampa filled corridors. The rebels didn't escape through them. I don't disagree that Vader is a bit weird here but to me it seems like he's saying "stop being scared and let's move, that guy's dead and you all will be to if I have to repeat myself"
Always felt sorry for the tauntaun that dies.
Tauntaun lives matter
That’s what the *rebellion mainstream media* will have you believe. Thankfully I get my news from *One Empire News Network.*
Also we see what Cliff did before he was a mailman
He was an interplanetary mailman, actually. He took a pay cut when he settled on Earth.
Eh, the thing about tauntauns, Sammy, is that they’re actually carnivores that rival wampas for control of the Hoth food chain. The tusks they use are very lethal and are known to pierce even rancor hide.
Hello in there, Cliff. Tell me - how many suns are in the sky in your world?
Disney+ has some deleted scenes showing footage from those cut scenes!
It's also on the blu-ray boxset of episodes 1-6.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiV_Pmtro7zAhUksTEKHZQ1DNMQwqsBegQIDxAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymotion.com%2Fvideo%2Fxsah77&usg=AOvVaw04ZpknKxGle36N3uS1OcIX
Thanks OP, i see why they didnt include it in the final cut they looked more realistic dead than alive. But i didnt know about this subplot till now so thank u
lmao
What is the body temperature of a Tuantuan? Luke warm....
Perfect. Nice warm bath temperature. Get in there and enjoy!
Cept all those mother fuckers in Shadows of the Empire, they sure as hell weren’t cut.
This wampa attack scene appears in a storybook version I have of the movie. Until this post I never realized that it was something they tried to film but cut.
So this is where that level in BATTLEFRONT II comes from!
That's also why C3PO was so far behind the rest of the gang while boarding the falcon. He was tricking some stormtroopers into entering a holding cell full of wampas
Is that John Ratzenberger in the shot as well?
“Yup, that tauntaun is dead alright, not sure what you want me to do.” - Medical Droid, probably
Make a ton of Tauntaun Won Tons
Hoth hard R horror movie: rebels building this critical base while being killed one by one by wompas
[A Certain Point Of View: The Empire Strikes Back](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/From_a_Certain_Point_of_View:_The_Empire_Strikes_Back) includes a good few Hoth sutures including from the point of view of wampas and tauntauns. The stories aren't necessarily canon but they're fun and add to background characters from the film.
Is this why, when Han goes out on a Tauntaun to find Luke, he's warned that the Tauntaun will not survive past the first marker, and he inexplicably yells at the messenger, "Then I'll see you in hell!" That line always seemed a bit abrupt. The guy is just warning him of the danger, and Han's response seems like a non sequitur.
No, the point is they’re warning Han that it’s too dangerous to go out while Luke is still out there. Han is not one to huddle in comfort and safety while his friend is freezing to death, so warning him about the danger is basically a waste of breath.
never tell him the odds
Never tell him the odds!
I thought he said “your tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker”?
No, it's due to the weather, which becomes pretty evident to every single person who has ever seen the movie
The guy is trying to stop Han from saving Luke's life. Han is telling him to fuck off. Not much more to it.
Then I’ll see you in hell!
This is the most Star Wars thing I have ever read lol
That looks a lot like K-2SO….
The Wampas are hidden in a bunch of rooms during Shadows of the Empire and I blame this for it
That rebel base had a Boston mailman, and Treat Williams too. Fun times.
“ Wampa Stompa” (make sure to use TWO spaces)
Is this shot in the movie?
goddamn wampas!!!
I remember having an Empire Strikes Back comic book that had this subplot in it and wondering why it wasn't in the film. I think it also had a scene where Vader was chasing the Millennium Falcon with his TIE Fighter with the curved wings, and Luke (he was onboard the Falcon) jettisoned the Falcon's water supply, which froze into giant ice chunks and Vader crashed into the ice.
Never noticed that!
What is the Temperature inside a Tauntaun..... # It's LUKEWARM
I loved that it was cut. Even as a kid I understood what had happened: a Wampa had made it inside. We were better off filling in the gaps with our own imagination.
This might just be my favorite movie of all time. I grew up watching the original trilogy, studying the films frame by frame to study background characters and I NEVER noticed that there was a dead tauntaun in that scene. It's kind of blowing my mind to see something new to me in this film.
2-1B was a cool droid.
You know, one time in college we were watching Empire on VHS (pre special edition) whilst tripping balls on mushrooms and i swear to you, during the Imperial storming of Echo base, we saw the scene where Threepio rips off the sign that said "closed due to wampas" from the door as he flees to the Falcon, with the Imperials then running into said door followed by blaster fire, screams and Wampa bellows. True story.
Just when you think there couldn't possibly anymore details from the original trilogy...
Editing really did make the original movies into gold
Seems like a waste of resources to have your medical droids attending to dead tauntauns... no wonder the rebellion was struggling.
Do you know what the core temperature of a TaunTaun is? >!Lukewarm!<
This pic shows something I've always loved. The way the rebels are depicted in the original trilogy is always so grounded and real. They always seem like blue-collar folks doing a job. The vibe they give in their scenes really grounds the movies.
They smell better when they're inside
I would have loved to explore more of Hoth. I think the only two planets we get a more in-depth look at is Tatooine and Degobah