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Great Pit of Carkoon

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Great Pit of Carkoon
General information
Location

Dune Sea, Tatooine

Usage
Era(s)
[Source]
"You will, therefore, be taken to the Dune Sea and cast into the Pit of Carkoon, the resting place of the all powerful Sarlacc."
―C-3PO's translation of Jabba the Hutt's words to Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Chewbacca[src]

The Great Pit of Carkoon was located within the Dune Sea on the planet Tatooine. The large depression in the sand was the home of the rapacious, if slow-eating, sarlacc of Tatooine.

Its proximity to Jabba's Palace, paired with the torturous death provided by the sarlacc, made it an ideal spot for executions to be carried out for Jabba the Hutt's pleasure.

It would be the place of the Skirmish at Carkoon, and the subsequent death of Jabba.

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[edit] Behind the scenes

Luke Skywalker looks down into the maw of the sarlacc.

The sarlacc went through a series of changes when George Lucas re-released the original trilogy as the special edition on VHS in 1997. Several additional tentacles and an extension with a beak-like tongue were added.

Note that while the original Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi showed Boba Fett falling in the pit and then lost from view, leaving some freedom to Expanded Universe authors to retcon his escape, the Special Edition CGI beak-maw actually is shown to swallow Fett. However, this makes little difference, as the beak-tongue's insides are the same as those of the pit in general.

Filming the Great Pit for Return of the Jedi took place in the Yuma Desert in Arizona in April 1982.

The Pit was set to be located in a Rakatan temple on Tatooine, and guarding the Tatooine Star Map in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. However, the Sarlacc was replaced by a Krayt dragon, and the Rakatan Temple by the Krayt dragon's cave full of ancient sith artifacts.[source?]

The Great Pit of Carkoon was originally supposed to be called the "Sloth Pit," but this was later changed prior to the release of the script.[1]

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[edit] Notes and references

  1. ↑ "The Ultimate Return of the Jedi Insider's Guide" - Star Wars Insider 67
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