Machook was an Ewok who participated in a conflict with the Lahsbees after the Battle of Endor. He shared a name with a figure of Ewok legend, one said to have been a hero who built the first tree village on Endor.
Machook is often incorrectly identified as Romba. He received his first Hasbro action figure in 2008, as part of an Ewok three-pack including Keoulkeech and Kettch.
There are two different Ewoks with similar facial features who have been identified as Romba. The first is a brown-hooded Ewok who was made into an action figure by Kenner, one of "the last seventeen."[2] This particularly short Ewok, who has a brown hood that ties together at the neck, appears in a scene where he mourns for Nanta who was killed. He was played by Debbie Lee Carrington.[3]
Image of Machook from the disputed card.
A DecipherCCG card produced years later identified Machook, a taller ewok and with a pinkish hood, as Romba,[4] while the original Romba was featured anonymously on another card.[5]
This misattribution was repeated in Star Wars Fact File 109. But in 2007, Leland Chee apparently corrected the situation by identifying Carrington's Ewok as Romba in time for her appearance at Celebration IV.[6] The same year, a new action figure of Romba was produced by Hasbro, again with the proper likeness.[7]