Sarlacc
It first appeared in the film Return of the Jedi (1983) as a multi-tentacled alien beast whose immense, gaping maw is lined with several rows of sharp teeth, inhabiting the Great Pit of Carkoon, a hollow in the sand of the desert planet Tatooine.
[4] A Sarlacc reproduces by releasing spores through outer space, which arrive on a planet or asteroid, and there excavate a pit to capture prey.
[5] Steve Sansweet's Star Wars Encyclopedia describes the Sarlacc as an "omnivorous, multi-tentacled creature with needle-sharp teeth and a large beak".
[6] The Sarlacc rests at the base of a giant pit where the entirety of its body is buried except for the gaping mouth, which may reach three meters (10 feet) in diameter.
[8] The Sarlacc's stomach is lined with vessels that attach themselves to a swallowed victim and maws for quick digestion or breaking apart of large prey.
The stomach also contains neurotoxins, which induce hallucinations in prey which "suggest that the Sarlacc somehow absorbs the intelligence of all its victims, who live on in disembodied torment".
As Fett is digested, the creature converses with him mentally in the voice of an alien named Susejo, eaten by the Sarlacc four thousand years earlier.
Shortly after the execution of an unknown alien named Grubbat Fhilch, the Sarlacc releases a spore that attaches to an Imperial stormtrooper's dewback.
The first episode of The Book of Boba Fett shows a scene of the title character inside the Sarlacc's innards, as he breathes from a dead stormtrooper's respirator and escapes from the pit by blasting through with his flamethrower.
[4] Special effects artists Stuart Freeborn, Phil Tippett, and the crew of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) constructed a pit in the desert sands of Yuma, Arizona, that contained a gaping mouth with jagged teeth and tentacles.
"[15] Actress Carrie Fisher recalled that many of the crew and stuntmen who fell into the creature during filming suffered broken legs and sprained ankles.
Players collect points for battling their way through Gamorrean guards, Boba Fett, and a Nikto on Jabba the Hutt's sail barge, pushing them overboard into a cardboard Sarlacc.
[20] Hollywood journalist and humor writer Peter Biskind muses that George Lucas went to great extremes to remove aspects of sex and sexuality from the plot of the Star Wars films.
"[2] Premiere magazine reviewer Tim Bissell complained, "Lucas sent his trilogy’s most arresting character Boba Fett to a "death" so inglorious—falling headlong into the vagina dentata of Tatooine's Sarlacc—that its only payoff was a burp gag.
[22][23] In the TV series Ghost Wars (2017–2018), Billy McGrath (performed by Kim Coates) refers to the inability of people to leave town due to the events triggered by the earthquake.
Lego released a set titled Desert Skiff & Sarlacc Pit featuring Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Lando, Chewbacca, and Boba Fett.
