12 Star Wars Original Trilogy Easter Eggs You Need To See

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00:00The original Star Wars films, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi

00:04boast incredible designs and an incredible sense of world building. Of course, that does mean an

00:09abundance of easter eggs and references. Now, with the power of the internet, you might be

00:12thinking every last one of these has been found, but, well, no doubt the comments will let me know.

00:17I'm Scott from WhatCulture.com and these are 12 Star Wars Original Trilogy Easter Eggs You Need to

00:22See. Number 12, The Crowdsurfing Stormtrooper. The additional shots of various planets from the

00:27special edition of Return of the Jedi tend to divide people, but there are some straight-up

00:31fun additions tucked away inside. In the bottom of the Coruscant clip, you can make out a stormtrooper

00:36being jostled around on top of the crowd. Whether it's crowd surfing or just an empty suit being

00:40waved around in celebration is unclear. Either way, it adds something to some otherwise plain shots of

00:45crowds. Number 11, 1138. A nod to George Lucas' first feature film, THX 1138. Over time, this has

00:53become a popular number for all manner of directors to hide inside their films. Not to mention, it

00:57appears in all the Star Wars films so far. In A New Hope, it's Luke that says prisoner

01:02transfer from cell block 1138, but is also seen on a console behind R2-D2 and C-3PO on the Death Star.

01:08In Empire Strikes Back, we've got General Rican saying send rogues 10 and 11 to Station

01:123-8 and in Return of the Jedi, 1138 is on the side of Leia's helmet when she sneaks into Jabba's

01:18palace. Number 10, The Outrider Ship. Added in the special edition version of Mos Eisley,

01:23the Outrider can be seen taking off just before the Jedi mind trick scene. The Outrider itself is the

01:27personal ship of smuggler Dash Rendar, the protagonist of Star Wars book Shadows of the Empire, showing

01:32what happened between Empire Strikes Back's cliffhanger ending and the opening of Return

01:36of the Jedi. Number 9, Seeing Two Bobas. Alec Guinness famously hated the original Star

01:41Wars films, but Jeremy Bullock, who was most famous for playing Boba Fett, ended up connecting

01:45with fans despite never having his voice attached to the character. The reason comes from cameoing as

01:49additional roles, a pilot on the Tantive IV ship in Revenge of the Sith and he also played an

01:54Imperial officer in Empire Strikes Back. For fan theory's sake, let's just say that these two

01:58cameos are related. Officer Bullock could easily be the grandson of Pilot Bullock, with the latter

02:03betraying his family's ideals to join the Empire. See how easy it is for all this headcanon to take

02:07over? Number 8, IG-88's body on Cloud City. The robot bounty hunter who was employed by Darth Vader to

02:13find the Millennium Falcon, IG-88's head is actually a painted part of the Mos Eisley Cantina from Episode 4. It

02:19doesn't end there though. A white version of his body can be seen later on in the incinerator room

02:23on Cloud City, where Chewbacca finds all the blasted parts of C-3PO. The expanded universe

02:28provides some context to this cameo too. It turns out that the bounty hunter we see in the films is

02:32IG-88B, one of four identical assassin droids who were plotting to stage a droid revolution.

02:37He tracked Boba to Cloud City but was stopped from claiming the bounty on Han Solo when Fett tricked

02:42and destroyed him. Number 7, The Potato Asteroid. Yep, we Star Wars fans will even dissect the

02:47legitimacy of a fictional asteroid field. Turns out various sources have claimed the asteroid

02:52seen to the left here is a potato and the one in the foreground is a shoe. Though it's agreed that

02:57in this specific scene these two asteroids are not potatoes or shoes, various potatoes were actually

03:01used as asteroids in a variety of other shots across the films. Number 6, Ben Burt and the Wilhelm

03:07Scream. Ben Burt was the sound designer on all the Star Wars films, so naturally he had a rather big

03:12impact on the saga. Lightsaber whooshes, blaster pews and R2-D2's bleeps all came from Burt and you can

03:17see him on Endor in Return of the Jedi shouting freeze at our heroes in the shield generator room.

03:22Speaking of sound design though, once you know what the Wilhelm Scream is you can't not hear it

03:26in thousands of films. Originating in western distant drums, Burt resurrected this noise for

03:30Star Wars and it's used a staggering amount of times. Number 5, Klaatu Barada Nikto.

03:35Harrison Ford once said to George Lucas, you can type this sh** but you can't say it,

03:39which gets straight to the heart of Star Wars naming conventions. Point being, there is a

03:43ridiculous number of aliens with names that are little more than lazy variations of real world

03:47nouns. One of the best however is a reference to the 1951 classic, The Day The Earth Stood Still.

03:52Two of Jabba's goons are called Klaatu and Barada, and bonus fact, the former was played by Corey D

03:57Williams, son of Billy. Together though, these names invoke that film's iconic, destruction-stopping

04:02phrase, Klaatu Barada Nikto. Number 4, a DVD-only easter egg. Hidden on the original trilogy DVDs,

04:08head to the special features disc available in the original DVD release from 2004 but

04:12not subsequent releases and select video game and still galleries and then enter 1138.

04:18You'll get a series of outtakes and other behind the scenes footage from the shooting of the films,

04:22and there are some real gems tucked away inside. In terms of humour, we see Boba Fett chasing an Ewok

04:26and Vader struggling to lift the Emperor, but there's also some insight into the filmmaking process.

04:31Number 3, the shoe in the space battle. The finale of Return of the Jedi is probably the most

04:35impressive space battle in the entire saga. Feeling incredibly visceral and narratively

04:39weighty, it may come as a surprise that amongst the X-Wings and TIE Fighters is a shoe and a yogurt

04:45pot. At least that's according to ILM's Ken Ralston, as he snuck the items in just for sh** and giggles.

04:50He literally said, it was my way of just saying, see what you can get away with. And he really did.

04:55Number 2, 327. We all know about 1138, but there's another pesky number hidden throughout the saga,

05:01number 327. In A New Hope, the Millennium Falcon docks in the Death Star at docking bay 327,

05:06while a few years later in Empire Strikes Back, it's on Cloud City's platform 327. 327 also pops

05:12up at various other points, primarily in the expanded universe. But what does number 327 mean?

05:17Well, it appears on the engine of a car inside George Lucas' Oscar-nominated,

05:20nostalgic throwback, American Graffiti. And number 1, posters in the Tantive IV.

05:25In the cockpit of the Tantive IV, the very first ship we see in the entirety of Star Wars,

05:29there are two posters. A universe breaking one for the film itself, and a Playboy centerfold.

05:34They're nigh on impossible to make out in the movie, with everything moving way too fast to see

05:38properly, but inspection of the original model of the ship verifies that it is indeed there.

05:42A sign of how, even in the pre-CGI days, visual effects designers would sneak in little things

05:47just for fans, the fact these come in the first few minutes of the movie means that you really had

05:51to pay attention.

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