Fett escapes Sarlacc

[ACPin]

Posted on May 12, 2011.

Part 2 where a rebuild of the first part was done to correct several important details.

See if you can spot the changes!

Just have to build the other half of the pit and surrounding area.

Old Sarlacc pit from March 2002.

First teaser pic posted on May 7, 2011.

AC

PS. One of earlier MOCs that I've always wanted to revisit.

Edited May 13, 2011 by ACPin

[Darth Yogi]

Oh my god, this looks amazing, can't wait to see it finished.

[lightningtiger]

Excellent so far 'ACPin', can't wait to see the end result !

May the brick be with you !

[RileyC]

Looks great ACPin!

Im sure its going to look great finished and all those teeth look great!

Since when have you been on Flickr though?

[XimenaPaulina]

Looks to be a very promising project once again, can't wait to see the final product, I'm sure it's gonna be epic as

[Vindicare]

Damn you and your teaser pics! you a big fan of Kit Fisto?

[Brickdoctor]

Are you doing a mega-all-Tatooine dio?

[Captain Bayonet]

I'll be waiting to see the completed diorama. Looks quite impressive, even from this one shot. I am curious to know which piece you used for Boba's flamethrower.

Keep the Brick Alive!

~Bayonet

[Masked Builder]

Looks like a great start! Can't wait to see it. Is that a key chain Boba?

[KotZ]

I've always liked that scene from ROTJ, and Boba is awesome. How big are you making it?

[ACPin]

Oh my god, this looks amazing, can't wait to see it finished.

I've actually done the Sarlacc pit a long time ago and have planned on doing a better one.

Excellent so far 'ACPin', can't wait to see the end result !

May the brick be with you !

It's going to take awhile to finish as I've just had to do the first rebuild of the surrounding area around the mouth.

Looks great ACPin!

Im sure its going to look great finished and all those teeth look great!

Since when have you been on Flickr though?

Been on Flickr for as long as I've been on EB.

Looks to be a very promising project once again, can't wait to see the final product, I'm sure it's gonna be epic as

As epic as?

Damn you and your teaser pics! you a big fan of Kit Fisto?

What about Kit?

Are you doing a mega-all-Tatooine dio?

Who knows?

I'll be waiting to see the completed diorama. Looks quite impressive, even from this one shot. I am curious to know which piece you used for Boba's flamethrower.

Keep the Brick Alive!

~Bayonet

That's just a simple 1x1 plate with clip.

Looks like a great start! Can't wait to see it. Is that a key chain Boba?

Yes it is the key chain but will use the appropriate minifig in the final moc.

I've always liked that scene from ROTJ, and Boba is awesome. How big are you making it?

As it depicts Fett's escape, it's not gonna be very big at all.

AC

[prateek]

Looks great from what I can tell, and nice use of the 1x1 clip for the flamethrower! Can't wait for this to be completed!

[lysander]

AC

Nice work! If the back jet pad is on status, it will look much better.

By the way, how can you get the key chain away?

Edited May 9, 2011 by lysander

[Solscud007]

Nice work! If the back jet pad is on status, it will look much better.

By the way, how can you get the key chain away?

Just break it off with pliers.

[StoutFiles]

I've always liked that scene from ROTJ, and Boba is awesome. How big are you making it?

That scene never happened. Boba died in ROTJ, and only because of massive fan backlash has Lucas accepted the storyline of Boba escaping the pit. It has never been shown on screen, even though he contemplated having it in the Special Edition version of ROTJ. Thankfully he didn't, as the scene would be unnecessary and ruin the pacing of the film.

Looking good so far; I like the use of the flamethrower. Should the jetpack still be there though? I'm pretty sure it was blown up to begin the escape from the pit.

[Donut]

Thanks for the explanation StoutFiles! It would be a shame if Boba had met his original demise at the jaws of the Sarlaac, he deserves a more epic death. Though it seems this incident has not left Boba unscathed (hole on head ).

And to ACPin, I really admire your round the clock building. I am really looking forward to finished product!

[Fives]

I've got a good feeling about this! Can't wait to see it finished!

[ACPin]

Looks great from what I can tell, and nice use of the 1x1 clip for the flamethrower! Can't wait for this to be completed!

Tried using this first but it looked funny and from the reference pics the 1x1 clip looks more appropriate.

Nice work! If the back jet pad is on status, it will look much better.

By the way, how can you get the key chain away?

Just break it off with pliers.

That's the simplest way to do it.

That scene never happened. Boba died in ROTJ, and only because of massive fan backlash has Lucas accepted the storyline of Boba escaping the pit. It has never been shown on screen, even though he contemplated having it in the Special Edition version of ROTJ. Thankfully he didn't, as the scene would be unnecessary and ruin the pacing of the film.

Looking good so far; I like the use of the flamethrower. Should the jetpack still be there though? I'm pretty sure it was blown up to begin the escape from the pit.

I could be mistaken but IIRC, there was a comic illustration of his escape with the flamethrower on and flying off with his jetpack from the pit.

Thanks for the explanation StoutFiles! It would be a shame if Boba had met his original demise at the jaws of the Sarlaac, he deserves a more epic death. Though it seems this incident has not left Boba unscathed (hole on head ).

And to ACPin, I really admire your round the clock building. I am really looking forward to finished product!

Coming from the east coast, I'm not that up early just to post.

I've got a good feeling about this! Can't wait to see it finished!

It will be done in good time.

AC

[StoutFiles]

I could be mistaken but IIRC, there was a comic illustration of his escape with the flamethrower on and flying off with his jetpack

AC

Yeah, the wiki has that image, I'd link to it but I'm on a phone right now so thatd be a pain.

It's not really the accurate version. Fett blew up his jetpack to get off the tentacled wall, then fired concussive grenades to blast his way out. Instead of a triumphant exit as displayed, he crawled out half naked as he had removed most of his acid covered, cracked armor. I guess the mods can do what they want with this book exerpt from A Barve Like That.

He shoved, got his right foot solidly against the ground and pushed upward. The switch in the jet pack's emergency access panel, digging into the soft wall behind him, was pushed down as Boba Fett pushed up. Flame erupted in the enclosed space around them. The Sarlacc itself shrieked in pain, a sound that ech- oed away down the tunnels, the hundreds of tentacles around Fett whipping themselves into a frenzy, those that held Fett constricting so tightly that for an instant he could not breathe--

The jet pack had never been intended to be run in such tight quarters for any length of time. It exploded.

It was his oldest possession; the Mandalorian combat armor that was almost as famous as he was, famous the galaxy wide. It had protected him, down the decades, from blaster fire and slugthrowers, explosions and knives, from all the various insults the universe was apt to throw at a man in his line of work. But not even Mandalorian combat armor, designed by the warriors who had fought, and sometimes defeated, Jedi Knights, had been intended to withstand an exploding jet pack in close quarters. Fett could not have been unconscious for more than a few seconds; he came back to awareness unable to breathe. The jet pack's fuel had splatte~ed down the length of the corridor, and the corridor was burn- ing, and so was Fett. The flame touched his skin in exposed places, on his arms and legs and stomach, and flames danced on the surface of his combat ar- mor, the armor itself cracked, broken open by the force of the explosion, and everywhere the armor touched him the metal was scaldingly hot-- Boba Fett surged to his feet. The ground beneath him shook, rolling as the Sarlacc's flesh burned, and the Sarlacc fought against it. Fett reached back over his shoulder, unslung the deadliest weapon he car- ried. Standing in the fire, burning alive, Boba Fett fired a concussion grenade into the ceiling thirty centimeters above his head, and threw himself down to the surface of the tunnel, into the flaming mixture of acid and f'uel-- The explosion tore apart the world. The concussion slammed Fett down into the flames, and his left arm, trapped beneath him at the wrong angle, snapped as he was smashed down atop it. A pain so great it was like a white light surrounded Boba Fett, and he knew that he was dying, that he had failed, like all the oth- ers before him, that he had traded a slow death by acid for a fast death by fire-- Sand rained down upon him. A long time later, Boba Fett became aware that he was still alive. He forced himself up into a sitting posi- tion, looking around him. Fires still burned, along the length of the corridor, and in the distance the sound of cracking tentacles was very loud. It was quiet where he sat. Fett's left arm hung useless at his side, and he looked away down the tunnel; it was night, but he knew which direction he needed to go, to get back to the main pit, to the shaft that led back to the surface . . . to the main pit, where Susejo hung, where the enraged Sarlacc awaited him, tentacles lashing back and forth in anticipation. Sand trickled down onto Fett's helmet. He looked up. Darkness. Without moving from where he sat, Boba Fett made a long arm, and retrieved the grenade launcher. It

carried three grenades; and he'd already fired one of them. He raised the launcher and fired it a second time, into the darkness above him, and then had to dig his way out of the avalanche of sand that came down upon him. He stood at the edge of a small hill of sand, looking upward into the darkness . . . and started to undress. The armor was useless at this point--acid-covered and cracked in places, which was an improvement on Fett having cracked in those same places and his clothing disintegrated as he moved. He almost fainted while removing the upper

body armor; his left arm was broken- in at least two places, and he was covered with burns that were al- ready starting to form blisters. It took several minutes, but finally he had worked his way out of the armor, and he fought against his diziness and weakness and started climbing, halfway up the small hill of sand, and fired his final grenade into the darkness above him. The wave of sand that collapsed on him this time was unbelievable; Fett struggled up through it as it came down upon him, almost swimming upward through the falling sand. The sand covered him, his nude body and the helmet that still protected his head, and he clawed at it franti- cally, with no air but that trapped in his helmet with him, using both hands, both the broken arm and the good, possessed by a mortal terror that gave him the access to the final strength he would ever be able to call upon-- A hand broke free, he felt it, felt it thrust up into emptiness, and seconds later, Boba Fett dug his way up out of the sand and into the cool nighttime air, in the middle of the Dune Sea, at the edge of the Great Pit of Carkoon, hundreds of kilometers away *om any- one or anything. Alive.

I don't want to be a killjoy though! Do the scene as you see fit, the EU is pretty much personal interpretation as it is, there's multiple versions of everything since there's no definitive movie scene to show what really happened.

Edited May 9, 2011 by StoutFiles

[Bane]

Looks nice. Your teaser makes me wanna see more.

I'm looking forward to see pics of the entire project.

And congratulations to get so many comments for.. one pic

Greetings

-Bane

[Vindicare]

I brought up Kit Fisto because I checked out your flickr and saw a big pile of keychains.

[ACPin]

Yeah, the wiki has that image, I'd link to it but I'm on a phone right now so thatd be a pain.

It's not really the accurate version. Fett blew up his jetpack to get off the tentacled wall, then fired concussive grenades to blast his way out. Instead of a triumphant exit as displayed, he crawled out half naked as he had removed most of his acid covered, cracked armor. I guess the mods can do what they want with this book exerpt from A Barve Like That.

I don't want to be a killjoy though! Do the scene as you see fit, the EU is pretty much personal interpretation as it is, there's multiple versions of everything since there's no definitive movie scene to show what really happened.

I've always used creative liberty even in canon movie scenes and must admit that haven't even read that much about his escape.

Looks nice. Your teaser makes me wanna see more.

I'm looking forward to see pics of the entire project.

And congratulations to get so many comments for.. one pic

Greetings

-Bane

That's what a teaser is all about.

I brought up Kit Fisto because I checked out your flickr and saw a big pile of keychains.

If you read the comments then you would have seen my response to the same question.

"Can't pass up the chance to build an army of nautolans for cheap!"

AC

[ACPin]

Old Sarlacc pit added for reference.

AC

[Solscud007]

I read a EU book Tales of the Bounty Hunters iirc. There Dengar finds Boba crawling out of the pit and rescues Boba.

Then there is the hilarious comic Tad and Bink. Two rebel troopers who were supposedly background characters during the whole OT and heavily influenced the course of the movie. One of them dresses up as Boba during Jabbas Palace. It explains why boba sucked in ROTJ, because it wasn't really boba underneath.

[ACPin]

I read a EU book Tales of the Bounty Hunters iirc. There Dengar finds Boba crawling out of the pit and rescues Boba.

Then there is the hilarious comic Tad and Bink. Two rebel troopers who were supposedly background characters during the whole OT and heavily influenced the course of the movie. One of them dresses up as Boba during Jabbas Palace. It explains why boba sucked in ROTJ, because it wasn't really boba underneath.

I must admit that I haven't read enough about Fett's exploits after ROTJ but the one thing that kinda stuck in my mind was a comic illustration of him blasting his flamethrower at the sarlacc. I'm not sure whether it's the same one that's in the SW wiki that I've seen before.

AC