Tauntaun

Ewok?

Like Tauntaun and-

Ewok

...

The Ewoks?

Like Tauntaun and-

Ewoks

...

So it's really, really tough to curate the figures that I want.

Like I got Han Solo and the Tauntaun.

Do I want to give up shelf space for, let's face it, it's not a good figure set.

The Tauntaun kind of sucks.

That

Han Solo kind of sucks.

Ewok?

Like Tauntaun and-

Ewok

...

So now I'll say who it is.

It's Phil Tippett, who is the, um, sort of legendary stop-motion animator who created iconic characters for the Star Wars movies, the AT-ATs in Return of the Jedi- or Empire Strikes Back, the Tauntaun, his stop-motion animated Jabba the Hutt.

He's literally in the cantina band playing one of the instruments 'cause he made all the masks and the character makeup.

So a sort of legend in that world, and he's got his own studio, and among the movies that he won Oscars for, Academy Awards for, was Jurassic Park as the dinosaur supervisor for the J- first Jurassic Park movie.

[laughs]

Han finds out that Luke is missing even though night is coming and things are going to get dangerous, so Han goes to look for Luke on a Tauntaun.

Mm-hmm.

I don't know if you've ever heard, Bill Hader does an amazing impression of a Tauntaun.

[laughs] It is-

I've never heard that, but he is a very good impressionist

... dead-on accurate.

When he's leaving, he does have a line that I really enjoyed, which is one of the other guys is like, "Your Tauntaun won't make it as far as..." I forget exactly what he says, but he won't make it very far.

I mean, we'll stay on the Star Wars theme.

I do love the effects in Empire Strikes Back with the Tauntauns and...

Yeah,

on Hoth.

I would be Bird Mike telling him the story of one Han Solo and Luke Skywalker on the planet of Hoth.

They rode up on a Tauntaun, fought with a Yeti.

They have Yetis on other planets, too.

They're real.

They're out there, Mike.

Han hid a wounded Luke inside of the Tauntaun in frigid Hoth.

Much colder temperatures than here on planet Earth.

We all know this.