![]() The book names the establishment as "Chalmun's Cantina", introducing its proprietor as a Wookiee named Chalmun it also reveals that the bartender is named Wuher. Anderson, explores the cantina and its clientele further. The Expanded Universe anthology of intertwined short stories, Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, edited by Kevin J. The narrative describes "Tentacles, claws and hands. The cantina is described as a dark, sinister bar full of "one-eyed creatures and thousand-eyed, creatures with scales, creatures with fur". In the novelization of the film, Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker by George Lucas ( ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster), Mos Eisley is described as a haphazard, run-down settlement built of concrete and sandstone, a large part of it built underground to escape the heat of Tatooine's twin suns. ![]() Following a brief gunfight with Imperial stormtroopers, they board the Millennium Falcon spaceship and take off from Tatooine. As the group prepare to leave, they are followed to Docking Bay 94 by Garindan, a spy working for the Empire. After Luke and Obi-Wan have departed, Han is involved in a brief confrontation with Greedo, a green-skinned gangster the exchange ends violently when Han shoots and kills Greedo. Obi-Wan introduces Luke to a pair of smugglers, Chewbacca and Han Solo, and they negotiate terms for passage to the planet Alderaan, which prompts Luke to sell his landspeeder to get the money they need to pay Han. This is the first time a lightsaber is used in combat on-screen in the Star Wars franchise. Luke is threatened with violence by two of the customers, Ponda Baba, an Aqualish, and Doctor Evazan, a deformed human, but Obi-Wan intervenes with his lightsaber, cutting Ponda's arm off in the fight. A band of domed-headed aliens plays a set of otherworldly jazz-style music. The cantina attracts a range of exotic alien species, although droids are not permitted to enter the bartender orders them to leave, saying "We don't serve their kind in here". Strong drink is on sale at the bar and there are frequent outbreaks of violence among the clientele. Upon arrival, Luke and Obi-Wan enter the cantina, a dimly-lit tavern patronised by visiting starship pilots. Obi-Wan warns Luke that the spaceport may be dangerous. The Mos Eisley scenes occur early in Star Wars, when the young hero Luke Skywalker and his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi travel to the spaceport in Luke's landspeeder in search of a pilot, accompanied by the droids, C-3PO and R2-D2. Spacecraft land at docking bays dotted across the city. The lawless spaceport attracts criminals, smugglers and fugitives. It is depicted as a busy, bustling port city situated in a desert plain, populated with transients of all species. Mos Eisley made its first appearance in the original 1977 film, Star Wars. Also there is a project of Star Wars Universe Packs which has also a Mos Eisley Cantina Universe Pack with extra mini-figures who will fit your Mos Eisley Cantina Really well.Filming location in Ajim, Tunisia for the Mos Eisley Cantina for Star Wars (1977) ![]() ![]() The other Cantina Packs you can find in my projects. In order to complete the whole cantina in all its details you will need all the Cantina Packs. The build can be connected to the Main Cantina Pack, but is also as loose model nice and decorative. Figrin D'An and the Modal Nodes have a new sculpt for their heads. The Cantina Band Pack: In this pack which fits to the Main Cantina Pack you will find Figrin D'An and the Modal Nodes and their instruments in a small playset. But when you have all those things in one set, not only there's no way we can get all those minifigures in that one set, also it would certainly be smaller and less accurate. So we need a band, an entrance with a droid detector, a bar, and of course some benches. The reason for dividing the Cantina in special packs is that the Mos Eisley Cantina only will be cool when all details are covered. Together with the Main Cantina Pack (the heart of the total of these Packs would be the Main Cantina Pack), the Cantina Benches Pack and the Cantina Entrance Pack, it's going to be a complete cantina with a lot of figures and details. Well this could be a solution: First, let me start by telling you that the Cantina Band Pack is a setbuilder. Mos Eisley Cantina Band Pack Wouldn't we all love us a new Lego Mos Eisley Cantina for in our Lego Star Wars Galaxy? A Mos Eisley Cantina which isn't as small as the Lego Set 4501, but has an appropriate size for playing, that will fit in your dioramas and has the looks and feel of a real Mos Eisley Cantina.
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