PART 3 BECAUSE ITS MY BLOG AND ILL MAKE POSTS AS LONG AS I WANT
Here is the actual magazine from my grandmother’s creepy basement. Turns out this was the October 1990 issue which actually means I was 7. I thought I was more like 5 but I guess I still imagined scary things in basements all the way up to 7 or more, ha ha loser. I still like the original Amanaman model the best, with the even flatter head and even spindlier arms. It was definitely his very surreal, colorful appearance juxtaposed with the grisly severed head that really mesmerized me.
Almost all depictions of his species try too hard to make them look more badass and powerful, and it just doesn’t work for me. As a Creature Designer by Profession at this point, I have to say this is simply not the anatomy of a fast, strong predatory species no matter how mean you try to draw it. The expanded canon holds that they are covered in deadly poisonous slime and have some relation to flatworms, and that’s cool but also doesn’t mesh with being a physical hunter. If they’re really like flatworms, then they kill prey with the slime alone, and that would be how they can get away with flimsy arms and stumpy legs! I’d say they should be able to PROJECT the slime, like a velvet worm!
Look how cute this is, it’s like a papaya monster. Just because it’s carrying somebody’s head around doesn’t mean it killed that guy with its bare hands, come on.
And speaking of people getting the aliens WRONG I did find the original art of Loje Nella:
Look how perfect that is! She only becomes more perfect when the final prop covers her head in moss. This is what some FOOL did to her:
Basically someone needed an alien for a book cover so they very cheaply copy/pasted the one known photo of Nella onto a torso. That does NOT count!! You can’t make that canon!!!! The only way this is canon is if the torso is a droid body she’s riding around in so she can be tall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And you know who else got done dirty, look at this puppet, look how perfectly adorably this floppy thingy is! This alien was nicknamed “Sic-six” and only part of its face ever wound up visible in one background of “Return of the Jedi.”
So eventually another guy decided to “expand” on Sic-six but this is what he did:
COME ON! A big beetle spider is neat but that is not remotely!?!? The same alien!?!?! Why even try to connect them!?
What happened here is that the full-body photo of the Sic-six puppet hadn’t even been released to the public at all at the time, like the puppet was just buried and forgotten somewhere and only dug up much later. Still, the spider barely even resembles what was ever visible of his little face!
And even from this image, which I believe was accessible, you can already tell it’s a soft worm-like animal, not an arthropod with jointed limbs! Ridiculous!!!! !!!! I’m only willing to believe that maybe Sic-six and the giant spiders come from the same planet maybe, and maybe have a cultural association? Maybe they domesticated the spiders or have a symbiosis. Maybe one evolved similar eyes to the other for better communication.
Now I want to mention this little guy they named “Hoover” (after the vacuum cleaner brand) who is also barely visible at all in Jabba’s palace, but for some reason was included in a coloring book I had as a kid, named and everything! The expanded universe lore for this one is actually 100% perfect though: someone decided Hoover was a seemingly friendly, cute little creature that actually sneaks around sucking people’s blood while they’re asleep, possibly even feeding on Jabba. He’s like a bed bug!!
Finally here are the “dengue sisters,” from The Force Awakens, who are modeled after both weevils and mosquitoes and are also officially considered a blood-feeding species. These are among the only alien designs in the entire Disney trilogy that I like as much as these older ones. The comics feature one as a small, vicious lady bounty hunter apparently!!
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