Solo Restores Two Unused Original Holochess Creatures
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Scene locator: Millennium Falcon lounge and Dejarik table sequence. Chewbacca plays a holochess match featuring resurrected creature pieces originally animated by Phil Tippett in 1977.
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What's There
Solo's holochess board includes two creature pieces based on original sculptures that did not make it into A New Hope's dejarik scene.
Why It Matters
The prequel setting let Tippett Studio bring unused 1977-era creature work back into canon as part of Lando's pristine Falcon. This placement serves as deliberate narrative texture and cinematic continuity, rewarding attentive viewers while documenting recurring visual motifs across the filmmakers' catalog.
Source: StarWars.com's Tippett Studio feature on the Solo holochess Easter egg.
