HOW TIPPETT STUDIO CREATED A SOLO EASTER EGG

Via Starwars.com:

IT’S NOT WISE TO UPSET A WOOKIEE. THE SPECIAL EFFECTS SHOP FOUNDED BY THE STOP-MOTION MASTER PHIL TIPPETT DELVES INTO A HOLOCHESS MATCH MORE THAN 40 YEARS IN THE MAKING.

Watch closely as Chewbacca and Tobias Beckett engage in a friendly game of dejarik en route to Kessel in Solo: A Star Wars Story, and you’ll see the frustrated Wookiee take his aggression out on the table, slapping at the holographic pieces in vain.

But his brute strength has a lasting effect, a clever Easter egg that explains at least one of the physical alterations on the ship as it changed hands from Lando to Han Solo. As the Wookiee rages, the table sparks, freshly-dislodged buttons tumble to the floor, and two of the game pieces fizzle out of existence, never to be seen again.

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