9496 Desert Skiff
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9496 |
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213 |
| Minifigures: |
Luke Skywalker (Redesign) |
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9496 Desert Skiff, is a Star Wars set released in June 2012. This set includes a Sarlacc mouth, a desert skiff, and four minifigures: Luke Skywalker, Boba Fett, Kithaba and Lando Calrissian.
Contents
Description
Skiff: The skiff is the main part of the set and is mostly brown, dark gray and dark tan. It features a cockpit with control levers, an extendable plank, an opening weapons locker, a flick missile and positionable wings.
Sarlacc: The Sarlacc is the second part of the set and is mostly light gray, tan and dark tan. It has teeth, movable tentacles and an opening mouth that can fit a minifigure.
Minifigures: There are four minifigures included, Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, Boba Fett and Kithaba, all are new or redesigned. Lando Calrissian is in his skiff guard costume, he has an axe for a weapon. Luke Skywalker is dressed in dark gray and black robes and carries his green lightsaber. Boba Fett has his armor printings, new leg printings, a jetpack, a rangefinder, a cape and a pistol with a lightsaber handle as the barrel. Kithaba has a stocking cap, red legs, tan torso with a bandolier and a sand green head, he is armed with a pistol.
Background
Luke eventually arrives to make one final plea to Jabba to release Solo, but Jabba rejects the offer. Luke then Force Pulls a nearby blaster. He tries to shoot Jabba, but falls into the Rancor pit. Leia, unsure of what was happening, struggled against Jabba. Luke successfully kills the rancor by crushing it with the gate of its compound and piercing its neck with the spikes at the bottom of the gate, but he too is captured by Jabba's minions.
Jabba, furious, strangles Leia. As punishment, Jabba, using C-3PO as a translator, commands Luke and his friends to be destroyed (over a course of a thousand years) by the man-eating Sarlacc at the Great Pit of Carkoon. Meanwhile Leia is kept on her chain laying in front of Jabba.
Luke and his companions (with Lando Calrissian disguised as one of Jabba's prison guards) are taken to the Sarlacc pit. However, with the help of R2-D2, Luke then retrieves his recently built lightsaber to battle his captors. Solo, by this time blinded from the aftereffects of carbonization, accidentally activates the jetpack of bounty hunter Boba Fett when he turns around and smashes an axe in it. Fett then flies out of control, crashes and falls in the pit to be digested by the Sarlacc.
Luke and Lando kill the remaining captors, then Luke rescues Leia, and both point the guns toward the heart of Jabba's Sail Barge. Luke and company escape with their lives before the gun discharges, destroying the sail barge.
Official Description
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Escape from the jaws of the Sarlacc aboard the Desert Skiff!
Hovering over the deadly Sarlacc Pit, Luke prepares to meet his fate aboard the Desert Skiff. Will he be made to walk the plank and be eaten by the ferocious Sarlacc? Or will his friend Lando Calrissian help him escape the clutches of the renowned bounty hunter, Boba Fett? You decide! Includes 4 minifigures: Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, Boba Fett and Kithaba.
- Includes 4 minifigures: Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, Boba Fett and Kithaba
- Features Desert Skiff and Sarlacc Pit
- Desert Skiff features retractable plank, flick missile and weapons locker
- Sarlacc Pit features opening mouth large enough to fit a minifigure
- Also includes 4 blasters, Lightsaber and axe
- Escape the jaws of the Sarlacc!
- Overpower Boba Fett and Kithaba!
- Fire the missile!
- Desert Skiff measures over 1" (5cm) high and 9" (24cm) long
- Sarlacc Pit measures over 3" (10cm) high and 3" (9 cm) wide
Notes
- This is the first set to include Lando since 2009, also the first to include Lando in his guard disguise since 2006.
- This is the first set with Kithaba.
- Unlike the previous version, the Sarlacc can fit a minifigure in its mouth.
Minifigures included
| Boba Fett (Redesigned) | Luke Skywalker (Redesigned) | Lando Calrissian (Guard Disguise) (Redesigned) | Kithaba |
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