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- Overview
- Biology and appearance
- Behavior
- History
- Banthas in the galaxy
- Behind the scenes
- Appearances
- Notes and references
"Watch out kid, this thing handles like a drunken bantha."
―Han Solo, as he piloted an AT-AT
"Like a bantha."
―Boba Fett, teaching Tusken Raiders how to ride a speeder bike
Banthas were easily domesticated, and were bred on many worlds throughout the galaxy. They were widely used as mounts. Their milk, which was distinctively blue, was drunk plain as well as being used in yogurt, ice cream, and butter. Their meat was used for dried jerky, steak, and burgers, and their dung was used as a fuel. Bantha-blood fizz was a sparkling drink made from purified bantha blood. Bantha hide could be mashed with grains to make Ardees, also known as Jawa juice. Their hide was also tanned and turned into clothes or furniture. Young banthas were known as calves.
The Tusken Raiders of Tatooine tamed and domesticated banthas, and they shared a close, almost mystical bond. Every boy had a male bantha and every girl had a female one. When Sand People married, their banthas also mated, and, should its rider die, their bantha usually perished shortly after. If a bantha died before its rider, its remains were placed in a large graveyard, which was treated with great respect by Tuskens and other banthas. Tuskens never harmed or ate banthas, though they rode the creatures into battle, and fed them to Krayt Dragons, in order to protect their settlements and make the dragons sleep longer. Tusken raiders were known to ride their banthas in single file to leave few tracks in order to conceal their numbers. Sand People were also known to occasionally bathe banthas, and using Gaderffii sticks to brush their teeth. In Tusken, the B'Thazoshe Bridge was named after banthas; "B'Thazoshe" translated to "bantha horn turned to stone" in Basic.
The Kadas'sa'Nikto mechanic Neeku Vozo came from a long line of bantha herders.
The bantha shared its name with the foodstuff bantha-butter pancake.
«That Azumel is like a bantha in an antiquities shop!»
―Dok-Ondar
A common sight on Tatooine, banthas could be found wild, wandering the vast expanse of the Tatooine desert, or domesticated, under the ownership of Tuskens or in cities such as Mos Espa. They shared their name with the White banthas of Nelvaan.
Banthas were the subject of several slang phrases and insults. "Bantha fodder" (or "Bantha poodoo" in Huttese) was a phrase used as the equivalent of "worthless"; a person or thing deemed to have no value beyond something for a bantha to graze on, because of bantha food's unpleasant smell. "Not give two bantha ticks" (about something) meant to not care in the slightest (about something or someone), "Son of a bantha" was an insult, and "A wild bantha chase" meant a futile errand.
In 20 BBY, an LAAT/i gunship featured customized nose art of a flying bantha dropping a pair of bombs. During the same year, the rebels of Onderon owned a hunter cart with a bantha skull.
During the Imperial Era, Obi-Wan Kenobi befriended a herd of banthas. Two were named Dolo and Nara, respectively.
The word 'bantha' or at least other words resembling the term, first appeared in The Star Wars: Rough Draft, where a Sith Lord was called—or had the call sign—"Banta Four." The Star Wars: First Draft, written in early 1974, introduced "Banta One" as a Rebel fighter during the attack on the Death Star. Banthas as a creature were first mentioned in the third draft of the film: Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode I: The Star Wars, dated August 1975, as "monstrous banthas" ridden by a group of savage desert nomads called the Tusken Raiders. Their attack on Luke after he spotted the beasts of burden, as happens in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, was also included. Early concept art from Ralph McQuarrie imagined banthas to be played by horses, so the earliest imaginations of banthas are considerably smaller.
For banthas' first canon appearance in A New Hope, they were played by Mardji, a 22-year-old female Asian elephant. It took six crew members to make Mardji a costume that would fit her and that she would tolerate. The costume's base was a howdah, or elephant saddle, with added palm fronds to create the shaggy coat of a bantha. They then added a special head mask that was molded from chicken wire and then sprayed with foam to give it the correct shape. The dangling hairs on the underside of the bantha's mouth were made from horse hair and flexible home ventilation tubing was the base for the curving horns. While the weight of the mask for the costume was cause for concern, it was actually the shaggy tail that was made from wood and covered with thick thistles that took some getting used to for Mardji. Despite her training, Mardji's trunk would occasionally pop out of her costume, but the cast and crew, including George Lucas, liked Mardji too much to get impatient. To get the shot of the two banthas that Luke spots, they used an effect called optical compositing. The moan-like sounds that the banthas make were bear noises slowed down by sound designer Ben Burtt. They were given to him by documentary producer George Casey.
The bantha tied up outside the Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina exteriors filmed in Ajim, Djerba, Tunisia on April 2–3, 1976 was an over-sized prop for two crew members with rudimentary controls for movement. As he was wont to do, Mark Hamill asked and received permission from the prop crew to climb inside it with a small flashlight. The head was moved up and down with a crowbar handle held in both hands, and a way to swish the tail about. The interior surface was papier-mâché, including a complete newspaper review reportedly titled "David Bowie live in Paris" oriented sideways, which Hamill ended up reading in its entirety.
For banthas later appearances in the 1997 Star Wars Special Edition, Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace and Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, they were entirely computer-generated.
Non-canon appearances
••LEGO Star Wars: All-Stars — "The Chase with Han/Escape with Chewbacca" (Mentioned only) •LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "Duel of Destiny" (Mentioned only) •LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "The Tower of Alistan Nor" (Mentioned only) •LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "The Pit and the Pinnacle" (Mentioned only) •LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "A Perilous Rescue" (Mentioned only) •LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "Escape from Coruscant" (Mentioned only) ••LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales (Mentioned only) •LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation (In flashback(s)) •Ronin: A Visions Novel (Mentioned only) •Ronin: A Visions Novel audiobook (Mentioned only)
1.Bantha in the Databank (backup link)
2.Star Wars Galaxy of Creatures — "Bantha"
4.bantha in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
6.The Book of Boba Fett — "Chapter 4: The Gathering Storm"
7.Star Wars (2015) 2
8.Star Wars (2015) 20
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