The crime lord’s favorite food were Klatoonie paddy frogs, which he kept in an aquarium near his throne, and Gorgs, large amphibians that were also sold on the market of Mos Espa. Jabba the Hutt’s diet may not be appealing to most. Lucas approved this concept and this is how Jabba got his infamous look. Ralph McQuarrie, Joe Johnston, Nilo Rordis-Jamero, and Ken Ralston came up with various concepts and drawings, which Lucas found either “too terrible” or “too human.” Ultimately Phil Tiippett created a model that looked like a strange version of the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland. When coming up with ideas for the look for the crime lord, he told his design crew to let their minds run free. The character of Jabba was already present in Lucas’ very early concepts for Return of the Jedi. The look of the space slug has since been improved with subsequent releases of Episode IV, but never quite matched the look of the puppet from Episode VI.

Lucas finally got his “monster” in a rather atrocious computer animated Hutt in the Special Edition of A New Hope. Mulholland and Jabba ended up on the cutting room floor. Fox only granted Lucas $40,000, which was used on the cantina scenes. Back then Lucas intended to replace Mulholland with “a monster.” He asked Twentieth Century Fox for additional $80,000 to create more cantina creatures and also create a non-human Jabba. Declan Mulholland played Jabba in a scene at the Mos Eisley spaceport where he greeted (and somehow threatened) Han Solo after the latter had dropped a load of spice to avoid being apprehended by the Empire. Jabba first appeared chronologically in Return of the Jedi, but Lucas had originally intended to show the gangster boss in A New Hope. RELATED: Original Jabba The Hutt From 'A New Hope' Has Been Made Canon

Today we are going to talk about ten facts, both in and out of universe, about the notorious crime lord, on whom Jedi mind tricks did not work. One of these Kajidic was the Desilijic clan and its most famous member His Excellency Jabba Desilijic Tiure of Nal Hutta, Eminence of Tatooine, more informally known as Jabba the Hutt. The Hutts are organized into Kajidic, clans that represented both biological and criminal families. Star Wars lore established quite a backstory for the slimy, slug-like species.

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