Great Pit of Carkoon/Legends



"You will, therefore, be taken to the Dune Sea and cast into the Pit of Carkoon, the nesting place of the all powerful Sarlacc."

- C-3PO's translation of Jabba the Hutt's words to Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Chewbacca

The Great Pit of Carkoon was located within the Dune Sea on the planet Tatooine. The large depression in the sand was the home of the rapacious, if slow-eating, sarlacc of Tatooine.

Its proximity to Jabba's Palace, paired with the torturous death provided by the sarlacc, made it an ideal spot for executions to be carried out for Jabba the Hutt's pleasure.

It would be the place of the Skirmish at Carkoon, and the subsequent death of Jabba.

Behind the scenes
The sarlacc went through a series of changes when George Lucas rereleased the original trilogy as the special edition on VHS in 1997. Several additional tentacles and an extension with a mouth and beak was added.

Note that while the original Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi showed Boba Fett falling in the pit and then lost from view, leaving some freedom to Expanded Universe authors to retcon his escape, the Special Edition CGI beak-maw actually is shown to swallow Fett. However, this makes little difference, as the beak-tongue's insides are the same as those of the pit in general.

Filming the Great Pit for Return of the Jedi took place in the Yuma Desert in Arizona in April 1982.

The Pit was set to be located in a Rakatan temple on Tatooine, and guarding the Tatooine Star Map in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. However, this quest was cut from the game.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The New Droid Army
 * Galaxy of Fear: The Brain Spiders
 * Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
 * Droid Trouble
 * Fortune, Fate, and the Natural History of the Sarlacc
 * Star Wars: Demolition
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 2: The Emperor Commands
 * LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
 * The Revenge of Tag & Bink
 * The Return of Tag & Bink: Special Edition
 * Tales From Jabba's Palace
 * The Ordeal of Boba Fett
 * Star Wars: Battlefront
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: The Rebel Opposition
 * Zorba the Hutt's Revenge
 * Mission from Mount Yoda
 * Queen of the Empire
 * Prophets of the Dark Side
 * Heir to the Empire
 * The Unifying Force