Lamproid

Lamproids were a sentient species. Dice Ibegon was a member of this species.

Biology and Appearance
A sentient species, Lamproids had veiny, wrinkled and brown-pale skin and a thick, muscular neck. Their heads had a red oral cavity, partly covered by four large, black teeth. They had four black stalks adorning their head, two of which pointed vertically and another two pointed horizontally and shadowed their eyes.

Lamproids in the Galaxy
In the year 0 ABY, a Lamproid known as Dice Ibegon was patron of Chalmun's Cantina on Tatooine, opposite a male Pacithhip named Ketwol.

Behind the scenes
"And [George] Lucas walked up and looked at it, too. He said, 'That's really a gross-looking thing! What kind of a rating do we have on this, Gary [Kurtz]?' 'Well, I think it's a PG.' So they said, 'Yeah, let's go ahead and shoot it!'"

- Phil Tippett recalls George Lucas and Gary Kurtz's initial reactions to the "drooling arm" cantina puppet

The Lamproid species was designed with Dice Ibegon for the cantina sequence of the 1977 film Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. Although not identified on-screen, in 1995, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens established the species' name as Florn Lamproid and the cantina character as Dice Ibegon in the Star Wars Legends short story "One Last Night in the Mos Eisley Cantina: The Tale of the Wolfman and the Lamproid," part of the anthology Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina. The character was a hand puppet created by Rick Baker's special effects team along with the other alien characters who appear in the film. Phil Tippett designed the puppet because many of the other characters in the sequence were humans with masks. Tippett originally intended for the Lamproid puppet to simulate breathing through its mouth parts. It was known as "drooling arm" during production because it was able to emit red slime through an internal tube. In preparation for shooting the close-up featuring the character, Tippett rushed to get the tube fitted into the puppet when producer Gary Kurtz questioned the effect. Nevertheless, director George Lucas approved the blood-like drool but first filmed the scene without it. On another take, Lucas called for the goo for the puppet, and Tippett's assistant, Laine Liska, released it. However, The slime shot further and with more force than intended. Lucas ultimately decided against using the effect in the film due to the mess it caused. The character also gained the name "Snake Head" during shooting, but was later officially dubbed "Nake."

In canon, the rest of the Lamproids physiology from where the hand puppet ended is yet to be seen. In the Legends] continuity, The rest of the Lamproid's body was seen in 2009 with Hasbro's toy line. Their full body Lamproid included six clawed arms, and a long tail.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope