On Wikipedia : “Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (originally broadcast as The Ewok Adventure) is a 1984 American television film based in the Star Wars universe.” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_of_Courage:_An_Ewok_Adventure)
“Thing” is the best English word that I know (with “stuff”) to describe this experiment. English is not my mother tongue.