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Post #657972

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SKot
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Preserving the...cringe...Star Wars Holiday Special (Released)
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Date created
3-Sep-2013, 3:39 PM

MattMahdi said:

Star Wars Insider issue 144 (October 2013) has the single-page entry:

"YOU'RE BARRED! The Star Wars Holiday Special Cantina's Barflys Revealed" by Leland Y. Chee

It's a landscape picture of the Cantina patrons, nineteen of them numbered and identified. Not necessarily exciting, and certainly not a reason for buying the magazine, but a fun moment nonetheless. Sadly my subscription is digital... the Nook has it as page 28, but it also shows it as a right-hand page. They can't both be right.

[Hypothetically, if someone did a hi-res scan, and happened to send me a PM....]

Hmm, interesting...I will have to check this issue out!

One of the first things I had to do when creating the SWHS website was identify all of the Ackmena Cantina aliens and put names to them.  I made an entry for every single one in the Characters section, with any backstory or details I could give:

http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/characters.htm

I tried to use only established information, and write the details based on that, without making additional things up. If the creature didn't have a name, I tried to give it one of the early crew names.  It will be interesting to see if any of that stuck.

A shame they didn't contact me when they wrote the article.  I could probably have given some input.

--SKot