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21 Details From The “Star Wars” Movies That’ll Make You Say, “How Did I Not Notice That?”
1. First, Leia’s cell number from A New Hope is the same as Finn’s stormtrooper name. LucasFilms 2. In Revenge of the Sith, you can spot a YT-1300 freighter — the same type of ship as the Millennium Falcon — docking. LucasFilms 3. In A New Hope, Luke and Han say that they’re transferring Chewbacca…
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First, Leia’s cell number from A New Hope is the same as Finn’s stormtrooper name.
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In Revenge of the Sith, you can spot a YT-1300 freighter — the same type of ship as the Millennium Falcon — docking.
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In A New Hope, Luke and Han say that they’re transferring Chewbacca to Cell 1138 — 1138 is a reference to George Lucas’ first short film Electronic Labyrinth: THX-1138 4EB.
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Also, the numbers 1138 appear on the back of a drone Jar Jar Binks hits during battle in The Phantom Menace.
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1138 appears and is mentioned a lot in the Star Wars movies, book, and other George Lucas films.
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At Maz Kanata’s castle in The Force Awakens, one of the flags hanging outside the front door has Boba Fett’s skull on it.
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Also, some of the flags correspond to the flags seen during the podracing scene in The Phantom Menace.
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Han Solo’s dice that he gives to Qi’ra and eventually gets back from her in Solo: A Star Wars Story can be seen hanging from the Millennium Falcon in A New Hope.
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Luke also gives the dice to Leia in The Last Jedi.
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In The Phantom Menace, one of the senate chambers is filled with E.T-like aliens.
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In Rogue One, while looking for the Death Star plans, Jyn finds a file titled “hyperspace tracking” — in The Last Jedi, Rose reveals that hyperspace tracking is new tech, meaning it was being developed years earlier.
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In Rogue One, you can see a container of the infamous blue milk on the Ersos’s kitchen counter.
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In The Empire Strikes Back, you can spot the defeated IG-88, who was hired to track down the Millennium Falcon by Darth Vader, in the scrap room on Bespin — we see IG-11, another bounty hunter droid, in The Mandalorian.
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One of the stormtroopers who takes Leia to Darth Vader in A New Hope has a piece of tape holding his armor together.
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Also in A New Hope, a stormtrooper hits their head on the door right before they find C-3PO.
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Daniel Craig actually played the stormtrooper that Rey uses the Force on in The Force Awakens — you can’t visually spot this Easter Egg.
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George Lucas makes a small cameo in Revenge of the Sith.
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In The Phantom Menace, you can see an EVA pod in Watto’s junkyard — the pod was famous in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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In The Force Awakens, Finn picks up a white sphere while looking for a first aid kit for Chewie — the remote controlled sphere was used by Luke during training in A New Hope.
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In The Empire Strikes Back, C-3PO tells Han that the Falcon has an interesting dialect — in Solo, we learn that Lando’s beloved droid L3-37’s consciousness was uploaded into the Falcon.
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Also, L3-37 was played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, which makes this even better.
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And finally, in The Phantom Menace, Jabba the Hutt was created using a puppet and special effects, so he’s played by “himself” in the end credits.
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