So, Here’s The Deal With THAT Thing Leia Received In “The Last Jedi”

December 15, 2017 admin Celebrity Gossip 0

Never tell me the odds! Or…spoilers, in this case.

Before we get going here, I want to warn you that this post very much contains a pretty big SPOILER. So, if you haven’t seen The Last Jedi yet, you’ll want to…

Before we get going here, I want to warn you that this post very much contains a pretty big SPOILER. So, if you haven't seen The Last Jedi yet, you'll want to...

But be sure to book mark this for later!!!

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So, here’s the deal. Those were effectively known as “Han Solo’s dice.” And, as you saw earlier in Last Jedi, Luke grabbed them from the cockpit of the Millenium Falcoln. Which is where they’ve supposedly been this whole time.

So, here's the deal. Those were effectively known as "Han Solo's dice." And, as you saw earlier in Last Jedi, Luke grabbed them from the cockpit of the Millenium Falcoln. Which is where they've supposedly been this whole time.

Basically, Luke was giving Leia a very sentimental memory of Han.

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A closeup for fun:

A closeup for fun:

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The dice were actually a super tiny easter egg that the production design team added way back in Episode IV — A New Hope.

The dice were actually a super tiny easter egg that the production design team added way back in Episode IV — A New Hope.

However, there’s a 99.9% chance you probably missed noticing it as a kid because the dice did not show up in Empire or Jedi. Plus, I’m sure this TINY AF detail barely even showed up (if at all) on your old VHS copies of A New Hope!

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The story that you would hear if you traveled to cantinas or watering holes around the Star Wars galaxy, is that those dice were involved in a game of Corellian Spike—a dice-using version of a card game called sabacc. Rumor has it Han won the Millennium Falcon (from Lando Calrissian) with those dice. Whether or not that’s just bar talk, I can’t say.

But the dice in Last Jedi didn’t have normal dots like the ones seen in Force Awakens. They had symbols more akin to an alien language, possibly Aurebesh (i.e. the official Star Wars language and alphabet).

But the dice in Last Jedi didn't have normal dots like the ones seen in Force Awakens. They had symbols more akin to an alien language, possibly Aurebesh (i.e. the official Star Wars language and alphabet).

Aurebesh on the top, here.

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And, from the best of my memory, some of the symbols on the dice in Last Jedi looked like this:

And, from the best of my memory, some of the symbols on the dice in Last Jedi looked like this:

Anyone out there know what these mean? If anything?

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In fairness, this small change was probably done on purpose, because if you’re going to have a hero shot of a prop that’s supposed to hold serious sentimental value, you may as well make it more Star Wars-y, right?

In fairness, this small change was probably done on purpose, because if you're going to have a hero shot of a prop that's supposed to hold serious sentimental value, you may as well make it more Star Wars-y, right?

And we know there are more than ONE kind of dice out in the Star Wars-verse, ahem, looking at you and your Chance Cube, Watto.

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