This is a very belated new addition in my series of Jabba's Palace Roll Call videos, where I explore the back story of minor characters from Jabba's Palace and the merchandise that has been created for them.
Jabba's Palace would be such a horrifying place to actually be in. Like this dude is just chilling out with a cadaver and a staff covered in heads, and he's not even the worst guy in the place. Nobody even pays attention to Amanaman dragging a skeletal corpse around, that's how bad everyone in that place is. Wild
Staff will straighten out with a careful soak in some hot water. The hot water will soften the plastic, you can then straighten it and when straight dunk it in super cold water to undo the softening from the hot water.
Love it! Great video. Thank you! Easily one of my favourite aliens in the series. I hope they do Retro Vintage and TVC figures of him before too long. In my Jabba's courtroom display, I had him accompanied by a couple of Snowths. Doot DOO doot doo-doo! There are a couple more glimpses of him in the film beyond what you mentioned. In the original cut, as Oola and Yarna are dancing before Jabba in the background while "Lapti Nek" plays, he can be seen on the right of the screen in the foreground in one of the alcoves, apparently talking to Tessek, as his mouth is moving. In the "Jedi Rocks" version, you just catch the briefest glimpse of him at this same angle as Oola and Yarna are dancing, right before they cut to Rappertunie is finishing his growdi solo. He can also be glimpsed several times during the main "Jedi Rocks" number. In the "over Jabba's shoulder" shots, you can see him reclining in the alcove, in the company of Bubo and Tessek. You don't see him during the scene where "Boushh" is haggling with Jabba over the price on Chewbacca's head, but as the Gamorreans are leading Chewbacca away, Amanaman's face can be seen very briefly at the bottom of the screen.
I've always been a huge fan of the creatures of Chalmun's Cantina and Jabba's Palace. Thanks for doing these roll calls. They're great. I have read Tales From Jabba's Palace but I don't always remember everyone's story so this is a welcomed chance to renew my memory of them.
Amanamans always been one of my favourite characters, glad to finally see him get some recognition!! Also may I suggest wol cabbashite for a future episode, I realise he isn’t very well known but it would make for an interesting video.
While watching this I noticed for the first time how Amanaman looks like a cool kaiju, like something out of the 1966 Ultraman series. Random observation, but I thought it was neat.
I bought the original figure when I went to a toy shop and saw it without ever noticing him in the movie. As a ten year old kid, I loved his design and picked him up when I could have bought another figure with a character that I actually knew. On subsequent viewings of Return of the Jedi, I started noticing him in the background. I pretty much thought of the character as a bounty hunter in line with Boba and the other hunters featured in The Empire Strikes Back.
If I recall, he was first introduced with that Jabba's Dungeon playset in the Sears wishbook of '84. I know I looked how and low for that particular playset because of the new figures at the stores and eventually getting him in the '85 Power of the Force line.
Played by Alisa berk. Who worked on Disney era films as the movement coach. For folk playin aliens. She also worked in a similar role in modern dr who too.
He has more of a presence in the comic book scene. It was awesome find out his name because my name is similar and pronounced Ah_mon just like how you say Amani.
Not only are they blink and you miss them but in 4:3 and the picture quality of vhs he was probably either blurred out of scenes or cut mostly out of frame (like the Han reveal scene). This is probably why his appearance as a figure confused people without a laserdisc player for years.
That’s a good point. I’ve often wondered about some of the choices that Kenner made with their action figure line. I feel like they probably were just supplied with a number of character designs but didn’t have any information about how important they would be in the actual film.
Met the ACTRESS who played him. Ailsa Berk is a Scottish actress/puppeteer who also played the front half of Aslan in the BBC Chronicles of Narnia series.
Just found your channel, awesome! I am currently (and slowly) working on a Jabba's Palace 6" Black Series diorama. I bought a resin/3D printed 1:12 scale Amanaman figure that I had to assembled and paint. This video was great reference for that project. Subscribed too!
@@MightyJabbasCollection Thank you! Outer Rim Traders. I don't know if the link will work here, but here is my finished figure. I used a combination of the Gentle Giant bust and set photos for painting inspiration. photos.app.goo.gl/LBAM5rYGut7hb8MG6
it's a great creature, just bizarre enough to interesting, but not so far out there it's just plain strange, and he's also not a generic mask without personality that looks like it came out of a halloween shop.
Every time I saw the Jabba's palace scene, I always wondered what the deal was with that seemingly innocuous looking creature. Now I know he's a blood thirsty head hunting bounty hunter. Cool.
Mighty jabba can you do a jabbas palace roll call about the rangcor or rancor keeper please. And i have been watching your videos since your first upload just wanna say your the best youtuber in all of youtube❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I know this is a little off topic but I was talking to a Haslab customer service rep. and they are thinking of doing a second jabba's sail barge crowd funding so put in your input to help make it a reality 😆
Geepers Creepers, Jabba you're back! And I see there are other video's I've missed. Sorry I didn't have the Bell rung so hadn't seen you post new videos. Issue corrected. Great video, very interesting.
You can also see him from 0:12-0:15 in the original Lapti Nek scene on the right side in the shadowed foreground: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o_JLiqKAgCg.html
I got two of the Vitruvian Hacks 3.75" scale skeletons in black for exactly that reason. Fully articulated, too, so you can drape them any old way you want. 😉
I hope they release Amanaman in the Retro Vintage Collection. I'm not concerned about value or coins, I just want a vintage-style Amanaman with staff that won't cost me several hundred bucks.
lol i wouldn't be too worried about amanaman catching me or causing any harm with gangly arms and stumpy little legs and gremlin banana body like that!🤣🤣 does he have any magic powers or spells to cast with that bent knobbly-ass staff??
I had this as a toy and I had no idea what the fuck this was. Edit: I had the one from 2001, I even remember the corpse/staff!!! Holy shit, this is a blast from the past. Now I know where it's from! Even though I don't have the toy anymore lmao
I think the humanoid feet just reflects genetic diversity. It's certainly weird for a species of worm to develop humanoid feet, but in the comic there were ones with snouts, human-foot ones, gigantic ones that could swallow men (in cover art though), and these banana foot ones all depicted as being members of the same tribe. I'd have my collecting year made if they released a new vintage carded Amanaman, but I don't know how likely that really is.
I think that's mainly just down to Amanin being so damned difficult to draw, and a lot of artists don't always have access to the right reference materials, or they just fudge the details. I'm thinking in particular of that black-and-white "Avengers" comics book cover that supposedly has a drawing of Amanaman on it, but I dare not say what it ACTUALLY looks like, where kids might be reading. 😉
@@Beedo_Sookcool I think you definitely have the out-of-universe reasoning for why they're so weirdly diverse, this is just my goofy internal logic so I can have my Amanin Warrior and Amanaman figures be friends on my display shelf.
@@Beedo_Sookcool Yeah, it's sort of like Ponda Baba losing his arm, in the first shot he has suction cup hands, and then when the hand gets sliced off, it's a hairy humanoid hand once it hits the ground. Some writer expanded that and invented two Aqualish subspecies based on the discrepancy, so there's a precedent for oversights on aliens to be explained as variants in Star Wars.
How is this only at #7? This is great and needs a weekly update. Why don't you do a Skiff Guard special? Tbh I prefer the more obscure denizens, like cabshite, ephont mon, b'omarr or even the original yoh yowza. (at least I think it is him)
Growing up in Ohio near were Kenner is from they actually wanted to make every character and character version in the films as well as vehicles so kids like myself and others could collect and re-enact the scenes in the movies since this was before vhs only way you could watch Star Wars before was on the silver screen or on tv if you were lucky a theater might reshow it witch they did in 1983 two months before Rotj they showed Star Wars and the next you could watch esb and then came rotj I was 3 it was awesome 👏🏽 best time I can remember with my mom since I was in the basent when mom n pops went to watch esb the first time and yes I love my cannible Ewok’s numb numb like wicket says to Leia are when they were going to cook Han and Luke to eat also what happened to The stormtrooper’s body’s after the war played drums on the helmets and we’re cooking something hope the rebels didn’t eat the Stu lol
