<Ul> <Li> Star Wars portal </Li> </Ul> <Li> Star Wars portal </Li> <P> The sarlacc (plural sarlacci) is a fictional creature in George Lucas's science fiction saga Star Wars . It first appeared in the film Return of the Jedi (1983) as a multi-tentacled alien beast whose immense, gaping maw is lined with several rows of sharp teeth . The sarlacc in the film inhabits the Great Pit of Carkoon, a hollow in the sand of the desert planet Tatooine . This creature is one of the largest of several sarlacci scattered across the Star Wars galaxy . </P> <P> In the original Return of the Jedi, the sarlacc is simply a barbed hole in the desert sand which characters fall into and are consumed; some are pulled into the sarlacc's mouth by its tentacles . In the 1997 Special Edition of the film, computer - generated tentacles and a beak emerge from the opened mouth . Besides Return of the Jedi, the creature and others like it are featured in Star Wars literature . </P>

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