<P> Lucas did retain some of the special effects from the 1983 film in the Special Edition . The tentacle that captures the skiff guard Kithaba and pulls him into the sarlacc mouth is from the original film, as well as the tentacle that attaches to Lando Calrissian's leg . </P> <P> Aside from Star Wars fiction and merchandising, popular fiction author Stefan Demetriou uses the sarlacc as a descriptive term for slowness, a reference to the creature's extended digestive process . </P> <P> The sarlacc became part of Return of the Jedi's merchandising campaign that accompanied the theatrical release of the film . Parker Brothers produced a board game in 1983 called Battle at Sarlacc's Pit that was sold in the United States and Canada . Players collect points for battling their way through Gamorrean guards, Boba Fett, and a Nikto on Jabba the Hutt's sail barge, pushing them overboard into a cardboard sarlacc . The game, which sold for only a few years, is a collector's item . </P> <P> Hollywood journalist and humor writer Peter Biskind muses that George Lucas went to great extremes to remove aspects of sex and sexuality from the plot of the Star Wars films . Biskind, however, asserts that Lucas created a "nightmarishly explicit image of threatening female sexuality" in the form of the sarlacc: "The Jabba episode culminates in an explicit vagina dentata fantasy, as Luke and his pals have to walk a phallic gangplank into the pullulating maw--festooned with long, curved teeth--of the giant sarlacc in its' nesting place' ." Premiere magazine reviewer Tim Bissell complained, "Lucas sent his trilogy's most arresting character Boba Fett to a "death" so inglorious--falling headlong into the vagina dentata of Tatooine's sarlacc--that its only payoff was a burp gag ." </P>

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