I remembered correctly (phonetically) but spelled it wrong:
For A New Hope, an Asian elephant named Mardji played the bantha. The trained elephant from Marine World Africa, USA was transported to Northern California and dressed in layers of fur and a headpiece of two lightweight horns. Despite her training, Mardji was not comfortable underneath the bantha disguise, and often tried to remove the wardrobe as cameras rolled. For its brief appearance in The Phantom Menace, the bantha was computer-generated.
from:
http://www.starwars.com/databank/creature/bantha/?id=bts
-Ben
>Kickin' it old school wit'da Force yo'
>Give d'Jedi his powuh.
>Surrounds us, penetrates us, binds the [EMAIL PROTECTED] galaxy together n'sh*t.
>
>...sellout Medichlorian biz-niches...
>
>8-
>so...Did they ship Margie over to Tunisia? Or where those shots done
>closer to CA?
>
>will
>
>
>Ben Braver wrote:
>
>> <cf_Yoda_voice>
>> Strong in the Force Will is, ummm, Yes...
>> Correct he is.
>> </cf_Yoda_voice>
>>
>> BTW the Bantha was Margie, an elephant at Marine World-Africa USA
>> theme park, Vallejo, CA (near San Francisco).
>>
>> -Ben
>>
>> >Wookies rip people's arms off (when they lose)
>> >
>> >Banthas are just big sheep/elephants that "...sandpeople ride
>> >single-file to hide their numbers."
>> >
>> >
>> >:-)
>> >
>> >will
>> >
>> >Kevin Graeme wrote:
>> >
>> >> <cf_starwarsgeek>
>> >> Good luck riding that Bantha. It rips people's arms off. Tauntauns
>> >> are what
>> >> the rebels rode on.
>> >> </cf_starwarsgeek>
>> >>
>> >> -Kevin
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "Matthew Small" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:17 AM
>> >> Subject: Re: Penquin Fun
>> >>
>> >> > I think you're right.
>> >> >
>> >> > I really wish I had a nice Banta to ride around on. That and one of
>> >> those
>> >> floating forest motorcycles in 'Return of the Jedi' would be awesome.
>> >> >
>> >> > - Matt Small
>> >> > ----- Original Message -----
>> >> > From: John Stanley
>> >> > To: CF-Community
>> >> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:59 AM
>> >> > Subject: RE: Penquin Fun
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Was that a Banta?
>> >> >
>> >> > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:08 AM
>> >> > To: CF-Community
>> >> > Subject: Re: Penquin Fun
>> >> >
>> >> > That makes me think of the scene in 'The Empire Strikes Back'
>> when Han
>> >> Solo
>> >> > cuts open that snow-creature to stuff Luke inside its warm
>> entrails to
>> >> keep
>> >> > him from freezing to death.
>> >> >
>> >> > And somehow we've ended up back at Star Wars.
>> >> >
>> >> > - Matt Small
>> >> > ----- Original Message -----
>> >> > From: John Stanley
>> >> > To: CF-Community
>> >> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:54 AM
>> >> > Subject: RE: Penquin Fun
>> >> >
>> >> > I wonder how warm it is inside the middle of the huddled mass of
>> >> emperor
>> >> > penguins during the long antarctic winter? I'll bet its downright
>> >> balmy,
>> >> > and
>> >> > smells of fish......
>> >> >
>> >> > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:02 AM
>> >> > To: CF-Community
>> >> > Subject: Re: Penquin Fun
>> >> >
>> >> > If you feel the penguin inside you then I'm so outta here.
>> >> >
>> >> > - Matt Small
>> >> > ----- Original Message -----
>> >> > From: Adam Reynolds
>> >> > To: CF-Community
>> >> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:27 AM
>> >> > Subject: RE: Penquin Fun
>> >> >
>> >> > You must close your eyes....and feel the penguin. Let the
>> penguin
>> >> flow
>> >> > through you.
>> >> > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> > Sent: 20 January 2004 14:25
>> >> > To: CF-Community
>> >> > Subject: RE: Penquin Fun
>> >> >
>> >> > at first i was in the 400's but then ran off a 575.7 and a
>> >> 578.1,
>> >> but
>> >> > now
>> >> > cant get past 533 or so
>> >> >
>> >> > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > From: Adam Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:12 AM
>> >> > To: CF-Community
>> >> > Subject: RE: Penquin Fun
>> >> >
>> >> > Yeah I dunno how...closest I got after that was in the 550s.
>> >> > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> > Sent: 20 January 2004 14:04
>> >> > To: CF-Community
>> >> > Subject: Re: Penquin Fun
>> >> >
>> >> > Wow. Only got as good as 545.2 here.
>> >> >
>> >> > -Kevin
>> >> >
>> >> > ----- Original Message -----
>> >> > From: "Adam Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 7:31 AM
>> >> > Subject: RE: Penquin Fun
>> >> >
>> >> > > 576.2
>> >> > > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > > From: Erika L Walker-Arnold
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> > > Sent: 20 January 2004 12:52
>> >> > > To: CF-Community
>> >> > > Subject: Penquin Fun
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > > http://ogc.ath.cx/files/tmp/pingu.htm
>> >> > <http://ogc.ath.cx/files/tmp/pingu.htm>
>> >> > <http://ogc.ath.cx/files/tmp/pingu.htm>
>> >> > <http://ogc.ath.cx/files/tmp/pingu.htm>
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Cheers,
>> >> > > Erika
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > _____
>> >> > _____
>> >> > _____
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>>
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