"Junkyard Sleepover" is the second part of the seventeenth episode of the animated series Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. It was released on Disney+ on November 8, 2023.[1]
Official description[]
The younglings investigate odd noises in the junkyard.
Plot summary[]
Night terrors[]
One night, junkyard owner Marlaa Jinara is awoken from her sleep by strange noises. Venturing outside her home into her junkyard, she finds the hulking monster droid JG-1, who confirms he is not the source of the noise. The two hear more noise and go to confront the source of the disturbance. JG-1 mistakes one of Jinara's structures for the intruder. The two are approached by an unidentified shape, causing Jinara to scream hysterically.
Jedi to the rescue[]
The following day, the Jedi younglings Kai Brightstar, Lys Solay, Nubs and their pilot friend Nash Durango visit Marlaa's junkyard with parts they plan to donate. They encounter a startled Jinara and JG-1. Jinara explains that she hasn't slept for days due to something strange in the junkyard that has been disturbing her sleep and moving stuff around. She believes that it is a Gloomling, legendary beings on Tenoo who haunt people's homes until they leave so that they can take over.
Durango thinks that Gloomlings are just found in bedtime stories and are not real. Jinara believes that a Gloomling is haunting her junkyard and fears that she will have to move. JG-1 murmurs in Binary. Brightstar vows to help Jinara defend her home while Solay says there must be an explanation. Jinara is grateful to her Jedi friends. Brightstar vows to catch the Gloomling.
Night at the junkyard[]
The younglings obtain permission from Jedi Master Zia Zaldor Zanna to spend the night with Jinara and JG-1 to help her. While sitting beside a camp fire, Jinara explains that Gloomlings are small, have glowing eyes, and are nocturnal. Durango adds that Gloomlings like to play tricks on people by moving things around. Solay is frightened and asks Jinara if Gloomlings are real. Jinara replies that the galaxy is filled with all sorts of strange things including legendary beasts, spell-casting witches, and ghosts. This scares Nubs.
The group are startled by a chittering noise. Brightstar splits the group into two. While he, Jinara and JG-1 search one area, Nubs, Solay and Durango will search the other way. Brightstar's group search a box but find no sign of the Gloomling. They are startled when the box seemingly closes by itself. Fearing a Gloomling, the three decide to find the others. Meanwhile, Solay and her group are startled by the head of a DUM-series pit droid, which they mistake for a Gloomling. They retreat to find the others. The two groups converge only to find Nubs is missing.
The “Gloomling"[]
JG-1 steps on a hole which leads to a tunnel. Solay spots Nubs' footprints and believes he fell in and got lost. While the Jedi younglings and Durango head inside the tunnel to investigate Jinara and JG-1 remain on the surface to keep watch. Descending into the tunnel, Solay and Brightstar activate their lightsabers. They find Nubs's lightsaber on the ground and sense movement. They soon discover Nubs, who is well and alive.
As Nubs tries to explain in Poobian, the four younglings are startled by a hooded figure with a glowing eye. They climb out of the tunnel bit the hooded figure follows them to the surface. It jumps on top of a board before charging at them. While they flee, JG-1 trips and topples over a heap of junk, which triggers a domino effect throughout the junkyard. JG-1 manages to shelter the sentients with his massive body but Jinara is dismayed by the mess in her junkyard. Believing that she is under attack from a Gloomling, Jinara wants to pack up and leave.
Brightstar understands that she is scared but says being scared has only made things worse. Solay says that she needs to push through her feelings while Durango says that they need to send the Gloomling the message that this is her home. Jinara agrees and vows not to leave. Since Gloomlings don't like light, Brightstar proposes turning on every light in the junkyard while Solay proposes trapping it.
Putting their plans into action, the younglings and JG-1 assemble several lights and an improvised trap. After Durango switches on all the lights, the hooded shape surfaces. Brightstar uses his second lightsaber to drive the hooded shape towards the trap with the help of Nubs and Solay, who also draw their lightsabers. Jinara traps the hooded shape under a bell. After cornering the shape, they discover that the so-called Gloomling is a damaged diminutive tracked droid.
The orphaned droid[]
Jinara notices that the tracks droid's vocal chip and photoreceptor are damaged. Taking pity on the droid, Jinara installs a new Vocabulator and tightens the photoreceptor. The newly repaired droid begins chirping in Binary. Durango explains that the droid was left for junk after his owned closed shop and left Tenoo. He has been digging for parts around the junkyard to repair himself. Jinara says that the droid is welcome to stay with her and JG-1 for as long as he likes. JG-1 chips in agreement. She says that the junkyard has all the parts that he needs and that there was nothing to be scared off.
The following day, Durango and the younglings meet a happier Jinara, who is sleeping again. She thanks them all for their help and reveals that she has named the orphaned tracked droid PT-3. Jinara invites the younglings to help with the junkyard. Nubs is startled by the box he encountered last night but finds nothing inside. After he leaves, the box stirs mysteriously.
Appearances[]
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Sources[]
Watch full episodes of Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures LIVE! on the official Star Wars Kids YouTube channel (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
Next on Disney+: November 2023 on Disney+ (backup link)
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4.11.23 SW Celeb Tues Wrap Up Press Blast by The Walt Disney Studios on Getty Images (April 11, 2023) (backup link) places Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures 200 years before the events of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, which corresponds to 232 BBY according to Star Wars: Timelines.
