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- "Jedi poodoo!"
- ―Seboca
Seboca was a Dug holovid star from[1] the planet[2] Malastare.[1] In 22 BBY,[4] the Dug was entertaining Senator Bogg Tyrell while she[1] piloted a speeder through the skylanes of the planet Coruscant. The pair were interrupted when the Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi nearly collided with their vehicle while hanging from the assassin droid ASN-121, forcing Tyrell to swerve and cry out.[3]
Seboca then cursed at Kenobi in Huttese as the Jedi was carried away. The star later sat in a booth with the Nuknog[3] Slyther Bushforb[5] and fellow Dug[3] Rednax[6] at Dex's Diner[3] in the CoCo Town district[1] when Kenobi entered the establishment. Tyrell also entered the diner shortly after Kenobi's arrival, after which Seboca got up and left.[3] Seboca wore brown pants and a red shirt that was the latest fashion on Coruscant. The Dug had pink skin with a blue nose, orange eyes, and black slicked-back hair.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
Seboca was voiced by Matthew Wood[7] in the prequel trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones,[3] which released on May 16, 2002.[8] The character was created by modifying the computer-generated model of podracer Sebulba made for the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace.[9]
In the current Star Wars canon, the character was first identified in the 2016 reference book Star Wars: Complete Locations.[1] The name Seboca was first used in a Legends StarWars.com databank entry for Dex's Diner, released by August 9, 2002. It identified one of the patrons of the diner as Seboca,[10] although during production of the film the names for the two Dugs in the diner were Rednax and Manoca.[11] Work on the animated shots in Dex's Diner was completed between April and May, 2001, with the finalized renders then completed over the summer.[11]
Seboca (background) and Rednax (foreground) were both at different points known as Manoca.
A "Behind the Magic" article written by Rob Coleman and published in the sixty-third issue of Star Wars Insider magazine[11]—published November 5, 2002—[12] identified the non-spotted Dug in the diner as Rednax and the other spotted Dug as Manoca.[11] In later sources,[13][14] the identities were then switched, with Rednax first identified as the spotted Dug in an Episode II Depth Commentary avaliable on StarWars.com that was accessible through the DVD-ROM home release of Attack of the Clones[13] on November 12, 2002.[15]
In the "Star Wars Q&A" section of Star Wars Insider 66,[16] released on March 4, 2003,[17] Leland Chee identified Seboca as the Dug seen earlier in the film, but still identified the two diner dugs as Rednax and Manoca.[16] In a blog post made on October 10, 2006, Chee then clarified that the spotted Dug at the diner was Rednax and the other was Seboca, as the two non-spotted Dugs had identical models other than their hair. This left no character named Manoca,[18] although it was later established to be a pseudonym used by Seboca in the Databank entry for Slyther Bushforb written by John Hazlett as part of the "What's The Story?" contest[19] and published around March 27, 2008.[20]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (First appearance)
Sources[]
- Star Wars: Complete Locations (First identified as Seboca)
2016 Topps Star Wars 3D Widevision Attack of the Clones (Card: Matthew Wood as Seboca) (backup link)- Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
Star Wars Galaxy of Sounds — "Beeps"
