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There's a LOT of Star Wars in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
And whether you loved or hated it, we'll forgive you for not catching some of the finer details in the film due to that epic runtime (two hours and 35 minutes!)
But we're here to help.
Whether you need to sound like an expert at a family gathering or just want to stop referring to the "Blue Milk Monster Thing" in your group chat, we've got a swag of details from The Last Jedi you might have missed and some cooler trivia to impress your fellow Star Wars loving mates.
***SPOILER WARNING***
We're going to spoil everything about The Last Jedi.
Like, EVERYTHING.
If you haven't seen the movie yet, back out now.
Last chance.
Let's get started!
All the weird new creatures
The Last Jedi was full of new additions to the Star Wars menagerie.
Perhaps the most memorable (or should that be marketable?) were the Porgs, the fluffy little birds who gave Chewie a hard time.
Oh, and their babies are officially called Porglets. You're welcome.
And for you cynics out there, the Porgs weren't a creation of the Disney marketing department. The inspiration comes from hundreds of real-life puffins that got in the way of filming on the remote Jedi island.
Those weirdly chill animals that our Jedi Master-in-exile milked are called Thala-sirens. The green milk is also a nod to the iconic blue milk in Luke's childhood home in A New Hope.
The extra sparkly natives who help our heroes find their way to safety in the final battle of the film? Officially they're called Vulptex, but Finn refers to them as Crystal Critters.
And we can't forget the Falthiers, the giant space horses that make their way to freedom with the help of Rose and Finn.
Who was that again?
Benicio Del Toro has a memorable turn in The Last Jedi as a hacker who helps, then betrays Finn and Rose.
But did you catch his name in the movie? Don't worry. We didn't either.
All we know is his nickname is DJ, short for "Don't Join".
It's the advice he gives Finn when the pair discuss the war with the First Order.
Director Rian Johnson says he nearly used the character of Lando Calrissian for the part, but said he wanted the character to betray Finn, and that move wouldn't have been a natural fit for the rogue-ish, but still good Lando.
So many cameos
There were so many cameos in The Last Jedi, so we've picked out a handful you might have missed:
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Slowen-Lo (the alien who was upset about Finn and Rose parking on the beach)
- Kate Dickie (Lysa Arryn in Game of Thrones) as a First Order Officer
- Carrie Fisher's dog Gary as a pet in the casino
- Mark Hamill's children Griffin, Nathan and Chelsea as Resistance fighters
- Edgar Wright as a Resistance fighter
New places in the galaxy
The Last Jedi expanded the known Star Wars universe with the addition of some new planets.
Finn and Rose visit the casino city of Canto Bight on the planet Cantonica.
The final, visually spectacular battle of the film takes place on the desolate mineral planet Crait.
There's two other locations we visit in the film, but have seen before — Luke's quiet island getaway on the planet Ahch-To and the Resistance base on D'Qar (before it's destroyed from orbit).
A couple of Star Wars regulars
In *almost* every Star Wars film (looking at you Force Awakens) somebody loses a limb.
In The Last Jedi, this definitely happens, but it's a little more subtle.
When Kylo Ren kills Snoke by slicing him up with a lightsaber, the blade removes Snoke's hand from his arm along with his body from ... the rest of his body.
The other moment that appears in every Star Wars film is the line "I have a bad feeling about this".
In The Last Jedi, the honour goes to BB-8, who beeps the familiar line right at the start of the movie as Poe gets ready to attack the First Order Dreadnaught.
Poe replies with "Happy beeps budy! Happy beeps!"
Those gold dice
The golden dice from the Millennium Falcon play a key role in The Last Jedi, but it's not the first time we've seen them.
Believe it or not, they made their first appearance all the way back in 1977 in A New Hope.
The story goes that those were the dice that Han Solo used to win the Millennium Falcon off Lando Calrissian in a game of sabacc, so he kept them as a lucky charm.
They were just regular dice painted gold in the original trilogy, but for their starring role in The Last Jedi, Lucasfilm decided to give them a bit of futuristic facelift.
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