Behold the Blurrg! and other critters from "Star Wars: The Mandalorian"

[Faelrin]

@Appalachiosaurus That was the detail I was missing here. That makes a whole lot of sense.

[ITdactyl]

That's a neat find @Nanuqsaurus .  So, art preceded scientific findings.... nice!

Sadly, non of the [story specific] blurrgs survived season 1 of "The Mandalorian".  In consolation, they were part of the most heart wrenching episode thus far.



The new creatures are still unnamed and resemble wyverns with protruding eye stalks.  I enjoyed the scene/episode's shoutout to Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World", particularly the scene where the "pterodactyl" swoops in to steal the roasting agouti from the camp fire.

reference image:
https://non-aliencreatures.fandom.com/wiki/Pterodactyl_(The_Lost_World)?file=LostWorld-Pterodactyl1.jpg

[Faelrin]

As much as I really dig the new flying creatures, I also felt really bad for the blurrgs. This is going to be a long week to see where the plot goes now, and then an even longer wait for the next season.

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

About the dewback feathering, it seems they already had it in A New Hope. I didn't know it either:

Wild! So all my toys were wrong this whole time.....

[Papi-Anon]

Haven't watched the Mandalorian yet, but the Blurgh reminded me of the guars from Morrowind:

[Faelrin]

@Papi-Anon It reminded me of them too, honestly.

[Concavenator]

Haven't watched the Mandalorian yet, but the Blurgh reminded me of the guars from Morrowind:

For some reason, it reminds me of the Papo Giganotosaurus 

[Ravonium]

Did anyone else here watch the new episode that came out today?

[BlueKrono]

Great opportunity to use the Spoiler Alert feature... 

[EmperorDinobot]

The dragon things that took Ragnar away look like anurognathids. Very big anurognathids.

I also think Hasbro should make some of the animals we've seen so far.

[Camzilla94]

I'm hoping we get a full look at a certain creature in season 3 soon.

[Libraraptor]

I follow the Mandalorian, too and like the creatures revealed so far.

[BlueKrono]

I'm hoping we get a full look at a certain creature in season 3 soon.

I think we will in the final episode. We are back in its domain, after all.

[ItsTwentyBelow]

As a fan of the franchise, it's great to see some Star Wars creature discussion!

The Blurrg! They made their first appearance in Star Wars in the 1985 TV movie Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, where they were animated using stop-motion. I'd say of the two Ewok TV films, that one came 2nd and was better overall. Battle for Endor also features an attack by a condor dragon that becomes a rescue like with Ragnar Viszla recently in Mando.

The blurrg (and the condor dragon) has a wonderfully illustrated entry in the 2001 book The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide, as do most other creatures that had been seen in Star Wars by 2001. My first memory of the blurrg that really stuck, though, was from the 2002 Clone Campaigns expansion to Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, which is an official Star Wars reskin of Age of Empires II. The mounted clone trooper units introduced for the Republic army in that game all rode blurrgs!

[EmperorDinobot]

@ItsTwentyBelow  Galactic Battlegrounds was great. I wasted a lot of time on that game. I forgot the bluurg were in it, though.

[ItsTwentyBelow]

@ItsTwentyBelow  Galactic Battlegrounds was great. I wasted a lot of time on that game. I forgot the bluurg were in it, though.

Nice, I definitely wasted a bit more time playing it today   

[EmperorDinobot]

I ought to buy it sometime this week, but I try not to spend time on my pc unless I'm working, here, or buying stuff I don't need.