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Maclunky
Maclunkey
Maclunky?
Like the Whilhelm Scream which Lucas made popular in Star Wars and Indiana Jones, it's an in joke for Star Wars fans that George Lucas caused just before he sold his 4 Billion dollar company Lucasfilm to Disney.
This new change was made by Lucas but never released - just before Greedo shoots Han he says it:
Here's a quick video of the version of Disney Plus:
Maclunky
Here's a quick video of the version of Disney Plus:
In the official Star Wars parlance, the word is actually two 'ma klounkee' - which translates to 'it'll be the end of you.'
Or maybe it means Hot Pockets.
In the context of the revised Cantina scene, Han can be interpreted as hearing these words as a threat, which may be why he was so hot on the trigger. It's a kind of halfway house between Greedo firing first or Han.
Kind of.
Great Minds, better than ours have established that, in chronological order, Pod Racer Sebulba says this to young Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menance:
There's more to #maclunkey than you think: @swankmotron remembered Sebulba using the word as a threat in Episode 1, so I did the homework -- he was right.
— Sean Buckley (@seaniccus) November 12, 2019
The pronunciation is different, but Greedo's new last words were already established in Star Wars. That means a lot. https://t.co/pNwWPEqsiYpic.twitter.com/t2aJYzUT9V
As Fennec Shand kills a few Gamoreean Guards and strolls into what is now Bib Fortuna's Palace (formerly Jabba the Hutt's) Boba sends a guard to investigate with a 'Maclunky' i.e. do it or it will be the end of you.
Our new 'antihero' Boba Fett walks down the steps with a slow but determined saunter and kills the guard anyway.
This ties everything together and making the expression Maclunkey a real emotive device in the Star Wars canon or at the very least, an expression of Tattoine, more likely it's actually Huttese.