Porg babies from 'The Last Jedi' are here and, uh, what are we looking at exactly
As with all babies, we knew they were coming -- but it's still a shock when they arrived.
Porgs, those beloved `puffin-like creatures in The Last Jedi, will also be seen on screen in a baby version -- and as of Wednesday we have our first look at them, above, thanks to a Japanese toy website.
"There's a brief little moment in The Last Jedi where there's a porg and then there's a little baby porg next to the porg," Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy told Lucasfilm's in-house Star Wars Show last week. "It doesn't get better than that."
We're assuming the movie version is going to look significantly cuter than the Japanese toy version, part of a set that will launch November 16. Because, um, yeah.
The image is already dividing Star Wars fans, with some declaring the little nougat-like mouth heads to be cute while others screamed like a Munch painting and OH GOD WHAT DID I JUST LOOK AT.
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In my mentions and Slack channels alone, baby porgs have already been compared to pork buns with mouths, "nipple monsters," and the Dugtrio from Pokemon.
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We'll find out whether the Rian Johnson version of baby porgs can redeem the species when The Last Jedi opens December 15.
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Chris is a veteran tech, entertainment and culture journalist, author of 'How Star Wars Conquered the Universe,' and co-host of the Doctor Who podcast 'Pull to Open.' Hailing from the U.K., Chris got his start as a sub editor on national newspapers. He moved to the U.S. in 1996, and became senior news writer for Time.com a year later. In 2000, he was named San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine. He has served as senior editor for Business 2.0, and West Coast editor for Fortune Small Business and Fast Company. Chris is a graduate of Merton College, Oxford and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is also a long-time volunteer at 826 Valencia, the nationwide after-school program co-founded by author Dave Eggers. His book on the history of Star Wars is an international bestseller and has been translated into 11 languages.
