Snakes on Film

The Yoda action figure that we all played with as kids came with a bright orange snake, but you really have to look hard to spot a snake in the movie. It’s there, briefly, in the scene in Yoda’s hut, and — look at that — it’s a California Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula californiae), second only to the corn snake in pet popularity. But it doesn’t come in orange.

Other scenes. When Luke enters the cave on Dagobah, there is a small Burmese Python (Python molurus bivittatus) to his left (plus an interesting monitor of some sort, but this isn’t Lizards on Film). And the snake Luke pulls out of his X-wing’s, um, intake (?) before takeoff is an Eastern Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula getula).