{"id":109,"date":"2010-09-15T11:35:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T18:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2010-09-15T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T22:52:10","slug":"ponda-baba-star-wars-walrus-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/2010\/09\/15\/ponda-baba-star-wars-walrus-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponda Baba: Star Wars’ “Walrus Man”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Walrusman<\/a>
The Walrusman Action Figure package<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Walrusman” was one of the characters in the cantina scene in the Original Star Wars (that’s Episode IV, youngsters). You may not think you remember him, but here’s a clue. He’s the guy who confronts Luke at the bar and ends up getting his arm cut off by Obi Wan Kenobi. “Walrusman” is a nickname, which may well have been coined by Kenner for purposes of naming their action figure. According to online sources, the character wasn’t given a name, species and backstory in the Star Wars universe until 1989. Officially his species is “Aqualish” and the character’s name was “Ponda Baba”, but I’m just glad we have a walrus tie-in with Star Wars here on the blog.<\/p>\n

Here’s the character info page on StarWars.com:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/character\/pondababa\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Walrusman” was one of the characters in the cantina scene in the Original Star Wars (that’s Episode IV, youngsters). You may not think you remember him, but here’s a clue. He’s the guy who confronts Luke at the bar and ends up getting his arm cut off by Obi Wan Kenobi. “Walrusman” is a nickname, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[36,37],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popculture","tag-star-wars","tag-toys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3peFG-1L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}