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Getting hold of a complete Vintage Kenner Ugnaught action figure can be quite a task these days as the small white suitcase accessory is getting increasingly rare and expensive. I only have the blue aproned version of the Ugnaught so far and I still have to get my hands on the version of the figure with the purple apron.

We were never meant to be endeared to these diminutive characters with their hog-like snouts and tusks. The Ugnaught's piggish features and aprons fit well with blue collar workers who rummage around in the trash. Ugnaughts are represented as officious and lowly creatures. They are one of Lucas's first characters which fall obviously in to the category of slightly offensive stereotype where our impression of them is delivered through their appearance more than through any innate character attributes.

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Since the Ugnaughts' job seems to be to process the junk on Bespin we can't really blame them for putting the remains of C-3PO through the process. No one in the film makes comment on them because Lucas's portrayal of the Ugnaughts does all the work perhaps. I think I'm right that when extra scenes are added in, we don't see them running around the corridors to escape Cloud City with all the humans. 'Abandon ship! Women, children and Ice-cream Maker Guy first. Ugnaughts last'.

Ugnaughts are blue collar workers but they are also the downtrodden undermench of Cloud City. It's all in the name - 'ug' as in the grunt of a Neanderthal and 'naught' as in nothing. The portrayal of the Ugnaught is that of a creature who is worthless and backwards. Lando Calrissian might be looking out for his people when he makes the deal with Vader, but do the Ugnaughts really fit into that category? It appears that Lando runs a mining colony in which there is a distinct underclass of scavengers who are perhaps no less put upon than Rey in The Force Awakens. Bespin, like Jabba's dominion on Tatooine, lies outside of the control of the Empire and in both regions there is a distinct whiff of social injustice. In the fight against the Empire, Lucas is subtly showing us that not everything is so black and white as the struggle between the Jedi and the Sith might suggest.

See also my article Ephant Mon and Star Wars Naming Conventions.

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