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Sandworm size chart (lemmy.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would guess it's exactly Dune sandworm big, in that it's taken from Dune directly. Almost certainly it started as the same creature.

[–] FuglyDuck 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’d say not, because they’re apparently large enough that a Krayt dragon can fit into the cavity left behind after eating one. That thing was maybe not as long as a sandstorm, but definitely as chubby

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, that's information made up after they appeared on screen first. I guess it depends on what we're talking about. Talking about the very first appearance, just a mouth in the sand, that's 100% a Dune sandworm with a different name. Some time after that more detail was added to the world that differentiated it from that.

[–] FuglyDuck 2 points 7 months ago

Last I checked Sandworms didn’t have:

  • a tongue, beaked or otherwise,
  • a bunch of tentacles that could grab and pull food in
  • an apparent inability to move

If you’re going to generalize that much, to say they’re the same… does it really matter? It’s not like Herbert didn’t add to sandworm cannon either; so further explanations to what a sarlacc even is shouldn’t be discounted either.

I wouldn’t even call a sarlacc a worm, to be honest.