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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (Film)

Pod Racers

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Pod Racers

Young Anakin Skywalker (later known as Darth Vader), still aged 6 in his Tatooine home world, participates in an illegal, dangerous sport -- pod racing. Each racer rides a small cockpit craft pulled by (typically) two oversized thrust engines, across a dramatic landscape of mesas, canyons and caves, at an average speed of some 850 mph...

Just before the start of the race, the flags of each racer (or of his sponsor) are shown, paraded across the start line by one of each racer's ground crew -- Anakin's flagholder being the robot C3PO (Cee Threepio).

The full list of podracers in the Boonta Classic edition featured in _The Phantom Menace_ seems to be of 25, compiled from several sources. I do not know weather all of them were visible in the final cut of the movie, though.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 april 2001

Here's a capture from the film when it was shown on British television last May. It's not a good capture, but it seems to show some of the flags which appear on our page, but not all, along with some other flags which we don't have on FOTW-ws.
André Coutanche, 6 july 2005

This page here lists all Boonta Eve Classic racers, has a page for each and… no depiction nor description of the sponsor flags but the passing mention:

«The formal race ceremony started with a parade of flag-bearers; each carried a racer's distinctive emblem, and lined up before the starting grid»

António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 july 2005

Anakin Skywalker

by Antonio Martins

A white cloth, approx. 5:6, with a large squarish light blue horizontally symmetrical emblem on the hoist (actually covering most of the flag) and a golden monogram on the upper fly. Anakin Skywalker, a young human (caucasian) male, is arguebly the main character of this movie.
Antonio Martins, 21 april 2001

Ben Quadinaros

by Antonio Martins

Five pennants hoisted together, each approx. 1:10 (thus totalizing approx. 1:2); the middle one is light yellow, the upper ones red, and the bottom ones orange. Sometimes refered to as Ben Quadrinaros, this racer is that cartoon looking chap who never gets his craft on the air.
Antonio Martins, 21 april 2001

Dud Bolt

by Antonio Martins

A red flag approx. 1:2 hoisted under two pennants, each approx. 1:10, the top one light blue and the bottom one very dark blue. Dud Bolt is the one looking like a cartoon wolf, he gets smashed by Selbulba.
Antonio Martins, 21 april 2001

Boles Roor

by Antonio Martins

A green flag approx. 2:5 hoisted under three white pennants, each approx. 1:10. This is one of the guys who plays at the Mos Espa casino, looks like a cross between a pig and the Notre Dame hunchback.
Antonio Martins, 21 april 2001

Gasgano

by Antonio Martins

A yellow flag approx. 1:2 hoisted under two red pennants, each approx. 1:10. Gasgano is the skinny six armed character with funny glasses and emasculated facial features.
Antonio Martins, 21 april 2001

Mars Guo

by Antonio Martins

Green (?) flag with large orange device, approx. 4:5. Mars Guo is a grey greenish character with big eyes, occipital crest and poodle face. His pod is sabotaged by Sebulba.
Antonio Martins, 21 april 2001

Ratts Tyrell

by Antonio Martins

Light blue flag with a row of five intergral-sign-looking shapes, the hoist side one red and the others white, approx. 4:5. Small and nearly blind, Ratts is yet another casualty in this race.
Antonio Martins, 21 april 2001

Selbulba

by Antonio Martins

The only flag of the lot that deserves a vexillographic mention: red cloth with a large square-tile yellow emblem on the hoist, and a black (or maybe very very dark blue?) vertical stripe accross the fly. Approx. specs are 2+11+2 : 2+9+2+3+3 for the flag and 9:7 for the emblem. Selbulba is the camel-spider cross like character that gets quite annoyed with Jar-jar Binks' reckless behaviour in Mos Espa. He cheats a lot throughout the whole race, but he's finnaly defeated (as usual).
Antonio Martins, 21 april 2001

Teemto Pagalies

by Antonio Martins

A golden flag with a white (?) irregular disc slightly intersecting the hoist; on it, a red emblem issuan from the hoist. Teemto is the hogg like racer -- not unlike Jabba's guards from _The Return of the Jedi_, though those are gammorreans, and Teemto is a veknoid.
Antonio Martins, 21 april 2001