--- title: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Chewbacca Deleted Scene description: The 3D Collector’s Edition of The Force Awakens is set to be released Nov. 15 and with it, a series of new deleted scenes. canonical: https://time.com/4535600/star-wars-the-force-awakens-chewbacca-deleted-scene/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-18T21:32:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:37.548Z og:title: The New 'The Force Awakens' Deleted Scene Is Seriously Dark og:description: Let the Wookiee win og:url: https://time.com/4535600/star-wars-the-force-awakens-chewbacca-deleted-scene/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The New 'The Force Awakens' Deleted Scene Is Seriously Dark twitter:description: Let the Wookiee win twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Chewbacca Fans Will Love This Dark New _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ Deleted Scene > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 18, 2016 9:32 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 18, 2016 9:32 PM UTC The 3D Collector’s Edition of [_The Force Awakens_](http://time.com/4534837/j-j-abrams-on-han-solo-death/)is set to be released Nov. 15 and with it, several [new deleted scenes](http://time.com/4275495/star-wars-the-force-awakens-deleted-scenes/), including a never-before-seen moment in [Maz Kanata’s](http://time.com/4502780/lupita-nyongo-maz-kanata-star-wars-episode-viii/) bar. In the clip — which was revealed by [_Entertainment Weekly_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/18/star-wars-force-awakens-deleted-scene-unkar-plutt-chewbacca)Tuesday — Rey is confronted by Unkar Plutt, the Jakku junk dealer from whom she, Finn and BB-8 stole the Millennium Falcon. The blob-like alien threatens Rey and demands that she come with him, prompting Chewbacca to come to her aid. The sequence closes with Plutt prodding at Chewy’s recently injured arm while saying, “Half a Wookiee isn’t much.” However, the scene has a different — and much more brutal — ending on the new Blu-ray disc, according to _EW_. Harkening back to a moment in _A New Hope_ when [Han Solo tells C-3PO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO6M4ngKRp0) that Wookiees are prone to ripping people’s arms out of their sockets, Chewy proceeds to yank one of Plutt’s arms off and throw it across the room in order to protect his new scavenger friend. Watch the first half of the scene below. 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