Image Example of the Element for the Sound.
This is a Skywalker Sound sound effect created by either Gary Rydstrom or Ben Burtt, and debuted in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). This sound was used very heavily in the Transformers movies.
Info
- First recorded: 1983
- Creator: Gary Rydstrom
- Owner: Skywalker Sound (1983-present)
- Origin: United States
- Year debut: May 25, 1983
- First heard: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Area used: TBA
Used In
TV Shows
- The Buzz on Maggie
- Extreme Dinosaurs
- Love, Death & Robots
- Parenthood (2010 TV Series) (Heard once in "Namaste No More".)
- Regular Show
- Star Wars: Clone Wars (Heard in CHAPTER 14.)
Movies
- 9 (2009)
- Abominable (2019)
- Ambulance (2022)
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
- Battleship (2012)
- Big Hero 6 (2014)
- Black Widow (2021)
- Bumblebee (2018)
- The Bad Guys (2022)
- Cars (2006) (Heard twice during the film. Once when Stanley's statue is ripped off the stand by Lightning McQueen, and once when it lands back on its stand after McQueen is tangled in the fence wires.)
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
- Cloverfield (2008)
- Despicable Me (2010)
- Dragon Hunters (2008)
- The Electric State (2025)
- F/X2 (1991)
- Fast Five (2011) (Heard once when the rear end of one of the Rio police cars hits the ground after being struck by Dom with the vault during the final chase sequence.)
- Fast X (2023) (Heard twice in a low volume when one of Hummers gets blown up behind Roman during the chase scene in Rome.)
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- Glup, an adventure without waste (2004)
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
- Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025)
- Goosebumps (2015)
- Guardians of the Lost Code (2010)
- Hellboy (2004)
- Igor (2008)
- In Your Dreams (2025)
- The Iron Giant (1999)
- Iron Man (2008)
- The Island (2005)
- Jungle Cruise (2021)
- Kung Fu Panda (2008) (Used when Tai Lung destroys the shell on his back.)
- The Lego Movie (2014)
- Megamind (2010)
- Minority Report (2002)
- The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021)
- Monster House (2006)
- Monsters, Inc. (2001)
- Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) (Heard once when Ginormica breaks through the first door while chasing Gallaxhar.)
- Need for Speed (2014)
- Pacific Rim (2013)
- A Quiet Place (2018) (Heard once when the alien monster that tries to attack at Marcus and Regan inside the corn silo breaks through the side of it after it couldn't handle the feedback from Regan's cochlear implant.)
- A Quiet Place: Part II (2020)
- Ready Player One (2018)
- Robots (2005)
- Shrek Forever After (2010)
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
- Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) (debut)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
- Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
- Titan A.E. (2000)
- Transformers (2007)
- Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
- Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
- Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
- Transformers One (2024)
- Ultraman: Rising (2024)
- Underdog (2007)
- Valiant (2005)
- War of the Worlds (2005)
- The Wild (2006)
- World War Z (2013)
- Zootopia (2016)
Trailers
- Begone Beast (Can be heard once in the teaser trailer.)
Image Gallery
Audio Samples
(9 variant.)
(War of the Worlds variants.)
(E2 variants.)
(Kung Fu Panda variants.)