This's a Skywalker Sound sound effect that was probably created by Ben Burtt for Willow (1988).
Used In
TV Shows
- Regular Show (An edited variant of this sound or a near identical sound is heard once in "High Score" when GBF comes down into the coffee shop in a beam of light.)
Movies
- Ant-Man (2015)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
- Captain America: Civil War (2016)
- Free Birds (2013)
- F/X2 (1991)
- Hellboy (2004)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)
- The Lone Ranger (2013)
- Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (2005)
- Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
- The Polar Express (2004) (A heavily modified/condensed variant is heard once when the Observation car roars down a hill at the North Pole after the Hero Boy yells "I can't find the brake!".)
- Romero (1989)
- Titanic (1997) (A slightly edited variant is heard once in a slightly lower volume when one of the distress rockets shoots off behind Jack as Rose looks up at him as she's lowered away in a lifeboat.)
- Volcano (1997)
- War of the Worlds (2005) (Heard once in a low volume.)
- Willow (1988) (debut)
TV Shows
Shorts
Video Games
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Audio Samples
(The heavily modified/condensed variant as heard in The Polar Express.)


















