Skywalker Explosion 03 either a Skywalker Sound or Technicolor/Weddington Productions sound effect. It's a sound effects cluster of an explosion with what sounds like Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 03 in a -12 pitch.
It perhaps debuted in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), which was released by Twentieth Century-Fox; Skywalker Sound did the sound effects recording/sound design of that film.
Clean, Full Length and Unedited Link to the Sound Effect
Similar Variations
- Pro Sound Effects, Vehicle Explosion, Mortar, Zapping, Airy Blast, Wreckage Decay, Squeaking, Many Versions (included)
- Sound Ideas, Explosions - Incoming Artillery - C U - Very Good, Explosions With Incoming Whoosh Of Shell, Large Concussive Whumps From Explosion, Some Whistles An (included)
Used In
TV Shows
- Smallville
- Sons of Anarchy
- SpongeBob SquarePants (Heard once in "Sand Castles in the Sand")
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) (heard once in "Death Trap")
Movies
- Bad Boys (1995)
- Batman Returns (1992)
- Broken Arrow (1996)
- Christine (1983)
- Clear and Present Danger (1994)
- Daylight (1996)
- Desperado (1995)
- Die Hard (1988)
- Die Hard 2 (1990)
- Die Hard: With A Vengeance (1995)
- Eraser (1996)
- The Fifth Element (1997)
- Firefox (1982) (Heard in the remastered version)
- G-Force (2009)
- A Goofy Movie (1995)
- The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
- Lethal Weapon (1987)
- Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
- Manassas: End of Innocence (2002)
- Police Story 3: Supercop (1992)
- Robocop (1987)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Skyfall (2012)
- Speed (1994)
- Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) (1997-2011 prints only?)
- Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (debut)
- Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
- Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) (Used many times to accent explosions)
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) (Heard in a high pitch.)
- The True Story of "Glory" Continues (1990) (heard from the second tree exploding, ricochet/whistle sound only)
- Weird Science (1985)
- XXX (2002)
Video Games
Short Films
Trailers
- Speed (1994) (Trailers)
YouTube Videos
Anime
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Audio Samples