20 Things You Somehow Missed In Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

20. The Rathtar Indiana Jones Connection

Episode VII definitely boasted a ton of wonderful practical beings on everything from Jakku to Takodana. But The Force Awakens also contained its fair share of eye-catching CGI alien creations, too.

Perhaps the most memorable, alongside Lupita Nyong'o's Maz Kanata, popped up during the moments that follow the return of the iconic Han Solo and Chewbacca. And it's during that on-screen debut for the rolling balls of terror known as the Rathtars aboard the Eravana that a rather subtle Easter egg rumbled into your ears without you likely realising.

According to one of the film's supervising sound editors David Acord (via Business Insider), that noise heard when one of the beasts roll after our favourite smuggling duo was actually the exact same one used for the boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark as Indiana Jones tries not to get squished.