Weazel Weazel was a diminutive male weapons dealer who lived and worked on the planet Tatooine in 32 BBY . In that year , he attended the Boonta Eve Classic Podrace on Tatooine and sat in the viewing box of his acquaintance , the Toydarian merchant Watto , in the Mos Espa Grand Arena . During the race , he gambled on the result with Watto and the Anx Graxol Kelvyyn , wagering twenty wupiupi that the Podracer of Anakin Skywalker — a young slave to Watto — would cross the finish line . Good fortune came his way when Skywalker ultimately won the race . Later in the year , Weazel and a Trandoshan associate of his were selling arms at the Tatooine trading site known as Mochot Steep when it was attacked by a band of Tusken Raiders . Biography . The stocky male Weazel lived on the Outer Rim planet Tatooine in the years leading up to 32 BBY . He worked as a weapons dealer on the desert planet and had several acquaintances , including a Trandoshan with whom he sometimes dealt arms and the Toydarian merchant Watto . In 32 BBY , Weazel attended the Boonta Eve Classic Podrace near the city of Mos Espa at the Mos Espa Grand Arena , and , along with several of Watto ' s other associates , joined the Toydarian in his private viewing box to watch the race . One of Watto ' s slaves , a young Human named Anakin Skywalker , was entered in the event , and when the boy ' s Podracer failed to start at the commencement of the race , Weazel and the other occupants of Watto ' s box laughed and jeered . Skywalker quickly overcame his Podracer ' s difficulties , and as he raced to catch up to his opponents , Weazel , Watto , and the Anx Graxol Kelvyyn began to place bets on whether or not his vehicle , cobbled together from spare parts , would complete the race . Although Watto gambled against his own slave , Weazel and Kelvyyn both wagered twenty wupiupi that Skywalker would cross the finish line . After the Dug racer Sebulba completed the first of three laps in record time , Watto and Kelvyyn bet on whether he would set a record for the entire race , but Weazel balked at the asking price of fifteen wupiupi and sat out of the gamble . Skywalker eventually overtook Sebulba and won the race , and although Watto argued with his comrades , Weazel and Kelvyyn insisted that he pay them the money he owed . Later in the year , Tatooine ' s indigenous Tusken Raiders grew increasingly violent and raided several settlements under the leadership of Sharad Hett , a former Jedi Knight – turned – Tusken warlord . After a particularly brutal attack on the city of Anchorhead , residents of the surrounding area began to purchase large quantities of weapons . Weazel and his Trandoshan acquaintance set up shop at the trading site known as Mochot Steep and sold arms that were being smuggled past official checkpoints by others . Three days after the attack on Anchorhead , they were at Mochot Steep when Hett ' s Tuskens arrived . The raiders announced their presence by shooting and killing the Trandoshan , and the trading site ' s denizens frantically attempted to evacuate during the subsequent slaughter . Personality and traits . Standing at less than 1 . 37 meters tall , Weazel was considered short and stocky for his species . Possessing blue eyes and light skin , he wore his brown hair down to his shoulders . Weazel was fluent in Huttese and was considered by others to be sleazy . Although he was highly amused when Anakin Skywalker ' s Podracer would not start , Weazel was critical of Watto for betting against his own slave and won twenty wupiupi from the Toydarian for wagering that Skywalker would finish the Boonta Eve race . He was eager to gamble against Watto and was smug in his victory when the time came for Watto to pay him . Behind the scenes . Weazel was created as a character for the May 1999 film , in which he was portrayed by veteran " Star Wars " actor Warwick Davis . Davis was famous for playing Wicket the Ewok in 1983 ' s , and in " The Phantom Menace " , he was called on to play four roles : Weazel ; the Rodian child Wald ; the Jedi Master Yoda in several of Yoda ' s walking scenes ; and an extra seen roaming the streets of Mos Espa . Davis was initially hired to only play Wald , a masked character , but director George Lucas decided during filming that he wanted Davis to appear onscreen unmasked . He accordingly placed Davis inside Watto ' s viewing box during the Podrace scene , and after were glued onto Davis ' s head , the character of Weazel was born . Davis ' s scene was filmed over one day at Leavesden Studios in , where , in his own words , he was " basically sitting in bleachers and moving my head left to right . " The actors in the box were additionally subject to blowing fans that represented the Podracers ' exhaust draught . The scene was filmed from various angles , and during the shoot , indigestion from the on - set snacks and bright lights that simulated Tatooine ' s twin suns combined to cause Davis to fall asleep until he was woken up by Lucas . As Weazel , Wicket , Wald , and Willow Ufgood — a magic - using character that Davis played in Lucasfilm Ltd . ' s 1988 film " Willow " — all begin with the letter W , Davis has joked that he created a long list of W names and gave it to Lucas to consult whenever he was called upon to play a new character . According to Davis , when fans saw the Podracing scene , many of them mistook Weazel for Ufgood , who was similarly long - haired when played by Davis . Seven years after the release of " The Phantom Menace " , the two characters were equated as part of an joke that featured a mock - serious update to the StarWars . com Databank on April 1 , 2006 . Entries on several characters and locations from " Willow " and its sequel novels , the " " , were added to the Databank , which stated that the series was now a part of " Star Wars " canon and that its events took place on Andowyne , a remote world located deep in the Kathol Rift . The Databank entry on Ufgood , a . k . a . Thorn Drumheller , claimed that he experienced strange other - worldly dreams in between the events of " Willow " and the " Shadow War Chronicles " , one of which brought him to Tatooine , " a world entirely wrapped in harsh deserts , and populated with many bizarre and wondrous beings . " Ufgood took the alias of " Weazel " and used his magic al abilities to impress Watto , who invited him into his private viewing box at the Mos Espa Grand Arena in the hope that Ufgood ' s magical abilities would bring him good luck in his gambling endeavors . Ufgood later woke up on Andowyne with a sunburn and a parched throat as the only evidence of his bizarre trip to another world . On April 2 , StarWars . com admitted that the updates had been a joke and removed them from the Databank . Weazel has also appeared in the comic issue " " , released in June 1999 , as well as in the online comic " Podracing Tales " , published on StarWars . com in December 2000 . He has additionally been mentioned or appeared in photos in several sourcebooks and issues of " Star Wars Insider " , and in 2008 , he received an entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " . The character is absent from a number of adaptations of and material related to " The Phantom Menace " , most of which do not depict Watto ' s viewing box . The box does appear in the film ' s adaptation , but it is populated only by Watto , Graxol Kelvyyn , a droid , and a flunky of Watto ' s .