Hey, it's me. said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Hey, it's me. said:

What's wrong with its face?!! Lol

"I awm nut ahn awnimawl... I ahm eh Jedi Knight!"

Ha ha! John Merrick in 'Star Wars' shocker! 

 

Luke's thinking...

"Ooh, ooh! I've got an idea! You know if I ever get into films, I'm gonna direct one about a kid who meets an alien and then has a BMX chase at the end!"

SilverWook said:

I presume Kenner had reference material for this.

Yoda's outfit isn't quite like Ben's sans cloak.

I think it's safe to say a decision was made on ROTJ that all Jedi outfits be similar to Obi Wan's, without considering he was trying to hide on a backwater planet all those years.

I hope Luke still wears black in the sequels.

Whenever I see that figure it takes me back to laughing my ass off to Adam & Joe's Star Wars spoofs late night on channel 4 in the UK during the '90s.

"Send it in to You've Been Framed should you, £50 smackers it is... share it with you will I" (Or something like that)

If you don't know what I'm talking about. Imagine Robot Chicken does Star Wars only about twenty years earlier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEBCRbUnbUc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGkoBjn9U-c

Oh and of course this later Adam spoof... A New Pope:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ9sJVJMiYM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22542222

The Zahn trilogy is great. I loved Dark Horse's comic adaptations as well.

pushad said:

georgec said:

The Zahn trilogy is great. I loved Dark Horse's comic adaptations as well.

Never seen it

LOL

Never read any of the Thrawn stuff, it didn't sit right with me. A blue skinned Imperial Admiral?

I always thought it was implicit in the OT that the Empire were basically Nazis. They dressed that way, their whole world was monochromatic grey, they were all middle-aged or old, arrogant, white, short haired men. SW was never as Politcs-heavy as Star Trek but this idea is for me just one thing that makes the Empire so loathsome. Think of moments like when you can imagine the collective disgust on the bridge of the Executor when all the strange looking bounty hunter "Scum" are assembled.

The Rebels on the other hand where a non-discriminating, multi ethnic alliance. Made up of young idealistic kids and old experienced fighters. They embraced men and women in positions of power equally. The rebels also were quite comfortable letting their hair down (Literally). In ROTJ (When ILM had a bigger budget and greater experience/confidence) we see the alliance is also made up of other aliens like Admiral Ackbar and Lando's co-pilot Nien Nunb. In short, these were the kind of people and ideals I identified with.

Making an overt scripted reference to these two opposing world views would be out of character with SW (As I said, more of a ST thing).  It never felt right to me that Palpatine's closest confidants in the PT were a blue skinned, tentacled Chagrian and various alien women. For me this made the PT Palpatine that little bit less evil than the guy I remembered from ROTJ, holding court in his throne room surrounded by sycophantic, sinister old men. Although Papatine ordering Anakin to go off to mustafar and murder all the strange aliens that Palpatine had seen fit to exploit and decieve in his rise to power, was spot on.

Not sure if this is a Star Wars, a Doctor Who or a Norwich story but...

NERDS!!!!!!

Interesting tidbit.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/16/how-spielberg-made-millions-off-of-star-wars

Ryan McAvoy said:

Never read any of the Thrawn stuff, it didn't sit right with me. A blue skinned Imperial Admiral?

I always thought it was implicit in the OT that the Empire were basically Nazis. They dressed that way, their whole world was monochromatic grey, they were all middle-aged or old, arrogant, white, short haired men. SW was never as Politcs-heavy as Star Trek but this idea is for me just one thing that makes the Empire so loathsome. Think of moments like when you can imagine the collective disgust on the bridge of the Executor when all the strange looking bounty hunter "Scum" are assembled.

<img src="http://www.convention-guests.com/assets/images/Officers.jpg" width="435" height="293" />

The Rebels on the other hand where a non-discriminating, multi ethnic alliance. Made up of young idealistic kids and old experienced fighters. They embraced men and women in positions of power equally. The rebels also were quite comfortable letting their hair down (Literally). In ROTJ (When ILM had a bigger budget and greater experience/confidence) we see the alliance is also made up of other aliens like Admiral Ackbar and Lando's co-pilot Nien Nunb. In short, these were the kind of people and ideals I identified with.

<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3bmcyDhVB1qc823io1_500.jpg" width="432" height="277" />

Making an overt scripted reference to these two opposing world views would be out of character with SW (As I said, more of a ST thing).  It never felt right to me that Palpatine's closest confidants in the PT were a blue skinned, tentacled Chagrian and various alien women. For me this made the PT Palpatine that little bit less evil than the guy I remembered from ROTJ, holding court in his throne room surrounded by sycophantic, sinister old men. Although Papatine ordering Anakin to go off to mustafar and murder all the strange aliens that Palpatine had seen fit to exploit and decieve in his rise to power, was spot on.

<img src="http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2008/07/Ackbar.jpg" width="430" height="286" />

The thing with Thrawn is that he's supposed to be so good a tactician even a complete xenophobe like Palpatine was compelled to give him a lofty position within the hierarchy of his military.

I do agree with your accessment on the alien aides in the PT, however.

SilverWook said:

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/abandoned-stars-wars-sets-in-the-desert-slideshow/

^ wow.

I remember a documentary from way back, where the presenter recalled doing some work with this kid called Bill Gates in his garage. When pay day came, Bill said I'm short of cash right now, so would you be intereted in 2% of this new company I've started called Microsoft? The presenter remembered telling the kid, no thanks, I'll take the money now.

The presenter seemed remarkably philosophical about the whole thing considering.

I can't for the life of me remember who the presenter was but I do remember his funny story lol.

none said:

1138 "Making of" Images

http://starwarsmakingof.imgur.com/

^ Wow what a pictorial treasue trove. Thx none.

Is it wrong to find this a little sexy???

and HOLY SH*T I now know what GL was talking about in '97 when he said SW didn't finish up looking how he imagined it:

^ That's going in my workprint fanedit for sure!